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The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

January 21, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

A sapphic space opera about scavenger Xích Si who enters an arranged marriage with Rice Fish, a sentient spaceship and pirate fleet leader, to investigate the suspicious death of Rice Fish’s wife while navigating betrayal, political intrigue, and unexpected love.

Categories Action/Adventure, Asian Interest, Award Winner, Romance, Speculative Fiction

Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

January 18, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

A sapphic romantic fantasy novella set in a pre-colonial Vietnamese-inspired world where diplomat princess Thanh must navigate her rekindled romance with Princess Eldris while balancing her country’s independence against imperial threats and her relationship with a fire elemental.

Categories Asian Interest, Award Winner, Romance, Speculative Fiction

Moon At Nine by Deborah Ellis

January 15, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

In 1988 Tehran, fifteen-year-old Farrin falls in love with Sadira, a new student at her school, and they face devastating consequences in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death

Categories Award Winner, Coming of Age, Coming Out, Historical Fiction, Romance, YA Fiction (Young Adult)

A Fire Born Of Exile by Aliette de Bodard

January 8, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

A sapphic Count of Monte Cristo-inspired space opera where betrayed scholar Quỳnh returns in disguise seeking revenge but finds her plans complicated by her deepening romance with engineer Hoà in a corrupt orbital society.

Categories Action/Adventure, Asian Interest, Award Winner, Intrigue/Thriller, Romance, Speculative Fiction

Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson

January 5, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.

Categories Autobiography/Biography, Award Winner, History, Lesbian Studies, LGBT Studies/Social Sciences, Literary History

In The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

January 4, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

A dark f/f Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a post-apocalyptic Vietnamese-inspired world where failed scholar Yên becomes tutor to dragon Vu Côn’s children and finds herself dangerously attracted to her stern captor.

Categories Asian Interest, Award Winner, Horror, Romance, Speculative Fiction

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie.

Categories Asian Interest, Award Winner, Graphic Novel, Trans & Gender Identity

Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 by NorthShore Noir Press

Coping with the death of her cousin, she abandons her life in the city to live in his now-empty house in a small town.

Categories Asian Interest, Award Winner, Family, Trans & Gender Identity

Poor Queer Studies by Matt Brim

September 22, 2025 by NorthShore Noir Press

Matt Brim challenges the ‘overrepresentation of affluence’ within queer studies,

Categories Award Winner, Education, LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Feels Right by Kemi Adeyemi

August 7, 2025 by NorthShore Noir Press

This book examines how Black queer women in Chicago navigate gentrification and neoliberalism through social dance and nightlife, arguing that their presence on the dance floor is a political assertion of their right to occupy space in the city.

Categories Award Winner, Black Interest, LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
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