A SLEEK THRILLER OF MANNERS follows a young man’s spiral after his best friend’s mysterious death. From New York parties with privileged heirs and heiresses to his family’s roots in Atlanta’s Black elite, Smith chases leads and redemption. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/great-black-hope-rob-franklin/1146384402?ean=9781668077436
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AN ERITREAN REFUGEE IN LONDON finds solace in her own anger, in wandering the city, in reading her late mother’s diary, especially in literature and transgressive sexuality. Beautifully erudite, shocking in its frankness. B PLUS
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SLEEK PARANORMAL NOIR is bluesy, queer, and unapologetically Black. Set in a magical city where detective summons the dead and angels, demons, vampires and ghosts rub shoulders with the living; richly engaging. B PLUS
https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-dead-withheld
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Publication date: June 30 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Items ordered with a pre-ordered title will ship when the pre-order becomes available. Meet Dizzy Carter: private investigator/blues enthusiast/deadwalker witch. In this sapphic paranormal neo-noir, we follow her exploits in the neon-drenched des
AN ESTRANGED MOTHER AND SON reunite in Japan despite the minefields of their shared past. Marvelously paced story of a complicated family history is rich with details of expatriate life in Tokyo from a distinctively Black and gay perspective. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/palaver-bryan-washington/1146657371?ean=9780374609078
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HAUNTED BY DEMONS AND SHAME, a writer leaves New York for what she hopes will be a trans women’s utopia—her ex-lover’s Indiana commune. Tense, bone-chilling horror combines with sharp social satire in this gorgeously written novel. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/herculine-grace-byron/1146890359?ean=9781668087862
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MULTIVOCAL, KALEIDOSCOPIC TALE of environmental collapse, love and heartbreak, friendship and collective collaboration plays wonderful games with language, narrative form, and time. Gloriously queer, beautifully elegiac. B PLUS
https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/what-a-fish-looks-like-by-syr-hayati-beker/
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WONDERFULLY INVENTIVE REIMAGINING of the Cthulhu mythos and other primal legendary tropes from a modern, female, queer perspective. Vivid writing evokes sight, sound, touch, scent, and adds punch to the horrors. B PLUS
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Eat, Pray, Love goes full Lovecraft in this queer, feel-good cosmic horror that reflects on gaslighting and emotional abuse.Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoife to quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of...
BRUTALLY CANDID, WITTY, eloquent memoir about the pressures of infertility, divorce, being a writer, being a woman, being queer, simply existing as a person in the world. Charming and spare prose complements the daring frankness. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trying-chloe-caldwell/1146167821?ean=9781644453476
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If you’re writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked? Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one...
HILARIOUS YET PROFOUND historical fantasy set in a world where Harriet Tubman (along with other historical icons) has returned from the dead, and decides to make a rap album. High concept, but thoughtful and nuanced characterizations shine. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harriet-tubman-bob-the-drag-queen/1145682376?ean=9781668061978
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A CHARMINGLY ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION of short, breezy but well researched and informative biographies of women (and genderfluid people perceived by many as women) whose pioneering achievements have often been overlooked. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/im-not-your-muse-lori-zimmer/1145683646?ean=9780762485383
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An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as "muses" to history's better-known men. What does it...
Julia S.
