Thread by @KA_Doore

Since many books have changed pub dates and peeps have tipped me off to even more queer content, it's time for the
🏳️‍🌈UPDATED QUEER ADULT SFF BOOKS OF 2020 🏳️‍🌈

queer MCs! fantasy and sci-fi! novels or novellas! that are coming out! in 2020!!!

Starting with books you can PRE-ORDER (and pre-orders are love!):
SOUL TO STEAL by M.A. Guglielmo @Aphemia66
5/21/2020
- f/f, urban fantasy
- supernatural girlfriends
- also contains: a mythical Persian bird and a bratty cyberpunk shark
goodreads.com/book/show/5184…

THE OBSIDIAN TOWER by @melisscaru
6/4/2020
- bi MC, enby side, multiple other queer characters
- accidental murder (yay!) and unstable magical powers
- MC must guard a tower but what's in the tower??
- twisty political maneuvering
goodreads.com/book/show/5014…

THE UNCONQUERED CITY by @KA_Doore
6/16/2020
- pan MC, enby love interest
- aftereffects of trauma
- undead monstrosities, malevolent spirits, and cranky necromancers - oh my
- there's only one bed trope but make it there's only one caravan
us.macmillan.com/books/97807653…

THE ORDER OF THE PURE MOON REFLECTED IN WATER by @zenaldehyde
6/23/2020
- queer MC
- "a bandit walks into a coffeehouse and it all goes downhill from there"
- novella about identity and how it evolves across time, peoples, and cultures
goodreads.com/book/show/4516…

UNCONQUERABLE SUN by @KateElliottSFF
7/7/2020
- f/f
- gender-swapped Alexander the Great IN SPAAAACE
- space opera to beat every other space opera into submission
goodreads.com/book/show/5237…

LOVE BITES by @ry_herman
7/9/2020
- f/f
- LESBIAN VAMPIRE ROMANCE
- i mean srsly do you need anything else
- FINE
- MC has anxiety and depression
- 90s nostalgia
goodreads.com/book/show/5197…

I COME WITH KNIVES by @authorsahunt
7/21/2020
- queer characters, even more this time around
- LET'S DESTROY EVIL
- oh shit serial killer
- sequel to BURN THE DARK
goodreads.com/book/show/5238…

ASHES OF THE SUN by @DjangoWexler
7/21/2020
- lesbian MC, queernorm world
- action epic fantasy
- haven't seen my sis in a few years oh there she is and now she's a TERRIFYING WARRIOR MAGICIAN
goodreads.com/book/show/5282…

THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS by @micaiah_johnson
8/4/2020
- f/f main
- multiverse shenanigans: you can travel between 'verses, but only if your alternate self is dead or missing
- so when your alt selves start to disappear... well...
goodreads.com/book/show/4330…

THE FIRST SISTER by @lindenalewis
8/4/2020
- Mostly queer cast, enby side character
- dystopian space opera with Handmaid's Tale overtones
- oops fell in love with the person you're supposed to be spying on
- surviving despite government machinations
goodreads.com/book/show/5237…

HARROW THE NINTH by @tazmuir
8/4/2020
- f/f
- BONES. NECROMANCY. BONES IN SPACE. NECROMANCY IN SPACE.
- it's the sequel to GIDEON THE NINTH so I'm assuming it's also going to beat up every other book while they ask for more
us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…

THE TYRANT BARU CORMORANT by @sethjdickinson
8/11/2020
- f/f
- Baru Cormorant finally has the power to destroy what she's always wanted to destroy - but will she?
- aftermath of colonization and its consequences
- sequel to THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT
us.macmillan.com/books/97807653…

DROWNED COUNTRY by @emilytesh_uk
8/18/2020
- m/m
- softest of magic & myth
- even the Green Man must answer to his mother
- "Rude Young Lady With A Cleaver"?!
us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

THE VANISHED QUEEN by @fictionlisbeth
8/18/2020
- bi female MC in a queernorm world
- character-driven political epic fantasy
- crumbling kingdom led by a corrupt king who might have killed his wife but nobody really knows
goodreads.com/book/show/5275…

MEMORY OF SOULS by @jennlyonsauthor
8/25/2020
- bi MC, +100s of other queer characters
- epic, world-ending saga with DRAGONS
- demons! rampaging! ancient rituals! immortality!
goodreads.com/book/show/5237…

ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY by @karenthology
8/25/2020
- bi MC, f/f main
- mystery/scifi adventure about alien first contact and some major communication problems
- nonstop, brutal, bittersweet af
- fuck capitalism!
goodreads.com/book/show/4443…

THE BLACK COAST by @MikeBrooks668
9/1/2020
- multiple queer MCs
- war dragons!!!
- end of the world prophecies
- maybe this time the sea raiders are your friends
goodreads.com/book/show/5275…

THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by @RB_Lemberg
9/4/2020
- two elderly trans MCs
- who have twisty pasts and need to learn how to weave from Death
- exploration of gender and place and family and stories and ugggh it's just really good
goodreads.com/book/show/5160…

YELLOW JESSAMINE by @see_starling
9/5/2020
- f/f
- creepy supernatural plague
- witchy and gothy and haunting
- botanical poisons???
goodreads.com/book/show/5026…

THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by @AndreaGStewart
9/10/2020
- f/f main
- holy fuck magic powered by SKULL SHARDS how effing metal is that?!
- sobbing i need this now
goodreads.com/book/show/4910…

HELLION by @authorsahunt
9/15/2020
- queeeeeer
- shapeshifters and demons and witches, oh my
- all through the lens of a YouTube videographer
- sequel to I COME WITH KNIVES
goodreads.com/book/show/4924…

THE LIGHTS OF PRAGUE by @nicolejarvis
9/22/2020
- bi MC with m/f romance (yes! need more of this!)
- gaslamp fantasy with creeptastic monsters!
- secret society of lamplighters fighting the good fight!!
goodreads.com/book/show/5259…

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HENCH by @NatalieZed
9/22/2020
- so queer is anyone even cis-het??
- superheroes are terrible and it pays better to work for the villain (plus they have health insurance)
- spreadsheets as superpower
goodreads.com/book/show/5017…

BURNING ROSES by @sl_huang
9/29/2020
- elderly queer MCs
- fairy tale retelling with Red Riding Hood and Hou Yi the Archer
- who then fight demons??!
- quest for immortality!!
goodreads.com/book/show/5092…

THE ARCHIVE OF THE FORGOTTEN by @ajhackwith
10/6/2020
- pan MC & multiple bi disasters in a queer norm afterlife
- hell's! librarian!!!
- even the library keeps secrets
goodreads.com/book/show/5048…

PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT by @deuceofgears
10/20/2020
- enby MC, all queer cast
- silkpunk with dragon automatons
- magic! paint!!
- um dragon heist??
goodreads.com/book/show/5275…

DEAD LIES DREAMING by @cstross
10/27/2020
- pretty much all queer protags
- that the existence of the Laundry (the shadowy gov't org that keeps us all safe from otherworld horrors and brain-eating worms) is now public knowledge = oh shit
goodreads.com/book/show/5226…

WHITE TRASH WARLOCK by @drslayton
10/31/2020
- gay MC
- urban fantasy
- cinnamon roll magician must bargain with the elf that broke his heart to save estranged brother and the rest of his family
goodreads.com/book/show/5089…

THE FACTORY WITCHES OF LOWELL by @csmalerich
11/10/2020
- f/f
- class warfare, but with witches
- break the line and get hexed
goodreads.com/book/show/5183…

GIVE WAY TO NIGHT by @CassRMorris
11/10/2020
- demi and lesbian MCs
- sequel to FROM UNSEEN FIRE
- Ancient Rome with elemental magic and political machinations
- ambitious ladies getting shit done
goodreads.com/book/show/5316…

THE STONE KNIFE by @AnnaSmithWrites
11/12/2020
- multiple bi and gay MCs
- creepy af epic fantasy
- what happens when your magical pacification spell fails?
goodreads.com/book/show/5121…

HOLLOW EMPIRE by @samhawkewrites
12/1/2020
- f/f in a queernorm society
- sequel to CITY OF LIES
- dark plots and darker magic
- political machinations within machinations
- sibling MCs who actually care about each other
goodreads.com/book/show/4155…

WHEN THE TIGER CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN by @NghiVoWriting
12/8/2020
- enby MC, with f/f
- let's survive hungry tigers by talking about stories
goodreads.com/book/show/5326…

Phew. Those are all the ones I have dates and links for! As always, if I missed any (and they have a pre-order link) please add it to the replies!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

And remember you can check this thread for the queer books already out!

https://twitter.com/KA_Doore/status/1211597517231669248?s=20