Nest of Matches
By: Amie Whittemore
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Poems that bask in the beauty of nature, queerness, and love while exploring how dichotomies form i…
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1. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.80
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more
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"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
2. La mala costumbre
By: Alana S. Portero
4.55
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre
3. You Should Be So Lucky
By: Cat Sebastian
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
4. The Emperor and the Endless Palace
By: Justinian Huang
3.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
5. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
6. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nature
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
7. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- nature
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
8. Truly, Madly, Deeply
By: Alexandria Bellefleur
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Sparks fly when a lovelorn romance novelist and a divorce lawyer who has sworn off relationships ag… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
9. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
10. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
By: Micaiah Johnson
4.15
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
11. Here We Go Again
By: Alison Cochrun
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
12. 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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- lgbt
- queer
"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
13. 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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- lgbt
- queer
14. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
15. A History of Half-Birds: Poems (Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry)
By: Caroline Harper New
4.41
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poem… read more
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- poetry
16. Vapor: Poems
By: Sara Eliza Johnson
4.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sara Eliza Johnson’s much-anticipated second collection traces human emotion and experience across … read more
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17. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
By: Carl Zimmer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more
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- nature
18. A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
By: June Thomas
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
19. Rules for Ghosting
By: Shelly Jay Shore
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Rule #1: They can't speak. Rule #2: They can't move. Rule #3: They can't hurt you. Ezra Fri… read more
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- queer
20. No Road Home
By: John Fram
3.84
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangel… read more
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- queer
21. Wild Failure: Stories
By: Zoe Whittall
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
22. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.37
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
23. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
By: Michael Waters
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more
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- queer
24. Key Lime Sky
By: Al Hess
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An alien invasion hits the town of Muddy Gap, but a disgruntled pie aficionado is the only one who … read more
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- queer
25. A Boy in the City
By: S. Yarberry
4.40
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of poetry, the obscure and mundane collide, a fricassee of movement, the c… read more
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- lgbt
26. Nest of Matches
By: Amie Whittemore
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Poems that bask in the beauty of nature, queerness, and love while exploring how dichotomies form i… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nature
- queer
27. I Don't Want To Be Understood
By: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
4.52
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
A transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an u… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
28. Murmur
By: Cameron Barnett
4.73
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
A poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contempora… read more
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29. Bittering the Wound
By: Jacqui Germain
4.59
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on pol… read more
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- poetry
30. Sweet Tooth and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series)
By: Serkan Görkemli
4.67
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turk… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
31. Taking to Water
By: Jennifer Conlon
4.33
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A debut collection of poems that question gender and embrace queerness through the natural world of… read more
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- poetry
