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Nominations: 2 October (time tba) to 11 October, 9am UTC
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Here are the books I spot in last year's tagset. This is stuff I recognize as being marketed as "m/m romance" currently and other stuff that tends to get lumped into the same recs lists. (i.e. It doesn't include everything with m/m content.)

Whyborne and Griffin - Jordan L. Hawk - Queer shenanigans in a Lovecraftian New England town at the turn of the 20thC
The Turner Series - Cat Sebastian - Classic Regency romance
The Administration - Manna Francis - Near future sf with kink
Adrien English - Josh Lanyon - Bookseller solves mysteries and deals with asshole boyfriend (I hate this series soooo much despite loving Lanyon's later work.)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley - 19thC steampunk? (I disliked this book and didn't finish it.)
Think of England - K. J. Charles - English house party + spies
A Charm of Magpies Series - K. J. Charles - 19thC magic cop angsts about his job and gets hot aristocrat boyfriend. There are side books about other characters.
Tales of the High Court Series - Megan Derr - High fantasy? (I haven't liked Derr's writing in the past. Haven't read this one.)
The Rifter - Ginn Hale - M/M plus some kind of fantasy
Astreiant Series - Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett - Renaissance-ish fantasy setting. I was unenthused by the oldschool style (i.e. it has like 1% focus on the relationship for the first two books--I'm told it gets shippy in book 3, but there are a lot of more recent m/m books I'll catch up on first)
The Plumber's Mate - J. L. Merrow - Contemporary English village cozies. The hero is a plumber who can find water and lost objects. He gets together with a bully from his school days. (I thought this was handled 1000x better than most bully/victim romance, but ymmv.)
The Kingston Cycle - C. L. Polk - Magic in Edwardian England? This got good reviews from sff readers and bad ones from m/m romance readers from what I saw.
Cut & Run - Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux - Buddy cops? All I remember is that I once owned a paper copy of book 1, and it was truly one of the worst books I ever read.
Society of Gentlemen - K. J. Charles - Regency romance-ish? Everyone likes the kink in book 2.
Sins of the Cities Series - K. J. Charles - M/M sensation novel trilogy. Charles tries to go more diverse and fails epically on many counts. People like the fake medium in book 2.
Green Men Series - K. J. Charles - Paranormal investigations in 1920s London?
Hexworld - Jordan L. Hawk - Magic cops and shapeshifting familiars in 19thC NYC
Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott - 19thC magic detectives?

Integrate - Thea Hayworth - One's a human. One's a tentacle shark alien. They fight crime! (Seriously, this is the best thing ever. Get yourself to Smashwords and purchase a copy.)

I think a couple of the Chinese nominations were m/m works, but I don't know that category well.

A Taste of Honey - Kai Ashante Wilson - Nebula-award winning novella M/M fantasy romance with a very twisty plot

+1 for Integrate, it's a great read.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley - 19thC steampunk?
Most people categorize it as fantasy. Some categorize it as alternate history science fiction. It's not really steampunk, though; one of the main characters makes truly extraordinary clockwork mechanisms, but he's the only one--it's not an entire society shaped by those technologies.

Society of Gentlemen - K. J. Charles - Regency romance-ish? Everyone likes the kink in book 2.
Yes. Also very popular is the prequel novella "The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh". According to this year's nominations spreadsheet, the MCs from the three novels + the novella have all been nominated.

Sins of the Cities Series - K. J. Charles - M/M sensation novel trilogy. Charles tries to go more diverse and fails epically on many counts. People like the fake medium in book 2.
I'd disagree with "fails epically"; the third book focuses a little too much on the genderqueer MC's gender, to the detriment of the other MC's character development, but I thought the series was otherwise fine. According to the nominations spreadsheet, the MCs from the three novels have all been nominated this year.

Green Men Series - K. J. Charles - Paranormal investigations in 1920s London?
Yes.

Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott - 19thC magic detectives?
One's technically a metaphysician, but yes.

I agree re Sins. It was nice to have an author trying for that kind of genderqueer rep, even if they leaned a little heavily on it, and it didn't ruin the series for me or anything.

Everyone likes the kink in book 2 Not true, I don't! I skip past the kink scenes on reread. I do agree that that's the strongest part of the trilogy (the first part was unobjectionable but dull, the third one was actively irritating to me and made me hate Richard) and I like that there is some of the radicalism/reform angle in a Regency fiction, but I'd have rathered it without or at least with less of the kink. There's one scene in particular that edges over the roleplay line into what I read as actual noncon that goes unacknowledged, so it's not fun for me.

Sins of the Cities ranged from lack of investment to mild dislike to outright hatred for me.

Ugh, I wish that there were more like Integrate--I really enjoyed reading it.

More tentacle porn? More undercover in a sex club? More cops in space?

There's nothing exactly like it, which is a shame, but you might be able to find some m/m books with whichever aspect of it you liked best.

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