Smoke, Lilies and Jade
By: Richard Bruce Nugent
4.05
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
An intellectual young man called Alex fights for a place in the world, struggling to leave a mark, …
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- school
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
5. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- classics
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"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
6. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
7. The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
2.50
Format: None pages,
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more
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- fiction
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"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
9. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. The Weary Blues
By: Langston Hughes
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. The Thief's Journal
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
3.00
Format: 144 pages,
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying… read more
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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
12. Le bleu est une couleur chaude
By: Jul Maroh
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
La vie de Clementine bascule le jour ou elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
13. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
14. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- classics
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
15. Tender Buttons
By: Gertrude Stein
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more
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16. "Sweat"
By: Zora Neale Hurston , Alice Walker , Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Robert E. Hemenway , Gayl Jones , Roger D. Abrahams , Cheryl A. Wall , Mary Helen Washington , John Lowe , None
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!… read more
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17. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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18. Manifesto Cyborg
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more
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19. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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20. Crime Stories from the ‘Strand’
By: Geraldine Beare
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
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21. Salomé
By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more
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22. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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23. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
24. Q.E.D.
By: Gertrude Stein
3.32
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Come volevasi dimostrare, il romanzo di Gertrude Stein dimenticato nel cassetto, cela tra le righe … read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
25. Good Country People
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Harper's Bazaar, June 1955. This story is now available in the anthologies … read more
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- fiction
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- school
"True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind."-Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
26. 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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- queer
- fiction
- 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
27. The Garden of Time
By: J.G. Ballard
4.05
Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition
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- classics
- short stories
28. Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #7)
By: Rick Riordan
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in … read more
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- fiction
29. Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
By: Radclyffe Hall
3.23
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
A novel from one of the great Lesbian writers of all time, Radcliffe Hall, author of The Well of Lo… read more
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- school
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- queer
30. Smoke, Lilies and Jade
By: Richard Bruce Nugent
4.05
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
An intellectual young man called Alex fights for a place in the world, struggling to leave a mark, … read more
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- african american literature
- classics
- school
- lgbt
- grad school
- short stories
- fiction
- queer
31. The living end: An irresponsible movie ; Totally f***ed up : a screenplay
By: Gregg Araki
4.69
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Black-and-white film stills highlight the complete screenplays for The Living End, about life in th… read more
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