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Renata rated After Delores: 5 stars
After Delores by Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel is a noirish tale about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York who is nursing …
Renata rated The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois: 4 stars
The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he …
Renata rated Priestdaddy: 4 stars
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves …
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter …
Renata rated The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: 5 stars
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations …
Renata rated Woman at Point Zero: 2 stars
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her …
Renata rated Bad Gays: A Homosexual History: 5 stars
Renata rated Island of Missing Trees: 3 stars
Renata rated To Paradise: 4 stars
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions …
Renata rated People In The Trees: 4 stars
People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the …
Outrun by Amy Liptrot
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on …
Renata rated 100 Boyfriends: 3 stars
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell, Purnell
An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero
Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally …
Renata rated Tell Me I'm Worthless: 3 stars
Renata rated The Pisces: 4 stars
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice …