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• Stag Dance

  a Novel & Stories

  Peters, Torrey,

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  A group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Open, Heaven

  a Novel

  Hewitt, Seán,

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  Set in a remote village in the North of England, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year in which two sixteen year old boys meet and transform each other’s lives. James—a sheltered, shy sixteen-year-old—is alone in his newly discovered…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disappoint Me

  a Novel

  Dinan, Nicola,

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  Thirty years old with a lifetime of dysphoria and irritating exes rattling around in her head, Max is plagued by a deep dissatisfaction. After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First: a stab…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unworthy

  a Novel

  Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974-

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  From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Make Sure You Die Screaming

  a Novel

  Carlstrom, Zee,

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  The newly nameless narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is most likely brain damaged from a major tussle with their now ex-boyfriend, and is on a bender to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Woodworking

  St. James, Emily,

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  An unforgettable and heartwarming debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students.

• The Mercies

  a Novel

  Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-

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  After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.

• I Leave It Up to You

  a Novel

  Chong, Jinwoo,

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  A dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path? After waking from a 2-year long coma, Jack Jr. finds that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lilac People

  a Novel

  Todd, Milo,

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  A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves.

• A Gentleman's Gentleman

  Alexander, T. J.,

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  Lord Christopher Edent's pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season. Christopher cannot imagine a worse fate: as he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Housemates

  a Novel

  Eisenberg, Emma Copley,

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  Bernie is a talented young photographer who has quit taking photographs in favor of drinking and drifting around Philadelphia. Leah is an ambitious yet flailing grad student and journalist who must know the answer to every question. When Bernie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rainbow Black

  a Novel

  Thrash, Maggie,

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  Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.

• The Safekeep

  a Novel

  Wouden, Yael van der,

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  An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.

• Private Rites

  a Novel

  Armfield, Julia,

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  In this speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world.

• Our Evenings

  a Novel

  Hollinghurst, Alan,

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  A piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality, love and violence.

• The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

  a Novel

  Cameron, Briony,

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  An epic, dazzling tale based on true events, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Rot

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Tongues

  Grattan, Thomas, 1974-

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  A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.

• Henry Henry

  Bratton, Allen,

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  Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wayward youth into 21st-century Britain in the years leading up to the Brexit referendum.

• Four Squares

  a Novel

  Finger, Bobby,

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  A tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s and present day, about a young writer and the community he builds in New York City, and his lonely life 30 years later when an unexpected injury lands him at the local queer senior center.