This August packs a powerful punch of literary excitement into a relatively short list! Whether you’re itching to fill the long summer days with some introspective poetry, or lose track of them completely with some sapphic YA frights, August’s newest queer releases are sure to do the trick. Keep reading to find the newest addition to your queer TBR. And happy reading!
Bio/Memoir
- Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis, Topple Books & Little a
- Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom, Dial Press
- Run!: My Story of LGBTQ+ Political Power, Equality, and Acceptance in Silicon Valley by Ken Yeager, Atmosphere Press
LGBTQIA+ Studies
- Abundance: Sexuality’s History by Anjali Arondekar, Duke University Press
- Drag: A British History Volume 23 by Jacob Bloomfield, University of California Press
- The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff, New York University Press
- PS Burn This Letter Please by Craig Olsen, Mobius
- Queer Then and Now: The David R. Kessler Lectures, 2002-2020, Feminist Press
Non-fiction
- Thin Skin: Essays by Jenn Shapland, Pantheon Books
- Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays by R. Eric Thomas, Ballantine Books
Fiction
- I’m Here: Alaska Stories by David Nikki Crouse, Boreal Books
- Back in the Land of the Living by Eva Crocker, House of Anansi Press
- Lush Lives by J. Vanessa Lyon, Roxane Gay Books
- Speech Team by Tim Murphy, Viking
- The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz, Simon & Schuster
- Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid by Willyce Kim, University of Washington Press
- Sacrificio by Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Soho Press
- Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue, Little Brown and Company
- Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women by Sandra Guzman, Amistad Press
- Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian, Tin House Books
Romance
- Peaches and Cream by Georgia Beers, Bold Strokes Books
- Out of Focus by Becky Harmon, Bella Books
- Time and Soul by Genevieve Huffman, Palmetto Publishing
- Ravensong by TJ Klune, Tor Books
- Once a Rogue by Allie Therin, Carina Press
Mystery/Thriller
- The Girls from Hush Cabin by Marie Hoy-Kenny, Blackstone Publishing
- Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard, House of Anansi Press
- Where the Dead Sleep by Josh Moehling, Poisoned Pen Press
- An Unraveling by Amanda Owens, Bella Books
- Magic, Lies, And Deadly Pies by Misha Popp, Crooked Lane Books
- The Body In The Back Garden by Mark Waddell, Crooked Lane Books
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala, Push
Speculative
- Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, Penguin Putnam Inc
- Gimmicks and Glamour by Lauren Melissa Ellzey, Bold Strokes Books
- The Demon’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Karen Frost, Bella Books
- The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang, Tordotcom
- Grim Reflection by A. Lawrence, Cloaked Press, LLC
- Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché, Grove Press
- Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Vanessa Montalban,
Wednesday Books - Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura, Canis Major Books
Young Adult Literature
- The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet by Jake Maia Arlow, Dial Books
- Unexpecting by Jen Bailey, Wednesday Books
- I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani, Hogarth Press
- No Limit on Love by Allison Lister, Lorimer Children & Teens
- The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall, Viking Books for Young Readers
- The Crimson Fortress by Akshaya Raman
- Secret Me by Angel Jendrick, Lorimer Children & Teens
Children’s/Middle Grade Literature
- Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred by Deborah Hopkinson, Anne Schwartz Books
- The Kid with Big, Big Ideas by Britney Winn Lee, Beaming Books
- Simply Skye by Pamela Morgan, Amicus Ink
- Fluffy and the Stars by Redvers, Orca Book Publishers
Comics/Graphic Novels
- Eden II by K. Wroten, Fantagraphics Books
- Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben by Josh Trujillo,Abrams Comicarts – Surely
Poetry
- Sex Augury by C. Bain, Red Hen Press
- The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird, House of Anansi Press
- The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) by Beatrix Gates, Thera Books
- War Is Not My Mother by VI Khi Nao, Clash Books
- Late Epistle by Anne Myles, Headmistress Press
- Theophylline: A Poetic Migration Via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo) by Erín Moure, House of Anansi Press
- God Mornings, Tiger Nights by Nuha Fariha, Game Over Books
- Sacred Spells: Collected Works by Assotto Saint, Nightboat Books
