Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories
By: Catherine Lundoff
3.71
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Eleven tales of the queer fantastic by award-winning author Catherine Lundoff. A bookstore clerk go…
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1. The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that creat… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
2. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… read more
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3. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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4. The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.36
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidde… read more
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5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- anthologies
6. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
7. Some Desperate Glory
By: Emily Tesh
4.06
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
8. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
9. Siren Queen
By: Nghi Vo
3.68
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more
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- fantasy
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"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
10. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
By: Shelley Parker-Chan
4.25
Format: 486 pages, ebook
How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more
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"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
11. The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
12. Hula
By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more
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"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
13. When Women Were Dragons
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.85
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more
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"The dragons did not go away."-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
14. Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories
By: Catherine Lundoff
3.71
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Eleven tales of the queer fantastic by award-winning author Catherine Lundoff. A bookstore clerk go… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
