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…
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1. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
2. City of Laughter
By: Temim Fruchter
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
3. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
4. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
5. A Dream of a Woman
By: Casey Plett
4.31
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
6. The Fifth Wound
By: Aurora Mattia
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- adult
- queer
7. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
8. A Short History of Trans Misogyny
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.47
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
9. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
10. trans girl suicide museum
By: Hannah Baer
4.48
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more
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- queer lit
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum
11. The Call-Out
By: Cat Fitzpatrick
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out
12. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.31
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
13. 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
- 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
14. Any Other City
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.14
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
15. 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
- transgender
- lgbt
- coming of age
- queer lit
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
16. The Default World
By: Naomi Kanakia
3.82
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of the… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
17. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist
By: Cecilia Gentili
4.69
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more
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- coming of age
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
18. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
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
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- 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. On Community (Field Notes, #8)
By: Casey Plett
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL We need community to live. But what doe… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
21. How It Works Out
By: Myriam Lacroix
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
