The Comedown
By: Rafael Frumkin
3.54
Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling epic that follows two very different families in Cleveland across generations, beginning…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Insults weren't a problem for him because they were typically made out of fear."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
"Insults weren't a problem for him because they were typically made out of fear."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
"He'd tried following the law but the law just followed him until he felt like he was being hunted."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
"He'd tried following the law but the law just followed him until he felt like he was being hunted."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
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2. Marriage of a Thousand Lies
By: S.J. Sindu
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conserv… read more
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3. A God in Ruins
By: Kate Atkinson
1.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Life After LifeUrsula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and agai… read more
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4. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
5. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
6. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- literary fiction
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- novels
- audiobook
7. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
8. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
By: James Hannaham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
9. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
10. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
11. Adjustment Day
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Liberation has enslaved them!"-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
"It's just a book. It's not supposed to happen."-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
"Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots."-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
"Of all people, only Mr. King came close to exposing the true magic of black people,"-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
12. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- audiobook
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- contemporary
- queer
13. 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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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical 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
14. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- queer
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
15. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
16. Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Jean Kwok
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
17. The Dove in the Belly
By: Jim Grimsley
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm lif… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Ben was shaking now, sobbing. Ronny watched and let it happen. Ronny wrapped Ben in the blanket. "I came to every game," he said."-Jim Grimsley, The Dove in the Belly
18. This Little Family
By: Inès Bayard
3.85
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Marie and Laurent, a young, affluent couple, have settled into their large Paris apartment and deci… read more
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19. 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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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- queer
20. A Beautiful Crime
By: Christopher Bollen
3.59
Format: 416 pages, ebook
From the author of The Destroyers comes another delicious literary thriller (People)--a twisty stor… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
21. The Comedown
By: Rafael Frumkin
3.54
Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling epic that follows two very different families in Cleveland across generations, beginning… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- african american
- queer
"Insults weren't a problem for him because they were typically made out of fear."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
"He'd tried following the law but the law just followed him until he felt like he was being hunted."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
"Tasha was always telling him to have compassion for people who didn't understand the boxes they were trapped in,...."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
"Melville had always seemed less invested in splitting the world into opposites than in reporting on human helplessness."-Rafael Frumkin, The Comedown
