Lot
By: Bryan Washington
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."-Bryan Washington, Lot
"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks. But she took it seriously, she pursed her lips. It's just another way to talk to the dead, she said. It's another way to make a way, she said."-Bryan Washington, Lot
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1. 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
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
2. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
4. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
5. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
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6. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
7. Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
8. 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
- fiction
- adult
- 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
9. 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
- gay
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
10. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
11. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
12. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
13. Real Life
By: Brandon Taylor
3.80
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
14. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
15. Toń
By: Ishbel Szatrawska
4.30
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Kiedy Eichmedien stały się Nakomiadami? Kiedy Rastenburg był Rastemborkiem i kiedy stał się Kętrzyn… read more
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- fiction
16. Lot
By: Bryan Washington
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- queer
"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."-Bryan Washington, Lot
"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"-Bryan Washington, Lot
17. Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
By: Anthony Veasna So
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- short stories
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"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, af…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meaning…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
18. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
19. Mouth: Stories
By: Puloma Ghosh
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
BESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL S… read more
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- lgbt
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- adult
- queer
20. Dwunaste: Nie myśl, że uciekniesz
By: Filip Springer
3.57
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Jante to miasteczko, w którym życie reguluje jedenaście opresyjnych zasad określających miejsce jed… read more
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- contemporary
21. The Magpie Wing
By: Max Easton
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney’s weste… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
