Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp…
Want to Read"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
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1. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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- feminism
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
2. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
3. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
4. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- feminism
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
5. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
6. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
7. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
8. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
9. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
10. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
11. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
12. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
13. As Young as This
By: Roxy Dunn
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
15. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- japan
- queer
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
16. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
17. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
18. A Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more
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- feminism
- fiction
- japan
- asian literature
- japanese literature
19. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
20. The Bookshop Woman
By: Nanako Hanada
3.60
Format: 204 pages, ebook
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more
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- asian literature
- japan
- japanese literature
- contemporary
21. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
23. The Night Alphabet
By: Joelle Taylor
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana Souhami The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
24. The Silence In Between
By: Josie Ferguson
4.48
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more
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- fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
25. Spoilt Creatures
By: Amy Twigg
3.94
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
26. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
28. Gender Theory
By: Madeline Docherty
4.27
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
29. Gold Rush
By: Olivia Petter
3.61
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more
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- feminism
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. The Unwilding
By: Marina Kemp
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning new novel of power, desire and the secrets all families carry, from the acclaimed author… read more
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- fiction
31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
