August’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature

Hundred degree days, Leo season, the dog days of summer: August is here! To fill out your summer reading goals, we’ve got you covered with this month’s most anticipated LGBTQIA+ book releases.

If you’re not ready for summer to end, try Dogs of Summer, Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two young girls coming of age in the Canary Islands. Dogs of Summer isn’t the only novel coming to us in English translation this month from translator Julia Sanches— check out Boulder, Eva Baltasar’s much-anticipated followup to Permafrost. Whet your appetite with an excerpt here.

It may be hot, but it’s the coldest summer of the rest of your life! If that thought haunts your every waking moment, try Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien’s Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, chronicling the imagined history of a new collective social order in the wake of climate catastrophe and capitalist collapse. 

Should you find yourself eagerly awaiting the start of a new semester (I’m sure somebody is), get a head start with an upcoming LGBTQ studies title like Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form wherein a series of contributors bring queer and trans interventions into kinship theory. 

If you’re heading to the beach a few more times before autumn comes, take a new queer romance novel to keep you company. Past Lambda award winner Georgia Beers is back with Cherry on Top, the unlikely love story between an influencer and a journalist who threatens her reputation. 

No matter what you’re looking for, our list will have something for you. If you have a book coming out in the near future, email us at editor@lambdaliterary.org for consideration in our upcoming lists.

• Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility by Michelle Tea, Dey Street Books
• This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes, John Murray Publishers
• In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture by Shannon T.L. Kearns, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• I’m Not Broken: A Memoir by Jesse Leon, Vintage
• Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks, Knopf
• Antiman by Rajiv Mohabir, Restless Books
• My Three Dads by Jessa Crispin, University of Chicago Press

• All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, Viking
• Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham, Little Brown
• Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu, Astra House
• My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson, Flatiron Books
• The Goodby People by Gavin Lambert, McNally Editions
• The Lady Adventurers Club by Karen Frost, Bella Books
• Boulder by Eva Baltasar, And Other Stories

• A Beat Beyond by Major Jackson, University of Michigan Press
• Gender Pioneers by Philippa Punchard, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Queer Tattoo by Benjamin Wolbergs, Florian Rudolph, and Brody Polinsky, Kettler Verlag

• Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender by Marquis Bey, Duke University Press
• Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form ed. Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman, Duke University Press
• Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indigena Ancestries by Susy Zepeda, University of Illinois Press

• The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver, Push
• Husband Material by Alexis Hall, Sourcebooks Casablanca 
• In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae, Kensington Publishing
• Parallel Paradise by Mayapee Chowdhury, Bold Strokes Books
• Cherry on Top by Georgia Beers, Bold Strokes Books 
• Love and Other Rare Birds by Angie Williams, Bold Strokes Books 
• Perfectly Matched by Toni Logan, Bold Strokes Books
• Royal Exposé by Jenny Frame, Bold Strokes Books
• Slow Burn by Missouri Vaun, Bold Strokes Books 
• The Inconvenient Heiress by Jane Walsh, Bold Stroke Books

• Ultimate Blue by Abigail Padgett, Bywater Books
• A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette, Crooked Lane Books
• The Artist by Sheri Lewis Wohl, Bold Stroke Books

• A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland, Tordotcom
• A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair, Union Square & Co
• Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien, Common Notions
• The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia, Tachyon Publications
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean, Tor Books
• The Honeys by Ryan La Sala, Push
• The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri, Push

• This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall, Viking Books for Young Readers
• Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin, Swoon Reads
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros, Inkyard Press
• Furysong by Rosaria Munda, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

• Kind Like Marsha by Sarah Prager and Cheryl Thuesday, Running Press Kids
• The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones, Little Brown Books for Young Readers
• Me and My Dysphoria Monster: An Empowering Story to Help Children Cope with Gender Dysphoria by Laura Kate Dale and Hui Qing Ang, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

• Ask the Brindled by No’u Revilla, Milkweed Editions
• Super Model Minority by Chris Tse, Auckland University Press
• Song of My Softening by Omotara James, Alice James Books

• Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern, Dark Horse Books
• Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo, Silver Sprocket
• Let’s Get Burgers by Ash S, Silver Sprocket