In this fresh take on the mystery novel, what needs to be solved is not a murder — it’s not even a missing sister or the truth of a psychic — it’s how to move past cultural and familial trauma.
With her new book Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, Sarah Gerard forces us to reckon with ourselves and how we approach the world around us.
Tina Horn’s new book will challenge some of your problematic notions no matter how confident you are in your sex positivity.
For fans of second-chance romance, friends to lovers, and ‘celebrity falls for regular person’ tropes.
It’s a fascinating and, oftentimes, frustrating exploration of how we got to where we are in both the sports and gender debate and the limitation of trans rights in general.
I hope this means there will be more trad pubs looking to publish Black sapphic stories, because my bookshelf is ready.
It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees in a way that is different than you yet insistently compatible.
Our stories don’t have to end where they start if we stay open to the potential around us.
We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy over reality.
The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.
‘Here We Go Again’ by Alison Cochrun delights — despite dealing with death.
‘Like Love’ provides a creative and intellectual road map guiding us through many of Nelson’s influences, curiosities, and obsessions.
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true crime, and more.
Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani examines how the closing of gay bars over the last 20+ years has helped bring about a new kind of queer nightlife, one that is less focused on being a permanent fixture in one location and more focused on mobility, inclusion, and ephemerality.
This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.
Amy Spalding’s second book in the “Out in Hollywood” series centers on Max, a wee masc lesbian in Hollywood roped into a self-actualization scheme by her influencer roommate and most importantly to me, playing a lot of lesbian kickball.