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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in April 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Spring on the Peninsula - Ery Shin 🧡 When I Arrived at the Castle - Emily Carroll 💛 Bloodline - Jenn Alexander 💚 Grey Dog - Elliott Gish 💙 Every Time You Hear That Song - Jenna Voris 💜 I'm in Love with the Villainess v. 2 - Inori and Hanagata ❤️ The Caravaggio Syndrome - Alessandro Giardino 🧡 Leather, Lace, and Locs - Anne Shade 💛 Firebugs - Nico Bulling 💙 I Married My Female Friend v.2 - Shio Usui 💜 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🌈 A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland ❤️ The Selected Shepherd: Poems - Reginald Shepherd 🧡 Rough Trade - Katrina Carrasco 💛 Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married - Georgia Beers 💚 Taming of a Rebel - Eada Friesian 💙 Dayspring - Anthony Oliveira 💜 The Titanic Survivors Book Club - Timothy Schaffert ❤️ Orphia And Eurydicius - Elyse John 🧡 The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers - Samuel Burr 💛 A Good Happy Girl - Marissa Higgins 💙 Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine - Nicole Melleby 💜 Here We Go Again - Alison Cochrun 🌈 Women! In! Peril! - Jessie Ren Marshall

❤️ Blood City Rollers - V. P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill 🧡 The Prospects - KT Hoffman 💛 Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia - Christi Furnas 💚 WATCHNIGHT - Cyree Jarelle Johnson 💙 Love From The Sidelines - Tuesday Harper 💜 The Pleasure in Pain - Roxie Voorhees ❤️ Mal - Perla Zul 🧡 The Black Girl Survives in This One - Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell 💛 Darker by Four - June C.L. Tan 💙 Otherworldly - F.T. Lukens 💜 Hearts Still Beating - Brooke Archer 🌈 Tryst Six Venom - Penelope Douglas

❤️ Teenage Dirtbags - James Acker 🧡 The Heart Wants What It Wants - D.M. Batten 💛 Something Kindred by Ciera Burch 💚 Sheine Lende - Dr. Darcie Little Badger & Rovina Cai 💙 Rainbow Overalls - Maggie Fortuna 💜 Flowers for Dead Girls - Abigail Collins ❤️ Canto Contigo - Jonny Garza Villa

❤️ Court of Wanderers - Rin Chupeco 🧡 Molten Death - Leslie Karst 💛 Triad Magic - ‘Nathan Burgoine 💚 You, Me and Bad Movies - Twoony 💙 The Faithful Dark - Cate Baumer 💜 A Case for Discretion - Ashley Moore ❤️ Party of Fools - Cedar McCloud 🧡 The Last Love Song - Kalie Holford 💛 This is Me Trying - Racquel Marie 💙 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 💜 Sun Eater - Dre Levant 🌈 The Breakup Lists - Adib Khorram

❤️ Bad Dream - Nicole Maines & Rye Hickman 🧡 If We Were Stars - Eule Grey 💛 The Broken Lines of Us - Shia Woods 💚 Eye of the Ouroboros - Megan Bontrager 💙 Henry Henry - Allen Bratton 💜 Dear Bi Men - JR Yussuf ❤️ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde 🧡 Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership - Chaya Milchtein 💛 Wide Awake Now - David Levithan 💙 Merciless Saviors - H.E. Edgmon 💜 Smile and Be a Villain - Yves Donlon ��� Crash Landing - Charmaine Anne Li

❤️ Call Forth a Fox - Markelle Grabo 🧡 Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2024 - Beau Adler 💛 Good Bones - Aurora Rey 💚 Curiosities - Anne Fleming 💙 Someone You Can Build a Nest in - John Wiswell 💜 Revisiting Summer Nights - Ashley Bartlett ❤️ Bright Spring - Emmaline Strange

❤️ Girls Night - I.S. Belle 🧡 Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings 💛 Withered - A.G.A. Wilmot 💚 A Wolf Steps in Blood - Tamara Jerée 💙 It Always Finds Me - Anthology 💜 Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt ❤️ Moon Dust in My Hairnet - JR Creaden 🧡 Blood Justice - Terry J. Benton-Walker 💛 Relinquishing Control - J.J. Arias

