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A UGANDAN FAMILY'S SECRETS come to light after a sudden tragedy. Lovely, thoughtful novel vividly evokes the beauty of Uganda's countryside and the threats LGBTQ Ugandans face from both traditional and Christian mores. B PLUS

https://houseofanansi.com/collections/literary-fiction/products/everything-is-fine-here

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THE MAGIC BEHIND HOOKLAND, the ongoing open-source (re?)creation of a lost English county that has delighted social media for more than a decade, explored in ways that diminish none of the enchantment. A lovely guidebook. A MINUS

https://www.amazon.com/Hookland-Fragments-One-Remembering-Differently-ebook/dp/B0H7T6MKGX/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DtHrh2BMfXYN-K_UEEMswpjm-xD9F1UrnZRdXXh2PD2IdYs2GS3LdWWPxCaXwHBh7n5qzVh14GV4uSizxTr4vgn27AXzQ-c-vTN0JwHbgAk.6oVYkLFVXTvIBqHMZj6nMBW04gEYQD52ZivGeulXgdY&dib_tag=se&qid=1786329650&refinements=p_27%3ADavid+Southwell&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=David+Southwell

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AN ECOLOGICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL GOTHIC, set in a dying Milan, centers on a unique house built in 1986, now for sale in a 2040s ravaged by climate disaster. Past and future weave together in a lush, evocative, haunting novel. A MINUS

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-perfect-circle-claudia-petrucci/d7cbf72f738d3f94?ean=9781642861631&bkshp-astro=t

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SURREAL, DREAMLIKE, GRIM tale with flashes of satiric wit depicts a world where factionalism and political policing continue even beyond the grave. Borges and Kafka are touchstones here, as are Bulgakov and Voinovich. A MINUS

https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-monroe-girls/

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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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FIERCELY, BLEAKLY ELOQUENT novel tells the brutal story of a shattered life without a bit of artifice or melodrama. Depression, alcohol, drugs, and too many losses lead to a man's slow disintegration in a drowning world. SOLID A

https://www.ortacpress.com/product-page/keshed

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CHARMING COZY MYSTERY set in a lakeside town near the Indiana Dunes centers on a yarn and tea shop run by a Hollywood agent's daughter and his biggest client's slacker child. Appealing characterization and sense of place. B PLUS

https://severnhouse.com/books/sconed-to-death/

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AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF MEMOIR: a writer's unflinching examination of her childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather, who (unusually) faced legal consequences. Broader connections to literature and history add dimension. SOLID A

https://bookshop.org/p/books/sad-tiger-neige-sinno/bd8bc13ebb8aeed9?ean=9781644214671&next=t

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THE LEGENDARY AND THE DEEPLY PERSONAL combine in this quiet, profound novel in stories drawn from centuries-old Inuit culture as well as the daily life of Inuk people in Nunavut and all of Canada. Striking, evocative, haunting. B PLUS

https://bookshop.org/p/books/leave-our-bones-where-they-lay-aviaq-johnston/57ff1c424b9b4100?ean=9781772275896&next=t

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A MANY-FACETED TRINIDADIAN EPIC focused on generations of one Indo-Trinidadian family combines vivid description, characterization, and historical detail with breathtaking moments of magical realism. B PLUS

https://bookshop.org/p/books/ever-since-we-small-celeste-mohammed/b792c3a5e84b91a5?ean=9781632461766&next=t

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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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SUBTLE, FASCINATING BOLIVIAN novel plays with layers of meta narrative to tell two stories: one of a teenage tragedy, and one of a writer decades later trying to make sense of that incident, and of his adolescence. Stunning! A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-invisible-years-rodrigo-hasbun/1146882816?ean=9781646054152

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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 METAL BAND’S SEARCH for their vanished lead singer leads them to a terrifying ordeal deep in the Oregon forests. Sharp and savvy creepypasta-esque horror with strong characterization and an engaging style. A MINUS

https://indiepubs.com/products/the-midnight-muse-9781968043247?srsltid=AfmBOopVat38gzayvEIE0-iCBcySQ3fiKdmCfGnZXiWx3vkX1YZmWuZ4

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AT LONG LAST, the audacious meta-autofiction collaborative novel by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff gets the beautiful print edition it deserves. If you like literary puzzles and fragmentary narratives, it’s for you. SOLID Ϙ

https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/your-name-here

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INTRIGUING SPACE ADVENTURE follows an unlikely team of counterintelligence agents to an encounter with a mysterious entity which reproduces through spores. Strong, engaging worldbuilding, great characterization. A MINUS

https://www.brokeneyebooks.com/bookstore/song-of-spores

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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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ADVENTURE, HOMESICKNESS, AND CONFUSION swirl in the mind of an eight-year-old abducted by her father in this beautifully simple, intensely evocative tale of a fractured family in 1980s Italy. Perfect child’s voice, perspective. B PLUS

https://otherpress.com/product/ilaria-or-the-conquest-of-disobedience-9781635425635/

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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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UNSPARINGLY CANDID, THOUGHTFUL memoir offers a kaleidoscopic look at the pain and soul-searching a writer experiences from her mother’s weaponized “silent treatment.” Multivocal, poetic narrative is powerfully on point. B PLUS

https://tinhouse.com/book/a-silent-treatment/

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SWEEPING YET DEEPLY INTIMATE novel from a Cameroonian writer and filmmaker depicts the complexities of life in a (fictional) African country shaped by generations of repressive rule. Stunning, thoughtful, heartbreaking. A MINUS

https://coffeehousepress.org/products/the-aquatics

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THE MANY MAGICS OF LOS ANGELES—its rich landscape, its diverse cultural histories, its complicated past and present—are at the heart of this lovely supernatural thriller, along with a prickly but appealing protagonist. B PLUS

https://redhen.org/book/city-of-smoke-and-sea/

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RELENTLESS HORROR TALE follows a podcaster back to his old home for a grim final reckoning. A powerful sense of place and a sharp Gen X attitude only add to the inexorability of corruption and doom. B PLUS

https://indiepubs.com/products/8114

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SELLING “COUNTERCULTURAL” FASCISM via Westernized versions of yoga didn’t start as a TikTok trend: witty, opinionated, well researched book traces the origins of today’s granola Fascism to the early twentieth-century right. SOLID B

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fascist-yoga-stewart-home/1146243474?ean=9780745351124

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FEARLESS, POETIC MEMOIR from a Cree, Salish, and Métis writer tells the story not only of her own traumatic family history, but of the brutal generational oppressions that cast painful shadows in too many Indigenous lives. B PLUS

https://houseofanansi.com/collections/new-releases/products/soft-as-bones

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A HIGH-TECH POST-APOCALYPTIC THRILLER combines effectively bleak worldbuilding with engaging characterization and some intriguing science speculation. Well crafted and propulsive. B PLUS

https://podiumentertainment.com/titles/43809/the-afterlife-project

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BEAUTIFULLY AUSTERE, ELEGANT novel about love and memory and the impossibility of recapturing the past rings with echoes of 20th-century Portugal. Stunning translation sets off a real gem for English-language readers. A MINUS

https://www.catranslation.org/shop/book/grace-period/

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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

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-faceless-thing-we-adore-hester-steel/1146128424?ean=9798890032898

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LOVE, MAGIC, HORROR and the hot sun of inland California bake up a compelling tale of a long lineage of women with special powers and the havoc they unwittingly create. Sharp and evocative writing. B PLUS

https://www.horrorsmithpublishing.com/collections/all-books/products/preorder-angie-baby-by-bradford-tatum-ebook

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