Dead in Long Beach, California
By: Venita Blackburn
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y…
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1. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
2. 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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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"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
3. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
4. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
6. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
7. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
8. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
9. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
11. Dead in Long Beach, California
By: Venita Blackburn
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- queer
12. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
13. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Early Sobrieties
By: Michael Deagler
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the wo… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
16. Reboot
By: Justin Taylor
3.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. In Universes
By: Emet North
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
18. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
19. Say Hello to My Little Friend
By: Jennine Capó Crucet
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
20. How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
By: Venita Blackburn
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware … read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
21. State of Paradise
By: Laura van den Berg
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