❤️ Selamlik - Khaled Alesmael 🧡 Houseswap 101 - Jaime Clevenger 💛 Earthflown by Frances Wren & Litarnes 💚 Covenant v.1 - LySandra Vuong 💙 Honey - Victor Lodato 💜 The Dragonfly Gambit - A.D. Sui ❤️ Double Dyno - Sharon K Angelici & Taylor Rose

[ezikial13]

In 2023 I have read 68 books. Here they are:

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

The Devil and Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Orphans of the tide by Struan Murray

Ironside by Holly Black

Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett

Tin Princess by Philip Pullman

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Moby Dick By Herman Melville

Moonblood by Alastair MacNeill

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Seven Dials by Agatha Christie

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietszche

The woman in white by Wilkie Collins

The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson

Destination Unkown by Agatha Christie

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie

The City of God by Augustine

Longarm and the Wendigo by Tabor Evans

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Ghost Drum by Susan Price

The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett

Man's search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith

Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'e

Flatland by E. A. Abbot

The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells

The Piano Teacher by J.Y.K. Lee

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Goblin Fruit by D.M. Chan

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Three-Body Problem by Cixian Liu

The Man who was Thursday by G.K.Chesterton

Didache

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Dune:Messiah by Frank Herbert

Tarzan of the Apes by E.R. Burroughs

Eric by Terry Pratchett

1913 by Florian Illies

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

Hour of the Wolf by A.J. Gallows

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Little House on the Prairie by L.l. Wilder

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in five parts by Douglas Adams

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Round the Moon by Jules Verne

American gods by Niel Gaiman

Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackery

The Master of the World by Jules Verne

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

A Season in Hell by Jack Higgins

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Price By A. Sokoloff

The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

The Bible as your GPS by K. Genis

[superdames]

Brilliant parody Twitter account/depressing vision of our global future President Supervillain — created by D.M. Higgins, creator of the excellent Jill Trent, Science Sleuth — takes classic Silver Age panels from Marvel comics featuring the Red Skull, erases the text, and then puts in honest-to-god quotes from Trump.

[taylorfennersbookishworld]

To those readers that have been with me for a while you know that each year can be summed up with a key descriptor word (2016 was the year of the Indie, 2017 was the year of the ARC, 2018 was the year of the Surprise). 2019 became the year of Diverse reads. This year I've read an awe-inspiring 128 books, at least a third of which had diverse leads and plot lines. My favorites of the year are divided into a few categories: Top 26 Faves, New Auto-Buy Authors, Favorite Covers, Favorite Audiobook Narrators, and Favorite Sequels / Series Enders... My Top 26 Favorite Books I've Read in 2018: *As always, remember this list includes books I *read* this year - new releases, backlist books, and ARCs* 26. The Rules by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie 25. The Breathless by Tara Goedjen 24. Imposters by Scott Westerfeld 23. Midnight Son by James Dommeck Jr. 22. Buried Deep by Margot Hunt 21. The Beholder by Anna Bright 20. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 19. Slayer by Kiersten White 18. No One's Home by D.M. Pulley 17. We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia 16. Repeat by Kylie Scott 15. Remember Me by Chelsea Bobulski 14. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 13. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi 12.Making Up by Helena Hunting 11. The Haunted by Danielle Vega 10. These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling 9. The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg 8. Crown of Oblivion by Julie Eshbaugh 7. Sadie by Courtney Summers 6. She Was the Quiet One by Michele Campbell 5. Dirty Letters by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward 4. Blood Countess by Lana Popovic 3. Off Limits by Penny Dee 2. The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller 1. Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall  6 New Auto-Buy Authors I Discovered & Loved in 2019: 1. Helena Hunting 2. Michele Campbell 3. Penny Dee 4. Danielle Vega 5. Marie Lu 6. Gretchen McNeil 11 Prettiest Book Covers of 2019 1. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi 2. Soul In Darkness by Wendy Higgins 3. Last Things by Jaqueline West 4. We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia 5. Rage by Cora Carmack 6. The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg 7. The Beholder by Anna Bright 8. Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian           9. The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett 10. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin M. Craig 11. Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw 5 Favorite Sequels / Series Enders of 2019 1. Finale by Stephanie Garber 2. Wildcard by Marie Lu 3. Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld 4. Tellus by Tyffany Hackett 5. The Dead House: The Naida Tapes (Novella follow-up) by Dawn Kurtagich Favorite Audiobook Narrators of 2019: 1. January Lavoy 2. Emma Lysy 3. James Dommeck Jr. 4. Therese Plummer 5. Andi Arndt 6. Sebastian York 7. Teddy Hamilton 8. Holly Warren 2019 was another great year for new releases and 2020 already has a ton of amazing reads to look forward to.  What were some of your favorite books/new authors of 2019? Let me know in the comments! Let's swap recs!  Happy New Year Bookdragons! I'll see you in 2020! Let's make it a roaring good year 😉

