Fall is officially upon us! The days are shorter, the nights cooler, and it’s the perfect time to cozy up with some good books.
And we have some lovely ones this month! Spend some time in the life of critic Hilton Als with his memoir My Pinup or escape reality altogether with love stories like Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales (maybe a pairing with Midnight??). As the leaves change, it’s also nice to jump into Joshua Whitehead’s Making Love with the Land: Essays and A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr would make a perfect gift for any Scorpios/Sags.
Looking for a book to share with the young people in your life? A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington brings history to life, and make sure to grab The Secrets of Stone Creek by Briana McDonald for the young one who just wants to sit in a corner and read during family gatherings (uhhh… was/is that me? Maaaaaybe lol)
As always, if you have a book coming out soon, email us at editor@lambdaliterary.org for consideration in our upcoming lists.
Bio/Memoir
- A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick, Tin House
- Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan, HarperOne
- Engine Running by Cade Mason, Mad Creek Books
- Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by Jason McBride, Simon & Schuster
- Jack in the Box: Or, How to Goddamn Direct by Jack O’Brien, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- I Am Onir and I Am Gay: A Memoir by Onir Onir, India Viking
- My Pinup by Hilton Als, New Directions Publishing Corporation
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing by Marshall Moore, Rebel Satori Press
Fiction
- The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe, bellows press
- Small Game: A Novel by Blair Braverman, Ecco Press
- The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan, Canongate Books
- Sing with Me at the Edge of Paradise: Stories by Joe Baumann, Texas Tech University Press
- Participation by Anna Moschovakis, Coffee House Press
- Girlcrush by Florence Given, Mobius
Nonfiction
- Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens by Ryan Pfluger, Princeton Architectural Press
- Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art by Lex Morgan Lancaster, Duke University Press
- Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance by Lauron J Kehrer, University of Michigan Press
- With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words edited by Máel Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram, New York University Press
- Making Love with the Land: Essays by Joshua Whitehead, University of Minnesota Press
- A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr, ONEWorld Publications
LGBTQ Studies
- Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer by Mairead Sullivan, University of Minnesota Press
- The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich, Duke University Press
- Fearless Vulgarity: Jacqueline Susann’s Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship by Ken Feil, Wayne State University Press
- The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-Hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru by Erika Almenara, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature by Meg Dobbins, Ohio State University Press
- Screening Queer Memory: LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television by Anamarija Horvat, Bloomsbury Academic
Romance
- Defending Jessica by Benna Bos, Flashpoint Publications
- Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales, Wednesday Books
- Something’s Different by Quinn Ivins, Ylva
- All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, Viking
- Mabel and Everything After by Hannah Safren, Bella Books
- The Consort by J Warren, Queer Space
- Platonic Rulebook by Saxon James, May Books
- Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun, Atria Books
- Paris Daillencourt Is about to Crumble by Alexis Hall, Forever
Mystery/Thriller
- Sky Court by Faith Mosley, Circuit Breaker Books LLC
- Corpus Calvin by David Swatling, Bold Strokes Books
- The Edge by Lucy Goacher, Thomas & Mercer
- Villain of the Piece by Geonn Cannon, Supposed Crimes, LLC
Fantasy/Horror
- The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix, Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Even Though I Knew the End by C L Polk, Tordotcom
- Wicked Little Things by Justin Arnold, Tiny Ghost Press
- Defenders of the Black Crown by Cate Pearce, Hansen House
- The Sunrisers by Robyn Singer, Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC
- Of Loyalties & Wreckage by Lou Wilham and Christis Christie, Midnight Tide Publishing
Young Adult Literature
- Red Clay Suzie by Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Post Hill Press
- Born Andromeda by K. M. Watts, Interlude Press
- We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds, Roaring Brook Press
- Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell, Clarion Books
- Silver in the Mist by Emily Victoria, Inkyard Press
Children’s/Middle Grade Literature
- Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith, Labyrinth Road
- A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, Henry Holt & Company
- This Is Our Place by Vitor Martins, Push
- The Secrets of Stone Creek by Briana McDonald, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Butterfly Child by Marc Majewski, Katherine Tegen Books
Poetry
- Learned by Carellin Brooks, Book*hug Press
- How to Cut a Woman in Half – Poems by Janis Harrington, Able Muse
- On the Level: Poems on Living with Multiple Sclerosis by Bryan R. Monte, Circling Rivers
- The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi, Ecco Press
- Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird, Button Poetry
- American Treasure by Jill McDonough, Alice James Books
Comics/Graphic Novels
- Dancing on the Volcano by Floor de Geode, Oni Press
- Washington White by Adam Griffiths, Secret Acres
- Rethinking Gender: An Illustrated Exploration by Louie Läuger, MIT Press
- Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish, Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
- Sirius: Twin Stars by Ana C. Sánchez, Love X Love
