There aren’t many things we are going to miss about 2020, however one spot of hope, joy and love has been the awesome new books that were released. Did you get to read any of these this year?

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Shortlist)

Cemetery Boys

Vanishing Monuments

History of My Brief Body

You Exist Too Much

Felix Ever After

The Death of Vivek Oji

Elegy for the Undead: A Novella

Like a Boy But Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

Five Acts of Diego León

Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems

Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

I Know You Know Who I Am: Stories

Homie: Poems

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Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories

Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability

Apsara Engine

City We Became

We Had No Rules

Upright Women Wanted

Finna

Fairest: A Memoir

Empress of Salt and Fortune

Four Profound Weaves

Subtweet

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Save Yourself

Real Life

Memorial

I Don’t Want to Die Poor: Essays

Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

New Queer Photography: Focus on the Margins

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s