The Breath of the Sun
By: Isaac Fellman
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author o…
Want to Read $ 7.95"To read at random is to read as if you were thinking. It is the closest thing to calling up a line of poetry that you’ve memorized. And I still find that it’s a good way to work through a novel or a book of poetry or even an informative book. One repeats some parts, but if a book is worth reading it is worth repetition, and it helps you to clear the false cartilage of structure. I am always over-tempted to stretch the skin of a story over that cartilage, however deformed the result may be. Structure is the great southern vice."-Isaac Fellman, The Breath of the Sun
"But I learned from these new books that Southerners think we are really rather sad. They have an idea of a people dwelling on a mountain, inbred, lonely, mysterious; that we ritually climb and descend, and make sacrifices, and burn eternal flames, and send bridal parties from village to village in the spring so men like Daila can impregnate women like me, all in order to placate something implacable. They see our culture as rich, in the same way perhaps that a seam of ancient ore is rich — because of compression and repression. They imagine that we drink a lot, even more than we do (and it is a thing I learned from the bar, that they drink as much as we, that every culture that’s discovered alcohol drinks too much) and that we are poorer than we are because only a few of us sell anything to them. A melancholy drunken land, a land of storytellers, a land of sly jokes, an Asam-hating land, and nothing like the land I remembered. It was as if someone had constructed a scaffolding around us, and then removed us and written only about the scaffolding. The more I read, the more the materials of the scaffolding — splintered wood, narrow pipes of metal — slid into the hollows of my bones. I knew that the next time I went to the mountain, I would have a stranger’s mind in mine. Though I walked in streets I had known since girlhood, I would never again be able to step upon them without an erudite word in my head and a bracing of metal in my marrow."-Isaac Fellman, The Breath of the Sun
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
3. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
By: K.J. Charles
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more
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4. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
By: K.J. Charles
4.13
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more
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"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
5. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
6. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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7. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)
By: Alexandra Rowland
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more
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8. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.18
Format: 146 pages, ebook
When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Eac… read more
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"It's also not fair at all that stupidity has gotten you this far. That's another creature you've killed simply by having no brains, which makes anyone with brains feel as if it isn't worth the headac…"-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
"If one does nothing but think of someone, it takes up all the time you could use to do something about them. I wish nobody thought of me, but did a lot for me instead. It's just like someone else goi…"-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
9. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
By: Sofia Samatar
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more
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10. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
11. The Vanished Birds
By: Simon Jimenez
4.07
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in t… read more
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"She was amused by how much she enjoyed Dana's surprise kisses, and the impromptu hand-holding; displays of affection she had been averse to in other couples, finding it trite and ostentatious, as if …"-Simon Jimenez, The Vanished Birds
12. Running Close to the Wind
By: Alexandra Rowland
4.07
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more
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13. The House of Rust
By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage t… read more
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14. Compound Fracture
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more
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"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture
15. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more
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16. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By: Tabitha Stanmore
3.87
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A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more
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17. Rakesfall
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall
18. The Bright Sword
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
19. The Breath of the Sun
By: Isaac Fellman
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author o… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- queer lit
- religion
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"To read at random is to read as if you were thinking. It is the closest thing to calling up a line of poetry that you’ve memorized. And I still find that it’s a good way to work through a novel or a …"-Isaac Fellman, The Breath of the Sun
"But I learned from these new books that Southerners think we are really rather sad. They have an idea of a people dwelling on a mountain, inbred, lonely, mysterious; that we ritually climb and descen…"-Isaac Fellman, The Breath of the Sun
20. Model Home
By: Rivers Solomon
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more
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21. Rosalind's Siblings
By: Bogi Takács
4.63
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Physical chemist Rosalind Franklin was one of the discoverers of DNA and an innovator of virology —… read more
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