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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
26 ratingsWoman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie and Harriet" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town...Categorized as:
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A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas, Imre Goldstein
8 ratingsThis extraordinary magnum opus seems at first to be a confessional autobiographical novel in the grand manner, claiming and extending the legacy of Proust and Mann. But it is more: Peter Nadas has given us a superb contemporary psychological novel that comes to terms with the ghosts, corpses, and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past...Categorized as:
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Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
6 ratingsShortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award“I read Skin Lane with one eye closed out of sheer animal terror. Then, unimaginably, it brought me to tears; what a work of art—so unexpected and heartbreaking and lovely.”—Armistead Maupin“A powerful and complex story of sexual obsession. . . . A profoundly original meditation on thwarted desire... -
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Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo
14 ratingsPhilip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness... -
Grand Opening by Jon Hassler
10 ratingsTwelve-year old Brendan tells the story, set in 1944-45, that begins with his parents' decision to buy a run-down grocery store in a tiny Minnesota town. What they discover about small town idealism, bigotry, and good old American values will change them and the town forever...Categorized as:
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The Clouds by Juan José Saer
8 ratings"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."—Ricardo Piglia"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess... -
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
18 ratingsA New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year...Categorized as:
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London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp
10 ratingsJack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships — most notably with the soon-to-be infamous Oscar Wilde. A century later, David tells his own tale of unashamed decadence while waiting to be released from prison, addressing his story to the lover who betrayed him...Categorized as:
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The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić
14 ratingsHaving fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry...Categorized as:
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The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
12 ratingsFor psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. David McBride, death exerts an unusual draw. Despite his profession, he has never come to terms with the violent accident that took his brother's life, a trauma that has shaped his personality and subsequent choice of career...Categorized as:
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Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
10 ratingsFrom the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers, dominated by such outsized characters as Richard Nixon, Drew Pearson, Perle Mesta, and Joe McCarthy... -
Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
18 ratingsA stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to recreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night, however, art and reality collide--with unforeseen circumstances...Categorized as:
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Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Arian
8 ratingsAn critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives...Categorized as:
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Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
14 ratingsThe beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution...Categorized as:
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Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein
6 ratingsIn his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood—when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend... -
The Story of H: A Novel by Marina Perezagua
6 ratingsFrom an audacious new talent, The Story of H describes a searing quest by a Japanese woman and an American soldier to find a girl who goes missing in the aftermath of Hiroshima, a journey that spans the globe and travels to the darkest corners of the human mind and memory August 6, 1945: the day Enola Gay unleashed an atomic inferno over Hiroshima...Categorized as:
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The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of High Dive comes an enveloping, exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, a story of one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder.Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises... -
After Disasters by Viet Dinh
12 ratingsBeautifully and hauntingly written, After Disasters is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India...Categorized as:
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The Facility by Simon Lelic
8 ratings"Who are you? Are you the police? This isn't legal, you know. You can't hold me like this." In a near-future dystopian Britain, democracy has been undermined. Emboldened by new anti-terrorism laws, police start to “disappear” people from the streets for unspecified crimes... -
Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron
12 ratingsCoral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart’s war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality... -
Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul
10 ratingsWillie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister – and his own listlessness – and joins an underground movement in India...Categorized as:
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We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
18 ratingsFor readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home.Kayleigh needs money... -
I Am No One by Patrick Flanery
12 ratingsA tense, mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us.After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of loneliness...Categorized as:
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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
18 ratingsA deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M...Categorized as:
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
25 ratingsFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere...Categorized as:
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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
16 ratings"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the importance of empathy, finding community and motivating advocacy For a long time, when people asked Dr...Categorized as:
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
12 ratingsThere are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it...Categorized as:
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Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe by bell hooks
24 ratings»Männer können nicht lieben, wenn ihnen die Kunst zu lieben nicht beigebracht wurde. Es ist nicht wahr, dass Männer sich nicht ändern wollen. Wahr ist, dass viele Männer Angst vor Veränderung haben. Um lieben zu können, müssen Männer imstande sein, sich von ihrem Wunsch zu verabschieden, andere zu beherrschen...Categorized as:
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
24 ratingsAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the worldWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about consent, about compromise, about the structures of society? This...Categorized as:
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