Your Love Is Not Good
By: Johanna Hedva
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispec…
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1. The Coral Sea
By: Patti Smith
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In linked pieces Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who i… read more
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- art
2. 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
3. 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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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
4. 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
5. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
6. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
7. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
8. Play Boy
By: Constance Debré
3.25
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
9. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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10. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- adult
11. 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
12. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
13. Belladonna
By: Anbara Salam
3.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An evocative, atmospheric story of friendship and obsession set in the 1950s that follows two schoo… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Sometimes love isn't enough"-Anbara Salam, Belladonna
"And Isabella made a noise, just a slight noise. And at that, I began to unwind"-Anbara Salam, Belladonna
"I took another pretend sip of hot chocolate as the blood rushed to my cheeks. She adored me. Soul mates."-Anbara Salam, Belladonna
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
- literary fiction
- 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. Your Love Is Not Good
By: Johanna Hedva
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispec… read more
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- romance
- art
- literary fiction
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
16. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
17. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
18. Daddy Boy
By: Emerson Whitney
3.66
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
19. 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
20. Anything That Moves
By: Jamie Stewart
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A memoir of sexual misbehavior, abuse and no redemption. The stories are mostly funny but also depr… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
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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- lesbian
- 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
