Satisfaction Month remains to be a couple of quarter of a yr away, however with how unsettling the political local weather has been these days, we want one thing to stay up for now. When you’re planning on celebrating Satisfaction this yr by studying queer books and supporting new releases by LGBTQ authors, make certain to verify these out this June. And within the meantime, add them to your TBR record and/or put them on maintain at your library!We Can By no means Depart by H. E. Edgmon (Wednesday Books, June 10)
This queer YA fantasy exists in a world the place creatures are waking up in every single place, unaware of how they turned what they’re or the place they got here from. The Caravan is a gaggle of those creatures who’ve banded collectively to assist one another and their households acclimate to this new model of themselves. They journey in every single place collectively and have one another’s backs. Till one morning when 5 teenage members of the Caravan get up to find everybody else has disappeared.
Work Nights by Erica Peplin (Gallery Books, June 17)
When you’ve ever wished a queer model of The Satan Wears Prada with a splash of Massive Swiss, choose up Work Nights this June. Jane Grabowski works for essentially the most acclaimed newspaper firm in New York Metropolis. Frankly, her job stinks, however there’s one factor that retains her coming into the workplace day by day: the attractive intern Madeline. Jane has by no means dated a lady earlier than, and her emotions for Madeline are complicated. Issues solely get extra complicated when she meets a queer musician named Addy. Addy appears absolutely able to go all-in on a relationship with Jane, however the pull of the seemingly unattainable Madeline (who’s most likely straight anyway) remains to be so alluring.
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books, June 30)
Sci-fi, spaceships, and vampires? Signal us up. Of Monsters and Mainframes is a queer reimagining of Dracula set in outer house. Demeter’s job is shuttling people between Earth and Alpha Centauri, however there’s one downside: folks hold dying on the journey. And they aren’t pure deaths. A vampire has entered the ship and is attacking all of her people. Now to face off with Dracula, Demeter will search the assistance of a werewolf, an engineer constructed from the lifeless, a fleet of spider drones, a pharaoh, and a vengeful vampire.
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