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Consider the wide variety of LGBTQ fiction books published this year that showcase our diverse lives, and our diverse forms of storytelling, from mysteries to Young Adult, fantasy and classics rereleased.
Sex With Strangers: Stories (University of Wisconsin Press), the first short story collection by gay novelist and educator
Michael Lowenthal (
The Paternity Test and others) is populated with characters, gay ( Over Boy, Thieves, The Gift of Travel ) and straight ( You Are Here, Uncle Kent, Stud ), with sexual goals in common.
Canadian Y/A fantasy author
Ashley Shuttleworth makes their debut with
A Dark and Hollow Star (Margaret K. Elderry Books), an urban fantasy tale featuring four queer teens tasked with preventing a serial killer from revealing the concealed faery realm to humans.
New Work from the Author of One of the First Lesbian Mysteries Ever Published
By Michele Karlsberg–
Barbara Wilson’s
Murder in the Collective was one of the first lesbian mysteries ever published. Her later Cassandra Reilly series, featuring a footloose Irish-American translator who solves mysteries while exploring London, Barcelona, and Venice, won her a British Crime Writers’ award.
Gaudi Afternoon was made into a film with Judy Davis and Marcia Gay Hardin, and won a Lambda Literary Award. Now Cassandra Reilly has returned in a new mystery
Not the Real Jupiter set on the Oregon coast. Here is an excerpt: