My Education
By: Susan Choi
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person o…
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1. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
By: Anton DiSclafani
3.35
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
“Emotionally engaging...[A] romantic page turner.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A sexy, su… read more
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"It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life."-Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
2. The Snow Queen
By: Michael Cunningham
3.08
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one … read more
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"It’s remarkable, being alive."-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
"What’s the most fundamental human urge?"-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
"Women are kind of screwed, in the world,"-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
"Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?"-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
3. The Two Kinds of Decay
By: Sarah Manguso
3.73
Format: 238 pages,
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was f… read more
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4. Girls on Fire
By: Robin Wasserman
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Girls on Firetells the story of Hannah and Lacey and their obsessive teenage female friendship so p… read more
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- fiction
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5. My Education
By: Susan Choi
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person o… read more
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6. The Answers
By: Catherine Lacey
3.59
Format: 32 pages,
An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more
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7. Disorientation
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
3.84
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more
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"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
8. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
9. Principle Decisions
By: Thea Belmont
4.13
Format: None pages, None
A no-strings-attached agreement with a dominatrix seems perfect for a sexually frustrated academic…… read more
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10. People Collide
By: Isle McElroy
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more
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11. Hex
By: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
3.26
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between po… read more
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"Okay,"-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
"I am not in love with you, Nell Barber,"-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
"I will never blame Barry for falling in love with you but I will blame him for considering himself eligible."-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
"It’s always been such a lukewarm encouragement between us—you are essential to me and I am okay to you—but lukewarm is about as hot as I get."-Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Hex
12. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
13. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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14. We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
15. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
16. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
17. Real Life
By: Brandon Taylor
3.80
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more
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"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
18. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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19. Swanna in Love
By: Jennifer Belle
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Belle ( High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten… read more
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- contemporary
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20. Little Rabbit
By: Alyssa Songsiridej
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more
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21. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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