Sacrificio
By: Ernesto Mestre-Reed
3.24
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, …
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1. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
2. Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
3.60
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
3. Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
By: Heather Lende
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Hea… read more
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4. When the Angels Left the Old Country
By: Sacha Lamb
4.27
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
5. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- historical
- adult
- audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
6. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
7. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
8. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- queer
9. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
10. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
11. 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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- historical fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"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
12. The Fifth Wound
By: Aurora Mattia
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- queer
13. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- queer
14. The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
15. Flux
By: Jinwoo Chong
3.38
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
17. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
18. Big Shadow
By: Marta Balcewicz
3.87
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cus… read more
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- fiction
19. Velorio
By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's un… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"When we returned to memoria, the clouds were still thick overhead, pregnant with rain but unwilling to release"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
20. The Rich People Have Gone Away
By: Regina Porter
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more
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- adult
- fiction
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21. Sacrificio
By: Ernesto Mestre-Reed
3.24
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, … read more
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- unfinished
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- queer
