2023 is going out with a BANG! If you are looking for a gift for the reader in your life (including yourself!), we have got an amazing list of brand new books, sure to hit for any and all your cravings. An impressive amount of Lammy finalists and winners have some fantastic books coming out this month, including Melissa Scott, Ronica Black, Joseph Hansen, Gerri Hill, Nan Campbell, David Bergman, and Bushra Rehman.
We also are excited about Writers in Schools author Isabel Millán’s Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature. As the press states, “Coloring into Existence explores the curious ways that queer and trans of color publications ‘color outside the lines.'”
And it is bittersweet but with pride that our former fellow, the late Anthony Veasna So has published Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes. This posthumous collection contains new fiction and essays, and we are so honored to have more of his voice in our lives.
Bio/Memoir
- Where Two Worlds Touch: An Outsider’s Memoir in England by River Faire, Evolutionary Press
- Nan I Think I’m Bi by Thomasin Lockwood, Vulpine Press
- The River Healer and Other Stories: A Journey to the Heartland of America by Paddy Reid, Liberties Press
- Ways To Be Equally Human by Leslie Tate, Maida Vale
Fiction
- The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories by Allen Barnett, Library of Homosexual Congress
- A Century of Queer Korean Fiction edited by Samuel Perry, Modern Language Association of America
- Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly, Algonquin Books
- The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi and translated by Jamie Richards, And Other Stories
- Nicolas Pages (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Guillaume Dustan and translated by James Horton and Peter Valente, Semiotexte(e)
- Pollyanna Gay by Jer Long, Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
- A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford, Harper Voyager
- Two Wings to Hide My Face by Penny Mickelbury, Bywater Books
Nonfiction
- Nonbinary edited by Jv Fuqua and Red Washburn, Feminist Press
- Ordinary People: Portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova, The New Press
- Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So, Ecco Press
- When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez, University of Arizona Press
- Without Apology: Portraits of Pride by Beth Austin, Honey House Press
LGBTQ Studies
- Making the Case for Equality: 50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ History by Lambda Legal, Phaidon Press
- Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature by Isabel Millán, NYU Press
- Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire by Mel Y. Chen, Duke University Press
- A Queer Theory of the State by Samuel Clowes Huneke, Floating Opera Press
- Non-Normative Sexualities in US Latinx and Latin American Literature Through a Capitalist Lens edited by Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez and Michele Shaul, Lexington Books
- Not Alone: LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985 (New Directions in the History of Education) by Jason Mayernick, Rutgers University Press
- Queer Jewish Strangers in American Popular Culture: Life Between Assimilation and Otherness by Amy Karp, Lexington Books
- Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya by George Paul Meiu, University of Chicago Press
Romance
- All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows, Tor Books
- The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill, Bella Books
- Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright, Bold Strokes Books
- Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell, Bold Strokes Books
- Limelight by Gun Brooke, Bold Strokes Books
- Love Bites by Ry Herman, Quercus Publishing
- Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander, Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Mystery/Thriller
- A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Queen of Swords Press
- Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer, Bella Book
- The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black, Bold Strokes Books*
- Nightwork (A Dave Brandstetter Mystery) by Joseph Hansen, Soho Syndicate*
- Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller, Bella Books
Speculative Fiction
- A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Queen of Swords Press
- Churn: An Illustrated Novel-In-Stories by Chloe Chun Seim, Texas Review Press
- Enigma by Roman Winters, Eden IV
- Nethergeist by Nick Stevenson, Rising Action Publishing
- Riverine by Lukasz Drobnik, Vegetarian Alcoholic Press
- Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn, St. Martin’s Press
Children’s Literature
- Some Families, All Families: An Inclusive & Diverse Families Children’s Book by Tom Tracy, Scoochie & Skiddles, LLC
- If I Were a Fish by Corook and Olivia Barton, Feiwel & Friends
Young Adult Literature
- Descendants of Fire & Water (Essien of Alkebulan, 1) by Didi Anofienem, Turner Publishing Company
- Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green, Clarion Books
- The Other Me by Xan Van Rooyen, Skolion
- Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman, Flatiron Books
Poetry
- Nice: Collected Poems by David Melnick, Nightboat Press
- How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez, Milkweed Editions
- Plain Sight by David Bergman, Passager Books
- You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Kelly Weber, Omnidawn
