January
1/2 Neel Mukherjee, A State of Freedom [and Kindle] After his Booker nomination for The Lives of Others, Mukherjee returns with a novel about five very different characters searching for a better future.
1/9 Ali Smith, Winter. Following her fourth Booker nomination, Smith continues her Seasonal cycle with this novel about Arthur, his mother, his aunt, and a woman hired to play his girlfriend, spending Christmas together in a cavernous country house.
1/23 Carl Phillips, Wild Is the Wind: Poems
1/24 Jack Halberstam, Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
1/25 Christine Burns, Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows
February
>> 2/1 Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
, 2018 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction
2/2 Jeffrey Lieber, Flintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture. Decoding architecture, film, philosophy, and politics in this new excavation of Postwar America.
2/6 Joseph Cassara, The House of Impossible Beauties [and Kindle] Debut novel of 80s Harlem told through multiple voices in and around the House of Xtravaganza.
2/13 Anne Raeff, Winter Kept Us Warm
[and Kindle
] The award-winning short story writer and essayist delivers a first novel spanning six decades and three continents in the lives of a woman and two men who meet in Postwar Berlin.
2/13 Amy Bloom, White Houses
[and Kindle
]. Novel about the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, from the renowned short story writer and National Book Award finalist.
2/15 Audre Lorde and Pat Parker, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker: 1974-1989
. The poets' correspondence and private thoughts over a fifteen-year span.
2/20 Patrick Nathan, Some Hell. Graywolf publishes this debut about a gay teen in the
terrible aftermath of his father's suicide.
2/20 Jake Shears, Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir
. A Scissor Sister celebrates himself.
2/20 Tina Allen, Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives
. A lesbian, the youngest of thirteen children, discovers her strict, devout father is also gay.
2/20 Cara Hoffman, Running. Second novel about unhappy expats and queers traversing Greece, NYC, and Washington State.
2/20 Genevieve Hudson, A Little in Love with Everyone: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Queer Coming-of-Age Narratives
2/27 Rahul Mehta, No Other World paperback reprint of first novel about a gay Indian-American from the author of the much-loved story collection Quarantine.
2/27 David Hargreaves, Under the Table
. Dying in his late fifties, a man rereads his diaries of youthful excesses and romantic deceptions.
March
3/1 Samuel Delany, The Atheist in the Attic
. Essays from a giant.
3/2 Martin Duberman, The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976–1988
. Midlife memoir.
3/6 Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil [and Kindle
]. After Beasts of No Nation comes Iweala's short second novel, about a Harvard-bound track star at DC private school who is rejected by his homophobic Nigerian parents.
3/6 Wayne Koestenbaum, Camp Marmalade
3/6 C. Dale Young, The Affliction
. A Guggenheim, NEA, and Rockefeller fellow makes his fiction debut with this novel-in-stories about largely overlooked characters across America and the Caribbean.
3/6 Andrew Evans, The Black Penguin. Paperback reprint of last year's memoir of a gay, National Geographic writer and tv host who travels from his home in Washington DC to Antarctica by bus.
3/8 Philip Hensher, The Friendly Ones. Ninth novel from the award-winning Hensher, about two Sheffield families spanning several decades.
3/10 Stanley Stellar, Into the Light: Photographs of the NYC Gay Pride Day from the 70s till today. 
3/13 Alan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair
[and Kindle
]. A great and beautiful novel, unjustly overlooked by prize juries, about art-struck gays from WWII to the 21st century.
3/13 Rigoberto Gonzalez, What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood
3/20 Chelsey Johnson, Stray City. A Portland lesbian makes one little weenie mistake -- and shocks her queer friends by deciding to have the baby. Ten years later the child is asking a lot of questions.
April
4/3 Christopher Soto, editor, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
4/3 Amber Dawn, Sodom Road Exit. Second novel from the Lammy and Vancouver Book Award winner.
4/3 Laura Lillibridge, Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
. Memoir.
