The Prettiest Star
By: Carter Sickels
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami…
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1. The Birds of Opulence
By: Crystal Wilkinson
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberriesand Water Streetco… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
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2. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
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- contemporary
- queer
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4. Burning Bright
By: Ron Rash
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" … read more
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5. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
6. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
7. Swimming in the Dark
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more
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- audiobook
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- gay
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- contemporary
- historical fiction
- queer
"Little sparks cause fires too."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
8. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
9. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
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10. 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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- lgbt
- historical
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- queer
"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
11. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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- audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
12. When These Mountains Burn
By: David Joy
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn
13. Yes, Daddy
By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
3.59
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
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14. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
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- historical fiction
- queer
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
15. Betty
By: Tiffany McDaniel
4.41
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"The earth is warm enough."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
16. The Prettiest Star
By: Carter Sickels
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- queer
17. All the World Beside
By: Garrard Conley
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more
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- gay
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18. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- queer
19. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- audiobook
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20. Any Other Place
By: Michael Croley
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A Korean woman in rural Kentucky clings to the love found in her new marriage as the mountain above… read more
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- fiction
21. Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber
By: Steven Hale
4.10
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of mons… read more
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