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• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André

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  Each summer, Elio’s professor father invites a young scholar to stay the summer with them at their Italian seaside villa. This summer their guest is the handsome American Oliver, whom Elio falls passionately in love with.

• The Angel of History

  a Novel

  Alameddine, Rabih,

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  Yemeni-born Jacob, a poet, is haunted by the specters of Death and Satan while mourning the death of his physician lover from AIDS.

• You Exist Too Much

  a Novel

  Arafat, Zaina,

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  A queer Palestinian woman struggles with her sexual identity and her relationship with her mercurial mother in Arafat’s poignant debut.

• My Education

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  A graduate student launches a passionate affair with her professor’s wife in Choi’s skillful coming-of-age novel.

• Patsy

  a Novel

  Dennis-Benn, Nicole,

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  In Dennis-Benn’s heart-wrenching novel (a Read with Jenna pick), Jamaican-born Patsy, hoping to reunite with her best friend-turned-lover Cicely, emigrates to America, sending her young daughter Tru to live with the father she doesn’t know.

• The Old Deep and Dark

  Hart, Ellen,

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  In her 22nd mystery, lesbian Minneapolis PI Jane Lawless probes the murder of country singer Jordan Deere, who had just written a “tell-all” autobiographical novel that would have exposed any number of secrets, leading to an overabundance of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Union Atlantic

  a Novel

  Haslett, Adam

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  Unscrupulous banker Doug Fanning builds a mansion on land donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts for preservation by school teacher Charlotte Graves’s grandfather. Now, his affair with high school senior Nate Fuller just might be used as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Thirty Names of Night

  a Novel

  Joukhadar, Zeyn,

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  An unnamed trans man mourns the death of his ornithologist mother as he struggles to come out to the people closest to him in Joukhadar’s moving novel.

• The Gracekeepers

  a Novel

  Logan, Kirsty,

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  With the world now mostly covered in water, Callanish, a Gracekeeper who tends the graves of the dead, lives alone until she meets North and her pet bear and finds her life transformed.

• Her Body and Other Parties

  Stories

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  A finalist for the National Book Award, Machado’s collection of short stories blends elements of horror and speculative fiction with its look at women’s everyday life. Queerness is threaded throughout the tales, which includes “The Husband Stitch”,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• God in Pink

  a Novel

  Namir, Hasan, 1987-

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  Set in 2003 Iraq, Namir’s moving debut details the struggles of closeted university student Ramy, who seeks the counsel of a sheikh at a local mosque after receiving increased pressure from his family to marry.

• The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

  North, Anna

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  Bisexual filmmaker Sophie Stark sacrifices everything in her pursuit of making the perfect film in North’s searing look at the rise and fall of a genius artist.

• Under the Udala Trees

  Okparanta, Chinelo,

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  Near the end of Nigeria's Civil War, young Ijeoma becomes a housemaid for a grammar school teacher and his wife and begins a taboo relatonship with another refugee girl in Okparanta's compelling debut.

• The World We Found

  a Novel

  Umrigar, Thrity N.

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  Four college friends—two married, one divorced, and one a lesbian—reunite after three decades apart after one is diagnosed with terminal cancer in Umrigar’s powerful ode to female friendship.

• Lot

  Stories

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  Washington’s stellar debut short story collection is set in the city of Houston and centers around an unnamed gay Afro-Latinx narrator who must deal with his father’s abandonment and his brother’s homophobia.