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As an artist and activist, one theme remained a constant throughout Keith Haring's life: rebellion. In this young adult biography, acclaimed author Michael G. Long examines Haring's upbringing and career through this lens: hosting queer people and people of color at high-art gallery openings;...

A young professor grapples with homophobia in Muslim Senegal in this searching, heart-wrenching novel from the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Most Secret Memory of Men. A viral video makes the rounds in Dakar, showing an incensed crowd that gathers to dig up...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"The Phoenix Pencil Company is a masterful blending of history, fantasy, and romance that sank into my heart . . . This book had me smiling through my tears." -- Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone SagaIn this dazzling...

One of TIME magazine's 2025 WOMEN OF THE YEAR and 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLEWINNER of the LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, 2024 Best Book AwardsA passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017,...

For readers of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, a debut memoir about a woman born into a conservative family who spends decades grappling with self-acceptance and her parents' conditional love--until she finally learns how to love herself. Born with a cleft...

Censorship, problematic tropes, and extreme violence-it's no wonder the queer community feels so underrepresented in horror cinema. Pansexual author Cat Voleur guides readers through twenty film recommendations selected from over eighty years of scary movies. Her personal experiences with the LGBTQIA+ community are intertwined...

Amber Lawrence didn't come to Bend, Oregon, looking for love, she came to heal. After her aggressive cancer treatment, she's determined to reclaim her strength, one hike at a time. The last thing she wants is a guide, but Grace Howe isn't what Amber...

When COVID hits, Peter Hughes finds himself unemployed, out of shape, and living in his mother's basement. Not where he thought he'd be in his mid-thirties.Then he discovers Ryan's Fabulous Fitness, a gay-forward online workout program. Peter can't look away, and before long, he's...

Queer mixed Indonesian college student Dian Faust attempts to call the suicide hotline only to dial the wrong number, her finger slipping and typing in six three times (the mark of the Devil). The mysterious voice on the other end of the line is...

They were legends, then they were ghosts. Twelve years ago, Sergeant Major Anya Quinn and her military unit vanished rather than condemn children to Celestial work camps. Now, the infamous Ghost Pack returns, a beacon of hope for dissidents and freedom fighters ready to...

One person's lifelong search for belonging uncovers the myths of love, intimacy, and a life she was taught to want- but was never meant to live. Growing up Catholic in a Minnesota suburb in the 1970s, Cindy Mundahl was expected to adhere to strict...

Perfect for fans of Rory Power and Tiffany D. Jackson, this twisty horror novel follows a magnetic young influencer who gets ensnared in a web of dark, jealousy-fueled magic. ★ "Puts the "cult" back in influencer culture."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Three years ago, Bella...

It's back to school for the Hillside Valley kids! Sol's trying out for the middle school soccer team but will a crush on the team captain distract her from her goals? Find out in this new Hillside Valley graphic novel--filled with friendship, first crushes,...

In this campy love letter to the slasher films of the 1980s, seven friends reunite for a weekend of fun--only to be hunted down by a cold-blooded killer. But the real horror is not being able to escape who you were in high school....

Unspoken tensions simmer between two women under the heat of a Catalan summer in this internationally bestselling, erotic, and quietly radical portrait of queer desire. In a sun-drenched house on the Catalan coast, a young, queer photographer arrives to capture the portrait of a...

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word--including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their personal lives. "Are you...

An unforgettable sapphic romance featuring two love stories, one hundred years apart, from the screenwriter and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel and film Five Feet Apart. Libby has always been inexplicably drawn to the old Victorian house on Mulberry Lane....

From an acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color--from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens--who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance. So...

In a world where magic, desire, and duty collide, it is beauty who is fated to kill the beast in a lush historical fantasy of secrets and star-crossed love by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr.Two young women. Heirs to altogether different hereditary...

A celebration and testament to the tenacity of life on the margins, brilliantly illuminating Black and queer experience. In this collection, a jubilant testimony to the joys and hardships of the Black queer experience, poet Nicholas Goodly explores language that venerates the saints of...

Longlisted for Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize A suspenseful, wildly engaging debut novel by the award-winning author of Rainbow Rainbow, following a musician spiraling in self-doubt and self-searching after a night--and a relationship--gone wrong Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan...

Stegosaurus Moon explores heartbreak, divorce, parenthood and the discovery of new, often unexpected, ways forward. Poem by poem, the speakers puzzle through how one love comes apart and how a new life comes together in its wake.Through encounters with everything from dinosaurs and scorpionflies,...

Jamie Katz is a certified Florida Man and swamp creature, even if he is living in California and begrudgingly working as a writer for his two-time ex-husband Paul's porn outfit, Scorch Studios. It wouldn't be a bad gig except for Paul's new wife and...

From USA Today bestselling author Mazey Eddings comes a dazzling sapphic romance about fame, friendship, and falling for the one person you were never meant to. DELUXE EDITION: Featuring beautiful sprayed edges!Lost. Reckless. In love.Cubby Clark is the heart of her band--loyal, earnest, and...

