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
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (lesbian mc, lgbt cast)
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (sapphic mc)
A Second Chance at Life by Genevieve McCluer (f/f relationship)
Dark Haven by Brey Willows (f/f relationship)
Here in the Night by Rebecca Turkewitz (bi & lesbian mcs)
Into the Pines by Ryan Lill-Washington (f/f relationship)
Three Meant to Be by M. N. Bennet (m/m relationship)
Cruel Angels Past Sundown by Hailey Piper (f/f relationship)
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia (bi mcs, m/f relationship)
A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui (f/f relationship)
Jamie Hallow and the End of the World by A. V. Wilkes (gay mc, lgbt cast)
Frontera by Julio Anta & Jacoby Salcedo (Mexican American achillean mc)
The Afterlife of the Party by Darcy Marks (bi mc)
Rise of the Undead by Rex Ogle (m/m parents)
Best Friends’ Promise by Issy Waldrom & Mackenzie Sutton (transfem sapphic mc)
AUGUST
Once a Rogue by Allie Therin (m/m relationship)
Bones of Boothbay Harbor by Michelle Larkin (f/f relationship)
The Demon’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Karen Frost (f/f relationship)
In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke (f/f relationship)
Shadow & Silk by Richard Amos (m/m relationship)
Touch of the Bone by Baxter Clare Trautman (lesbian mc)
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea (Black bi mc)
The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin (f/f relationship)
The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall (f/f relationship)
Night of the Living Queers ed. by Shelly Page & Alex Brown (lgbt short stories)
They Fade Away by Alex Armoredes (transmasc mc)
Damned If You Do by Alex Brown (f/f relationship)
The Nameless Witch by Natalie C. Parker (f/f relationship)
Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander (achillean mc)
Hex Americana by Bree D. Wolf (achillean mc, m/m relationship)
Ghost & Me by Tonwand North (m/m relationship)
SEPTEMBER
The Haunting of Oak Springs by Crin Claxton (transfem mc, f/f relationship)
The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée (Black lesbian mc)
House of Slaughter, Vol. 3 by James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal & Antonio Fuso (Black achillean mc)
The Dead Ate Cheese by Eric Williford (f/f relationship)
Providence Girls by Morgan Dante (f/f relationship)
In These Hallowed Halls ed. by Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (f/f relationship)
This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson (bi mc, aroace mc)
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven (f/f relationship)
Monstrous by Jessica Lewis (f/f relationship)
Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass (gay mcs)
What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell (sapphic mc, Korean American bi mc)
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (autistic transmasc mc)
The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans (nonbinary mc)
Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge (nonbinary mc)
Wise Creatures by Deirdre Sullivan (bi mc, nonbinary side character)
Madame Voodoo by A. W. Jackson (lgbt characters)
Tangle & Fen ed. by Rachel A. Byrne (lgbt stories)
Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo (lgbt stories)
OCTOBER
Mate of Her Own by Elena Abbott (transfem mc, f/f relationship)
Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang (sapphic mcs)
Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E. M. Roy (f/f relationship)
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson (bi mc, f/f relationship)
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt (transfem mc, f/f relationship)
Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson (lgbt stories)
Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling (f/f relationship)
The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread ed. by Dave Ring (lgbt cast)
A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper (lesbian mc)
Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine (bi mc)
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (lesbian mc, bi mcs)
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather (sapphic mc)
Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil & George Williams (lgbt cast)
The Reanimator’s Soul by Kara Jorgensen (m/m relationship)
Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Lillah Lawson and Lauren Emily Whalen (f/f relationship)
Open Wound by Shane Blackheart (transmasc mc, m/m/m relationship)
Bone Rites by Natalie Bayley (lesbian mc)
Awakening by Octavia Atlas (gay mc, pan mc)
In The Garden of Echo by H.S. Wolfe (transfem mc, transmasc mc)
Deliver Me by Elle Nash (bi mc)
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra (gay & bi mcs, f/f & m/m relationships)
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris (Mi’kmaq sapphic mc, f/f relationship)
The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey (bi mc, f/f & f/m relationships)
Creepy Court by Evangeline Priest et. al (lgbt stories)
The Book of Queer Saints: Volume II ed. by Mae Murray (lgbt stories)
Midnight Companion by Kit Barrie (m/m relationship)
When The Rain Begins To Burn by A. L. Davidson (m/m relationship)
Blood & Flowers by mars adler (m/m relationship)
The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones (m/m relationship)
All These Sunken Souls ed. by Circe Moskowitz (lgbt stories)
Beholder by Ryan La Sala (gay mc)
The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson (m/m relationship)
All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters (bi mc, f/f)
The Infested by Renee Lake (bi and trans rep)
Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson (sapphic mc)
This Pact is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi (gay mc, pan mc, m/m relationship, gay side characters)
Clementine, Book Two by Tillie Walden (sapphic mc)
The Glass Scientists: Volume One by S.H. Cotugno (m/m relationship)
Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot (m/m relationship)
Secret of the Reaping by Kalynn Bayron (nonbinary mc)
Hex Americana by Bree D. Wolf (m/m relationship)
The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas (gay mc)
NOVEMBER
We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull (Black bi mc, Puerto Rican American sapphic mc, biracial bi ace transmasc mc, nonbinary side character, Black bi side character)
Bait and Witch by Clifford Mae Henderson (f/f relationship)
Buried Secrets by Sheri Lewis Wohl (f/f relationship)
Living for You by Jenny Frame (f/f relationship)
Kringle Falls by Lynn Oliver Hudson (f/f relationship)
Vicarious by Chloe Spencer (f/f relationship)
Chasing the Alpha’s Son by Penny Jessup (m/m relationship)
City of Snares by April Yates (f/f relationship)
Food for Thought by Ariana Ferrante (f/f relationship)
The Workaholism Cult by Jou Nathaniel (gay mc)
DECEMBER
Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes (gay mc)
Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret (f/f relationship)
Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright (f/f relationship)
Please note: an earlier version of this post included a book by Deke Moulton. It has recently been brought to our attention that they are a Zionist and, as such, we will not be supporting them going forward.
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