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A HAUNTING DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, inspired by Orwell's 1984, set in a climate-collapsed world where an authoritarian government oppresses its perceived enemies--including the protagonist and other gay men. Delicate, vivid prose. B PLUS
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FASCINATING INTERSTELLAR THRILLER combines absorbing worldbuilding, lots of action, and a trans lesbian love story that's both hot and sweet. Big ideas that don't weigh down the taut, compelling plot for a second. A MINUS
https://bookshop.org/p/books/mara-sophia-turner/9c314dfbc5487d93?ean=9781067283704&bkshp-astro=t
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AN INTERDIMENSIONAL QUEER ROMANCE mixes highfalutin literary, musical, and artistic references with a succession of witty pop-culture riffs. Above all, it's a parable in dazzling visual prose about becoming yourself. A MINUS
https://www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/plastic-prism-void-part-one-by-violet-allen-ebook
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HOW SAME-SEX LOVE became seen as "sinful" in the West, from Ancient Greece and Rome to Europe and the present day: a Classics scholar's tracing of the concept through history, and his intriguing theory that homophobia aligns with cultural crisis. B PLUS
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#GeneralAdvice 05-25-2026
For everyone. I just want to be more inclusive with my readings. I won't do this all the time (1-12 type of readings)
Pick a number between 1-12
Check below ⤵️ If not that, maybe another. If not now, maybe another time. Don't force it. Take what resonates.
INTRICATE, TERRIFYING, DREAMLIKE novel of alienated despair weaves together the stories of two young trans women who look exactly alike, caught in the horrors of modern life and something deeper. Kafkaesque yet fresh. B PLUS
https://www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/persona-pb-chariot-marketing-solutions-biometric-initializedotexe
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A STARFARING COZY MYSTERY combines echoes of Golden Age detective fiction, queer sensibility, a touch of screwball comedy, and a far-future generation ship on its way to settle New Earth. Lots of fun, some sharp insights about tech and ethics. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nobodys-baby-olivia-waite/1147243822?ean=9781250342263
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CANDID FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS from LGBTQAI2S people who experienced conversion “therapy” are infuriating, heartbreaking, sometimes witty, always inspiring. Thoughtfully curated and respectfully presented, this is an important collection.
https://us.jkp.com/products/shamesex-attraction
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(no letter grade; that felt inappropriate for a collection of such personal work)
A TENSE SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER with the swashbuckle and spice of fine romantasy. A battle-hardened warrior finds herself on a mission with the royal heiress who broke her heart, but bigger things than love are at risk. Gorgeous worldbuilding! B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-gilded-abyss-rebecca-thorne/1143299450?ean=9781250422125
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SUBTLE AND POWERFUL NOVEL, set at an “alternative” boys’ boarding school in 1976 England, tells a story as much of loneliness and alienation as of queer love and loss. Rich details of nature and of young, beautiful, blundering bodies hit hard. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jean-madeleine-dunnigan/1147402771?ean=9781324105640
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A SLEEK THRILLER OF MANNERS follows a young man’s spiral after his best friend’s mysterious death. From New York parties with privileged heirs and heiresses to his family’s roots in Atlanta’s Black elite, Smith chases leads and redemption. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/great-black-hope-rob-franklin/1146384402?ean=9781668077436
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AN ERITREAN REFUGEE IN LONDON finds solace in her own anger, in wandering the city, in reading her late mother’s diary, especially in literature and transgressive sexuality. Beautifully erudite, shocking in its frankness. B PLUS
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/the-seers?_pos=1&_psq=The+Seer&_ss=e&_v=1.0
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SLEEK PARANORMAL NOIR is bluesy, queer, and unapologetically Black. Set in a magical city where detective summons the dead and angels, demons, vampires and ghosts rub shoulders with the living; richly engaging. B PLUS
https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-dead-withheld
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AN ESTRANGED MOTHER AND SON reunite in Japan despite the minefields of their shared past. Marvelously paced story of a complicated family history is rich with details of expatriate life in Tokyo from a distinctively Black and gay perspective. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/palaver-bryan-washington/1146657371?ean=9780374609078
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HAUNTED BY DEMONS AND SHAME, a writer leaves New York for what she hopes will be a trans women’s utopia—her ex-lover’s Indiana commune. Tense, bone-chilling horror combines with sharp social satire in this gorgeously written novel. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/herculine-grace-byron/1146890359?ean=9781668087862
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MULTIVOCAL, KALEIDOSCOPIC TALE of environmental collapse, love and heartbreak, friendship and collective collaboration plays wonderful games with language, narrative form, and time. Gloriously queer, beautifully elegiac. B PLUS
https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/what-a-fish-looks-like-by-syr-hayati-beker/
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WONDERFULLY INVENTIVE REIMAGINING of the Cthulhu mythos and other primal legendary tropes from a modern, female, queer perspective. Vivid writing evokes sight, sound, touch, scent, and adds punch to the horrors. B PLUS
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BRUTALLY CANDID, WITTY, eloquent memoir about the pressures of infertility, divorce, being a writer, being a woman, being queer, simply existing as a person in the world. Charming and spare prose complements the daring frankness. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trying-chloe-caldwell/1146167821?ean=9781644453476
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HILARIOUS YET PROFOUND historical fantasy set in a world where Harriet Tubman (along with other historical icons) has returned from the dead, and decides to make a rap album. High concept, but thoughtful and nuanced characterizations shine. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harriet-tubman-bob-the-drag-queen/1145682376?ean=9781668061978
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A CHARMINGLY ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION of short, breezy but well researched and informative biographies of women (and genderfluid people perceived by many as women) whose pioneering achievements have often been overlooked. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/im-not-your-muse-lori-zimmer/1145683646?ean=9780762485383
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STARTLINGLY CANDID, AMBITIOUS mixed-media essay on a year of unrequited love and passionate friendship is a rare chance to accompany a complicated, erudite person on a quest to understand herself, her own feelings and the very nature of love. SOLID B
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/elseship-tree-abraham/1145515771?ean=9781593767853
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A MAGICIAN AND AN EX-GOD battle mysterious forces from the government to ghosts in an alternative 1970s Wisconsin. Satisfying and intricate plot, local Madison color, spicy gay love. B PLUS
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We need to start getting vulnerable communities to the Canadian border for asylum. Especially the Trans community. We will need volunteers to transport people, and crowd funding to assist with their transition.