New in July: Amanda Lee Koe, JY Yang, David S. Pederson, and More

Author: Edit Team

July 8, 2019

July is here, and we’re back with some new LGBTQ books for your summer reading list!

We’re looking forward to Amanda Lee Koe’s novel, Delayed Rays of a Star (Nan A. Talese), that begins with “a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928” between three noted cinematic figures.

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At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world’s first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father’s modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director would first make her famous–then, infamous.

From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women’s lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA’s Chinatown, from a seaside resort in East Germany to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysées, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, muse, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance.

In speculative fiction, this month brings Ascent to Godhood (Tor.com), the latest in JY Yang’s Tensorate series:

For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice.

But in one tavern, deep in rebel territory, her greatest enemy drowns her sorrows. Lady Han raised a movement that sought the Protector’s head, yet now she can only mourn her loss. She remembers how it all began, when the Protector was young, not yet crowned, and a desperate dancing girl dared to fall in love with her.

For fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Ultimate Fan Guide to RuPaul’s Drag Race by John Davis & Paul Borchers (Smith Street Books) is out this month:

Buckle up hunties, as we spill the T on the greatest reality show! This ultimate guide celebrates all the queens that have sashayed the runway from seasons 1 to 10 and All Stars seasons 1 to 3 – all 127 fierce performers are included and all are illustrated by talented artist Paul Borcher!

And in crime fiction, this month brings the US publication of Slugger (Pushkin Vertigo), book three in Martin Holmén’s Swedish crime series about bisexual ex-boxer Harry Kvist, and Death Takes a Bow (Bold Strokes Books), the fourth book in David S. Pederson’s Detective Heath Barrington series.

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

Fiction

Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe, Nan A. Talese
Feast Day of the Cannibals by Norman Lock, Bellevue Literary Press
Imagoes: A Queer Anthology by Jamal Jones, Love Pain & Poetry
The Light Source by Kim Magowan, 7.13 Books
Say Say Say by Lila Savage, Knopf
Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nonfiction

Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979 by Ryan Powell, University of Chicago Press
People I’ve Met From The Internet by Stephen Van Dyck, Ricochet Editions
Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as Battlefield by Peter Wolfe, Lexington Books
The Ultimate Fan Guide to RuPaul’s Drag Race by John Davis & Paul Borchers, Smith Street Books

LGBT Studies

Abuses of the Erotic: Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States by Josh Cerretti, University of Nebraska Press
Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife by Gregory Mackie, University of Toronto Press
From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789 by Sean Brady & Mark Seymour, Bloomsbury Academic
Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and other Lesbian Hauntings by Allyson Mitchell & Cait McKinney, UBC Press
Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction by Dana Seitler, Fordham University Press
Transgender Health and Medicine: History, Practice, Research, and the Future by Dana Jennett Bevan Ph.D., Praeger

Young Adult and Children’s Literature

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed, Simon Pulse
Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller, HarperTeen
IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council, Carolyn Choi & Ashley Seil Smith, Dottir Press
Me Myself & Him by Chris Tebbetts, Delacorte Press
Please Send Help by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin, Wednesday Books
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Wilder Girls by Rory Power, Delacorte Press
You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family by Jonathan Branfman & Julie Benbassat, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Romance

Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden, Bold Strokes Books
Because I Said So by Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books
In My Heart by Bette Hawkins, Bella Books
Incognito by VK Powell, Bold Strokes Books
Insult to Injury by Gun Brooke, Bold Strokes Books
Just One Moment by Dena Blake, Bold Strokes Books
Perfect Match: Book Two by Mildred Gail Digby, Regal Crest
Scene of the Crime by MJ Williamz, Bold Strokes Books
The Secret Chord by Virginia Hale, Bella Books
Unknown Forces by Samantha Hicks, Affinity eBook Press
The Woman at the Edge of Town by Georgette Kaplan, Ylva Publishing

Graphic Novels/Illustrated Books

The Life & Times of Butch Dykes: Portraits of Artists, Leaders, and Dreamers Who Changed the World by Eloisa Aquino, Microcosm Publishing
Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide by Kate Charlesworth, Myriad Editions
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott & Harmony Becker, Top Shelf Productions
Tonta by Jaime Hernandez, Fantagraphics

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang, Tor.com
Endangered by Michelle Larkin, Bold Strokes Books
Imperfect Commentaries by Ruthanna Emrys, Lethe Press
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Gallery / Saga Press