At Certain Points We Touch
By: Lauren John Joseph
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From an electrifying new voice, a "stone-cold masterpiece" (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship, firs…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I'm trying to stitch these scenes from a life together, I am trying to master the art of cinematic collage, but I find the material has become amorphous. I can no longer tell what is true apart from what I want to be tru anymore. It's like a movie I watched when I was high. The images shimmer somewhere in the mirky depths, I know I have watched this film before, but I can't pull up anything I would trust as real, true detail, because everything has been embellished by these years of grief, guilt and remorse. The celluloid has tarnished, it wasn't ever deemed to be worth much, it wasn't stored properly, so now the writer can't even decipher the director's name on the film can. I can no longer separate what happened on screen from the stoner wisecracks I made whilst watching it."-Lauren John Joseph, At Certain Points We Touch
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1. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
2. At Swim, Two Boys
By: Jamie O'Neill
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Praised as "a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement" by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O'Nei… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
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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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- 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. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
5. Tiepolo Blue
By: James Cahill
3.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ben turns and grins ironically. ‘When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren’t measu… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
6. 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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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
7. The Whale Tattoo
By: Jon Ransom
3.75
Format: None pages, None
Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
8. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
9. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
10. Watching Women & Girls
By: Danielle Pender
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls
11. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
12. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
13. 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
- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
14. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
15. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
16. At Certain Points We Touch
By: Lauren John Joseph
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From an electrifying new voice, a "stone-cold masterpiece" (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship, firs… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- transgender
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
"I'm trying to stitch these scenes from a life together, I am trying to master the art of cinematic collage, but I find the material has become amorphous. I can no longer tell what is true apart from …"-Lauren John Joseph, At Certain Points We Touch
17. Porn: An Oral History
By: Polly Barton
3.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more
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18. Marlo
By: Jay Carmichael
3.51
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A novel of two men, love, and aching loneliness. It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and C… read more
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- romance
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
19. Some Strange Music Draws Me In
By: Griffin Hansbury
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
20. Wild Geese
By: Soula Emmanuel
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
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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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
