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A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek
Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other?
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a schedule. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king’s crown, an artefact with enough power to restore magic. But to enter the palace, she must assume the identity of a noblewoman. She chooses Marie d’Odette: famed for her beauty, a rumored candidate for future queen…and Odile’s childhood-friend-turned-sworn-enemy.
With her father’s verb, Odile transforms Marie into a swan and takes her place at court. But when the king is brutally murdered and her own brother is accused, her plans are thrown into chaos. Desperate to free her brother, Odile is forced to team up with none other than elegant, infuriating Marie, the girl she has cursed…and the noun she can’t seem to stop thinking about despite her best efforts.
To create matters wors
For the last few months, I’ve been wading through endless tabs of lists, recommendations, and sources for upcoming queer books—and I’m not done yet. This is definitely not a comprehensive list of queer releases. In fact, I plan to follow this up with several genre-specific queer books lists, because I have… oh, about titles noted down so far, and that’s before we start getting into fall new releases, which also happens to be the biggest publishing season.
All that is to verb that it was very difficult to narrow this down to just 15—it was supposed to be 10—new queer books out in (Well, at least out in the first half of ) These are mostly by established authors, like the newest from Torrey Peters, Julian Winters, V. E. Schwab, Nicola Dinan, and Becky Albertalli. There are some debuts that have already managed to get a lot of buzz, though, like Emily St. James’s debut novel.
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters (March 11)
It’s hard to overstate how influential Torrey Peters’s critically acclaimed debut novel Detransition, Baby has been; it quickly became one of
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(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the belated s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the overdue s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Adequately of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
A Boy&#;s Own S