New Books in June for Your Pride Month Reading List

Author: Edit Team

June 12, 2019

It’s June, and we’ve got your Pride Month reading list! Check out these “New in June” releases.

Kate Davies’s debut novel, In at the Deep End, is the story of Julia, “a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love—and pleasure—in all the wrong places (i.e. from men)”:

Julia’s sexual awakening begins; her new lesbian life is exhilarating. She finds her tribe at queer swing dancing classes, and guided by her new lover Sam, she soon discovers London’s gay bars and BDSM clubs . . .

Sounds perfect for a hot summer day at the beach.

Jaime Manrique, who was just awarded the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, has a new novel out this month. Like This Afternoon Forever (Kaylie Jones Books) is the story of “two Catholic priests [who] fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels.”

For Queer Eye fans, Tan France’s memoir, Naturally Tan, is out this month from St. Martin’s Press. More from the publisher:

With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few people of color in South Yorkshire, England. He illuminates his winding journey of coming of age, finding his voice (and style!), and marrying the love of his life—a Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City.

Ocean Vuong’s highly anticipated novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press) is also out. Our reviewer noted that “as Vuong draws on the personal, so too does he pull from his poetic prowess, animating On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous with [the] gift for vivid precision” that runs through his 2016 poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds.

In Kristen Arnett’s “darkly funny, heart-wrenching, and eccentric” debut novel, Mostly Dead Things (Tin House Books), Jessa-Lynn Morton is trying to keep the family’s Florida taxidermy business running in the wake of her father’s suicide, as the rest of her family is falling apart around her.

Alex Espinoza’s Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime (Unnamed Press) takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to reveal the timeless art of cruising”:

From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale—one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments.

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

 

Fiction

• Flannelwood by Raymond Luczak, Red Hen Press
• Here Is What You Do: Stories by Chris Dennis, Soho Press
• The History of Living Forever by Jake Wolff, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• In at the Deep End by Kate Davies, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• In West Mills by De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Bloomsbury Publishing
• The Island of No Secrets and Other Stories by Lou Dellaguzzo, Lethe Press
• Like This Afternoon Forever by Jaime Manrique, Kaylie Jones Books
• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett, Tin House Books
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press
• Paris, 7 A.M. by Liza Wieland, Simon & Schuster
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn, Liveright
• The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body by Bjorn Rasmussen, Two Lines Press

 

Nonfiction

• Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza, The Unnamed Press
• The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus, Princeton University Press
• Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin, Counterpoint Press
• Mr Hudson Explores: The Gay Man’s Travel Companion by Bastiaan Ellen, Gestalten
• Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture by Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos, Amethyst Editions
• Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love by Naomi Wolf, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann, Coffee House Press

 

LGBT Studies

• Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America by Guy Davidson, Stanford University Press
• Civic Intimacies: Black Queer Improvisations on Citizenship by Niels van Doorn, Temple University Press
• Dark Tears: LGBTQ Resilience in Latin America by Claudia Jares, The New Press
• Dreads and Open Mouths: Living/Teaching/Writing Queerly by Aneil Rallin, Litwin Books
• Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation by Perry N. Halkitis, Oxford University Press
• Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema by Susan Potter, University of Illinois Press
• Sexual Politics In Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, And AIDS by Marvin Leiner, Routledge

 

Young Adult and Children’s Literature

• Alex in Wonderland by Simon James Green, Scholastic
• All Eyes On Us by Kit Frick, Margaret K. McElderry Books
• All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil, Soho Press
• The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner, Feiwel & Friends
• Full of Promise by Kate Gavin, Bella Books
• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
• An Impossible Distance to Fall by Miriam McNamara, Sky Pony Press
• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn & Noah Grigni, Henry Holt and Co.
• Like a Love Story, by Abdi Nazemian, Balzer + Bray
• A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski, Beacon Press
• Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee, Interlude Press
• Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron, Square Fish
• Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith, Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi, Feiwel & Friends
• VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America by Ann Bausum, Viking Books for Young Readers
• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff & Kaylani Juanita, Lee & Low Books
• Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas, Bloomsbury YA

 

Romance

• Cause and Affection by Sheryl Wright, Bella Books
• Create a Life to Love by Erin Zak, Bold Strokes Books
• Fear of Falling by Georgia Beers, Bold Strokes Books
• In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar, Bold Strokes Books
• The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite, Avon Impulse
• The Last Seduction by Ronica Black, Bold Strokes Books
• Perfect Match by Mildred Gail Digby, Regal Crest
• Playing with Fire by Lesley Davis, Bold Strokes Books
• Practice Makes Perfect by Carsen Taite, Bold Strokes Books
• The Song of the Sea by Jenn Alexander, Bywater Books
• Wavering Convictions by Erin Dutton, Bold Strokes Books

 

Graphic Novels/Illustrated Books

• Husband & Husband by Jonathan Ferrara & Aaron Ferrara, BOOM! Box
• Kim Reaper Vol. 2: Vampire Island by Sarah Graley, Oni Press
• Midnight Radio by Iolanda Zanfardino, Lion Forge
• Room for Milk: Doodles by Cole Escola, Marion Street Press

 

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• Accidental Prophet by Bud Gundy, Bold Strokes Books
• Across the Dark Horizon by Tagan Shepard, Bella Books
• All City by Alex DiFrancesco, Seven Stories Press
• Daughter of No One by Sam Ledel, Bold Strokes Books
• Magic for Lairs by Sarah Gailey, Tor
• Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh, Tor.com
• The Sovereign of Psiere by K. Aten, Regal Crest

 

Mystery/Thriller

• Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve, Felony & Mayhem
• Hard Fall: A McStoner & Martinelli Thriller by Pascal Scott, Sapphire Books Publishing
• Ramen Assassin by Rhys Ford, Dreamspinner Press

 

Bio/Memoir

• 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism by Chavisa Woods, Seven Stories Press
• All We Knew But Couldn’t Say by Joanne Vannicola, Dundurn
• Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Merlin Holland, Watkins Publishing
• Impresario of Castro Street: An Intimate Showbiz Memoir by Marc Huestis, Outsider Productions
• Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod, Milkweed Editions
• Naturally Tan by Tan France, St. Martin’s Press
• Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color by Gilbert Baker, Chicago Review Press
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib, Viking

 

Poetry

• Deciduous Qween by Matty Layne Glasgow, Red Hen Press
• Flying On Invisible Wings by Félix Garmendía, Pearlsong Press
• Incandescent by Kai Coggin, Sibling Rivalry Press
• this body / that lightning show by Elizabeth Gross, The Word Works
• Time by Etel Adnan, Nightboat Books