What’s COMING OUT (pun intended) this week? We love lgbtqia+ books and we want you to find ones you love, too! Thank you to bardicfool from Instagram for helping us out this time! Let us know anything that we missed in the comments! Independent books, especially, seem to pop up last minute so sometimes we do miss them! 🌈
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Dec. 27
- Seven Minutes to Love by Lucy Ravens
- Breaking All His Rules Book 4
- A rock star who is also a single father hires a nanny who turns out to be his college crush.
- Sleep of Eternity: A Paranormal Gay Romance by Stella Rainbow
- Mages of Ravenshire Book 2
- A fire mage is distraught to learn his fated mate–a vampire–is particularly vulnerable to his destructive magic.
Dec. 28
- Beautifully Exposed by Charity Parkerson
- Candied Crush Book 10
- A man who wants commitment and another who lies to hide his past try to navigate the rocky road to a relationship.
- Wicked Guardian by Ali Lyda and Alexa May
- Elm Street Mafia Book 2
- A single father and the mafia enforcer he fell for years ago get a second chance.
- Leo by Silvia Violet
- Vigilance Book 3
- An ex-CIA agent who now works as a tattoo artist and vigilante meets someone who gets a little too close.
- Right Move: A Gay Cowboy Romance by A.M. Arthur
- Clean Slate Ranch Book 6
- A semi-retired rodeo star meets a vacationing ex-figure skater, and though sparks fly, their very different life trajectories threaten to prevent them from having a future together.
Dec. 29
- Recruit Unoiled by Emerson Belle
- Virility and Valor Book 2
- As part of a virtual reality training session, an army recruit receives some orders he’s not sure he can carry out.
- Blood Winter by S.J. Coles
- In a world where “haemophiles” are trying to reenter a society that still fears them, a man who’d prefer to be a hermit ends up helping one of these strange creatures with potentially disastrous results.
- Teddy Spenser Isn’t Looking for Love by Kim Fielding
- A designer is teamed up with a stuffy engineer, and while the two start off by clashing, they grow reluctantly closer as the project continues and begin to wonder what its completion will mean for them.
- Sheriff’s Secret by K Webster
- Brigs Ferry Bay Book 1
- A small-town, closeted sheriff meets a B&B owner who agrees to keep things discreet, but keeping secrets takes a toll on both of them.
- Severed by Ignacio Lopez
- A monologue told in two voices about sexuality, monstrosity, and empathy.
- Black Boys by Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, et al
- A collection of text and design by multiple authors showcases the story of three very different Black men and their identities.
Dec. 30
- Jace 4Ever by S.A. Sommers
- Aligning Stars Book 4
- A man falls for a popular movie star, but his past might keep the two of them apart…unless a movie star who plays a hero on the screen can be one in real life, too.
- Years of Silence by J.K. Jones
- A dark love triangle involving rivalry, violence, and a joke gone wrong.
- Roman: MM Military Suspense by Annabella Stone
- Tags of Honor Book 5
- The fifth book in the Tags of Honor series.
- Inc’s Regret by Elizabeth Knox
- Satan’s Raiders MC Book 1
- A man who left his lovers years ago returns to their hometown as part of his work with his motorcycle club and discovers they have a child who might be his.
- Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 by Jada Ach
- A queer, ecological view of how the environment was portrayed in various forms of culture in late nineteenth to early twentieth century.
Dec. 31
- Just Winging It: A Frenemies to Lovers, Shifter, Mpreg-Possible Love Story by J. D. Light
- CREA Book 2
- A shifter with a troubled past struggles with an offer of protection from a fellow shifter he’s fallen in love with.
- Claws of Frost by Zelda Knight
- Knights of Ouroboros Book 1
- A young man trying to escape his destiny as the guardian of a Great Sea Serpent is confronted by three knights sent to help him save the world–and to be his mates.
- Hearts of Stars: A Paranormal MC Lesfic by Poppy Woods
- Reinas Asesinas Book 3
- When demons begin stalking her city, one woman struggles with the solution and with losing the lover she’s finally found.
- No Nerd by Lucy Ravens
- Breaking All His Rules Book 5
- An athlete who’s been temporarily sidelined after an accident starts online gaming and soon learns that the person he’s been playing with is someone very unexpected in real life.
- Lance & Clayton: MM Age Play Romance by Ruby Keller
- A man who’s used to getting what he wants meets an older man who doesn’t immediately fall for his advances–and who has a complicated life that may prevent them from getting closer.
- Veins of Frost: A Paranormal MC Lesfic by Poppy Woods
- Reinas Asesinas Book 3
- A woman and a death goddess brace themselves to deal with a cosmic war.
- Enticed by the Enemy by Leighton Greene
- M/M Mafia Romance Book 3
- A dedicated mafia enforcer gets an intriguing request from an old enemy.
- How to Get Over 10 Heartbreaks by Ernest Rens
- A collection of stories about love and heartbreak.
Jan. 1
- Confessions of a Teenage Drag King by Markus Harwood-Jones
- A seventeen-year-old struggles to balance their two personalities: Ren, a drag king; and Lauri, a typical high school student.
- Love, IRL (Lorimer Real Love) by Tracy Golfarb
- A transgender teen struggles with his feelings for a real-life crush and a boy he knows online…only to discover they’re the same person.
- The Innocent: Dead Things Season Three Episode Three by Martina McAtee
- Dead Things Book 9
- The ninth book in the Dead Things series.
- The Wife Left Behind by Pascal Scott
- A woman whose identity is caught up in her wife’s and mother’s respective illustrious careers finds herself lost when she learns her wife is having an affair.
- Our Shattered Stars by Skylar Maury
- A survivor of the destruction of Earth receives a strange message and goes to find a man on Mars.
- Knight Bound by L.A. Grant
- The Return of the Queen Book 4
- It’s time for a lost queen to become a leader, but with tragedy and self-doubt on her heels, she’s not sure she’s ready to lead her knights to victory.
- Mikhail’s Baby by Raine Kennedy
- The Dorokhin Bratva Book 1
- An alpha crime boss and the omega son of his rival fall for each other, and an unexpected baby only ups the stakes.
- Prince Charmless by Damon Suede
- The latest novel from Damon Suede.
- Smoke: A LESBIAN Romance by Katelyn Owensby
- Two women–one a dangerous criminal–meet in a bar, and their relationship escalates quickly.
- Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah
- A look at how the novel form has been affected by masculine privilege, mobility, and desire.
- JAY THE GREAT (a modern retelling of The Great Gatsby) by Benjamin Frost
- A college freshman gets caught up in the drama involving his cousin, her toxic boyfriend, and the up-and-coming woman who is in love with her.
- The Forgotten Memory: A BoyxBoy Mystery/Teen Fiction Book by Samridhi Elantholy
- In the aftermath of a serious accident, a teen loses his memory and learns that his boyfriend has been murdered.
- Homecoming: poetry & prose by Stefanie Briar
- A collection of poetry and prose celebrating healing and new beginnings.
- The 1st of January by Cait Forester
- Mayhem Book 1
- A closeted writer gets himself into trouble while trying to escape his family’s New Year’s Eve event and winds up being saved by a mysterious man in the snow.
- Fragile by Pamela Cornes
- After a woman finds her boyfriend in bed with another man, she struggles to figure out what to do next with her life.
Jan. 2
- By the Sword by S.L Davies
- Two men trying to rebuild their destroyed village meet a woman trying to escape her past, and the three become involved.