Transmutation: Stories
By: Alex DiFrancesco
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives. Building on…
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1. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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- horror
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
2. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- queer
3. She of the Mountains
By: Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make u… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
4. Ammonite
By: Nicola Griffith
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly… read more
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5. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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6. Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Cheris, people are very simple,"-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"Taking away people’s names denied their power"-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"But then, war is about taking the future away from people."-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people."-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
7. Feed Them Silence
By: Lee Mandelo
3.52
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
8. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
9. The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
10. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
11. 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
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
12. 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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- queer lit
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
13. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
14. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
15. 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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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
16. Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)
By: Nino Cipri
4.09
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
17. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
18. Someone You Can Build a Nest In
By: John Wiswell
4.07
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
19. The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1)
By: S.D. Simper
3.75
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
A devout mermaid. A disgraced princess. A feud as ancient as the gods Worlds collide when Tallor… read more
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- queer
- adult
- fantasy
- lgbt
"Whatever this feeling gripping Tallora’s heart, it paled to the shattering she felt when she heard Dauriel’s tearful reply. “Then what do I do?"-S.D. Simper, The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1)
20. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
By: Eric LaRocca
3.74
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
21. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
22. README.txt
By: Chelsea Manning
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."-Chelsea Manning, README.txt
23. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
By: Nino Cipri
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
24. Flux
By: Jinwoo Chong
3.38
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
25. Happy Stories, Mostly
By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu
3.77
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve st… read more
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- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- queer
26. Fruiting Bodies: Stories
By: Kathryn Harlan
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more
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- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
27. Queen of Teeth
By: Hailey Piper
3.83
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discoveri… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
28. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
29. Transmutation: Stories
By: Alex DiFrancesco
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives. Building on… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- anthologies
- queer lit
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
30. Robin and Her Misfits
By: Kelly Ann Jacobson
3.54
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
A roving female gang of fun-loving rebel bikers, street racers, and bandits led by Robin agree to g… read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
