A Green Equinox
By: Elizabeth Mavor
3.54
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is a beguilingly Rococo “study of love, cons…
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1. Rhine Journey
By: Ann Schlee
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more
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- novels
- fiction
2. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
3. The Weather in the Streets
By: Rosamond Lehmann , Carmen Callil
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streetsshows us Olivia Curtis … read more
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4. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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5. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
Similar categories in John Bowen's The Girls book and Elizabeth Mavor's A Green Equinox
7. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
8. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
9. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
10. Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime, & A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class
By: Valerie Solanas
3.88
Format: 61 pages, ebook
"This play was lost in 1967, banished to the nether regions of Andy Warhol's New York studio, the F… read more
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- fiction
- queer
11. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
12. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
13. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
14. The Hearing Test
By: Eliza Barry Callahan
3.40
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test
15. 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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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
16. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
17. 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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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- classics
- lgbt
- historical
- 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
18. Sheep's Clothing
By: Celia Dale
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Grace meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Once both women are released, Janice quickly becomes accompl… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- novels
"Janice watched him go with astonishing regret"-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
"But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it."-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
19. A Green Equinox
By: Elizabeth Mavor
3.54
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is a beguilingly Rococo “study of love, cons… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- classics
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
- queer
20. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
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
- 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
