📚LGBTQ+ Fiction New Releases

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

by Kristen Arnett

Equal parts bravado, tenderness, and humor, and bursting with misfits, magicians, musicians, and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.

Hope in a Time of Dying

by Len Leatherwood

A poignant, deeply human novel set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic, Hope in a Time of Dying explores resilience, redemption, and the power of love and family in the face of unimaginable loss.

Walk Softly on this Heart of Mine

by Callie Collins

It's 1975 in Austin, and the Rush Creek Saloon, five miles west of town, is a bar without a crowd. Told in a trio of voices—a guitarist chasing what may be his last shot at success; a bar owner trying to see a future in her lifeless marriage; and a young kid from East Texas desperate for kinship, or at least something to take the damn edge off—Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine delivers a riotous love song to an enigmatic city.

Rip Tide

by Elena Graf

A small town in Maine has begun to recover from a school shooting when another mass shooting and divisive politics threaten to divide friends and end relationships. Town doctor Liz Stolz and Episcopal rector Lucy Bartlett, used to bringing people together, find their own alliances threatened. Can these two healers find ways to bind up their own wounds?

Hungerstone

by Kat Dunn

It’s the height of the industrial revolution and ten years into Lenore’s marriage to steel magnate Henry, their relationship has soured. When Henry’s ambitions take them from London to the remote British moorlands to host a hunting party, a shocking carriage accident brings the mysterious Carmilla into their lives. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night. Carmilla, who stirs up something deep within Lenore.