Pretty Little Liars meets The Blair Witch Project in this harrowing thriller from the author of Murder Land, brimming with betrayal, unsettling town secrets, and a killer lurking in the woods.Emma knows her friends all lie to her. And everyone knows Emma is the...

A coloring book romp through history with the magnetically iconic drag queens and New York Times bestselling authors Trixie and Katya Trixie and Katya Coloring through History takes our queens through different eras and reimagines famous historical figures as-played by Trixie and Katya in...

A terrifying and claustrophobic queer dark academia horror set in a demon-infested archive about trauma, grief and the lengths we will go to for love. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Tori Bovalino. GUILT. GRIEF. OBSESSION. Michael Stein arrives at the Schechter Institute...

"Clever, wry, and incredibly sexy." --Susannah Dickey, author of Tennis Lessons The luscious summer novel and international sensation. A story about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers. Five friends from university; seven summer days in a lakehouse in Denmark. A chance to swim, catch up,...

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A groundbreaking, action-packed, and ultimately uplifting adventure that intertwines elements of Jewish mythology with an unflinching examination of the impacts of transphobia, from Newbery Honor winner Kyle Lukoff."Rare and beautiful--a novel that combines wondrous fantasy, searing real-world relevance,...

The food on our plates has long been designed, twisted, and elevated by queer hands. Piecing together a dazzling mosaic of queer lives, spaces, and meals, beloved food writer John Birdsall unfolds the complex story of how, through times of fear and persecution, queer...

Sadie Simoneaux is finally living her dream of opening a bookstore in her hometown. Equal parts childhood fantasy and a much-needed exit from the hustle culture of tech startups, Sadie has the passion, the plan, and the perfect historic building. All she needs is...

"In these amazing stories, told with such fierce humor and control, characters reckon with the end of things, the fallout, the cleaning up, but Anderson knows how that loss, that untethering, can create a feeling of ascendancy. That's how I felt reading these stories,...

Logan technically doesn't exist. He is terrified of the Black Lapels and their Swordsman church, who imprisoned his parents for bearing an unlicensed, "unnatural" child. When he's taken to a home for unwanted boys, he meets Jace-a master liar who isn't afraid of anything....

What if international espionage were driven by chaos instead of control?A Hilarious LGBTQ+ Spy Adventure Packed with Global Chaos, Satire, and Shameless ExcessDon Kee Dong is on the trail of the elusive Phillip Mihol-but what begins as a routine pursuit quickly spirals into something...

The Advocate Best of 2019 CBC Books Best of 2019 Popmatters Best of 2019 Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia's societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from...

From Billy Porter, the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, Unprotected is a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing. "Bold, hilarious, honest, and singular . . . Unprotected is a record of survival, commitment to authenticity, and healing; a...

A swashbuckling adventure set in a version of Alexandre Dumas's world haunted by vampires... Morgane grew up at sea, daughter of the fierce pirate captain of the Vengeance, raised to follow in her footsteps as scourge of the Four Chains Trading Company. But when...

In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, effervescent extrovert Dan Stewart-Álvarez is surprised to find home and community in rural Tennessee. Despite a life on the road with his free-spirited mother, fifteen-year-old Dan Stewart-Álvarez has always wanted to settle down. He just...

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! When an aspiring archaeologist teams up with her childhood enemy for a treasure hunt, they find it impossible to bury their growing feelings, in a charming queer historical romance from the author of A Shore...

From Latin America's literary prankster Mario Bellatin: a novella that puzzles from the first page with its liminal, Lynchian atmosphere. In an unnamed country by the sea, a grieving kleptomaniac known only as Our Woman is determined to reach the House. There, she will...

Mario Bellatin's earth-shattering allegory of plague that brought him to his cult status as auteur of Latin America's most singular literary vision, in a brand-new translation by poet and translator Shook.

From the groundbreaking author of Beauty Salon, The Large Glass, Jacob the Mutant, Mario Bellatin delivers a rousing, allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art student Izu's teacher asks her to visit the famous collection of Mr. Murakami, she...

Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Mario Bellatin's Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation -- a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside...

Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKay's first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a...

A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem and a historical protest for black freedom One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100...

From one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance comes a narrative defining book chronicling his life from Jamaica to New York CityClaude McKay's long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem, Europe, North Africa, Russia, and back to America is chronicled in this...

"There is an abundant humor to this book and pathos; there is melodrama and the quiet charm of introspective analysis, and above all there is entertainment."--Saturday ReviewA novel of love and war, from the author of Home to HarlemBita Plant is adopted and sent...

From the late 1910s to the mid 1930s, Harlem, New York City, was the center of an explosion of African-American social, artistic, and intellectual expression that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing African-Americans by the thousands to the 3-square-mile neighborhood in...