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2) Henry Henry
LAUGH NOW. CRY LATER.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere...
It's London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone.
Everything is as it should be and yet nothing is right. Over the course of a year
...Vanity Fair's 20 Favorite Books of 2023
Debutiful Best Book of the Year
Crimereads Best Debut of August
"Hertz has managed to tell a story of queer healing with all the narrative force of a thriller and the searing fury of an indictment." —The New York Times Book Review
A fearless debut novel of...
4) Bad Habit
Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!
"[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be." –New York Times
"A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans." –Washington Post
Combining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby with the poignant
...ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more
“One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.”...
“I completely adored it.”—Casey McQuiston, author of Red, White & Royal Blue
Minor leagues. Major chemistry.
Hope...
7) Honey
Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past.
As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father's circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a high-end auction
...Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions. One of NPR's Books We Love.
"Told by machines from the future, Blackburn's idiosyncratic grief novel is as freshly devastating as they come." —The New York Times Book Review
"You can try bracing
10) Greta & Valdin
An irresistible, "generous, [and] tender" (The New York Times) international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness, multiracial...
12) Rainbow Milk
"The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for." —Marlon James
In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman...
14) Summer fun
16) Sure of you
"A quietly understated masterpiece." —USA Today
The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's bestselling San Francisco saga.
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful
...Like Franz Kafka's The Trial for the post-truth era, at once "surreal, polemical, and fun" (The Telegraph).
Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arrested, in their neighborhood in London. With the help of their friends, Sterling hosts a trial of their own in order to exonerate themselves and to hold the powers that be to account.
Sterling
A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country's most influential poets.
"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of...Mabel Beaumont's husband Arthur loved lists. He'd leave them for her everywhere. 'Remember: eggs, butter, sugar'. 'I love you: today, tomorrow, always'.
But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he's still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: 'Find D'.
Mabel
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