We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
By: Isabel Waidner
3.63
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff is an innovative and critically British novel, taking issue with the d…
Want to Read"Reading, she says, is for the underemployed."-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
"How many times can you divide a minority culture—."-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
"We are pacifists, but we have tanks on our sweaters. (The times we live in.)"-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
"A stereotype is like a self-fulfilling prophecy maybe (in the popular sense of the term). You can’t escape this reductive sht, this sht defines you."-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- 21st century
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. Ban en Banlieue
By: Bhanu Kapil
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the fir… read more
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- literary fiction
3. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
4. Venus and Adonis
By: William Shakespeare , Christa Jansohn
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal… read more
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5. Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger
By: Brontez Purnell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"Brontez is a raw tongue of flame blazing through all the blatant fakery and insincere bullshit of … read more
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6. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Burton Raffel , None
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers t… read more
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7. The End of Days
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more
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8. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Surge
By: Jay Bernard
4.22
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
*Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2019* Jay Bernard’s extraordinary d… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
- british literature
10. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
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- novels
11. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
12. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
13. 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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- british literature
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- contemporary
- novels
"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
14. We Play Ourselves
By: Jen Silverman
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast to start over, where she is dra… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- queer
"And all the parts of me that are ugly and lonely and horrible and sad will be the parts of me that other people hold close to themselves and fine a secret resonance with, and about which they say to …"-Jen Silverman, We Play Ourselves
15. Lote
By: Shola von Reinhold
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more
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16. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
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- lgbt
17. 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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18. Drifts
By: Kate Zambreno
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more
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19. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
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- novella
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20. Boy Friends
By: Michael Pedersen
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends
21. Confessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more
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22. Losing the Plot
By: Derek Owusu
3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
- 21st century
23. Hard Copy
By: Fien Veldman
3.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
24. little scratch
By: Rebecca Watson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more
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- contemporary
- 21st century
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25. Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more
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26. 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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- queer
- lgbt
27. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- contemporary
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28. The Sea Cloak and Other Stories
By: Nayrouz Qarmout
3.96
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The Sea Cloak is a collection of 14 stories by the author, journalist, and women's rights campaigne… read more
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- 21st century
- literary fiction
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29. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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30. We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
By: Isabel Waidner
3.63
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff is an innovative and critically British novel, taking issue with the d… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- literature
- novella
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
- queer
"Reading, she says, is for the underemployed."-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
"How many times can you divide a minority culture—."-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
"We are pacifists, but we have tanks on our sweaters. (The times we live in.)"-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
"A stereotype is like a self-fulfilling prophecy maybe (in the popular sense of the term). You can’t escape this reductive sht, this sht defines you."-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
31. 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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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
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"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
