Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c…
Want to Read $ 14.99"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be thirty, thirty-five, and yet still largely described by her sisters in terms of things which happened to be true at the age of seventeen."-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
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1. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
2. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
3. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
4. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
5. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
6. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
7. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
8. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
10. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- queer
11. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Spoilt Creatures
By: Amy Twigg
3.94
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
13. Graveyard Shift
By: M.L. Rio
3.49
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
14. I Will Crash
By: Rebecca Watson
4.05
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
It was a peace offering, I knew that you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Al… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Gender Theory
By: Madeline Docherty
4.27
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
16. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Julia Armfield's Private Rites
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
17. Mrs. Jekyll
By: Emma Glass
4.02
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligati… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
By: Anna Bogutskaya
4.18
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Ho… read more
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- adult
- horror
19. She's Always Hungry: Stories
By: Eliza Clark
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
20. Hungerstone
By: Kat Dunn
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood a… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- queer
21. Feast While You Can
By: Mikaella Clements
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a s… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- queer
