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Possession by A. S. Byatt

Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and …

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …

James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave …

The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman

Dune (Penguin Galaxy) by Frank Herbert

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …

Dora: a Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Superior: the return of race science by Angela Saini

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis

"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would …

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt

The Mysterious Correspondent by Marcel Proust, Charlotte Mandell

Gay Berlin by Robert M. Beachy

Winner of Randy Shilts Award

In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay …

Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award. An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow …

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a …