Gephyromania
By: T.C. Tolbert
4.21
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
The New Series #63
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. American Primitive
By: Mary Oliver
4.39
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"there's a sickness worse than the risk of death and that's forgetting what we should never forget."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"Fear defeated me. And yet, not in faith and not in madness but with the courage I thought my dream deserved, I stepped outside."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"The sky, after all, stops at nothing, so something has to be holding our bodies in its rich and timeless stables or else we would fly away"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it…"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
3. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more
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- poetry
"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
4. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- queer
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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
5. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.64
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more
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"What does the border look like?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"I hope to find Area X in Area X."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"The time for expeditions was over."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"Was this first contact, or last contact?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
6. Sweat
By: Lynn Nottage
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more
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7. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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8. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
9. Bloodchild and Other Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more
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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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11. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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12. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
13. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
14. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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15. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
16. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
By: Jessica Fern
4.40
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
17. Dead in Long Beach, California
By: Venita Blackburn
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
18. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
19. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
20. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
21. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
22. Late Bloomer
By: Mazey Eddings
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer
23. Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)
By: Yalie Kamara
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo … read more
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24. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
25. How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
By: Jane Wong
4.21
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma a… read more
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- poetry
26. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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27. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
28. Water I Won't Touch
By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portr… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
29. Gephyromania
By: T.C. Tolbert
4.21
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
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- gay
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- lgbt
- queer
30. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing
By: Candace Williams
4.38
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
31. Final Cut
By: Charles Burns
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an ar… read more
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