We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is …
Want to Read $ 13.99"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindling it."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. Yerba Buena
By: Nina LaCour
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more
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- lesbian
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- lgbt
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
3. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
4. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
5. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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- queer
6. Interesting Facts about Space
By: Emily R. Austin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more
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- queer
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
7. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
8. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- romance
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
9. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
10. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- adult
- queer
11. We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark
- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
12. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
13. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
By: Emily R. Austin
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s per… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Think about it,"-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
"My death, and the death of everyone I love, is inevitable. Pine again."-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
"I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they've morphed into."-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
"I am inside of an ecosystem I don't belong in... I feel like a foreign object inside a body, waiting to be rejected."-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
14. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- adult
- queer
15. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- audiobook
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
16. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
17. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
18. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
19. Old Enough
By: Haley Jakobson
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
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- audiobook
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
20. Body Grammar
By: Jules Ohman
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling … read more
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- romance
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21. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- lesbian
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
