I have a problem, and that is:
There are SO MANY good books either out now or coming soon.
I ordered a few of these for myself and think everyone should know about them.
Here’s a list I compiled that just about covers all the bases.
I hope you find something that appeals to you.
Wolfish Tomes
What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: February 2, 2021
Brief summary: teen explores her family’s big, creepy house
Read if: you’re a fan of Mike Flanagan’s spooky mansions
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
Age group: Adult
Release date: June 1, 2021
Brief summary: village scapegoat bonds with the town beast
Read if: you like reading about brave women who romance brooding men
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Age group: Adult
Release date: June 8, 2021
Brief summary: an outcast and a disgraced prince team up to stop a genocide
Read if: you like slowburn, enemies-to-lovers, folklore-based fantasy with a political message

Contemporary Romances
Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur
Age group: Adult
Release date: May 25, 2021
Brief summary: a hopeless romantic tries to woo his longtime crush
Read if: you want cynics and saps to find true love
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
Age group: Adult
Release date: February 23, 2021
Brief summary: newly-minted doctor wakes up in Vegas married to a near stranger
Read if: you’re still wondering how adulthood is supposed to work
You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: November 2, 2021
Brief summary: two nerds find themselves snowed in at the arcade
Read if: you sometimes fantasize about being snowed in with a crush
Like a Love Song by Gabriela Martins
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: August 3, 2021
Brief summary: pop star and indie actor fake date and fall in love
Read if: you track the timeline of celebrity romances on Instagram
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: March 9, 2021
Brief summary: pizza romance…and that’s all you’ll get out of me!
Read if: Mystic Pizza and Pizza My Heart left you hungry for more

Dark Academia
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: August 3, 2021
Brief summary: lesbians solve a mystery at magic school
Read if: you’ve been waiting for publishing to make dark academia sapphic
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: June 1, 2021
Brief summary: two would-be valedictorians are blackmailed by an anonymous creep
Read if: you’ve always wanted a Get Out / Gossip Girl mash-up

Historical Fantasy
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: September 7, 2021
Brief summary: teen boy pursues a supernatural killer at the World’s Fair
Read if: you thought the titular Devil in the White City might have been a dybbuk
Bacchanal by Veronica Henry
Age group: Adult
Release date: June 1, 2021
Brief summary: young woman travels with a creepy carnival searching for her sister and fights an ancient demon along the way
Read if: you’ve been creeped out by carnivals ever since Jordan Peele’s Us
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Age group: Adult
Release date: November 2, 2021
Brief summary: gay bureaucrats do magic
Read if: you long for Sherlock Holmes meets V for Vendetta meets The House in the Cerulean Sea

Contemporary Bisexual Protagonists
Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: March 2, 2021
Brief summary: internet-famous teen deals with confusing feelings after a high-profile break-up
Read if: you’re here to smash biphobia
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: March 9, 2021
Brief summary: an advice columnist finds herself in a tricky love triangle
Read if: you thought it should have been called QUEER-ano de Bergerac
Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: May 11, 2021
Brief summary: Grease but bisexual? With a Demi Lovato reference in the TITLE??
Read if: you read that synopsis and thought, “Tell me more!”

Community is Magic
The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: August 3, 2021
Brief summary: survivors band together to rescue the friend who saved them
Read if: you want a story where the marginalized win the day with magic
This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us edited by Katherine Locked and Nicole Melleby
Age Group: Middle Grade
Release date: October 19, 2021
Brief summary: an anthology with entries from all over the LGBTQIA+ spectrum
Read if: you see one or more of your favorite authors in the following list of contributors: Eric Bell, Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Ashley Herring Blake, Lisa Bunker, Alex Gino, Justina Ireland, Shing Yin Khor, Katherine Locke, Mariama J. Lockington, Nicole Melleby, Marieke Nijkamp, Claribel A. Ortega, Mark Oshiro, Molly Knox Ostertag, Aisa Salazar, AJ Sass

Weird and Wild Magic
Magic Mutant Nightmare Girl by Erin Grammar
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: March 10, 2021
Brief summary: a magical girl fights a mutant in San Francisco
Read if: you’ve been looking for a grosser, gayer version of Colossal
In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: April 20, 2021
Brief summary: a pirate kidnaps a prince and they FALL IN LOVE
Read if: you’re seeking compensation for having read The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Read if: you’re into gay pirates!? Obviously!? As one SHOULD be!?!?
Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
Age group: Young Adult
Release date: March 9, 2021
Brief summary: slow-burn sapphic witches fall in love and do magic
Read if: These Witches Don’t Burn and The Dark Tide stoked your desire for sapphic, witchy content
Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft
Age group: Young adult
Release date: March 2, 2021
Brief summary: fiery soldier falls for sickly hermit in his big magic house
Read if: you have TASTE
I have six of these books and would very much like the rest.
Happy 2021! Go out and purchase, preorder, or borrow!
So many good books coming! Can´t wait for Lesson in Vengeance and Ace of Spades!
(www.evelynreads.com)
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Those are both at the top of my list! I can’t wait!
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