The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
By: Orlando Ortega-Medina
3.87
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco …
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1. 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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2. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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3. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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4. Her Buried Lives
By: Katlyn Duncan
3.49
Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition
Can the sins of the past dictate your future? For as long as she can remember, Jenny Miller has … read more
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- adult
- fiction
5. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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- family
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
6. Best Men
By: Sidney Karger
3.34
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
When two best men in a wedding party fall for each other, they realize love isn't a piece of cake i… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
7. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- family
- contemporary
- fiction
- adult
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
8. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
10. The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday (Borrow a Bookshop, #1)
By: Kiley Dunbar
4.00
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Caf invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop ... for… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
11. 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
- adult
"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
12. Let's Get Back to the Party
By: Zak Salih
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What Does It Mean to Be a Gay Man Today? It’s just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage … read more
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- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
13. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
14. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
By: Richard Mirabella
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
15. Canto Contigo
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
16. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
17. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
18. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
19. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
20. The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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- historical
- lgbt
"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
21. El último sueño
By: Pedro Almodóvar
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
El libro más personal de Pedro Almodóvar: un autorretrato articulado en doce relatos que revelan su… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"No tengo inconveniente en escribir sobre mí mismo. Diría que es casi lo único que hago."-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Me gustan los escritores que hablan sobre el hecho de escribir y citan continuamente frases de otros autores"-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Si de algo estaba seguro cuando era joven era de que nunca me aburriría. Ahora me aburro. Y eso es una especie de derrota."-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Chavela le respondió: «A veces, pero siempre acabo donde debo». Me tatuaría esa frase en su honor. ¡Cuántas veces la he visto terminar donde debía!"-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
22. Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
By: Timothy Janovsky
3.67
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't … read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
"With only the stars as my witness, I kiss him again, deeper, and to my surprise, it doesn’t feel like scratching an act off a list or completing a quest: it feels like coming home."-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
"Because I know for certain the cardboard version of himself he’s been asked for years to display in the storefront of his family life has been incinerated for good. He’s flesh and blood right now, fl…"-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
"It’s nice to hear him so self-aware. To know that the seismic waves of coming out are still rippling through him too. I thought I was alone in that. Everyone makes it seem like coming out is crossing…"-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)
23. How We Named the Stars
By: Andrés N. Ordorica
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
24. The Sleepless
By: Victor Manibo
3.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
25. All the Right Notes
By: Dominic Lim
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this hilarious and joyous rom com, sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob a… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
26. Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
27. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- adult fiction
- lgbt
- family
- contemporary
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
28. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
29. Fall for Him
By: Andie Burke
3.84
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
In Fall for Him by Andie Burke, seven-hundred-fifty square feet isn’t enough for the home-renovatio… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
30. Daughter of the Salt King (Salt Chasers, #1)
By: A.S. Thornton
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
As a daughter of the Salt King, Emel ought to be among the most powerful women in the desert. Inste… read more
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- adult
- fiction
31. The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
By: Orlando Ortega-Medina
3.87
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco … read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
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