The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping…
Want to Read $ 4.99"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
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1. 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
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- lgbt
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- contemporary
- queer
2. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
3. Burning Butch
By: R/B Mertz
4.39
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans / non-binary butch on a quest to survive conservat… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe."-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
"How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t."-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
"Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had …"-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
"Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her o…"-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
4. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- audiobook
5. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
6. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- audiobook
7. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. Homebodies
By: Tembe Denton-Hurst
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more
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- romance
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- queer
9. You Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
10. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
11. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
12. Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
13. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
- adult
- audiobook
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
14. Gay Girl Prayers
By: Emily R. Austin
4.10
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
15. 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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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- 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
16. 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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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
17. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
By: Jasmin Graham
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more
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- audiobook
18. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
19. The Bang-Bang Sisters
By: Rio Youers
3.86
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
20. Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream
By: Tehlor Kay Mejia
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A small-town bartender juggles motherhood and a sexual awakening in this heartwarming queer friends… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
21. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.37
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
