Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn…
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
3. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
4. 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
5. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
6. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
7. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
9. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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- audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
10. Granite Harbor
By: Peter Nichols
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
11. Thirsty
By: Jas Hammonds
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
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- contemporary
- queer
12. 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
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
13. Honey
By: Isabel Banta
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"-Isabel Banta, Honey
"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."-Isabel Banta, Honey
14. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- lesbian
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
15. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- lesbian
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
16. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
17. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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- audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
18. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- coming of age
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. Humor Me
By: Cat Shook
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a lat… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
20. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- contemporary
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21. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
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