Touching the Art
By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from…
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1. Flesh and Blood
By: Michael Cunningham
4.05
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
In Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham takes us on a masterful journey through four generations of … read more
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- queer
- family
- lgbt
"Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth."-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood
"I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them."-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood
"My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?"-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood
"Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land."-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood
2. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
3. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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4. Exquisite Corpse
By: Poppy Z. Brite
4.00
Format: 208 pages,
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own de… read more
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5. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
6. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
7. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
8. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
9. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult
- queer
- family
- lgbt
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
10. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- art
- queer
- lgbt
11. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
12. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
13. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
14. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- art
- adult
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
15. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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16. A Dictator Calls
By: Ismail Kadare
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more
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- adult
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls
17. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
18. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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19. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
20. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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- adult
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
21. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
22. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- adult
23. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
24. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
25. The Magical Language of Others
By: E.J. Koh
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daugh… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
26. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
27. The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
- family
28. The Last Sane Woman
By: Hannah Regel
3.67
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more
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- art
29. Touching the Art
By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from… read more
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- art
- memoir
- jewish
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- queer
30. Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
By: Lissa Soep
4.33
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
What if the great love of your life is friendship? In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
By: Claire Bishop
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art The ways we encounter conte… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
