Your Nostalgia is Killing Me
By: John Weir
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York i…
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1. The Last of Her Kind
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.83
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campu… read more
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2. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
3. Mysterious Skin
By: Scott Heim
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endur… read more
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- fiction
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4. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
By: Emil Ferris
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more
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5. City of Night
By: John Rechy
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more
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6. Myra Breckinridge
By: Gore Vidal
3.57
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provoc… read more
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"That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb."-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
"Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wante…"-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
"I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "…"-Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
7. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
By: Alan Downs
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more
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8. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- short stories
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
9. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- lgbt
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
10. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- lgbt
11. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
12. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- lgbt
13. The Kingdom of Sand
By: Andrew Holleran
3.51
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
14. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
15. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- fiction
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
16. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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- lgbt
17. 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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- lgbt
18. 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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- short stories
- fiction
19. The Consequences: Stories
By: Manuel Muñoz
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Shimmering stories set in California’s Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso s… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
20. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- lgbt
21. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
22. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
23. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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- lgbt
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"-Andrea Long Chu, Females
24. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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- short stories
"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
25. Apartment
By: Teddy Wayne
3.78
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com’s “Best Books of… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"Though I suppose each experience like this, just like everyone's loneliness, feels uniquely uncategorizable—the particular contours of another person's borders that collide with your own before leavi…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
"Until that point, I'd assumed that nearly everyone bore a certain amount of loneliness within them, it was just the human condition of being trapped inside one mind and body for a lifetime, so that w…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
26. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
27. X
By: Davey Davis
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
28. 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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- fiction
- lgbt
"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
29. All the Names They Used for God
By: Anjali Sachdeva
4.04
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
30. Your Nostalgia is Killing Me
By: John Weir
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York i… read more
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31. This Unlikely Soil
By: Andrea Routley
3.96
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
This Unlikely Soil , the sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Andrea Routley, i… read more
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