The new year is upon us, whether we are ready or not. With the new year comes reflection, and of course, resolutions. Be gentle with yourself, friend. You are already doing the best you can, and while you challenge yourself to meet new goals, don’t forget room for joy, for love, for grief, and for pain.
This month’s list includes emerging and established authors, including Lammy winner and finalist Daniel Black and Selby Wynn Schwartz. Spend a little time for yourself among a hectic time with these exciting new works.
Bio/Memoir
- Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black, Hanover Square Press*
- Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Griffin-Gracy Major, Verso
- Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by Iliana Regan, Agate Midway
Fiction
- The New Life by Tom Crewe, Scribner Book Company
- Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- The Company of Strangers by Jen Michalski, Braddock Avenue Books
- Jayne and the Average North Dakotan by Chandler Myer, Atmosphere Press
- All the Things They Said We Couldn’t Have: Stories of Trans Joy by Tash Oakes-Monger, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz, Liveright Publishing Corporation*
- Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas, MCD
Nonfiction
- On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn’t Know by Ed Cohen
- Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas by Joseph C. Russo, Duke University Press
LGBTQ Studies
- Wide-Open Desert: A Queer History of New Mexico by Flanner Burke, University of Washington Press*
- Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman, Duke University Press
- Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot Canaday, Princeton University Press
- The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus by Petrus Liu, Duke University Press
Romance
- Catch by Kris Bryant, Bold Strokes Books
- Happiness is a Shade of Blue by Venetia Di Pierro, Bella Distribution
- You Are Your Own Fairy Tale by Amanda Lovelace, Andrews McMeel Publishing
- The Hues of Me and You by Morgan Lee Miller, Bold Strokes Books
- Behind the Scenes by Karelia Stetz-Waters, Forever
- Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni, Berkeley Books
Mystery/Thriller
- Stormy Weather by Iza Moreau and R.E. Conary, Black Bay Books
- Missing Dead Girls by Sara Walters, Sourcebooks Fire*
- Beloved Enemy by Elizabeth Whitaker, Bella Distribution
- Decent People by De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Bloomsbury Publishing
- The Fixer by Lee Winter, Ylva publishing
Speculative Fiction
- Rosemary by Nat Burns, Bella Distribution*
- I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marissa Crane, Catapult
- The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai, Harper Voyager
- Back in a Spell by Lana Harper, Berkley Books
- All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes, Atria Books
Young Adult Literature
- Now That I See You by Emma Batchelor, Allen and Unwin
- For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome, Holiday House
- The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan, Roaring Brook Press
- Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E Girard, HarperTeen
- Nick and Charlien by Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press
- Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes, Bloomsbury YA
Children’s/Middle Grade Literature
- They, He, She: Words for You and Me – Gender Inclusive Pronoun Board Book for Babies and Toddlers by Mudpuppy, Galison
- A Ruinous Fate by Kaylie Smith, Disney-Hyperion
- We Are the Rainbow!: The Colors of Pride by Claire Winslow, Sunbird Books
Poetry
- Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates, Tin House
- Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology editors Julie E. Bloemeke and Dustin Brookshire, Madville Publishing
- The pause and the breath by Kwame Sound Daniels, Atmosphere Press
- Because You Were Mine by Brionne Janae, Haymarket Books
- Hood Vacations by Michal “MJ” Jones, Black Lawerence Press
- Stop Lying: Poems by Aaron Smith, University of Pittsburgh Press
Comics/Graphic Novels
