After our month long hiatus, we’re back right into the thick of things with our fresh new releases posts for the second half of the year. As ever, these will be updated regularly, so if you have a book releasing that’s not on here, please feel free to let us know! Otherwise, we hope you find something to enjoy out of all the books releasing this year!
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JULY
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Forever’s Promise by Missouri Vaun (f/f relationship)
The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella (Indian cast, genderfluid mc, gay mc)
I, Caravaggio by Eugenio Volpe (bi mc)
Counting Lost Stars by Kim van Alkemade (sapphic mc)
Stars Still Fall by Jules Kelley (f/f relationship)
A Rulebook for Restless Rogues by Jess Everlee (m/m relationship)
Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders (Black sapphic mc)
Little Nothing by Dee Holloway (f/f relationship)
The Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney (m/m relationship)
A Lady’s Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin (side f/f relationship)
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer, trans. by James Young (m/m relationship)
Devil’s Slide by Stacy Lynn Miller (f/f relationship)
The Dolphin by Susan Clegg (gay mc)
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley (gay mc)
Trouble by Lex Croucher (bi mc & li, f/m, transmasc character, gay character)
All the Pressed Lavenders by Mina Moon (m/m relationship)
The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse (f/f relationship)
A Boy Named Rose by Gaelle Geniller (gnc mc, m/m relationship)
Rana Joon and the One & Only Now by Shideh Etaat (Iranian American lesbian mc)
Carving a New Shape by Rhiannon Grant (autistic bi mc, lesbian li, f/f relationship)
Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch (m/m relationship)
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AUGUST
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He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan (nonbinary lesbian mc, lesbian mc, gay mc)
Dark Horse by K. York (m/m relationship)
A Bitch for God by Clark T. Carlton (gay mcs)
Between Winds and Water by Shawna Barnett (bi mc)
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue (lesbian mcs)
Her Dangerous Journey Home by Lee Swanson (sapphic mc)
Belle Nash and the Bath Circus by William Keeling Jr. (gay mcs)
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott (f/f relationship)
Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Firefly by Laury A. Egan (lesbian mc)
We Two Together by James Lomax (m/m relationship)
Shining Threads by Joy Bounds (bi mc, f/m & f/f relationships)
All Yesterday’s Papers by S. S. Genesee (m/m relationships)
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SEPTEMBER
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A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K. J. Charles (m/m relationship)
Dry Land by B. Pladek (gay mc)
Fiorenzo by Sebastian Nothwell (m/m relationship)
The Bliss House by Jim Bartley (m/m relationship)
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine Higdon (sapphic mc)
A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor (bi mc, f/f & f/m relationships; reprint)
Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones (bi mc, lesbian li, f/f relationship)
The Prince and the Coyote by David Bowles & Amanda Mijangos (Indigenous Mexican cast, lgbt characters)
Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline (f/f relationship)
The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby (f/f relationship)
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OCTOBER
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The Heart of the Banshee by Carolyn Elizabeth (f/f relationship)
Western Blue by Suzie Clarke (f/f relationship)
Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein (lesbian mc, gay mcs, f/f/f relationship, ace mc)
Menewood by Nicola Griffith (sapphic mc)
Lovesick Blossoms by Julia Watts (f/f relationship)
A Lady to Treasure by Marianne Ratcliffe (f/f relationship)
Captives by Sebastian Thach (Vietnamese achillean mc, m/m relationship)
Vulgarian Rhapsody by Alvin Orloff (gay mc)
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, trans. by Laura Watkinson (f/f relationship)
Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsén (sapphic mc)
Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield (Jamaican sapphic mcs)
Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer (achillean mc, achillean li, lgbt side characters)
By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter (m/m relationship)
Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue by Cat Sebastian (m/m relationship)
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NOVEMBER
Cà Phê Đen by Sebastian Thach (Vietnamese gay mcs)
Her Princess at Midnight by Erica Ridley (f/f relationship)
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DECEMBER
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The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller (f/f relationship)
Two Wings to Hide My Face by Penny Mickelbury (f/f relationship)
Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller (f/f relationship)
A Century of Queer Korean Fiction ed. & trans. by Samuel Perry (lgbt characters)
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