#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. "This potent book...

'The book we all need for this moment in time.' CN LESTER'An absolute must read' FOX FISHER'A genius book' LIBRARY JOURNAL REVIEW Much of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE"A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy...

In a world where people often feel compelled to advertise their sexual inclinations and preferences, many people identify as asexual, lacking sexual attraction to either men or women. This book introduces the idea of asexuality as a fourth category of sexual orientation and reveals...

In his first gay anthology, B.J. Hunter takes you on a journey of pleasurable options guaranteed to titillate the mind and arouse the body long after the orgasm has ended. Whether your interests lie with fetishes of fantasy, BD/SM, voyeurism or first time experiences,...

Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Assocation Book Prize -Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities-what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts"-has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of...

Challenging what she sees as an obsession with sex and sexuality, Ela Przybylo examines the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking-turning to Audre Lorde's work on erotics to propose instead an approach she calls asexual erotics, an alternative language for discussing...

Almost everyone knows the familiar fairy tale ending: the prince marries the princess and they live happily ever after. Or do they?Once upon a time, our ancestors were much more honest and open about the spectrum of human sexuality. Among the fairy tales and...

A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and...

Kim is your typical rebellious black gay nerd, biding her time in college until she can get to her dream job at NASA.Returning home from work-study in the biology lab one day, Kim experiences a strange kind of double vision. She can somehow see...

In these lush, finely wrought poems, Jim Kangas reaches back into childhood and forward to death, to show us how desire, unquenched and unquenchable, becomes the axis of our lives. Here, we are exalted and crushed by beauty--what is always lost to us and...

In this stunning novel, Andrew W.M. Beierle brings to life characters at once unthinkably foreign and utterly real. Frank and fearless, sexy and witty, First Person Plural is a masterfully rendered, powerfully imaginative work, as complex and as extraordinary as the bonds of love....

The Naked Tuck Shop is a unique record of a period long before 'gaiety' was legal in any form in the United Kingdom. This memoir of a 1950s grammar-school boy's navigation through his emerging gayness, lifts the lid on his discovery of a vast...

"The pride primer." --The New Yorker This Stonewall Book Award winner is an excellent tool for teaching respect, acceptance, and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This day in June . . . Parade starts soon . . . Rainbow arches ....

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times - "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."--The Wall Street Journal -...

"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- "New York Times Book Review" The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement,...

"Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love."--Vogue "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . [Winterson's] life with...

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & EDITORS' CHOICE*Winner of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in LiteratureFinalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language NonfictionSelected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018...

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me,...

*THIS IS BOOK #3 IN THE OUTLIER SERIES* "I am the Madness." It has been two months since the Madness took over. In the third installment of the OUTLIER series, our band of unlikely heroes - both slum-born and sky - survive in a...