New LGBTQ Fiction for Pride 2022

by Alejandro Varela

Returning to his hometown to care for his ailing father, Andres, a gay Latinx professor, decides to attend his 20-year high school reunion where he encounters the long-lost characters of his youth and must confront these relationships to better understand his own life.

by Emme Lund

In this novel about family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability, Owen Tanner, who has a bird in his chest, goes into hiding with his family. He finally feels joy and acceptance, despite living in a constant state of fear, in a community that embraces him for who he is.

by Chencia Higgins

To elevate her brand, a closeted social media influencer goes on a reality TV show where she must convince her family and friends she's getting married to the love of her life in six weeks. If anyone guesses they're not for real, they're out. Selling their chemistry on camera is surprisingly easy, and it's still there when no one else is watching, which is an unexpected bonus.

by Lee Mandelo

When his best friend dies of an apparent suicide, Andrew uncovers lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a backstabbing academic world, hot boys, fast cars, hard drugs, and a family history soaked in blood and death. Part nefarious ghost story, part academic thriller.

by John Elizabeth Stinzi

It starts with a volcano sprouting up in Central Park. A kaleidoscopic portrait of a menagerie of characters, as they each undergo personal eruptions, while the Earth itself is constantly shifting. A parable, myth, science-fiction, eco-horror, and a radical work of literary art.

by Khan Wong

A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster's will until he decides to take the big boss down.

by Isaac R. Fellman

When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease."

by Maya Deane

A retelling of Achilles as a trans woman. Living among the transgender priestesses of Aphrodite, Achilles agrees to fight as a man in the war against the Hittites in return for the woman's body she's always longed for until the cruel, immortal Helen seeks to destroy everything Achilles cherishes in a battle to the death.

*This book will be published on June 7.

by Ryan O'Connell

Unable to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, a successful TV writer with cerebral palsy, Eliot, searches for redemption, but soon learns that facing his demons is easier said than done.

*This book will be published on June 7.

by Morgan Thomas

This debut collection features lush and uncompromising stories about Southern queer and genderqueer characters crossing geographical borders and gender binaries. They are determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, whatever the cost.

by Jane Pek

Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls—and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client goes missing, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate--and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. A clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.

by Kosoko Jackson

Pretending to still be his ex's current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson's plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings in this gay romance.