Past Lives, Future Bodies
By: Kristin Chang
4.62
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness l…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- contemporary
- poetry
- lgbt
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
4. 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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- contemporary
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
5. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- poetry
6. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
7. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
By: Morgan Parker
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more
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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. House of Incest
By: Anaïs Nin , None
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The genesis of House of Incestwas in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of tha… read more
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10. Sad Girl Poems
By: Christopher Soto
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Christopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet & prison abolitionist. Their first chapbook… read more
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11. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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13. Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
By: Maggie Stiefvater
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie St… read more
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14. 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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- 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
15. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
16. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- contemporary
- queer
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
17. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
18. 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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- contemporary
"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
19. These Violent Delights
By: Micah Nemerever
3.97
Format: 460 pages, Hardcover
When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
20. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
21. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- contemporary
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
22. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
23. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
24. Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
4.05
Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from t… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"they were "the Muses," brining brilliance down from upon high"-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
"they were 'the Muses' bringing brilliance down from upon high"-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
"Not all revolutions mean burning down a damned city. I am no historian, but ... it seems likely those are far from the norm..."-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
"If things go poorly, tell her to wait for us. If things go really, quite very poorly, get on a ship and go and do not look back."-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
25. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
26. Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)
By: Maggie Stiefvater
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the story of the Lynch family. Niall and Mór escaped their homeland for a new start, an… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Dudifer, you are saddest dude I have ever met."-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)
"Whoa, whoa, whoa' said Hennessy. 'Pump the brakes, as the Pope would say"-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)
"On the seventh day, the Lynch brothers discovered they were friends once more."-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)
"Love had changed the situation. Niall didn't yet love the strange, dangerous child, but he loved Declan, and Declan loved Ronan. So Ronan lived."-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)
27. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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28. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
By: Jake Skeets
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more
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- poetry
- race
- queer
- lgbt
29. Tripas: Poems
By: Brandon Som
3.95
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more
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- poetry
30. Cecilia
By: K-Ming Chang
3.32
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire … read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
31. Past Lives, Future Bodies
By: Kristin Chang
4.62
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness l… read more
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- poetry
- cultural
- race
- lgbt
- contemporary
- queer
