For LGBTQ readers of every hue in the rainbow, there is a mountain of recently published books ready to be enjoyed, including by best-selling local authors Charlie Jane Anders and Rabih Alameddine. Here are just a few new and very notable fiction offerings, followed by more through September, featuring some of the best nonfiction and creatively queer books publishers and authors have to offer.
“LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER” BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS; $29.99 (Tor) In this fantastic new contemporary fantasy from award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders, a daughter raised by two mothers reveals a critical, life-changing, supernatural secret. Trans grad student Jamie Sandthorne has been a stealth closet-witch for years, and now that all her practice time conjuring spells and small life-impr