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• Light From Uncommon Stars

  Aoki, Ryka

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  Aoki (He Mele a Hilo) draws from her own experiences as a queer Japanese American woman to craft a dark but ultimately hopeful sci-fi exploration of the threats faced by queer people of color.

• Fun Home

  a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

• A Minor Chorus

  a Novel

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Deer

  Daniel, Danielle

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  In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early days of French…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saltus

  Gereaux, Tara, 1975-

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  It's the '90s in a small Canadian prairie town and fourteen-year-old Aaron Gourlay, born a male, asserts that she is female, a claim that no one in her life will accept - except for her single mother, Nadine.

• Going Dutch

  a Novel

  Gregor, James

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  Going Dutch is a hilarious and cutting portrait of modern relationships that finds a gay male graduate student falling for his brilliant female classmate.

• Less

  a Novel

  Greer, Andrew Sean

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  A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" ( The New York Times Book Review).

• The Price of Salt

  Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995

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  A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic.

• At Certain Points We Touch

  Joseph, Lauren John,

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  It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th, the birthday of the man who was something like their first love.

• The Mimicking of Known Successes

  Older, Malka, 1977-

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  The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.

• The Foghorn Echoes

  Ramadan, Ahmad Danny,

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  A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.

• Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

  Rehman, Bushra,

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  In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community.

• Funny Boy

  a Novel in Six Stories

  Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-

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  While growing up in Sri Lanka amid Tamil and Sinhalese conflicts, Arjie, a young boy who likes to play with dolls and girls, observes the social constraints abhorred and perpetuated within his own family and in society at large.

• The Prettiest Star

  Sickels, Carter

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  A man dying of AIDS returns home to Chester, Ohio, from 1986 New York City in this heartfelt novel.

• Real Life

  Taylor, Brandon

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  Taylor's intense, introspective debut tackles the complicated desires of a painfully introverted gay black graduate student over the course of a tumultuous weekend.

• The Town of Babylon

  a Novel

  Varela, Alejandro, 1979-

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  A gay Latinx man reckons with his past when he returns home for his 20th high school class reunion in Varela's dazzling debut.

• Memorial

  a Novel

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)

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  Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, has to return to the his former life when he attends the funeral of his stepfather

• The Fake

  a Novel

  Whittall, Zoe,

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  A dazzling stranger changes the lives of two very different people in this gripping novel from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People.

• Red at the Bone

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.