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I'm So Not over You
I'm So Not over You
by Jackson, Kosoko

Pretending to still be his ex’s current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson’s plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings.

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Reluctant Immortals
Reluctant Immortals
by Kiste, Gwendolyn

Looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return to Haight-Ashbury.

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Gods of Want
Gods of Want
by Chang, K-ming

A collection of short stories that include tales about ghost cousins who haunt their living family members, a mother-in-law who bullies her son's wife into leaving, and two girls who make out in the belly of a plastic shark.

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DapperQ Style Manual: Ungendering Fashion
DapperQ Style Manual: Ungendering Fashion
by Vita, Anita Dolce

Demonstrates how fashion is both beauty and art and exposes the oppressive rules that had been used to exclude those with different gender identities or presentations, encouraging everyone to express their personal style.

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Is It Hot in Here?
Is It Hot in Here?
by Zimmerman, Zach

From meditations on heartbreak to not-so-helpful how-tos, this laugh-and-cry-out-loud collection documents one man's navigation through queerness, climbing the corporate ladder, dating cryptocurrency-obsessed mansplainers, and more.

To Paradise
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara

Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human—fear, love, shame, need and loneliness.

Just By Looking At Him
Just By Looking At Him
by Ryan O'Connell

Unable to stop cheating on his boyfriend with sex workers, and grappling with an alcohol addiction, a successful TV writer with cerebral palsy, Eliot, searches for redemption.

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The Memory Librarian
The Memory Librarian
by Janelle Monáe

In a totalitarian world where thoughts are controlled or erased by a select few, and your life is dictated by those who feel they have the right to decide your fate, Jane 57821 remembers and breaks free.

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We Do What We Do In The Dark
We Do What We Do In The Dark
by Michelle Hart

Long after the end of an affair with an older, married woman, Mallory retreats into herself and must decide whether to stay safely in isolation or step fully into the world to confront how much the woman altered her life, for better or worse.

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Time Is a Mother
Time Is a Mother
by Ocean Vuong

Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. These poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.