BOOKS

Our Favorite Queer Books!

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‘Carol’ by Patricia Highsmith

‘Carol’ (originally published as ‘The Price of Salt’) by Patricia Highsmith is a novel about the relationship between Therese Belivet and...

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‘Under the Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta

‘Under the Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta is a moving account of Ijeoma’s live in the Nigeria, mostly from the 1960s to the 1980s....

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‘The Paris Bookseller’ by Kerri Maher

‘The Paris Bookseller’ by Kerri Maher is based on the life of Sylvia Beach, the American who opened ‘Shakespeare and Company’ in Paris in...

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‘The Prophets’ by Robert Jones Jr.

“Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's.” ‘The Prophets’ by Robert Jones Jr. is set on a cotton plantation in the Deep South....

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‘Cantoras’ by Carolina De Robertis

‘Cantoras’ by Carolina De Robertis is a beautiful story of friendship and love between women during and after the Uruguayan dictatorship...

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‘To Paradise’ by Hanya Yanagihara

‘To Paradise’ by Hanya Yanagihara is brilliant. And I didn’t expect anything less from her. The book is divided into three sections, all...

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‘In Memoriam’ by Alice Winn

‘In Memoriam’ by Alice Winn isn’t a particularly beautiful book. It’s gory at times. But it’s a fabulous one and completely on point....

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‘Das Summen unter der Haut’ by Stephan Lohse

‘Das Summen unter der Haut’ [~the buzzing under the skin] by Stephan Lohse is set in Hamburg (Germany) in 1977. Sexual relations between...

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‘The Schoolhouse’ by Sophie Ward

‘The Schoolhouse’ by Sophie Ward tells three stories. Or not. Set in the early 1990s and the mid-1970s, this book tells the story of...