Captain Ni’mat’s Last Battle
By: Mohamed Leftah
3.52
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life se…
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1. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel
By: Truman Capote
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more
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3. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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4. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
5. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
6. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
7. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
8. The Whale Tattoo
By: Jon Ransom
3.75
Format: None pages, None
Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more
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- queer
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- lgbt
9. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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- gay
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- queer
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
10. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
12. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
13. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
14. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
15. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
16. Peau d'Homme
By: Hubert
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Sans contrefaçon, je suis un garçon ! Dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, Bianca, demoiselle de bonne… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
17. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
18. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
By: Jack Parlett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more
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- historical
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
19. Ik ben er niet
By: Lize Spit
4.10
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
‘Wij waren de twee scheefgezakte pilaren die, zodra je ze tegen elkaar aan deed leunen, steviger zo… read more
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- fiction
20. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
By: Patrick Horvath
4.21
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphi… read more
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- fiction
21. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- fiction
- queer
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- lgbt
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
22. Težka voda
By: Pia Prezelj
4.05
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
V svetu, ki ga naseljujejo Ida, Marta, Tone in Lojze, na vrtovih gnijejo paradižniki, na nočnih oma… read more
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23. The Scottish Boy
By: Alex de Campi
4.16
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
1333. Edward III is at war with Scotland. Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himse… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Iain,’ he says softly. ‘If you’re in heaven, I cannot let you go. I keep seeing you, trying to put you back in the world by sheer force of desire. I saw you in the Black Knight, and I feel like every…"-Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy
24. The Woods All Black
By: Lee Mandelo
3.81
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black
25. The Darwin Affair
By: Timothy Mason
3.65
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Bel abîme
By: Yamen Manai
4.32
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Je revenais du collège quand j’ai rencontré Bella. Une après-midi de novembre, morose. Un garçon tr… read more
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27. All the World Beside
By: Garrard Conley
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
28. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
29. We Germans
By: Alexander Starritt
4.02
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, an… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
30. Captain Ni’mat’s Last Battle
By: Mohamed Leftah
3.52
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life se… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
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- historical fiction
- queer
31. Medusa of the Roses
By: Navid Sinaki
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Sex, vengeance, and betrayal in modern day Tehran—Navid Sinaki’s bold and cinematic debut is a quee… read more
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- queer
- gay
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