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I did something very similar for 2021; I blogged about the books I had read from January to Pride month at https://medium.com/nowt-so-queer-as-folk/queer-fiction-is-bringing-me-joy-fe12452b24d and I have a half-written blog of the rest (I'll privately send you the draft link), but Goodreads' "Year in review" is probably the easiest place to look: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2021/4836293 ; there's a link at the top to go forward to 2022, which contains a few cis-het authors writing cis-het characters, but only a few.

Of my reads over the last couple of years, there's some crime/detective stuff — notably another Tal Bauer ("The Murder Between Us", the first in a series) and "Divas, Death & Drag" by Shane K Morton. From the opposite perspective, "Base Notes" by Lara Elena Donnelly has a queer serial-killer protagonist (whose gender is never mentioned, incidentally) and was a *great* read. "A Master of Djinn" by P Djèlí Clark has a sapphic detective protag in an alt-historic supernatural 1912 Cairo and while "A Memory Called Empire" is an sf political thriller, a significant part of the plot is "what happened to my predecessor; how and why did he die?". In more of a macho-bullshit kind of thriller, "The Chaos Kind" by Barry Eisler has a queer male protag where his queerness is not used as a plot engine.

For queer characters on a more fantasy Quest adventure, "Paladin's Hope" by T Kingfisher is easily one of my favourite reads of 2021, which I picked up after seeing it blurbed on Twitter with “Do pick it up if you like idiots in love and murder houses”. I'd also recommend Freya Marske's "The Last Binding" trilogy, set in an Edwardian England with magic — the first ("A Marvellous Light") has a *wonderful* grumpy librarian / sunshine himbo m/m pair, the sequel ("A Restless Truth") came out recently and has an f/f pair of protags, blurbed with "Magic! Murder! Shipboard Romance!"; the 3rd is due out in November 2023.

Not connected to your genre wishlist but that I absolutely have to plug anyway: "Summer Sons" by Lee Mandelo has a protagonist where a character literally laughs out loud when he claims not to be straight and is best described by the Chicago Review of Books' hed "Cold Ghosts, Fast Cars, Hot Mess". Naseem Jamnia's "The Bruising of Qilwa" has an ace, non-binary protag doing blood magic; John Scalzi's "The Kaijū Preservation Society" is a lot of fun; and Alexandra Rowland's "A Taste of Gold and Iron" is just lovely (m/m low-fantasy).

I think that'll do for now, but I am very much open to requests for more queer recs 😉

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