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February 10, 2011 7 min read

“Make It Be Spring!”

Here’s a list of new LGBT-relevant books to help us cope with the impending winter storms. From Homo Thugs to Shakesqueer, we’ve got it all.

Kelley Eskridge‘s acclaimed novel, Solitaire (Small Beer), was reissued late last month and we hope to bring you a Q&A soon. Reality TV-show star Tabatha Coffey has a new memoir It’s Not Really About the Hair (!t). Read our review.

In time for Black History Month, Victoria Brownworth‘s new imprint Tiny Satchel published a collection of stories, Where We Sit, featuring Jewelle Gomez, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Craig L. Gidney, and Fiona Lewis among others.

Biography & Memoir	IT’S NOT REALLY ABOUT THE HAIR The Honest Truth About Life, Love, and the Business of Beauty by Tabatha Coffey and Richard Buskin !t Books January 25, 2011	THE MUSE MOVES ON A Memoir by Rita M. Kallerhoff The K Studios February 2011
IT’S ALL RELATIVE Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine (A Memoir) by Wade Rouse Crown February 1, 2011
Children’s & Young Adult	FROM WHERE WE SIT by Victoria Brownworth Tiny Satchel Press February 14, 2011	MY PRINCESS BOY By Cheryl Kilodavis Illustrated by Suzanne DeSimone Aladdin Now On Kindle January 11, 2011
Drama	THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT The Shooting Script by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg Newmarket Press February 22, 2011	CROSSING & OTHER PLAYS by C. E. Gatchalian Lethe Press January 8, 2011
Erotica	BLACK FIRE Gay African-American Erotica Ed by Shane Allison Bold Strokes Books February 1, 2011	THE COLLECTORS by Lesley Gowan Bold Strokes Books February 14, 2011
HOMO THUGS by Shane Allison Starbooks Press January 2011	NICE GIRLS, NAUGHTY SEX 20 Erotic Tales Ed by Jordan LaRousse & Samantha Sade Seal Press February 15, 2011	BEAR LUST [Reissue] Hot & Hairy Fiction ed. by R. Jackson Bear Bones Books/Lethe February 2011
Fiction	BLAME IT ON THE RAGING HORMONES by Nathan Goh Tincture/Lethe Press February 15, 2011 NOVEL	THE INTIMATES by Ralph Sassone Farrar, Straus and Giroux February 1, 2011 NOVEL
THE MECHANICS OF HOMOSEXUAL INTERCOURSE by Lonely Christopher Akashic Books February 1, 2011 SHORT STORIES	UNDER THE MERCY TREES by Heather Newton Harper Perennial January 18, 2011 NOVEL	SOLITAIRE [Reissue] by Kelley Eskridge Small Beer Press January 18, 2011 SF/FANTASY
WONDER by Dan Boyle Lethe Press January 15, 2011 NOVEL	WILLY by Robert Dunbar Uninvited Books January 24, 2011 HORROR	WRECKER by Summer Wood Bloomsbury USA February 15, 2011 NOVEL
Nonfiction	JUST ONE OF THE GUYS? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Kristen Schilt University of Chicago Press February 15, 2011	QUEER (IN)JUSTICE The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock Beacon February 15, 2011
SHAKESQUEER A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare by Madhavi Menon Duke University Press February 28, 2011	THE LESBIAN PREMODERN The New Middle Ages Series by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M Sauer, and Diane Watt Palgrave Macmillan February 1, 2011	THE INITIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY INTERVIEW A Gay Man Seeks Treatment Ed by Charles Silverstein Elsevier February 2, 2011
Mystery & Suspense	BODIES OF WORK An Avondale Story by Etienne Dreamspinner Press	HUNTING THE WITCH [Reissue] by Ellen Hart Bella Books February 14, 2011
HOT LAVA by Rob Rosen Torquere Press February 9, 2011	MAHU BLOOD by Neil Plakcy MLR Press February 2011	BERMUDA HEAT By P.A. Brown MLR Press February 2011
Poetry	THE ALPHABET CONSPIRACY Rita Mae Reese Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press February 1, 2011	JACK DEFEATS RON 100-64 by Cliff Weber Lulu.com February 16, 2011
Romance	2ND FIDDLE [Reissue] by Kate Calloway Bella Books February 14, 2011	A DANCE OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY by Roland Graeme Dreamspinner Press February 4, 2011
ACCOMPANIED BY A WALTZ by Andrew Grey Dreamspinner Press February 14, 2011	BENEDICTION [Reissue] by Diane Salvatore Spinsters Ink February 15, 2011	DYING TO LIVE by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou Bold Strokes Books February 14, 2011
ELENA UNDONE by Nicole Conn Bella Books February 14, 2011	INDIGO MOON by Gill McKnight Bold Strokes Books February 14, 2011	ISLAND SONG by Alan Chin Dreamspinner Press February 18, 2011
MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME [Reissue] by Karin Kallmaker Bella Books February 14, 2011	PARTIES IN CONGRESS by Colette Moody Bold Strokes Books February 14, 2011	SUBSTITUTE OF LOVE [Reissue] by Karin Kallmaker Bella Books February 14, 2011
WINGS OF LOVE by Scotty Cade Dreamspinner Press February 11, 2011	WOKE UP IN A STRANGE PLACE by Eric Arvin Dreamspinner Press February 25, 2011	RIDING DOUBLE Anthology Ed by Anne Regan Dreamspinner Press February 18, 2011
DON’T TELL by K. A. Kron Lethe Press February 15, 2011