Justine
By: Forsyth Harmon
3.37
Format: None pages, None
Summer 1999. Long Island, New York. Bored, restless, and lonely, Ali never expected her life would …
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1. Geek Love
By: Katherine Dunn
3.95
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"You must have wished a million times to be normal."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
2. Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
By: Alissa Nutting
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are in… read more
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3. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
4. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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5. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
6. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
By: Jenn Shapland
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
7. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
8. 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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- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
10. Bluebeard's Castle
By: Anna Biller
3.22
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more
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- fiction
11. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
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- lgbt
12. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
14. Aesthetica
By: Allie Rowbottom
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
15. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
17. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
18. Nobody, Somebody, Anybody
By: Kelly McClorey
3.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving and darkly comic debut novel about an anxious young woman who administers a self-made “pla… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. Hot Stew
By: Fiona Mozley
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
London has changed a lot over the years. The Soho that Precious and Tabitha live and work in is bar… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
20. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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- fiction
21. Justine
By: Forsyth Harmon
3.37
Format: None pages, None
Summer 1999. Long Island, New York. Bored, restless, and lonely, Ali never expected her life would … read more
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- lgbt
- coming of age
- historical
- graphic novels
- novella
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- queer
