54 Bi and Lesbian Books Out in August!
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Can you believe more than 50 sapphic books come out this month alone? To read all of the descriptions, you can click through to the their individual listings, or check out the original Lesbrary post for all the descriptions in the same place.
Young Adult:
- Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner
- Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence (YA Mystery)
- Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson (Middle Grade)
YA Fantasy:
- Afterlove by Tanya Byrne
- Court of Lions (Mirage #2) by Somaiya Daud
- The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
- Ironspark by C.M. McGuire
YA & Middle Grade Comics:
- Goldie Vance: Larceny in La La Land created by Hope Larson, written by Jackie Ball, and illustrated by Mollie Rose
- Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
- Lumberjanes Volume 15: Birthday Smarty by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, AnneMarie Rogers, and Maarta Laiho
Fiction:
- Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
- Grey Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian
- Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine
- All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
- The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt
- Fidelity by Marco Missiroli, translated by Alex Valente
- Summer by Ali Smith
- little scratch by Rebecca Watson
- A Saint From Texas by Edmund White (Historical Fiction)
- The Lavender House Murder (Reissue) by Nikki Baker (Mystery)
- The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe (Thriller)
Fantasy:
- The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell
- Snow White and Her Huntress by Emma Dean
- The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #3) by Seth Dickinson
- Destiny’s Choice (Destiny and Darkness #3) by Karen Frost
- Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen
Science Fiction:
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
- Seven Devils by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Romance:
- Hopeless Romantic by Georgia Beers
- Spindrift by Anna Burke
- Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer
- Hugs & Quiches by Candace Harper
- Blades of Bluegrass by D. Jackson Leigh
- Serenity by Jesse J. Thoma
- Hopes and Dreams by Pj Trebelhorn
- Everything We Never Wanted by Sienna Waters
- Moon Fever by Ileandra Young (Paranormal Romance)
Comics & Manga:
- Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib, edited by Mat Bors
- Motor Crush, Volume 3 by Babs Tarr, Brenden Fletcher, and Cameron Stewart
- I Love You So Much, I Hate You by yuni (Manga)
- Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka, Vol. 2 by Hitoma Iruma & Nio Nakatani (Light Novel)
Nonfiction:
- Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno (Essays)
- The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg (Memoir)
- How to Stop Homophobic and Biphobic Bullying: A Practical Whole-School Approach by Jonathan Charlesworth
- Lived Experience: Reflections of LGBTQ Life by Delphine Diallo
- Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens by Leigh Finke
- The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir by Alden Jones
- Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait McKinney
- Voices of LGBTQ+: A Conversation Starter for Understanding, Supporting, and Protecting Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer People by Lynda Wolters