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To Shape a Dragon's Breath
by Moniquill Blackgoose
Revered as a Nampeshiweisit, a person in a unique relationship with a dragon, by her people, 15-year-old Indigenous girl Anequs, at odds with the “approved” way of doing things, is forced by Anglish conquerors to attend a proper dragon school–and if she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.
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Here We Go Again
by Alison Cochrun
A queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country.
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Trouble
by Lex Croucher
The author of Reputation and Infamous presents a Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist.
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The Skin and Its Girl
by Sarah Cypher
Faced with a difficult decision, Betty, a young, queer Palestinian American woman finds answers in partially translated notebooks that reveal her late Aunt Nuha's complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which she hid from the family, along with much more than that.
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Little Rot
by Akwaeke Emezi
When a sex party brutally upends the lives of three old friends, they are sucked into the underbelly of a corrupt Nigerian underworld where they look for a way out of the trouble they've instigated amidst power, sexual violence, murder, and betrayal, testing how far they'll go to save each other–or themselves.
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Manhunt
by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics--all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.
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A Dowry of Blood
by S. T. Gibson
Medieval peasant Constanta is saved from the brink of death by a vampire who marries her and is ultimately shocked by the terrible things of which he is capable, in this sensual retelling of Dracula.
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The Water Outlaws
by S. L. Huang
Recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan, expert arms instructor Lin Chong, disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who wants her dead, joins these mountain outlaws who live on the fringe of society–and who are ready to make history or tear it apart.
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A Dash of Salt and Pepper
by Kosoko Jackson
Xavier returns to his small, Maine hometown to work as a sous-chef in a new restaurant and develops an unexpected connection with the hot, single-dad chef in the new novel from the author of I'm So (Not) Over You.
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Never Been Kissed
by Timothy Janovsky
Wren Roland, who has never been kissed but wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything, wonders if he'll get his chance when his #1 pre-coming-out-crush helps him on a special project to save his struggling drive-in for good.
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The City We Became
by N. K. Jemisin
This first book of an exciting new series by a Hugo Award-winning author takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City, where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars.
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Oye
by Melissa Mogollon
The baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics, and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center stage, facing down adulthood–and rising to the occasion.
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Vagabonds!
by Eloghosa Osunde
In Nigeria, the lives of a group of vagabonds–the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused, displaced and vulnerable–intertwine in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches, and hotel rooms where they are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy.
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Lavender House
by Lev AC Rosen
While investigating the mysterious death of matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of a famous soap empire, Andy Mills is seduced by the safety and freedom found in Lavender House, where a queer family lives honestly and openly, until he becomes a pawn in their deadly games.
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Bury Your Gays
by Chuck Tingle
An Oscar-nominated showrunner of a streaming series fights studio pressure to kill off the gay characters in the season finale while fighting real-life monsters from his horror movie days who are stalking him and his friends through the Hollywood Hills.
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
by Nghi Vo
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.
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