November’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books

Author: Willem Finn Harling

November 4, 2020

This Month’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books

This year has been rife with anxiety and uncertainty, and this month promises much of the same. Perhaps you’ve been wondering what to read during such unsettling times. Look for books that can sustain you, books that can get you through, one day at a time. Such sustaining can take many forms. It can mean distraction, humor, joy. But it can also look like rage, grief, provocation. ‘Sustainment’ suggests a continuation, existing in the present and implicating the past and the future. Thus, it can also be inspiration or motivation, maybe even hope. Books can provide all of the above (and more). And if books aren’t what you need in this moment, take solace in the fact that they will always be there for you to return to. Books have a way of sticking around for us, sustaining themselves so they may sustain you.

Here’s a quick look at some of the different things this month’s book releases have to offer.

Be sustained by…

• A novel about everything from motherhood to voracious appetites, from queer love to faith.
• An examination of the history of queer and trans care and the legacies that shaped the way we care for one another today.
• A celebration of queer identity and community through a collection of photographs.
• A memoir about finding beauty in the most challenging and terrifying times.  
• An anthology of the radical and revolutionary potential of poetry.
• An analysis of the work of black artists that reveals “how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom.”
• An autobiography from an Olympic gold medalist.
• A riveting, page-turner thriller or a funny, whimsical, and sexy rom-com.

Take a look below at all the works coming out this month. You never know what you might be sustained by! As always, if our list is missing an author or a book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

Fiction

• Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Our New Normal by Jennifer Brooks, Bookbaby
• The Reconception of Marie by Teresa Carmody, Spuyten Duyvil
• The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel, Harvard University Press
• The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel by Zeyn Joukhadar, Atria Books
• Tight Little Vocal Cords by Loie Rawding, Kernpunkt Press

Non-Fiction

• An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989 edited by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel Jr, Soberscove Press
• Feline Philosophy by John Gray, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Film For Her by Orion Carloto, Andrew McMeel Publishing
• Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care by Marty Fink, Rutgers University Press
• Matt Keegan: 1996  by Matt Keegan, Inventory Press
• On Connection by Kae Tempest, Faber & Faber Social
• Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature edited by John S. Garrison and Goran Stanivukovic, McGill-Queen’s University Press
• Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson, Algonquin Books
• Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins by Cassandra Snow, Weiser Books
• Rainbow Revolution photographed by Magnus Hastings, Chronicle Books
• Rambling Prose: Selected Essays by Steven G. Kellman, Trinity University Press
• We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown, AK Press
• What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Same-Sex Marriage Decision edited by Jack M. Balkin, Yale University Press

LGBTQ Studies

• Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini by Daniel Humphrey, Wayne State University Press
• Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez, University of Illinois Press
• Coming Out To The Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness by Brandon Andrew Robinson, University of California Press
• Left of Queer by David Eng and Jasbir Puar, Duke University Press 
• Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction by Mikko Tuhkanen, by Bloomsbury
• Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal by Kate McNicholas Smith, Intellect 
• Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires by Francisca Yuenki Lai, Hong Kong University Press
• Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies edited by Will Rogers and Christopher Michael Roman, Medieval Institute Publications
• Reframing Sex: Unlearning the Gender Binary with Trans Masculine YouTube Vloggers by Stevie N. Berberick, Lexington Books
• Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo by Elyssa Ford, University Press of Kansas
• Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance by Misha Friedman and Masha Gessen, The New Press
• Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism by Laurel Westbrook, University of California Press

Bio/Memoir

• As Far As I Can Tell: Finding My Father in World War II  by Philip Gambone, Rattling Good Yarns Press
• The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Michael Schumacher, University of Minnesota Press
• One Life by Megan Rapinoe, Penguin Press
• Outrageous Misfits: Female Impersonator Craig Russell and His Wife, Lori Russell Eadie by Brian Bradley, Dundurn
• Particulate Matter by Felicia Luna Lemus, Akashic Books
• Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé, Trinity University Press 

Fantasy

• A Witch’s Love at the End of the World, Vol. 1 by Kujira, Yen Press
• Empyre: Lords of Empyre by Chip Zdarsky, Anthony Oliveira, and Alex Paknadel, illustrated by Manuel Garcia and Thomas Nachlik, Marvel
• The Factory Witches of Lowell by C. S. Malerich, Tor.com
• From Darkness by Kate Hazel Hall, Duet Books
• Give Way to Night by Cass Morris, Daw Books
• Scarlet Vol. 2 by Chiri Yuino, Seven Seas
• Ruinsong by Julia Ember, Farrar Straus and Giroux

Mystery/Thriller

• HomeComing: A Mister Puss Mystery by Michael Craft, Questover Press
• No Place to Hide by Opa Hysea Wise, Made for Success Publishing

Romance

• Aurora by Emma L McGeown, Bold Strokes Books
• #CassiNova by Lori G. Matthew, Bella Books
• Her Lady to Love by Jane Walsh, Bold Strokes Books
• The Holiday Treatment by Elle Spencer, Bold Strokes Books
• The Stars at Night by Gerri Hill, Bella Books
• When Sparks Fly by Annie McDonald, Bold Strokes Books
• Written In The Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur, Avon Books

Young Adult

• Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack, Versify
• The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly by Sybil Lamb, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins, translated by Larissa Helena, Scholastic Press
• Laurel Everywhere by Erin Moynihan, Ooligan Press
• Master of One by Jaida Jones and Dani Bennett, HarperTeen
• Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky, Farrar Straus and Giroux
• Spin with Me by Ami Polonsky, Macmillan

Children’s Literature

• Benny’s True Colors by Norene Paulson, illustrated by Anne Passchier, Imprint
• Love Is Love: The Journey Continues by Fleur Pierets, illustrated by Fatinha Ramos, Six Foot Press
• My Dads & Me Coloring Book by Mark Loewen, Boutique of Quality Books
• Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution! by Joy Ellison, illustrated by Teshika Silver, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Poetry

• A Thousand Little Deaths by Laura LeMoon, Weasel Press
• Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling, Coach House Books
• The God of San Francisco by James J. Siegel, Sibling Rivalry Press
• Infinity Diary by Cyril Wong, Seagull Books 
• Inheritance by Taylor Johnson, Alice James Books
• Platinum Blonde by Phoebe Stuckes, Bloodaxe Books
• SorrowLand Oracle by Ayodele Nzinga, Nomadic Press
• Special Education by Caroline M. Mar, Texas Review Press
• We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, Nightboat Books