4/3 James Wharton, Something for the Weekend: Life in the Chemsex Underworld
. Possibly this old feint again: Lack self-restraint? Lack self-esteem? Cheat on your husband, binge heavily on sex and drugs? Blame gay culture!
4/3 Olumide Popoola, When We Speak of Nothing
. Debut novel on what it's like to be young, black, and queer in London.
4/6 David Wojnarowicz, The Weight of the Earth: The David Wojnarowicz Audio Journals
4/10 Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
. Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm.
4/10 Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
. Memoir.
4/10 Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Cenzontle
. Poems.
4/17 Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
4/20 Frederic Martel, Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
4/24 Nicola Adams, Believe: Boxing, Olympics and My Life Outside of the Ring
. She's won two gold medals for boxing (London & Rio) and ranked #1 on the Independent's list of the UK's 101 most influential queers.
4/28 Michael Arditti, Of Men and Angels
. Five historical epochs, from Babylon to the Renaissance to Hollywood, reflecting different aspects of the Sodom story.
May
>> 5/1 Lance Richardson, House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row
5/7 Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel, The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde
>> 5/8 Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
, 2018 National Book Award Winner for Poetry
5/8 Stephen McCauley, My Ex-Life
[and Kindle
] [and Audio
]. In his seventh novel, the American master of the comedy of manners explores the funny and painful overlap of bad choices and chosen family. I loved it. Because love is not enough, and media demands controversy, I'll say some gay separatists will be angry. Buy now and decide for yourself.
5/8 Tommy Pico, Junk
. A book-length gay break-up poem.
5/8 Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
. First US publication.
5/8 James Lear, In the Ring. Erotica from Rupert Smith's excellently randy alter ego.
5/8 Blanche McCrary Boyd, Tomb of the Unknown Racist. After a 20-year wait, Boyd completes her trilogy about Ellen Burns.
5/8 Michelle Tea, Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
. Must reading.
5/15 Lucy Bledsoe, The Evolution of Love.
The remarkably gifted and wide-ranging novelist imagines the new bonds forged, of sisters, of community, in the wake of an epic earthquake that completely isolates San Francisco.
5/15 Nicola Griffith, So Lucky. Twenty-five years after her diagnosis, Griffith writes a novel about a woman living with MS.
5/22 Lilliian Faderman, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
5/25 Ramzi Fawaz & Shanté Paradigm Smalls, editors, Queers Read This!: LGBTQ Literature Now
5/29 Darnell Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
. Nation Books publishes this memoir/social commentary from a gay organizer of the BLM movement.
June
6/1 Jim Elledge, The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century
6/5 A. M. Homes, Days of Awe: Stories
6/5 Silas House, Southernmost
6/5 Robert Fieseler, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
6/5 Ann Travers, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution
6/6 Charlie Fox, This Young Monster
6/6 Daniel Isengart, The Art of Gay Cooking: A Culinary Memoir
6/7 Michael Lowenthal, The Paternity Test
paperback reissue of the 2012 novel.
6/12 Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?
6/19 Edouard Louis, History of Violence
. Following The End of Eddy.
6/19 Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy
. Novel.
6/26 Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox
6/26 Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
. Cannot wait for this memoir/ gay culture/ literary criticism hybrid.
July
7/3 Graham Caveney, The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir
7/3 Ines Pedrosa, In Your Hands
>> 7/10 Neel Patel, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi: Stories
7/10 Casey Legler, Godspeed: A Memoir
7/17 Stephen Hong Sohn, Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction
7/24 Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
7/26 Sjon, CoDex 1962: A Novel
August & After
8/14 Adrienne Rich, Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
8/14 Dale Peck, Night Soil
8/28 Paul Flynn, Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride – 30 Years of Gay Britain
>> 9/11 Sarah Schulman, Maggie Terry
10/2 Roxanne Gay selects The Best American Short Stories 2018
10/1 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Sketchtasy
. After a decade, Mattilda returns to fiction with novel about Alexa, a 21-year-old, give-a-fuck queen doing it her way in Boston in 1994.
TBA Genevieve Hudson, Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense)
TBA Jack Kaulfus, Tomorrow or Forever (Transgress Press)