Sweet and Low: Stories
By: Nick White
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At first glance, the stories in Sweet and Low seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of…
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1. Tenth of December
By: George Saunders
3.98
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more
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- adult fiction
- american
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
2. Valencia
By: Michelle Tea
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
3. Funny Girl
By: Nick Hornby
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in 1960's London, Funny Girlis a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
By: Claire Dederer
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more
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5. The Eyes and the Impossible
By: Dave Eggers
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
6. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
7. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
8. The Incendiaries
By: R.O. Kwon
3.22
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elit… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"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
10. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- lgbt
- queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
12. 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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- contemporary
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"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
13. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
14. Tell the Machine Goodnight
By: Katie Williams
3.46
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommenda… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing."-Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight
15. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
By: Rivka Galchen
3.40
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmos… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"That's what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry."-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"I also felt that I had failed Hans in failing to save his child. Poor Susanna, in that house with me, but really alone. She mended every garment in the home, even those of the children. LittleHammer …"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"Scudding is calming work, as it requires all of my attention to not let the knife slip. When I do it, I feel the steady purpose a cat must feel when bathing itself with its coarse tongue. Some of my …"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"I was certain she would recover. She had so much strength in her, and spirit. I started making some pickles; I was thinking that many months ahead. The cucumbers were so green and compelling, and I c…"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
16. Gordo
By: Jaime Cortez
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Tell Me How to Be
By: Neel Patel
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Lies are like children, the second you conceive them you must protect them at all costs."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
"You came into my life and rimmed it with gold. Everything was more bearable with you by my side."-Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be
18. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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- audiobook
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
19. Mostly Dead Things
By: Kristen Arnett
3.38
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
20. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
21. Sweet and Low: Stories
By: Nick White
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At first glance, the stories in Sweet and Low seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- american
- lgbt
- collections
- southern
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
