Lakiriboto Chronicles: A History of Badly Behaved Women
By: Ayodele Olofintuade
3.94
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The story is about three women, one of them has mental illness; they are just girls that were growi…
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1. On Black Sisters Street
By: Chika Unigwe
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
On Black Sisters Streettells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their Af… read more
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- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- contemporary
- african literature
2. Under the Udala Trees
By: Chinelo Okparanta
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more
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3. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
4. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Rosewater
By: Liv Little
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
7. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- queer
8. 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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- thriller
- 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
9. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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- africa
- nigeria
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
10. Love Me Tender
By: Constance Debré
3.87
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
11. 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
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
12. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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- africa
- nigeria
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
13. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
14. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- africa
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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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- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
16. 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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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
17. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more
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- africa
- queer
- lgbt
"Remembering is the death of mercy."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
18. Lakiriboto Chronicles: A History of Badly Behaved Women
By: Ayodele Olofintuade
3.94
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
The story is about three women, one of them has mental illness; they are just girls that were growi… read more
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- lesbian
- africa
- nigeria
- lgbt
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- african literature
- queer
19. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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- contemporary
- africa
- queer
- lgbt
20. The Misadventures of Margaret Finch
By: Claire McGlasson
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch - a rather demure young woman - has just begun work in a posit… read more
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21. 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
- 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
