Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark …
Want to Read $ 11.99"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
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1. An Octoroon
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
4.00
Format: 117 pages,
Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play. Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation T… read more
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2. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
3. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
4. Gods of Want: Stories
By: K-Ming Chang
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories
5. Diego Garcia
By: Natasha Soobramanien
3.89
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
6. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
7. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
8. 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
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
9. A Natural History of Transition
By: Callum Angus
4.22
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
10. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
By: Andrey Kurkov
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Pengu… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
11. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- 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!
12. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
13. Organ Meats
By: K-Ming Chang
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
14. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
15. Somebody Loves You
By: Mona Arshi
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, k… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Lori & Joe
By: Amy Arnold
3.73
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
Lori and Joe have lived in the Lake District for many years, in a quiet valley where one day is muc… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. I Will Crash
By: Rebecca Watson
4.05
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
It was a peace offering, I knew that you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Al… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
By: Cleo Qian
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
19. Heaven
By: Emerson Whitney
4.17
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
In the first few pages of Heaven, Emerson Whitney writes: "Really, I can't explain myself without m… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
20. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
By: Juliet Grames
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
21. Nudibranch
By: Irenosen Okojie
3.40
Format: 272 pages, ebook
'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating origin… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
