Lgbtq+ authors 2023
Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week!
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th)
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York Municipality, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a dude who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a juvenile gay man pierces Peter’s numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him.
Ann, his mother, who runs a women’s retreat center she founded after vanishing his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She extended ago banished from her mind the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of abuse that changed his life forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.
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How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris (January 7th)
Meet Ethan and Gabe. A devoted couple for years, they have successful careers, an adorable daughte
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'Lost' meets 'Boy Erased' in Adam Sass' compelling YA debut about Connor Major, a gay teenager who comes out to his unpartnered mother and ends up being forcibly sent to a conversion therapy facility on a remote island. Once there, Connor realizes there are even darker secrets at Camp Nightlight than are first noticeable, and he sets out to uncover them—and get the whole place down from the inside.
One of the most talked-about novels of this year, Detransition, Baby follows the interlinked lives of three people: trans woman Reese, her ex Ames, who has detransitioned and is living as a man, and Katrina, Ames' boss and girlfriend who learns she is pregnant as the story begins. While this book has been widely discussed as a "trans novel," and certainly includes great insight and reflection on the violence and trauma that make up many trans women's lived experiences, it is also a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy and a sharply sardonic look at modern relationships.
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The less a reader knows going into this Dickensian tale of love and chicanery the better. Set simply,
Don’t Want You Appreciate a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban (January 9th)
Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea.
It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here.
Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting, with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she’s gotten all her flair, fun, and less-than-proper party games.
“Let’s obtain them together,” she says.
It doesn’t obtain long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather than surrender Beth to courtship, they should set up Gwen’s father and Beth’s newly widowed mother. Let them get married instead.
“It’ll be easy” she says.
There’s just…one, teeny, tiny problem. Their parents kind of seem to detest each other.
But no worries. Beth and Gwen are more than up to the challenge of a little twenty-year-old heartbreak. How firm can parent-trapping widowed ex-lovers be?
Of course, just as their plan begins to unfold, a ha
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In 2003 New York City, a genderqueer novel conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her relationship, and her skilled block — until she discovers a decades-old secret queer love letter and becomes obsessed with ruling its author.
In an alternate world inspired by Egyptian history, Nehal, a waterweaver forced into marriage, forges an unlikely bond with Giorgina, the earthweaver her new husband is in love with, as the two women fight to break out of their social constraints.
A queer Muslim immigrant recalls her coming of age and how she drew inspiration from the stories in the Quran throughout her lifetime search for safety and belonging.
Ketner alters Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets line-by-line through the thematic lens of transness, queer desire, kink, and British paganism.
A collection of comics about the everyday lives of queer and trans people from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
Members of the asexual community divide stories of how they navigate love, relationships, collective, and other intersectional identities.
Just as they are about to start filming the renovation of a local Tudor for their brand-new reality TV show, real-life
New and Upcoming 2023 Diverse Romance Reads for Celebration Month (and Beyond!)
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Looking for some fantastic new gender non-conforming romances to read during Parade Month? Well, you've reach to the right place!
Of course, we think there's no reason to limit your reading of Gay love stories to just one month in the year, especially if that year is 2023, because just look! At all! These books! In the list below, you'll find a whole bunch of this year's new and upcoming adult romances across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. We're talking adult summer camp swooniness, 19th-century lesbian rebellion, magic-crystal-enabled hour travel, trans fake dating website , and grumpy-meets-sunshine encounterson the Pacific Crest Trail. Whew, what a great period to be a reader.
Scroll over the covers below to learn more about each book, and be sure to add the ones that catch your eye to your Want to Read shelf. And if you're more in the mood for queer reading in other genres, hop on over to this post. Happy Pride!