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It’s time for an additional roundup of fascinating queer e-book hyperlinks from across the web! At present, I’ve suggestions for books about queer survival, a canopy reveal for V.E. Schwab’s upcoming “toxic lesbian vampires” e-book (sure, please!), queer vacation romances, a present information to LGBTQ image books, and extra.
It’s a scary time to be queer or trans within the U.S. proper now, particularly for a number of marginalized folks. The Queer Books Database has put collectively a studying listing that’s all about queer folks in different unprecedented occasions, from historical historical past to the AIDS disaster and extra. Titles embrace By no means Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders and A Renaissance of Our Personal by Rachel Cargle.
The introduction says, “The original title for this list was How We Survive but not all of us have. All I can really say is that we exist, and we always have. There is not a history, a time, or a people without us, and—whatever else the future looks like—there never will be.”
V. E. Schwab is the bestselling creator of The Invisible Lifetime of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic sequence, and plenty of others, and we now have a canopy for her new e-book: Bury Our Bones within the Midnight Soil. In her Instagram announcement for the e-book, Schwab teased, “The toxic lesbian vampires are coming.” In a press release for Individuals, Schwab mentioned,
“For many years, and many books, I’ve tried to make my identity smaller, more palatable. I think this novel is a reckoning — both with myself and with my work. It’s unapologetic, a tale of hunger and the many shapes it takes. Hunger for life, for freedom, for love for more.”
“Toxic lesbian vampires” is a simple promote for me, so that is one in every of my most anticipated releases of 2025.
Get within the vacation spirit with these queer vacation romance novels! Most of them are about Christmas—I’d like to see extra various queer vacation romances sooner or later. Personally, I liked Season of Love by Helena Greer, which is about on a Jewish-owned Christmas tree farm. Prime of my TBR this month is I’ll Be Gone For Christmas by Georgia Ok. Boone, a tackle The Vacation (I really like that film), however with a sapphic romance! Not on this listing, however value remembering, is The Nightmare Earlier than Kissmas by Sara Raasch, which you’re free to debate on whether or not it’s a Halloween or Christmas romance.
For much more, try the LGBTQ Reads listing of Queer YA Vacation Romance Books, together with the upcoming I’ve Acquired My Like to Preserve Me Heat by Mariama J. Lockington.
Over at Mombian, they’ve a present information to LGBTQ image books that got here out this yr, together with titles the place the queer content material isn’t the main focus, like The Lady Who Loves Bugs by Lily Murray and Jenny Løvlie. There are additionally picks for rising households, like All Our Love by Kari-Lynn Winters and Scot Ritchie; introductions to queer historical past, like The ABCs of Queer Historical past by Seema Yasmin and Lucy Kirk; and books about particular household configurations and gender identities. These are nice decisions for the youngsters in your purchasing listing!
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