New in March: Bachardy, Vidal, Jansson

& Books Not Found Anywhere Else

Compiling this list every month is bar none my most challenging duty. Gathering a list of LGBT books published every month isn’t as easy as it seems. Pub dates change. Genres evolve. Authors come out.

However, this is perhaps one of the most important jobs I get to do. Once a month I call attention to books that you can’t find on mainstream book sites.

Consider Dawn Mueller’s abstinence memoir, A Single Year (CreateSpace) — which technically came out in Jan — or Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian’s novel, The Wide Road (Belladonna) which took 10 years to write. More and more it’s “the little guys” — the micro publishers and indies that are making the biggest creative impact.

But by no means have major publishers abandoned LGBT titles — especially when it comes to Young Adult books. This month Penguin publishes Dan Savage’s It Gets Better. Harper, Scholastic and Little, Brown all have LGBT books out including Patrick Ryan’s Gemini Bites and Cris Beam’s I Am J.

So in addition to cruising the big names here (Gore Vidal anyone?), check out some of the lesser-known players listed. You may find the “perfect book” in an unexpected place.

Biography & Memoir	A Single Year Dawn Mueller CreateSpace January 3, 2011	The Bucolic Plague How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir [Reissue] Josh Kilmer-Purcell Harper Perennial March 23, 2011 Review \| Interview
True Stories Portrait from My Past Felice Picano Chelsea Station Editions March 1, 2011	Untied A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering Meredith Baxter Crown Archetype March 1, 2011	In from the Wilderness Sherman: She-r-man By David E. Weekley Wipf and Stock February 23, 2011 *Trans
Erotica	Kiss the Rain Larkin Rose Bold Strokes Books March 14, 2011	Lesbian Cops Erotic Investigations Sacchi Green Cleis Press March 1, 2011 Interview
Fiction	A Hundred Little Lies Jon Wilson Cheyenne Publishing	Breaking Out of Bedlam (Reisue) Leslie Larson Crown January 12, 2011
Fair Play Tove Jansson Introduction by Ali Smith Translated by Thomas Teal New York Review Books March 8, 2011 Feature Essay	My Brother and His Brother Love Bigger Than Life Hakan Lindquist Bruno Gmunder March 2, 2011	My Sister Chaos Lara Fergus Spinifex Press March 1, 2011
On Wings of Affection George Snyder Blurb February 2, 2011	Progress Michael V Smith Cormorant Books March 1, 2011	Sarah, Son of God Justine Saracen Bold Strokes Books March 14, 2011
The German Lee Thomas Lethe Press March 1, 2011	The Wide Road Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian Belladonna March 1,, 2011	The Rifter (A 10-part serial novel) Ginn Hale Blind Eye Books March 8, 2011
Illustrated	Kiss & Tell A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 Mari Naomi Harper Perennial March 15, 2011 *Bisexual	The L Life Extraordinary Lesbians Making a Difference Erin McHugh and Jennifer May Stewart, Tabori & Chang/Abrams March 1, 2011
Stars in My Eyes (Reissue) Don Bachardy University of Wisconsin Press February 6, 2011	Venus with Biceps A Pictorial History of Muscular Women David L. Chapman With Patricia Vertinsky Arsenal Pulp Press March 1, 2011	Michael Alago Michael Alago Bruno Gmunder March 2, 2011
Tom of Finland The Comics Volume I by Tom of Finland and Dian Hanson Taschen March 2011	100 Artists of the Male Figure A Contemporary Anthology of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture E. Gibbons Introduction by Grady Harp Schiffer Books February 28, 2011
Mystery	Death Before Bedtime Edgar Box/ Gore Vidal Vintage March 1, 2011 Review	Death in the Fifth Position Edgar Box/ Gore Vidal Vintage March 1, 2011 Review
Death Likes It Hot Edgar Box/ Gore Vidal Vintage March 1, 2011 Review	Lessons in Murder Claire McNab Bella Books March 14, 2011	Rag & Bones #2 in the Inspector Raft Mystery Series J. S. Cook MLR Press March 1, 2011
The Truth of Yesterday Josh Aterovis PD Publishing March 1, 2011	Deadly Intersection Ann Roberts Bella Books March 14, 2011
Nonfiction	A Saving Remnant The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds Martin Duberman The New Press March 2, 2015 Interview	After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory Janet Halley, Andrew Parker Duke University Press March 1, 2011
Beat Atlas A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America Bill Morgan, Allen Ginsberg, Nancy Peters City Lights Publishers March 2, 2011 *Bisexual	Cold War Femme Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema Robert J. Corber Duke University Press March 2, 2011	Queer America A People’s GLBT History of the United States (Reissue) Vicki L. Eaklor The New Press March 16, 2011
Queer Popular Culture Thomas Peele Palgrave Macmillan March 1, 2011	The Fire in Moonlight Stories from the Radical Faeries White Crane Books March 1, 2011 Review	It Gets Better Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living Edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller Dutton Adult March 22, 2011
Drama	The Temperamentals Jon Marans Chelsea Station Editions March 8, 2011
Poetry	Road Work Ahead Raymond Luczak Sibling Rivalry Press March 1, 2011	Double Shadow Poems Carl Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux March 15, 2011
Romance (Gay)	COVER TK Anything for You Ethan Day MLR Press March 1, 2011	Bound by Honor SE Jakes Samhain Publishing March 1, 2011
Nothing Ever Happens Sue Brown Dreamspinner Press March 7, 2011	Red Skies Joanne Kells Dreamspinner Press March 4, 2011	The Last Supper Scarlet Blackwell Samhain Publishing March 29, 2011
The Mercenary Cornelia Grey Samhain Publishing March 8, 2011	Natural Instincts S.J. Frost MLR Press March 1, 2011	Out There In The Night Laura Baumbach MLR Press March 1, 2011
Undercover Sins Hayley James Dreamspinner Press March 7, 2011	With Abandon J. L. Langley Samhain Publishing March 22, 2011
Romance (Lesbian)	An Expanded Love Jacqueline Applebee Lulu January 10, 2011	Blood Hunt Radclyffe writing as L.L. Raand Bold Strokes Books March 14, 2011
Calm Before the Storm (Reissue) Peggy J. Herring Bella Books March 14, 2011	Loving Liz Bobbi Marolt Bold Strokes Books March 14, 2011	When an Echo Returns Linda Kay Silva Bella Books March 14, 2011
Undeniable Robin Alexander Intaglio Publications March 1, 2011
Young Adult	Gemini Bites Patrick Ryan Scholastic Press March 22, 2011	I Am J Cris Beam Little, Brown Books for Young Readers March 1, 2011 Review \| *Trans
Sleeping Angel Greg Herren Bold Strokes Books March 14, 2011	Lambda Literary Award Finalist THE VAST FIELDS OF ORDINARY (Reissue) Nick Burd Penguin/Dial March 17, 2011 Interview	Unnatural (An Archangel Academy Novel) Michael Griffo Kensington February 22, 2011