Joy
By: Samantha Leigh
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Joy's life doesn't spark joy. But has she missed the boat on happily every after?Joy is a contempor…
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1. Mr Loverman
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more
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2. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
By: Hannah Kaner
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"But gods love martyrs."-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
3. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- romance
- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
4. Afterlove
By: Tanya Byrne
3.99
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
THE LESBIAN LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN DYING TO READ. Ash Persaud is about to become a reaper in th… read more
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- romance
- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
"Same. I'm strictly clitly." - p. 81"-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove
"She throws her head back and laughs and it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard."-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove
"But that's the trouble with best friends, isn't it? They know everything and forget nothing, no matter how much you want them to."-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove
"Everyone is friends. Everyone is in love. Nothing else matters but midnight because next year will be different. We will be different. It's our year."-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove
5. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
6. Promising Young Women
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more
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- romance
- adult
- contemporary
7. Scenes of a Graphic Nature
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more
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- romance
- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
8. The Drift
By: C.J. Tudor
3.71
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more
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- adult
9. The Second Chance Store
By: Lauren Bravo
3.61
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more
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- romance
- contemporary
10. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
11. The Exhibitionist
By: Charlotte Mendelson
3.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- lgbt
12. In Case of Emergency
By: Poorna Bell
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
FRESH British South Asian voices are significantly underrepresented in this area of the market. Wi… read more
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- romance
- adult
- contemporary
13. Nightcrawling
By: Leila Mottley
3.98
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically … read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling
"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling
"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling
"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling
14. Homebodies
By: Tembe Denton-Hurst
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more
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- romance
- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
15. The Silent Brother
By: Simon Van der Velde
4.37
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
The Past Never Dies British Crime Writers Association GOLD Dagger longlist, 2023 When his bel… read more
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16. Think Again
By: Jacqueline Wilson
3.90
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more
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- romance
- contemporary
17. Claire Morris is Completely Lost
By: Kristina Thornton
4.42
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Everything changes in a moment. It’s the noughties and Claire Morris is a Sugababes loving, Leon… read more
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18. Joy
By: Samantha Leigh
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Joy's life doesn't spark joy. But has she missed the boat on happily every after?Joy is a contempor… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
19. A Drowning Man: A Manchester Noir
By: John Storey
4.86
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Manchester 1993Private detective, Tom Renfield, works for the AndTom Detective Agency, a partnershi… read more
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20. The Edge of Empire: A Historical Mystery
By: Stephanie Amey
4.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
AD 170 Banna Fort, Hadrian’s WallTwo soldiers are seemingly murdered by the holy men of a cult that… read more
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21. A Time for Dying: A Crime Thriller (The DI Tom McHale Series)
By: Bryce Main
4.68
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
It Takes a Special Kind of Team to Hunt a Special Kind of Killer Time is about to run out for Josep… read more
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