New in October: Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli, Jill Soloway, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Author: Edit Team
October 4, 2018
It’s October, and that means new LGBTQ books for your reading list!
This month marks the release of some highly anticipated books for YA readers. In What If It’s Us (HarperTeen), Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli join forces on a story “about two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart.”
Someday, the sequel to David Levithan’s novel bestselling Every Day (which was adapted into a movie starring Angourie Rice), is also out this month from Knopf Books for Young Readers. Like its predecessor, the novel grapples with challenging philosophical questions: “What is a soul? And what makes us human?”
Tillie Walden has a new inspired YA, science fiction graphic novel out. On a Sunbeam will be published this month by First Second. Check out our review of it here.
A memoir we’re looking forward to reading this month is Casey Gerald’s There Will Be No Miracles Here (Riverhead Books).
From the publisher:
When Casey–following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team–is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he’s never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme.
Also released this month is Transparent and I Love Dick creator Jill Soloway’s memoir, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy (Crown Archetype):
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy moves with urgent rhythms, wild candor, and razor-edged humor to chart Jill’s evolution from straight, married mother of two to identifying as queer and nonbinary. […] With unbridled insight that offers a rare front seat to the inner workings of the #metoo movement and its aftermath, Jill captures the zeitgeist of a generation with thoughtful and revolutionary ideas about gender, inclusion, desire, and consent.
In fiction news, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Sketchtasy is out this month from Arsenal Pulp Press:
Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s.
In the Halloween mood? You might want to take a look at the horror/paranormal anthology Devil Take Me (DSP Publications), with stories from Rhys Ford, Ginn Hale, C.S. Poe, and more.
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
- What’s Left of the Night by Sotiropoulos Ersi, New Vessel Press
- Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Arsenal Pulp Press
- First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror edited by Casey Ellis, New Lit Salon
- In Your Hands by Inês Pedrosa, trans. by Andrea Rosenberg, AmazonCrossing
- We Once Belonged to the Sea by Diriye Osman, Team Angelica Publishing
- That Was Something by Dan Callahan, Squares & Rebels
- Sugar Land by Tammy Lynne Stoner, Red Hen Press
- We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie, Bookthug
- Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich, Instar Books
- Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval, trans. Marjam Idriss, Verso
- The Wounded Muse by Robert F Delaney, Mosaic Press
- Oranges by Gary Eldon Peter, New Rivers Press
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Nonfiction
- Andy Warhol, Publisher by Lucy Mulroney, University of Chicago Press
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Arsenal Pulp Press
- small things: (a random selection of anti-essays) by Sky Gilbert, Guernica Editions
- Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia by Slobodan Randjelovic, The New Press
- Swelling With Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories, edited by Sara Graefe, Dagger Editions
- Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture by Lee Airton, Adams Media
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LGBT Studies
- Transgender and The Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing by Rachel Carroll, Edinburgh University Press
- Modernism, Sex, and Gender by by Celia Marshik & Allison Pease, Bloomsbury Academic
- The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker, The University of North Carolina Press
- Sarah Kane: Queer Desires and Feminist Continuums by Nina Kane, Routledge
- Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell, The MIT Press
- Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship by Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall & Mary Lou Rasmussen, Routledge
- Is Gender Fluid?: A Primer for the 21st Century by Sally Hines, Thames & Hudson
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Young Adult and Children’s Literature
- What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera, HarperTeen
- Someday by David Levithan, Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Odd One Out by Nic Stone, Crown Books for Young Readers
- This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender, Balzer + Bray
- The Spy with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke, AW Teen
- Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by L. C. Rosen, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand, HarperCollins
- Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore, Feiwel & Friends
- Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria, Amulet Books
- Alan Cole Doesn’t Dance by Eric Bell, Katherine Tegen Books
- Queer as a Ten Dollar Bill by Lee Wind, Amazon
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Romance
- Broken Vows by MJ Williamz, Bold Stokes Books
- Love Like This by Melissa Brayden, Bold Strokes Books
- Love All by Rachel Spangler, Bywater Books
- Broad Awakening by Mickey Brent, Bold Strokes Books
- Autumn’s Light by Aurora Rey, Bold Strokes Books
- Against All Odds by Kris Bryant, Maggie Cummings & M. Ullrich, Bold Strokes Books
- Secrets on the Clock by Nicole Disney, Bold Strokes Books
- Kat’s Nine Lives by Laina Villeneuve, Bella Books
- A Summer Soundtrack for Falling in Love by Arden Powell, Riptide Publishing
- Building Forever by Kelly Jensen, Riptide Publishing
- Breaking the Rules by Larkin Rose, Bold Strokes Books
- El Color del Amor by Radclyffe, Bold Strokes Books
- Young and in Love? by Gary Garth McCann, Bold Strokes Books
- Lex Files by Celeste Castro, Bella Books
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Graphic Novels/Illustrated Books
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden, First Second
- Adversaries! by Dale Lazarov, Tj Wood & Captain Nikko, Sticky Graphic Novels
- Meal by Blue Delliquanti & Soleil Ho, Iron Circus Comics
- Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash, Candlewick
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Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
- The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai, Arsenal Pulp Press
- Devil Take Me by Jordan L. Hawk, Rhys Ford, TA Moore, Ginn Hale, C.S. Poe & Jordan Castillo Price, DSP Publications
- Wilde Stories 2018: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, edited by Steve Berman, Lethe Press
- The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, Tor Books
- Mutiny at Vesta by R. E. Stearns, Saga Press
- Treason of Hawks by Lila Bowen, Orbit
- For a Glance by Dan Ackerman, Supposed Crimes
- The Rising Tide by J. Scott Coatsworth, Dreamspinner Press
- Isle of Broken Years by Jane Fletcher, Bold Strokes Books
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Mystery/Thriller
- Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink, Harper Perennial
- Flesh and Gold by Ann Aptaker, Bold Strokes Books
- Craft Brew by Layla Reyne, Carina Press
- Truth Will Out by K.C. Wells, Dreamspinner Press
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Bio/Memoir
- She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway, Crown Archetype
- There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald, Riverhead Books
- Four Years by Martha Miller, Regal Crest
- GuRu by RuPaul, Dey Street Books
- Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary by James N. Green, Duke University Press
- The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres, The MIT Press
- Boy Dreamer: An Artist’s Memoir of Identity, Awakening, and Beating the Odds by Paul Ecke, Morrison Meyer Press
- East of Croydon: Blunderings through India and South East Asia by Sue Perkins, Michael Joseph
- Danger Music by Eddie Ayres, Allen & Unwin
- Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality and Secrets by Rose Ellen Dix & Rosie Spaughton, Trapeze
- Ripe: Letters by Alan Semrow, Self-published
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Poetry
- Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert, Feiwel & Friends
- Parole by Angie Estes, Oberlin College Press
- Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House by Nina Puro, New Issues Poetry & Prose
- Past Lives, Future Bodies by Kristin Chang, Black Lawrence Press
- I Don’t Write about Race by June Gehringer, Civil Coping Mechanisms
- Obits. by Tess Liem, Coach House Books
- Sister: A Novel in Poems by Nickole Brown, Sibling Rivalry Press
