Tell Me How to Be
By: Neel Patel
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
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1. Marriage of a Thousand Lies
By: S.J. Sindu
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conserv… read more
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2. The Windfall
By: Soneela Nankani , Diksha Basu
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corner… read more
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3. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
4. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
5. Dava Shastri's Last Day
By: Kirthana Ramisetti
3.49
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy—a decisio… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And then maybe like a few months after the divorce, I read an amazing quote: 'Compatibility is an achievement of love. It shouldn't be its precondition.' Well, that hit me in the gut."-Kirthana Ramisetti, Dava Shastri's Last Day
6. 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
7. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
8. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
9. Blue Skinned Gods
By: S.J. Sindu
3.91
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spa… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
10. 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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- romance
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
11. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- india
- audiobook
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
12. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
13. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
14. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
15. Tell Me How to Be
By: Neel Patel
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
16. Late Bloomers
By: Deepa Varadarajan
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into the… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Honor
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.36
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two coup… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It was as if a gust of wind had blown open a window in my heart and a sweet bird had flown in and made a nest."-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
"Because a woman can live in one of two houses--fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
"Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
"When Radha and I were children, we used to play a game. She would ask, “What is the true color of the world, Didi?"-Thrity Umrigar, Honor
18. The Town of Babylon
By: Alejandro Varela
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
19. Well-Behaved Indian Women
By: Saumya Dave
3.78
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generation… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
20. These Letters End in Tears
By: Musih Tedji Xaviere
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wren… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
21. Hombrecito
By: Santiago Jose Sanchez
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
