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.