The Goodby People (McNally Editions)
By: Gavin Lambert
3.87
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Ma…
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1. Democracy
By: Joan Didion
3.85
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around In… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"By 'the long view' I believe she meant history. Or more exactly, the particular undertow of having and not having, the convulsions of a world largely unaffected by the individual efforts of anyone in…"-Joan Didion, Democracy
2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. The Country Life
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Stella Benson, anxious to leave London and begin a new life, journeys to rural Sussex to work as an… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
4. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- classics
5. A Way of Life, Like Any Other
By: Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
6. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
7. Don't Look at Me Like That
By: Diana Athill
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
9. The Old Man and Me
By: Elaine Dundy
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hila… read more
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10. Light Years
By: James Salter
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a mar… read more
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13. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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14. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
15. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- literary fiction
- queer
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- lgbt
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
16. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
17. 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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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- mystery
- 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
18. Last Summer in the City
By: Gianfranco Calligarich
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last S… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
"Tą kartą ir sužinojau, kad du žmonės tyli tyliau už vieną."-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
"There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, wh…"-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
19. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By: Lili Anolik
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more
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20. I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
By: Eve Babitz
4.15
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books th… read more
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"As far as I'm concerned, you can't have fun in a high neckline - I don't care how witty you are."-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
"I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weigh 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone."-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
"When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she…"-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
21. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
22. Hit Parade of Tears
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears
23. Twice Lost
By: Phyllis Paul
3.61
Format: None pages, Paperback
Novel of suspense in Gothic tradition. "Subtly told, it concerns the disappearance of a little g… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
24. Asylum Road
By: Olivia Sudjic
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The taut, knife-sharp, compulsive second novel by the critically-acclaimed author Olivia Sudjic, fo… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Las historias que nos contamos a nosotros mismos, añadió, en un tono monocorde, como si leyera un guion, son lo que nos hacen ser quien somos. Tienden a convertirse en profecías autocumplidas."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
"Recuerdo mi obcecación con el felices para siempre. Ahora me hace gracia pensar que me lo planteaba como un lugar físico al final de un largo camino. Un lugar donde deshacer el equipaje, tumbarme y n…"-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
25. About Ed
By: Robert Glück
3.73
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
26. The Goodby People (McNally Editions)
By: Gavin Lambert
3.87
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- m m romance
- gay
- lgbt
- literature
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- queer
27. Winter Love
By: Han Suyin
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms,…"-Han Suyin, Winter Love
28. Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes
By: Henry Van Dyke
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Dust jacket design by Ronald Clyne. His first novel. The story of two elderly widows who have devel… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
29. The Murderer
By: Roy A.K. Heath
3.45
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
When both his parents die, Galton Flood, a man raised in Guyana, leaves Georgetown for the township… read more
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- classics
- fiction
30. The Princess of 72nd Street
By: Elaine Kraf
3.95
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and thoroughly feminist “cult classic” (The New Yorker) about a smart, sensitive, yet… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
31. Troy Chimneys
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.97
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he unc… read more
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