Hugs and Cuddles
By: João Gilberto Noll
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
After abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of Hugs and Cud…
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1. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
2. O amor dos homens avulsos
By: Victor Heringer
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more
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- lgbt
- brazil
- portuguese literature
- fiction
- queer
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian… read more
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5. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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
6. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
7. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
8. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
9. Bath Haus
By: P.J. Vernon
3.76
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriet… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
10. Aquí no es Miami
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more
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"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
11. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- novels
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
12. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- novels
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
13. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
14. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
15. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
16. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
"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
17. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- 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
18. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
19. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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- lgbt
- brazil
- portuguese literature
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
20. Alice Sadie Celine
By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
3.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more
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- adult fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
21. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
22. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- fiction
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
23. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- novels
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
24. 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 lit
- 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
25. Here the Whole Time
By: Vitor Martins
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The charm and humor of To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets Dumplin' in this body-positive YA lo… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"I'll never understand how someone half my size can manage to make me feel so small."-Vitor Martins, Here the Whole Time
"Acho que eu sempre me mantive tão ocupado tentando não ficar mal, que eu acabei esquecendo de tentar ficar bem."-Vitor Martins, Here the Whole Time
"This is my daily live. But at school I'm always ready, always alert. It's as if my school uniform came with a shield, because I know that when the last bell rings, I'll go home and be all right. When…"-Vitor Martins, Here the Whole Time
"Já assisti a comédias românticas e frequentei sessões de terapia por tempo demais para saber que a minha felicidade não pode depender de outra pessoa. Mas ainda assim eu queria ter alguém que me cham…"-Vitor Martins, Here the Whole Time
26. The Prophets
By: Robert Jones Jr.
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684 A novel about the forbidden union between two ensl… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"Good, he thought. Let it be ugly so it could be truth."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Our responsibility is to tell you the truth. But since you were never told the truth, you will believe it a lie. Lies are more affectionate than truth and embrace with both arms."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
27. 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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- adult fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
28. Tierra fresca de su tumba
By: Giovanna Rivero
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more
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- fiction
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba
29. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- adult fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
30. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
31. Hugs and Cuddles
By: João Gilberto Noll
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
After abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of Hugs and Cud… read more
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- adult fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- brazil
- portuguese literature
- queer lit
- fiction
- novels
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