Without Protection
By: Gala Mukomolova
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In poems rich with sensuality and discord, Mukomolova explores her complex identity―Russian, Jewish…
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1. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
By: bell hooks
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
2. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
3. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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4. Green Squall
By: Louise Glück , Jay Hopler
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Jay Hopler's Green Squallis the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Lou… read more
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5. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
6. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- adult
7. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
8. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
9. Love in the Big City
By: Sang Young Park
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I like the universe that is you"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
10. 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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- adult
11. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
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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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- 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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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
14. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- adult
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
15. 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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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"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
16. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By: T Kira Madden
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
17. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
18. The Woman in the Mirror
By: Rebecca James
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secret… read more
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19. Mothman Apologia
By: Robert Wood Lynn
4.52
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more
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- poetry
20. Let Him In
By: William Friend
3.36
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
William Friend’s haunting debut Let Him In is a creeping, gothic psychological suspense about a you… read more
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- adult
"They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts."-William Friend, Let Him In
21. 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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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"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
22. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
By: Zachary Zane
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
23. The Book of X
By: Sarah Rose Etter
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more
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- adult
24. Citizen Illegal
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more
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- poetry
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die. they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
25. Rainbow Rainbow
By: Lydia Conklin
3.41
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the qu… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
26. The Eyes Are the Best Part
By: Monika Kim
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more
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- adult
27. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- poetry
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
28. The Thirty Names of Night
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
4.04
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
29. Without Protection
By: Gala Mukomolova
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In poems rich with sensuality and discord, Mukomolova explores her complex identity―Russian, Jewish… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- russia
- jewish
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
30. Haunt Sweet Home
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.47
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more
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- adult
31. Guillotine
By: Delilah S. Dawson
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more
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- adult