http://taylorfenner.blogspot.com/2019/12/2019-wrap-up-big-new-years-eve-post.html

[madartlab]

Mad Quickies: Buddhist Activist, Gender Pay Gap Graphic, Solar System Timelapse and More!

Mad Quickies: Buddhist Activist, Gender Pay Gap Graphic, Solar System Timelapse and More!

Happy weekend, you guys! Pencils down. Surf’s up! Buddhist artist and social activist Bettina WitteVeen creates anti-war installation in Brooklyn. Watch the documentary. {via Courtney} In between the pillaging and the conquering, turns out the Roman soldiers left something nice behind in Germany. The remnants of board game pieces were found at a military fort. {via Surly Amy} At Information Is…

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PREVIEW: Jill Trent, Science Sleuth #1

PREVIEW: Jill Trent, Science Sleuth #1

Jill Trent, Science Sleuth was a comic book heroine published in the mid-1940s who solved mysteries and caught crooks using her scientific genius, improbable inventions, and the fighting prowess of her faithful partner, Daisy Smythe! Now, more than 65 years later, we’ve brought Jill and Daisy back in JILL TRENT, SCIENCE SLEUTH #1, a 28-page comic book featuring 5 stories by 5 creative teams! Each…

[sumrallmind]

Reading the Jill Trent book from superdames and this is so ridiculously awesome and great.

Seriously go to www.superdamescomics.com and get a copy.

[superdames]

When the Fatima Space Probe stops transmitting humanity’s Platinum Record to the stars, Jill Trent, Science Sleuth is on the case — in space!

“The Mystery of the Music From Space” written by D.M. Higgins with art by Roxanne Bee is 1 of 3 stand-alone stories in JILL TRENT, SCIENCE SLEUTH #2, available now on Kickstarter!

[superdames]

Jill Trent, Science Sleuth — her science is VERY good.

The Kickstarter for this book launches this week at www.JillTrent.com!

It’s time to start getting excited!

(Image from “The Mystery of the Music From Space!” written, lettered & edited by D.M. Higgins, art & color by Roxanne Bee, from JILL TRENT, SCIENCE SLEUTH #2, published by Superdames Comics!)

[superdames]

Introducing JOSEPHINE THE MOOSE-RIDER!

Josephine is the daughter of a French Canadian father and a Senegalese mother. The moose is a moose ... with magical powers! Together, they must discover the true meaning of power & defend the city of Montreal from the forces of evil!

Written by D.M. Higgins with art by the fabulous Kyle Roberts & colorist A.L. Onfroi!

Appearing in EPIC CANADIANA #2 from Cloudscape Comics, coming soon!

[superdames]

Here's that preview panel (actually a fraction of the panel) that was posted with the Kickstarter success update.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

(Image from "Science, Like Love..." in JILL TRENT, SCIENCE SLEUTH #1, written & edited by D.M. Higgins, art by Rafael Romeo Magat. Still plenty of time to pre-order & support now on Kickstarter!)