6 must-read lgbt books like Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

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Gut Symmetries

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not t…

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1. Iza's Ballad

By: Magda Szabó , George Szirtes

4.31

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Niçin sevilen varlıkların yitirilmesi gerekiyor?"

-Magda Szabó, Iza's Ballad

"She didn’t really like classical music and there was no Vince to whisper in her ear and tell her what was beautiful about it. His descriptions were so clear. Handel was all scarlet ostrich feathers a…"

-Magda Szabó, Iza's Ballad

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2. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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3. The Gilda Stories

By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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4. Love

By: Toni Morrison

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

5. The Empathy Exams: Essays

By: Leslie Jamison

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more

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6. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Gut Symmetries

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer

8. Duino Elegies

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more

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9. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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10. The Door

By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more

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11. Fair Play

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more

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12. Wonderful, Wonderful Times

By: Michael Hulse , مصطفى ماهر , Elfriede Jelinek

4.20

Format: 172 pages,

"Isto e brutalidade contra uma pessoa indefesa, e, por isso, desnecessaria, diz Sophie, e puxa pelo… read more

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13. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

By: Mary Ruefle

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know… read more

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14. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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15. Ducks, Newburyport

By: Lucy Ellmann

3.97

Format: 1022 pages, Paperback

LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"

-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

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16. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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17. Cukry

By: Dorota Kotas

4.01

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

To jest książka o kimś innym. Można się z niej dowiedzieć, jak jest w środku czyjejś głowy i czy to… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. Eyes Guts Throat Bones

By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

By: Maggie Nelson

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more

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  • queer
"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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20. De wateraap

By: Mariken Heitman

3.49

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In het zintuiglijke verhaal De wateraap onderzoekt Mariken Heitman het zachte verzet van een eenlin… read more

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  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. Hard Copy

By: Fien Veldman

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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