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Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction       Follow Icarus on Facebook           Follow Lethe Press on Facebook        Read/Comment on the Lethe Press Blog

Lethe Press

an independent press specializing in literary fiction,
titles of gay & lesbian interest, poetry, speculative fiction and science fiction.
Our titles are some of the best gay books in the genre.

Sample Icarus with a Free Gay Story by Steve Berman                •                 Free Gay Story by Melissa Scott


Gavin Atlas presents A Conversation with Lethe Press staffer and marvelous writer Alex Jeffers
Philadelphia Weekly did a nice story about Lethe Press publisher Steve Berman

Scott Terry's Cowboys, Armageddon and The Truth is getting lots of attention and award nominations

Tom Cardamone's Green Thumb won the  2013 Lambda Literary Award winner for  LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror




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Our newest books
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ferber-bearcity-the-novel

BearCity: The Novel

by Lawrence Ferber
thomas-like-light-for-flies

Like Light for Flies

by Lee Thomas
kron-leffler-injustice

Injustice

by K.A. Kron & Brenda L. Leffler
scott-griswold-death-by-silver

Death by Silver

by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold
bowes-minions-of-the-moon 
Minions of the Moon
 
by
Richard Bowes

KINDLE SELECT
 hsu-love-is-sweeter

Love Is Sweeter: Stories

by HC Hsu

KINDLE SELECT
 clark-as-we-are

As We Are

  by Don Clark, Phd
berman-best-gay-stories-2013

Best Gay Stories 2013

ed by Steve Berman
berman-wilde-stories-2013

Wilde Stories 2013

ed by Steve Berman
click covers for links



Gay and Lesbian Books

All titles from Lethe Press and our imprints are available in a variety of digital formats
for devices like the Kindle, Nook, Apple iPad, etc. Links to our digital retailers can be found in the sidebar to the left.

PDFs-on-Demand are available for many of our titles from this website.
 Look for the orange arrow below the book's description.

PDF-on-Demand allows you read books in the Kindle Print Replica format on your Kindle device.
(links to all PDF-on-Demand titles can be found on the page "Our Authors.")
Read about PDF files on kindle and ebook readers








Our Newest Titles:
 click on covers for info and ordering links
 What a wonderful, wide- ranging selection:

Just a small sample of our offerings.



cardamone-green-thumb

Lammy Award Winner




ferber-bearcity-the-novel scott-griswold-death-by-silver
 argetsinger-latter-gay-saints

Forthcoming in August
 clark-as-we-are
 berman-best-gay-stories-2013
 berman-wilde-stories-2013

thomas-like-light-for-flies
 bereznai-queeroes-2 hsu-love-is-sweeter grahame contemplations

Now available as
 digital on-Demand 		tushinski-van-allens-ecstasy

Now available at
  Smashwords.com 		Ceremonial Magic

Now available as
 digital on-Demand

Trysts

Now available as
 digital on-Demand 		carpenter-pagan-and-christian-creeds

Now available as
 digital on-Demand
 GreenHard-Roads

Now available as
 digital on-Demand
 foreman-the-butterflys-wing

Now available as
 digital-on-Demand
 buchanan-ready-to-serve

Now available as digital-on-Demand
 raphael-lets-get-criminal

Now available as
 digital on-Demand

smith-cowboys-can-fly
Soon to be a Movie
 roscoe-jesus-and-the-shamanic-tradition
 fields-my-dear-watson.jpg
 bowes-minions-of-the-moon
 abramson-love-rules
 mann-a-romantic-mann

clark-living-gay
 barzak-before-and-afterlives.jpg
 ludwigsen-in-search-of
 scott-point-of-dreams
 bens-kelland
 kron-leffler-injustice

jeffers-deprivation
 acevedo-vasquez-hustler-rave
 erastes-standish
 paddie-ask-the-fire

