Pride doesn’t begin and end in June. Though the month may be coming to a close, 2020 is rich with newly published adult and young people’s books by LGBTQ+ authors and/or about LGBTQ+ characters.
Below are just a few proud books that have crossed our desks and radars this year, including links to where to buy or preorder many of them from our friends at BookPeople. Some we’ve read, some we’re looking forward to reading, and a few you might even see online at the Texas Book Festival this fall.
Happy reading!
Adult
- Cleanness by Garth Greenwell (FSG, January 2020)
- Fiebre Tropical by Julia Delgado Lopera (Amethyst Editions, March 2020)
- Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky (Graywolf, March 2020)
- Good Boy : My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Celadon, April 2020)
- Fairest by Meredith Talusan (Viking, May 2020)
- Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno (Little A/TOPPLE, August 2020)
- Memorial by Bryan Washington (Riverhead, October 2020)
Young People’s Literature
Winter and Spring 2020
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar (Scholastic Press, February 2020)
- King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callendar (Scholastic Press, February 2020)
- Rick by Alex Gino (Scholastic Press, April 2020)
- Veronica Comics by Jennifer Dugan (G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, April 2020)
- All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson (FSG Young Readers, April 2020)
- Camp by L. C. Rosen (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, May 2020)
Summer 2020
- In the Role of Brie Hutchens… by Nicole Melleby (Algonquin Young Readers, June 2020)
- Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Penguin/Dial Books, August 2020)
Fall 2020
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Macmillan/Swoon Reads, September 2020)
- How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi (Penguin/Viking Books for Young Readers, September 2020)