Query: 2021 fiction books that are LGBT-related
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Unbroken
She Who Became the Sun
The Sweetness of Water
A Lesson in Vengeance
Ace of Spades (novel)
A Desolation Called Peace
Winter's Orbit
Alec (novel)
Matrix (Groff novel)
Iron Widow
Girl Haven
Evidence from documents: The Unbroken: 2021 fiction books: '''''The Unbroken''''' is a 2021 epic fantasy novel, the debut novel by C.L. Clark.
LGBT-related: Other rebellion leaders include Djasha, an apostate priest who has lost her magic, and her wife Aranen, a healer.
She Who Became the Sun: '''''She Who Became the Sun''''' is a 2021 fantasy novel by Shelley Parker-Chan. Parker-Chan's debut novel, the novels tells a re-imagining of the rise to power of the Hongwu Emperor in the 14th century.


The book is a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction and the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Zhu Chongba, the son of a family in an impoverished village, is foretold in a prophecy to achieve greatness. However, after a bandit attack leaves the village devastated and most of the family dead, he dies of heartbreak. His sister then assumes his identity to go study at a Buddhist monastery, and begins plotting her own survival and her own path to greatness.
The novel has been noted to touch on themes of gender, sexuality, and diasporic identity. In an interview with the ''South China Morning Post'', Parker-Chan described the novel as "a queer reimagining of the rise to power of the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty. It’s also a fun story about gender," adding that mainstream white Australian culture had "a particular type of Australian masculinity that is held as the ideal. This excludes every other kind of masculinity, especially queer masculinity and Asian masculinity."
The Sweetness of Water: '''''The Sweetness of Water''''' is the debut novel by American novelist Nathan Harris. It was published by Little, Brown and Company on June 15, 2021. It was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, during the final period of the Civil War. It follows two Black brothers, Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, as they try to make money for their trek north to reunite with their mother. The novel also features a parallel narrative following the taboo romance between two gay male Confederate soldiers.
A Lesson in Vengeance: is a 2021 fantasy novel by Victoria Lee.
After spending a year away from school after the disappearance of her girlfriend
Ace of Spades (novel): published June 1, 2021 by Feiwel & Friends.
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only two Black students at their private school, Niveus Private Academy and exist in completely different social spheres. However, on the first day of school, they are both named as school prefects. One day, a group message from "Aces" is sent to the student body that shows Devon kissing another male student, outing both students and sending the school into an uproar.
A Desolation Called Peace: '''''A Desolation Called Peace''''' is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to ''A Memory Called Empire'', and the second novel in Martine's ''Teixcalaan'' series.
A few months after ''A Memory Called Empire'', alien forces massacre an industrial colony of the Teixcalaanli Empire. The Teixcalaanli admiral Nine Hibiscus, tasked with confronting the threat, requests an Information Ministry specialist to attempt to communicate with the inscrutable enemy. That specialist is Three Seagrass, now a senior Imperial official, who smuggles herself to the frontlines by way of Lsel Station. There, she convinces her former associate and still nominal ambassador to the Empire, Mahit Dzmare, to accompany her. Mahit seizes on the chance to escape the increasing danger from factional conflicts on Lsel, and is tasked by one of Lsel's leaders to try to prolong the Empire's war with the aliens.


In Nine Hibiscus's fleet, the two women develop methods to communicate with the aliens and restart their romantic relationship.
Winter's Orbit: '''''Winter's Orbit''''' is a 2021 LGBT space opera novel, the debut novel by Everina Maxwell. After Prince Taam of Iskat dies mysteriously, his cousin Kiem is forced to marry Taam's widower. The fate of their solar system may hinge on their marriage.
Alec (novel): '''''Alec''''' is the first novel by the playwright William di Canzio, published in 2021. The novel retells and continues the story of E.M. Forster's gay novel ''Maurice'', which was first written between 1913 and 1914, revised throughout Forster's lifetime, and only published after his death in 1971. As the title suggests, ''Alec'' is told from the perspective of Alec Scudder, the working-class lover of ''Maurice'''s titular Maurice. Alexander Chee describes ''Alec'' as "the kind of novel ''Maurice'' could never be, full of sex and war, death and torture."
Matrix (Groff novel): '''''Matrix''''' is a historical novel by Lauren Groff, published by Riverhead Books on September 7, 2021.
Groff's fourth novel, ''Matrix'' is about a "seventeen-year-old Marie de France... sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease." ''The Observer'' described it as "a strange and poetic piece of historical fiction set in a dreamlike abbey, the fictional biography of a 12th-century mystic." Within the novel, Marie, whom Groff writes as a lesbian, turns around the abbey's fortunes and treats it as a quasi-mystical female separatist "utopia".
''Matrix'' received very favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Rave" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 31 book reviews from mainstream literary critics. The novel debuted at number eleven on ''The New York Times'' fiction best-seller list for the week ending September 11, 2021. ''Publishers Weekly'', in its starred review, praised Groff's "boldly original narrative" and her "transcendent prose and vividly described settings" for bringing to life "historic events, from the Crusades to the papal interdict of 1208." ''Publishers Weekly'' concluded, "Groff has outdone herself with an accomplishment as radiant as Marie's visions." In its starred review, ''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote, "Groff's trademarkworthy sentences bring vivid buoyancy to a magisterial story."
Iron Widow: 2021 fiction books: '''''Iron Widow''''' is a 2021 Canadian science-fantasy novel by Xiran Jay Zhao.
LGBT-related: Gao Yizhi: Zetian and Shimin's love interest, the gentle and elegant fifth son of the biggest media mogul in Huaxia who forms a polyamorous relationships with Zetian and Shimin and works to keep them alive against political forces that would have them disposed of.
Girl Haven: 2021: The novel was first published on February 16, 2021, by Oni Press.
that are LGBT-related: With a focus on LGBT themes, it tells the story of Ash, a teen who travels with a group of friends to a magical land where only women are allowed, making them question their gender identity.