For those of us who love the espooky season, it’s the best time of the year. And that includes me. All things magical and haunting are in the air. And even if you are not a Halloween person, there’s plenty of sweater weather to go around.
And plenty of books to cozy up with. Previous Lambda Literary winners and finalists like Julie Marie Wade, Nicola Griffith, Emma Pérez, and the highly anticipated Blackouts by previous Lambda Literary retreat faculty Justin Torres.
We also have a new book of short stories from Lambda Literary fellow and contributor Dale Corvino, and don’t miss Lambda Literary retreat fellow mimi tempestt’s newest collection, with an excerpt available here!
Bio/Memoir
- Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story by Lynn Ames, Chicago Review Press
- Bending Toward Justice: A Memoir of Two Decades of LGBT Leadership and the Founding of the Human Rights Campaign by Vic Basile, Querelle Press
- Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin,
- Little Brown and Company
- Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me by Grant Hayter-Menzies
- American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton by Victoria Houseman, Princeton University Press
- Otherwise: Essays by Julie Marie Wade, Autumn House Press
Fiction
- Bonds & Boundaries by Dale Corvino, Rebel Satori Press
- The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Jawbone by Meghan Greeley, Radiant Press
- Menewood by Nicola Griffith, MCD
- Masculinity in Transition by K. Allison Hammer, University of Minnesota Press
- Clouded Waters by Dianna Hunter, Holy Cow Press
- Vulgarian Rhapsody by Alvin Orloff, Three Rooms Press
- Blackouts by Justin Torres, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Family Meal by Bryan Washington, Riverhead Books
- Girlfriends by Emily Zhou, Littlepuss Press
Nonfiction and LGBTQ Studies
- The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way by Sara Ahmed, Seal Press
- Pride and Persistence: Stories of Queer Activism by Mary Fairhurst Breen, Second Story Press
- Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things by Peter Coviello, University of Chicago Press
- Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open by Angela Hume, AK Press
- The Jolliest Bunch: Unhinged Holiday Stories by Danny Pellegrino, Sourcebooks
- Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Andrea Ritchie, AK Press
Romance
- Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson, Flux
- Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake, Penguin Publishing Group
- It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer, Alcove Press
- We Met in a Bar by Claire Forsythe, Bold Strokes Books
- The Fractured City by Kate Jenkins and Morgan Moreau, 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.
- Souls Aligned by Najee Jamerson, Magic Hour Publishing LLC
- The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels, Alcove Press
- Lovesick Blossoms by Julia Watts, Three Rooms Press
Mystery/Thriller
- Bone Rites by Natalie Bayley, Aurora Metro Books
- Haunted Places and other Stories by Mark Allan Gunnells, Slashic Horror Press
- Murder at Sunny Lake: A Muskoka Murder Mystery by Liz McGillicuddy, Northshore Noir
- White Trash and Recycled Nightmares by Rebecca Rowland, Dead Sky Publishing
- Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson, Grove Press
Speculative Fiction
- Soul Food Stories: An Otherworldly Feast for the Living, the Dead, and Those Who Have Yet to Decide by Anna Burke, Bywater Books
- Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas, AK Press
- The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones, Metonymy Press
- Testimony of a Shifter by Emma Pérez, Not Avail
- Death Tango by M. Lachi, Rize
- Pluralities by Avi Silver, Atthis Arts LLC
- The Goth House Experiment by Sj Sindu, Soho Press
Young Adult Literature
- Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Wednesday Books
- Salt the Water by Candice Iloh, Dutton Books for Young Readers
- This Pact Is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi, Tiny Ghost Press
Children’s/Middle Grade Literature
- Mehndi Boy by Zain Bandali, Annick Press
- Queer Eye Slumber Party Magic!: A Fabulous Picture Book by Mark Ceilley, Running Press Kids
- The Tale of Two Princes by Joshua Desjardins, Bookbaby
- Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn, Scholastic Press
- Not He or She, I’m Me by A M Wild, Henry Holt & Company
Poetry
- The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022) by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Haymarket Books
- Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen, BOA Editions
- Beautiful Machine Woman Language by Catherine Chen, Noemi Press
- Taking to Water by Jennifer Conlon, Autumn House Press
- Discordant by Richard Hamilton
- Hated for the Gods by Sean Patrick Mulroy, Button Poetry
- The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals by mimi tempestt, City Lights
- Love(ly) Child by Emanuel Xavier, Queer Mojo
Comics/Graphic Novels
