Book Releases: Historical (January to June 2024)

New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the way our releases posts work is clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of these posts, for the genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.

In this one, you can browse the historical books from January to June of 2024!

Looking for the other genres?

Contemporary | Fantasy | Mystery/Thriller | Nonfiction | Paranormal/Horror | Poetry | Science Fiction

JANUARY

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban (f/f relationship)
The Knowing by Emma Hinds (f/f relationship)
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor (transmasc nonbinary mc, queer mc, nb/f)
The Secret Duchess by Jane Walsh (f/f relationship)
Their Bride by Jess Michaels (bi mcs, m/m/f relationship)
The Gallopers by Jon Ransom (gay mcs)
Escaping Mr. Rochester by L. L. McKinney (Black sapphic mcs, f/f relationship)
Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa (gay transmasc mc, gay li, m/m relationship)
Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke (f/f relationship, gay mc; reprint)

FEBRUARY

Remember, Remember by Elle Machray (Black sapphic mc)
Her Princess by Brooke Winters (f/f relationship)
Letters to Her Love by Katherine Grant (f/f relationship)
Greasepaint by Hannah Levene (lesbian cast)
The Golden Hour by Jacquie Bloese (f/f relationship)
ANKRBOY by Mark Pettit (gay mc)
Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence (m/m relationship)
Beach of the Dead by Cynthia J. Bogard (lesbian mc)
No Past, No Present, No Future by Yulisa Amadu Maddy (African gay mc)

MARCH

Pelican Girls by Julia Sixtine Marie Malye (f/f relationship)
Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland (f/f relationship, bi mc, ace mc, nonbinary character)
Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin (f/f relationship, m/m relationship)
Change by Édouard Louis, trans. by John Lambert (gay mc)
All the World Beside by Garrard Conley (m/m relationship, transfem mc)
The Phoenix Bride by Natasha Siegel (achillean mc, m/f relationship)
All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny (f/f relationship)
Last Barrel by Stacy Lynn Miller (f/f relationship)
Clear by Carys Davies (m/m relationship)
Lighthouse Keeper by Eliza Lentzski (f/f relationship)

APRIL

A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J. Stephens (nonbinary mc)
The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert (gay mc)
Spring on the Peninsula by Ery Shin (Korean bi mc)
Smile and Be a Villain by Yves Donlon (bi mc, transmasc side character)
The Devil to Pay by Katie Daysh (m/m relationship)
Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria (lesbian mc; reprint)
Curiosities by Anne Fleming (transmasc mc)

MAY

In Tongues by Thomas Grattan (gay mc)
A Liaison with Her Leading Lady by Lotte R. James (f/f relationship)
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian (m/m relationship)
Adrift by Sam Ledel (bi mc, f/f relationship)
A Heart Divided by Angie Williams (bi mc, f/f relationship)
Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor (gay characters)
The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall (m/m relationship)
Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang (Chinese cast, gay mc)
The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong (Chinese lesbian mc, bi mc)
A Rougher Task by D.J.G. Palmer (m/m relationship)
Nighttime Kingdom by William J. O’Brien (gay mc)
Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (f/f relationship)
Pathologies by Jacob Isräel de Haan, trans. by Brian Doyle–Du Breuil (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Queen of Steeplechase Park by David Ciminello (pan li, m/f relationship)

JUNE

The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan (Jewish gay mc)
A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee (f/f relationship)
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron (Dominican sapphic mc, f/f relationship)
A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell (transmasc mc, m/f relationship)
Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver (gay mc, past m/m, sapphic mcs, f/f relationship)
The Lions’ Den by Iris Mwanza (transfem mc)
Trick Pony by Greg Lockard, Anna David & Lucas Gattoni (m/m relationship)
The Betrayal of Thomas True by A. J. West (m/m relationship)
Paris at Nightfall by Merlina Garance (m/m relationship)
Dandelion by Merlina Garance (m/m relationship)
A Divine Fury by D. V. Bishop (gay mc, bi mc)

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