Pride month small press books roundup
The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide: Making It Work in Friendship, Love, and Sex by Cody Daigle-Orians (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 21 Oct 2024): Whether we're talking about friendships, romantic relationships, casual dates or intimate partners, this guide will help you not only live authentically in your ace and aro identity, but joyfully share it with others. (Amazon; Bookshop) And Then There Was One by Michele Castleman (Bold Strokes Books, 1 June 2024): Six weeks after Lyla Smith dragged her sister's dead body onto the Lake Erie shore, she escapes her small Ohio town to work as a nanny for distant relatives on their remote private island. (Amazon; Bookshop) Antiquity by Hanna Johannson, trans. Kira Josefsson (Catapult, 6 Feb 2024): Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. (Amazon;
- All-Night Pharmacy (Ruth Madievsky, Catapult, Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction)
- Birthright (George Abraham, Button Poetry, "every pronoun is a Free Palestine," Bisexual Poetry Finalist in the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards; Button Poetry also has a 3 for $36 Pride Month deal going on, including Birthright and poetry by Blythe Baird, Sierra DeMulder, Andrea Gibson, Ebony Stewart, and more)
- Boulder (Eva Baltasar, trans. Julia Sanches, And Other Stories, a queer couple struggles with motherhood, shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize)
- Brown Neon: Essays (Raquel Gutiérrez, Coffee House Press, "part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree")
- Cecilia (K-Ming Chang, Coffee House Press, an "erotic, surreal novella")
- Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (Isabel Waidner, Graywolf, "A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of success")
- A Dream of a Woman (Casey Plett, Arsenal Pulp Press, short stories by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Little Fish)
- Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (Eman Abdelhadi & M. E. O'Brien, Common Notions, speculative fiction)
- Feed (Tommy Pico, Tin House Books, fourth book in Teebs tetralogy, "an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness")
- Females (Andrea Long Chu, Verso, provocative genre-defying investigation into femaleness)
- The Free People's Village (Sim Kern, Levine Querido, a novel of "eat-the-rich climate fiction")
- The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs (Lambda Literary Award-winning Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Arsenal Pulp Press, disability justice, care and mutual aid)
- Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, "blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction... to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies")
- High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir (Edgar Gomez, Soft Skull, "a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo")
- Homie: Poems (Danez Smith, Graywolf Press, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the NAACP Image Award for Poetry)
- How to Fuck Like a Girl (Vera Blossom, Dopamine/Semiotext(e), a how-to guide)
- I Love This Part (Tillie Walden, Avery Hill Publishing, graphic novel of teen queer love)
- It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (ed. Joe Vallese, Feminist Press, essays by Carmen Maria Machado, Bruce Owens Grimm, Richard Scott Larson)
- Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir (Randa Jarrar, Catapult, "Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme.")
- Mrs. S (K. Patrick, Europa Editions, a butch English boarding school matron begins an illicit affair with the headmaster's wife)
- Outwrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (eds. Julie R. Enszer, Elena Gross, Rutgers UP, 27 of the most memorable speeches from the OutWrite conference)
- Playboy (Constance Debre, trans. Holly James, Semiotext(e), the first volume of the renowned trilogy on the author's decision to abandon her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and writer)
- Sluts: Anthology (ed. Michelle Tea, Dopamine Books, anthology of essays and stories on sexual promiscuity in contemporary American culture)
- Stone Fruit (Lee Lai, Fantagraphics Books, a queer couple opens up to their families in this 2022 Lambda Literary Award winner for Comics)
- Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems (Fariha Róisín, Andrews McMeel Publishing, "Who is my family? My father? How do I love a mother no longer here? Can I see myself? What does it mean to be Bangladeshi? What is a border?")
- Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through (T. Fleischmann, Coffee House Press, "an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss")
- Thunder Song: Essays (Sasha Lapointe, Counterpoint LLC, what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the USA)
- The Tradition (Jericho Brown, Copper Canyon Press, Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry that examines black bodies, desire, privilege and resistance)
- When We Were Sisters (Fatimah Asghar, One World, "traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings," longlisted for the National Book Award)
- You Exist Too Much (Zaina Arafat, Catapult: Palestinian American queer coming-of-age novel)
- Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (Chen Chen, BOA Editions, "What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue?")