Nettleblack
By: Nat Reeve
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Subversive and playful, Nettleblack is a neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess …
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1. Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more
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- fiction
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
2. Tipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
4.05
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more
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- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
3. Modern Nature
By: Derek Jarman
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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- queer
- lgbt
"But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing."-Derek Jarman, Modern Nature
4. Lud-in-the-Mist
By: Neil Gaiman , Hope Mirrlees , Douglas A. Anderson
4.43
Format: 269 pages,
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two… read more
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5. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- adult
- queer
6. Spear
By: Nicola Griffith
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"My lord."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"I never knew my father,"-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Even the dead had names."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
7. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
8. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
9. 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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- adult
- fiction
"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
10. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
11. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
12. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- historical
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
13. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
14. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
15. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- lesbian
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
16. Dead Collections
By: Isaac Fellman
3.63
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
17. Briefly, A Delicious Life
By: Nell Stevens
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.In 14… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"I don't want to be alone, I said. I don't understand why I am here alone."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"I was tired. I had been conscious for three hundred and seventy-nine years."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"The world is full of cowards she thinks. And it turns out sometimes the opposite of cowardice is playfulness."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"(...) thought of all that could be done between two women in possession of bodies, what effects could be achieved with fingers and tongues."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
18. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
19. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. The Briar Book of the Dead
By: A.G. Slatter
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more
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- adult
- fiction
21. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
22. 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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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
23. X
By: Davey Davis
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
24. What I Want To Talk About: How Autistic Interests Shape A Life
By: Pete Wharmby
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This book isn't a memoir. It is a love letter to the phenomenon of autistic hyperfixation.' In W… read more
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25. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
26. Nettleblack
By: Nat Reeve
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Subversive and playful, Nettleblack is a neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess … read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- queer lit
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- queer
27. How to Leave the House
By: Nathan Newman
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
28. 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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- adult
- fiction
29. A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be
By: Marieke Bigg
3.60
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A case study on what happens when obstinate obsession comes up against an unyielding society. 'Mayb… read more
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30. Under the Mistletoe with You
By: Lizzie Huxley-Jones
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Ready to spend a quiet Christmas with his nearest and dearest, Christopher has closed up shop in hi… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