Now available in ePub 		roberta-the-flight-of-the-black-swan
 mann-night-duty.jpg

foster-the-rest-of-us-stories.jpg
 lee-fatal-women.jpg
 skye-the-grigori
 grether-moontusk3-return
 thompson-how-to-greet-strangers
 williams-spirit-of-the-pacific.jpg

johnson-the-fourth-quill.jpg
 wilkins-berman-heiresses-of-russ-2012
 gonzalez-mariposa-gown
 healey-faun
 eads-the-survivors
 Someone Gay
 Don Clark's books are available in digital formats

terry-cowboys-armageddon-and-the-truth
 vanden-exile-in-paradise
 mann-desire-and-devour
 dube-best-gay-stories-2012
 neal-waking-up-bear
 essary-helluva-luxe.jpg

kron-shades-of-gray
 cardamone-green-thumb
 berman-wilde-stories-2012
 jeffers-you-will-meet-a-stranger
 elledge-h
 mackle-only-make-believe
Sequel to It Takes Two

scott-point-of-knives
 sexton-deranged
 thomas-the-dust-of-wonderland
 farris-the-sin-warriors
 terry-waxwings
 tan-lauriat

mackle-captain-harding-and-his-men
 berman-the-touch-of-the-sea
 vanden-it-was-too-soon-before
 lundoff-silver-moon
 keehnen-the-sand-bar
 mackle-it-takes-two

mandelo-beyond-binary

 hand-coming-to
 scott-barnett-point-of-hopes
 sheppard-the-dirty-boys-club
 desimone-the-hearts-history
 abramson-california-dreamers

grether-the-secret-of-the-golden-phallus mann-purgatory demarco-crimes-on-latimer
 ray-he-will-laugh
 montlack-divining-divas
 /wheeler-strawberries-and-other-erotic-fruits

the master of seacliff ingram-eat-your-heart-out

 allen-whistling-in-the-dark.jpg

Now in digital format 		jaffe-jewish-gentle sapienza-seventy-times-seven
Now in digital format
 vanderhooft-heiresses-of-russ-2011

jackson-tales-from-the-den smith-run-naked-run-free
 meriwether-the-silent-hustler
on sale
Now in digital format
 rice-gonzalez-from-macho-to-mariposa grether-moontusk2-orchid mann-fog

mackle-captain-hardings-six-day-war
 cardamone-the-lost-library
 mann-fog

A Richard Labonté "Favorite Fiction Read of 2011"		 grether-moontusk2-orchid dube-best-gay-stories-2011 merey-a-e-4ever

rice-gonzalez-from-macho-to-mariposa
 mann-a-history-of-barbed-wire cohen-bear-like-me
 demarco-a-study-in-lavender
 jeffers-the-abode-of-bliss berman-wilde-stories-2011

clark-amar-a-alguien-gay
now in Spanish
 abramson-wedding-season
 vanderhooft-lundoff-hellebore-and-rue
 abramson-beach-reading
 stone-tricky-serum
 wang-slant

madden-prodigal-variations
 Gidney-Sea-Swallow Me
 baker-promises-promises
 demarco-a-body-on-pine
 green-a-ride-to-remember
 poole-dirty-poole

thomas-the-german
 llewellyn-engines-of-desire
  Gay Spirituality
 loving someone gay Two Flutes Playing
now available in digital formats
 erastes-mere-mortals

grether-moontusk-rendezvous
 jackson-bear-lust
 kron-dont-tell
 gatchalian-crossing
 goh-blame-it-on-the-raging-hormones
 Two Spirits

jeffers-do-you-remember-tulum
 dube-subtle-bodies
 suresha-the-uncommon-sense
 mann-binding-the-god
 boyle-wonder
 wilkins-time-well-bent

berman-best-gay-stories-2010
 gonzalez-the_mariposa_club
 smith-cowboys-can-fly
 vancouver nights
 jaffe-the-limits-of-pleasure
 atlas-the-boy-cant-help-it

holden-a-twist-of-grimm
 paddie-ask-the-fire anderson-ladidadi-bloodyda
 wheeler-tented
 bereznai-queeroes
 day-out-of-the-ashes

mackle-hot-off-the-presses
 young-pyromancer
 lee-disturbed-by-her-song vintage johnson-getting-life-in-perspective
 sheppard-sodomy

ramer-queering-the-text
 jeffers-safe-as-houses michaelson-another-word-for-sky
now available in digital format
herneson-spring-of-the-stag-god

















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or click a link at left to learn more


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Richard Labonté has nice words for Lethe Press in his Book Marks column Favorites of 2011  (read the "Footnotes" section at the bottom of the page)
Lethe Press staffer, Craig Laurance Gidney, has a story in Expanded Horizons, "Conjuring Shadows." It's a wonderful and evocative story-within-a-story. (Click on the link to read a review, then access the story)
Lethe Press publisher, Steve Berman, has a new book out from Bold Strokes Books SPEAKING OUT: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up, a book of gay positive & coming out stories for teens. Here is a good review at OutinPrint. Speaking Out is a 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist for Teen Fiction.

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