003_ Most Anticipated LGBTQAI+ Reads for 2020

In this episode we chat about the twenty-three books queer-centric books I am SUPER eagerly looking forward to reading in 2020.

Check out the list in written form on my blog here and / or in the show notes below:

1// “Dark and Deepest Red” by Anna-Marie McLemore
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Feiwel & Friends
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 14th, January 2020
GENRE: YA / Magical Realism

2// “Upright Women Wanted” by Sarah Gailey
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Tor.com / Tor/Forge (Macmillan imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 4th, February 2020
GENRE: YA / Adult? / Fantasy

3// “Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk” by Greg Howard
#OwnVoices (I think)
PUBLISHED BY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers (Penguin Imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 11th, February 2020
GENRE: Middle Grade / Contemporary

4// “A Home for Goddesses and Dogs” by Leslie Connor
PUBLISHED BY: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 25th February, 2020
GENRE: Middle Grade / Contemporary

5// “Docile” by K.M. Szpara
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Tor.com / Tor/Forge (Macmillan imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 3rd, March 2020
GENRE: Adult / SciFi

6// “The Animals at Lockwood Manor” by Jane Healey
PUBLISHED BY: Mantle (Pan Macmillan imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 5th, March 2020
GENRE: Adult / Historical Fiction / Fantasy / Mystery

7// “Super Adjacent” by Crystal Cestari
PUBLISHED BY: Disney-Hyperion
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 17th, March 2020
GENRE: YA / Superhero 

8// “Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit” by Lilliam Rivera
PUBLISHED BY: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Hachette Book Group imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 17th, March 2020
GENRE: Middle Grade

9// “Wow, No Thank You.” by Samantha Irby
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage (Penguin Random House imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 31st, March 2020
GENRE: Non-fiction, essays

10// “Look” by Zan Romanoff
#OwnVoices (I think)
PUBLISHED BY: Dial Books
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 31st, March 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

11// “Girl, Serpent, Thorn” by Melissa Bashardoust
PUBLISHED BY: Flatiron Books (Macmillan imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 12th, May 2020
GENRE: YA / Fantasy / Retellings (Persian/Zoroastrian mythology)

12// “Felix Ever After” by Kacen Callender
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins in print)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 12th, May 2020
GENRE: YA 

13// “The Henna Wars” by Adiba Jaigirdar
#OwnVoices (POC MC by POC)
PUBLISHED BY: Page Street
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 12th, May 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

14// “Date Me, Bryson Keller!” by Kevin van Whye
PUBLISHED BY: Random House for Young Readers
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 19th, May 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

15// “I Kissed Alice” by Anna Birch
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Macmillan/Imprint
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 26th, May 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

Interesting Twitter post by the author: https://twitter.com/Almost_Anna/status/1194963670813556737

16// “Something to Talk About” by Meryl Wilsner
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Berkley
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 26th, May 2020
GENRE: Adult / Contemporary

17// “You Should See Me in a Crown” by Leah Johnson
#OwnVoices (POC MC by POC)
PUBLISHED BY: Scholastic Press
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 2nd, June 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

18// “The New Queer Conscience” by Adam Eli, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Workshop
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 2nd, June 2020
GENRE: Non-fiction

19// “The Falling in Love Montage” by Ciara Smyth
PUBLISHED BY: HarperTeen
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 9th, June 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

20// “I’ll Be the One” by Lyla Lee
#OwnVoices (POC MC by POC)
PUBLISHED BY: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 16th, June 2020
GENRE: YA / Contemporary

21// “Cinderella Is Dead” by Kalynn Bayron
#OwnVoices (POC + queer author, queer themes + POC MC)
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury YA
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 7th, July 2020
GENRE: YA / Fantasy / Cinderella retelling

22// “Cattywampus” by Ash Van Otterloo
#OwnVoices (queer author)
PUBLISHED BY: Scholastic
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 4th August, 2020
GENRE: Middle Grade / Fantasy

23// “The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks” (Montague Siblings #3) by Mackenzi Lee
PUBLISHED BY: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins imprint)
ANTICIPATED RELEASE: 18th, August 2020
GENRE: YA / Fantasy

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