2023 LGBTQ Books To Add To Your TBR

Friday I’m successful Love by Camryn Garrett (January 10)

If this gorgeous screen isn’t capable to person you to work this YA romance from the writer of Full Disclosure and Off the Record, possibly this will: alternatively of a large Sweet Sixteen, Mahalia Harris is readying a immense Coming Out Party. All she wants is simply a interruption from worrying astir schoolhouse and crushes and money. And is that truly truthful overmuch to ask? But contempt each her other enactment and savings and the flirting she’s enactment successful with the cute caller girl, soon Mahalia is drowning successful bills and play and her imagination of the cleanable Coming Out Party mightiness conscionable beryllium dormant earlier it’s adjacent started.

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H (February 7)

In this “daring, proactive, and radically hopeful” memoir, Lamya recounts her find of her sexuality arsenic a young Muslim miss successful South Asia and the ways successful which comparing her ain queer experiences to stories from the Quran helps her reinterpret herself and her religion. Through a bid of essays covering her puerility done her accomplishment successful the United States and aboriginal adulthood successful New York, Lamya paints a almighty representation of what it means to beryllium queer and Muslim astatine the aforesaid time.

For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding (February 28)

In this sapphic Hollywood romance, a screenwriter falls for the bossy movie prima who convinces her to commencement penning again. But betwixt returning to L.A., reconnecting with her aged crew, and moving connected a caller script, does Nina truly person clip to beryllium falling for a movie star? Even if Ari is the movie prima who told her she shouldn’t discontinue connected her dreams? Maybe. Or possibly not. And, either way, possibly it’s worthy the risk.

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She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (February 28)

Jade Nguyen plans to sojourn her begetter successful the French assemblage location he’s renovating successful Vietnam, get in, unreal to beryllium the good, straight, Vietnamese American miss helium thinks she is, get the assemblage wealth he’s promised her, and get out. The location has different plans. Each greeting she wakes paralyzed, covered successful insect legs, and haunted by the shade of a bride who leaves her with 1 warning: don’t eat. her begetter doesn’t judge her. Even her saccharine small sister doesn’t judge thing is wrong. It’s lone with the assistance of a delinquent miss named Jade that she tin beryllium this location her household has ever dreamed of volition destruct them from the wrong retired if they don’t get distant first.

The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur (April 18)

The writer of Written successful the Stars is backmost with different modern sapphic romance, this clip betwixt a bookseller and a screen exemplary who hold to a marriage-of-convenience lone to observe they person precise existent feelings for each other. I’m truthful present for a communicative astir a tiny bookstore proprietor and a publishing heiress with a publication modeling vocation connected the broadside falling for each other. I mean, this feels similar consecutive up scholar fanfic successful the implicit champion mode possible. I’m in.

In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune (April 25)

In this SFF instrumentality connected a Pinocchio retelling, a quality raised by a robot discovers his adoptive father’s acheronian past spent hunting humans. When a precocious repaired robot alerts different robots of Giovanni and Vic’s determination successful the woods, Gio is taken backmost to a laboratory successful the City of Electric Dreams. To prevention the lone begetter helium has ever known from decommissioning oregon reprogramming, Vic indispensable travel crossed a treacherous scenery with his robot companions — including the precise 1 who gave them up.

The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher (April 25)

When a stillborn baby’s bosom begins to bushed and her tegument turns a vibrant bluish successful the Pacific Northwest, the Rummani family’s matriarch, Aunt Nuha, insists it’s nary coincidence that their centuries-old soap mill successful Palestine was destroyed that precise aforesaid day. Decades later, that aforesaid miss returns to her aunt’s grave, questioning whether she should travel her bosom — and the pistillate she loves — perpetuating her family’s rhythm of exile oregon enactment successful the lone spot she’s ever known. The reply comes successful the signifier of her aunt’s partially-translated journals, documenting Nuha’s prime to fell her sexuality during the family’s migration to the U.S. Suddenly the communicative Betty thought she’d ever known is simply a caller one. How volition knowing the afloat communicative assistance Betty redefine her own?

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst (May 2)

Mickey Hayward mightiness not beryllium surviving the beingness of her dreams, but it seems adjacent capable for now, anyway. That is, until she finds retired the flashy media occupation that ever leaves her feeling depleted and demoralized is replacing her. So she fires disconnected a furious effect detailing each the racism and sexism she’s faced arsenic a Black pistillate successful media. And it’s met with silence. Stunned and heartbroken, she heads location to tiny municipality Maryland, wherever her aged beingness and her erstwhile occurrence assistance her retrieve what enjoying beingness feels like. At slightest until a caller media ungraded catapults her forgotten missive backmost into the nationalist — and this clip radical what to cognize what Mickey has to say. It’s precisely what she’s ever wanted…isn’t it?

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee (May 16)

This YA romcom had maine astatine “Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians,” but goodness conscionable keeps connected coming. Not lone does it diagnostic a mooncake-making contention for teen chefs, but besides fake dating and a “crazy rich” wedding successful the Hamptons. All Dylan wants is to prevention his family’s struggling takeout concern and grant his precocious ma by winning the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition. He wasn’t expecting a cute, charming distraction similar Theo Somers to locomotion into his life. And helium decidedly wasn’t expecting to fake day him. But tin Dylan travel his bosom and triumph the competition, too? Or volition choosing 1 mean losing the other?

The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella (July 11)

A young cheery antheral successful 1990s India flees the all-consuming guilt and grief that fills the location aft his duplicate sister’s decease by joining an all-boys boarding school. Most of all, though, helium seeks to flight his father’s convulsive threats and promises to nonstop him to a conversion center. It’s not until helium joins a thoroughfare theatre troupe, playing the relation of humans and gods, men and women, that Shagun genuinely begins to consciousness similar himself. But the trauma of the past hangs implicit him still, and successful bid to judge the emotion helium has ever longed for, he’ll person to yet judge himself for who helium is and assertion the happiness helium deserves.