New Year! New Books! This month you can pick up new releases from Edmund White, Radclyffe, Simon Doonan and Nat Burns.
- With Jack Holmes and His Friends (Bloomsbury), famed writer Edmund White releases his first work of fiction in almost five years. The novel chronicles the turbulent friendship between two men, one gay and one straight, over the course of two decades.
- In Best Lesbian Romance 2012, writer and editor Radclyffe has collected “over two dozen titillating tales of lesbian couples taking each other to new heights of happily bedded bliss. Imagination and experimentation are the key that unlocks the hearts of these lesbian love stories and every kind of love you CAN imagine are told in stories redolent of romance, risk-taking, and, even gobsmackingly surprising true love.”
- If your New Year’s resolution is to read more books you are in luck. This month there are new releases from fashionista Simon Doonan, novelist Marianne Banks, and graphic artist Paige Braddock.
As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.
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Fiction
- Giraffe People by Jill Malone, Bywater Books
- Growing Up Delicious by Marianne Banks, Bella Books
- Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White, Bloomsbury
- The Last Nude by Ellis Avery, Riverhead Books
- Monstress by Lysley Tenorio, Ecco
- Songs for the New Depression by Kergan Edwards-Stout Circumspect Press
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Nonfiction
- Bend Over! The Complete Guide to Anal Sex for Men by Stephan Niederwieser, Bruno Gmunder
- Gay Men Don’t Get Fat by Simon Doonan, Blue Rider Press
- The Right Side of Forty: The Complete Guide to Happiness for Gay Men at Midlife and Beyond by Bob Bergeron, Magnus Books
- Transforming Law’s Family: The Legal Recognition of Planned Lesbian Motherhood by Fiona Kelly, UBC Press
- What Every Gay Man Needs to Know about Prostate Cancer: The Essential Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery by Gerald Perlman, Magnus Books
- Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics) by Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe, Arsenal Pulp Press
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Mystery
- All Lessons Learned by Charlie Cochrane, Samhain Publishing
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LGBT Studies
- The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present edited by John M. Clum, Palgrave Macmillan
- The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy by Lorenzo Benadusi, Suzanne Dingee (Translator) and Jennifer Pudney (Translator), University of Wisconsin Press
- Intersexuality and the Law: Why Sex Matters by Julie A. Greenbergn, NYU Press
- Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland edited by Marian Duggan, Ashgate Publishing Group
- Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Writing Romans à Clef Between the Wars by Sashi Nair, Palgrave Macmillan
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Romance
- Awake Unto Me by Kathleen Knowles, Bold Strokes Books
- Best of Lesbian Romance 2012 edited by Radclyffe, Cleis Press
- Delsyn’s Blues by Lou Sylvre, Dreamspinner Press
- How To Wrangle a Woman by Susan X. Meagher, Brisk Press
- Initiation by Desire by M.J. Williamz, Bold Stokes Books
- Requiem for a Broken Dream by Lori C. Hawkins, Dreamspinner Press
- The Quality of Blue by Nat Burns, Bella Books
- Toughskins by William Masswa, Bold Strokes Books
- Worth the Risk by Karis Walsh, Bold Strokes Books
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Erotica
- Bergdorf Boys by Scott Alexander Hess, JMS Books
- Give It To Me by Sean Wolfe, Kensington
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Speculative Fiction
- Bloody Claws by Winter Pennington, Bold Strokes Books
- Image of Emeralds and Chocolate by K. Murry Johnson, Wheatmark
- The Smuggler, the Spy and the Spider by Diana Rivers, Bella Books
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Bio/Memoir
- It’s Not Really About the Hair by Tabatha Coffey with Richard Buskin, !T
- Surviving Madness: the Life of Betty Berzon by Betty Berzon, Spinster’s Ink
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Young Adult
- Don’t Let Me Go by J.H. Trumble, Kensington
- me@you.com by KE Payne, Bold Strokes Books
- My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan by S. J. Adams, Random House Books for Young Readers
- Getting Somewhere by Beth Neff, Viking
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Art/Photography/Illustrated
- Jane’s World Volume 10: A New Frontier by Paige Braddock , Girl Twirl Comics
- Queer Art: A Freak Theory by Renate Loren, Transcript Verleg