30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders
By: Matt McEvoy
4.35
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Identity, understanding, and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders. S…
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1. Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3)
By: Joe Abercrombie
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Words are weapons Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only… read more
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2. Scorpia Rising
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to… read more
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3. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
4. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
By: Malka Ann Older
3.64
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
5. The Dictionary of Lost Words
By: Pip Williams
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the… read more
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"The past came towards me, and I closed the book."-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words
"It is context...that gives meaning. [Harry Nicholl]"-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words
"Sometimes I think there may be more than two sides."-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words
"She lived between the lines of the Dictionary as much as I did."-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words
6. Honeybee
By: Craig Silvey
4.40
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
7. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
8. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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9. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
10. Boy Swallows Universe
By: Trent Dalton
4.34
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more
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"Don't fuckin' swear."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Most things people say don't need to be said."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
11. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- lgbt
- queer
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
12. Girl, Woman, Other
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
13. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)
By: Val McDermid
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more
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14. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
15. The Audacity
By: Katherine Ryan
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
16. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
17. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
18. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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- queer
19. She's Too Pretty to Burn
By: Wendy Heard
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in She's Too P… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"The photo already had its hooks in me."-Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn
20. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
21. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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22. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
23. One of Them
By: Shaneel Lal
4.27
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning, heart-breaking yet defiant memoir by activist, model and social media sensation Shaneel… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- lgbt
- queer
"Religious leaders liberate themselves from their history of repeated anti-queer actions every time there is a new debate on queer rights. They get a clean slate even thought their hands are muddied w…"-Shaneel Lal, One of Them
24. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
By: Michaela Coel
4.15
Format: 128 pages, ebook
A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
25. Search History
By: Amy Taylor
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more
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26. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
27. Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity
By: Campbell Walker
4.44
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Your Head is a Houseboat is uniquely hilarious guide to what goes on in your brain, from illustrati… read more
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- nonfiction
"You’re not to blame for letting these Freeloaders onboard, but it’s up to you to kick them out."-Campbell Walker, Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity
28. Big Fat Brown Bitch
By: Tusiata Avia
4.71
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laug… read more
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"Hear ye, "It is the minorities who need the protection of free speech" except when it is a poem twisted into a headline in an election year"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
"How do we trace the whakapapa of our symbols <> when our grandmother is dead <> and our father is dead <> and our great uncles and aunties are dead <>"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
"Her look is all passion No agony There is enough of that on the ground, with the mourners- Mary, all the Marys The slutty one The motherly one The contrary one The queen The queer The virgin All the …"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
29. Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
By: Alie Benge
4.46
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Articulations
By: Henrietta Bollinger
4.61
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A well-known writer, activist, and disability rights advocate, Henrietta Bollinger’s debut essay co… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
31. 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders
By: Matt McEvoy
4.35
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Identity, understanding, and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders. S… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- lgbt
- queer