Virtuoso
By: Yelena Moskovich
3.60
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
For the first ten years of her life, Jana was a simple Czech girl, a watercolour. Her days were a c…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- magical realism
- fiction
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- american
- fiction
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- novels
4. Signs Preceding the End of the World
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
5. The Devil in Silver
By: Victor LaValle
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * P… read more
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- fiction
6. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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7. The Rocking Horse Winner
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Unknown Binding
The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. The story describes a young middle-cl… read more
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8. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
9. 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
- 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
10. Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.11
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends. Every night, a young man hea… read more
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- adult
- fiction
11. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
12. 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
13. Box Hill
By: Adam Mars-Jones
3.56
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
14. Love Me Tender
By: Constance Debré
3.87
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
15. The House on Via Gemito
By: Domenico Starnone
3.65
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 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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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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!
17. Animals Eat Each Other
By: Elle Nash
3.48
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
18. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
19. Darryl
By: Jackie Ess
4.03
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
20. Women: A Novella
By: Chloé Caldwell
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
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- queer
"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
21. Virtuoso
By: Yelena Moskovich
3.60
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
For the first ten years of her life, Jana was a simple Czech girl, a watercolour. Her days were a c… read more
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- american
- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
