Chase of the Wild Goose
By: Mary Louisa Gordon
3.35
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Late 18th century Ireland. Two women from noble families – Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby –…
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1. Bear
By: Marian Engel
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel wh… read more
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- romance
- classics
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2. The Ladies
By: Doris Grumbach
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
The Ladiesis a touching, imaginative retelling of the story of two of history's most interesting ch… read more
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3. Disobedience
By: Naomi Alderman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers A small, close-knit Orthodox Jewish community in London i… read more
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4. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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5. Woman on the Edge of Time
By: Marge Piercy
3.29
Format: None pages,
Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more
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6. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- classics
- lgbt
- historical
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- historical fiction
- queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
7. Skippy Dies
By: Paul Murray
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more
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8. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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- lesbian
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- historical fiction
- queer
9. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- womens
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10. 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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"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
11. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
12. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- fiction
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
13. Lonely Castle in the Mirror
By: Mizuki Tsujimura
4.27
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face thei… read more
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- fiction
"In another world, we were already friends."-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
14. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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- fiction
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
15. 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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- fiction
- historical fiction
16. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
- queer
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
17. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- fiction
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
18. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
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- queer
19. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
20. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
22. 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
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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
23. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- romance
- queer
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- lgbt
24. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
25. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Neon Roses
By: Rachel Dawson
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
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- historical fiction
- queer
27. Seven Steeples
By: Sara Baume
3.53
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more
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- fiction
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples
28. The Female Persuasion
By: Meg Wolitzer
3.56
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of bei… read more
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- womens
- fiction
"If you want more to do,"-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion
"She read with “abandon,"-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion
"Women in powerful positions are never safe from criticism."-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion
"The human face had too possibilities, and they just kept coming in a fast-moving slide show, one after another."-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion
29. Burning my Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
By: Sharan Dhaliwal
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian w… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
30. Think Again
By: Jacqueline Wilson
3.90
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more
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- romance
- fiction
31. Chase of the Wild Goose
By: Mary Louisa Gordon
3.35
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Late 18th century Ireland. Two women from noble families – Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby –… read more
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- classics
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- womens
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