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A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer literary fiction, dark humor, social anxiety, and awkward predicaments.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Coming of Age · Lesbian Romance
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A finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead follows Gilda, an anxious lesbian atheist who unexpectedly takes a receptionist job at a Catholic church. A mistaken identity and continued emails to a deceased employee’s friend pull her into an increasingly difficult deception, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 3,800 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer literary fiction, dark humor, social anxiety, and awkward predicaments.
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In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, an anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.
In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.
With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
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When alien ships appear over Earth, the Overlords bring an end to war and suffering.
Childhood’s End
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Galactic Empire · Speculative Fiction
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When alien ships appear over Earth, the Overlords bring an end to war and suffering. Humanity enters an age of peace, but perfection hides a purpose no one can imagine. Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a haunting, prophetic masterpiece about evolution, utopia, and the cost of surrendering control to those who promise salvation.
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They came in silence, their ships shining above every city on Earth. They promised peace. They delivered something else.
When the Overlords arrive, humanity’s wars end overnight. Poverty, cruelty, and hunger vanish, replaced by a new golden age. Yet beneath this perfect order lies a mystery no one can unravel. The Overlords rule with unseen power, their true purpose hidden behind their calm benevolence.
As decades pass, a chilling truth emerges: their plan for humanity’s future will change the species forever.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a visionary masterpiece of science fiction, exploring the price of utopia, the limits of progress, and the destiny of a civilization that dares to dream beyond itself.
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When sixteen-year-old Little Bee escapes Nigeria and crosses paths with British journalist Sarah O’Rourke, their lives become intertwined by tragedy and grace.
Little Bee
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color · Psychological Fiction
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When sixteen-year-old Little Bee escapes Nigeria and crosses paths with British journalist Sarah O’Rourke, their lives become intertwined by tragedy and grace. Years later, a knock at the door reunites them and forces both to face the past. Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is a powerful novel of hope, survival, and the courage to begin again.
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On a sunlit beach in Nigeria, two lives collide and are changed forever.
Sixteen-year-old Little Bee has fled a world of unimaginable violence. In England, Sarah O’Rourke lives a life of comfort until one moment of choice binds her fate to the girl she barely knows. When Little Bee arrives at Sarah’s doorstep years later, both women must confront the price of survival and the meaning of compassion.
What follows is a story of hope, humor, and humanity in the face of the unthinkable—a novel that reveals how small acts of courage can bridge worlds.
Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is a deeply moving, unforgettable story about love, loss, and the invisible ties that connect us across continents.
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When Angela Toussaint returns to her childhood home, she’s ready to face the grief that drove her away.
The Good House
Horror · Occult Horror · People of Color
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When Angela Toussaint returns to her childhood home, she’s ready to face the grief that drove her away. But the Good House hides more than memories. As she uncovers her grandmother’s secret battle with an ancient evil, Angela realizes the curse isn’t finished. The Good House brings Tananarive Due’s acclaimed supernatural suspense to chilling perfection.
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Two years ago, Angela Toussaint lost her son in the house where she grew up. Now she’s come back to face what still lives there.
In the quiet town of Sacajawea, Washington, the Good House was once a place of warmth and family. But after tragedy struck, its name became a cruel reminder of everything Angela lost. Grief has followed her for years, yet the deeper she digs into her grandmother’s mysterious past, the more she feels the same darkness stirring again.
As ancient powers awaken and old sins resurface, Angela must confront the evil that destroyed her family or let it claim her town forever.
With 4.4 stars on Amazon and critical acclaim from The New York Times, The Good House cements Tananarive Due as a modern master of supernatural suspense.
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When his father and brothers are killed, Maia, a half-goblin outcast, inherits an empire he barely knows.
The Goblin Emperor
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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When his father and brothers are killed, Maia, a half-goblin outcast, inherits an empire he barely knows. Alone amid courtiers and conspirators, he must survive deadly intrigue and discover the strength to rule. Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor is a richly imagined fantasy of politics, compassion, and one outsider’s rise to unexpected greatness.
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One night, an airship crashes, and an emperor dies. By morning, his exiled half-goblin son sits on the throne of a vast and perilous empire.
Raised far from the court that despised him, Maia has no allies, no training, and no idea whom to trust. Surrounded by schemers who see him as a puppet or a target, he must navigate the glittering dangers of politics, power, and betrayal while learning what it means to rule.
Every smile hides an agenda. Every favor carries a cost. Yet amid the treachery, Maia dares to hope for friendship, justice, and the chance to become more than a figurehead.
Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor is a luminous tale of power, isolation, and the courage to lead with kindness.
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When Blue Bishop finds a newborn beneath the buttonwood tree, her gift for finding lost things changes everything.
South of the Buttonwood Tree
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When Blue Bishop finds a newborn beneath the buttonwood tree, her gift for finding lost things changes everything. Drawn together by fate, Blue and Sarah Grace must face long-buried secrets and make impossible choices about love and family. Heather Webber’s South of the Buttonwood Tree is a tender, magical story of discovery and belonging.
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In the shade of a buttonwood tree, a newborn waits to be found. Blue Bishop has spent her life discovering lost things, but nothing could prepare her for this.
Blue has always had a gift for finding what others lose, from trinkets to missing pets. But when she discovers an abandoned baby in the Alabama woods, her life collides with that of Sarah Grace Fulton, a woman trying desperately to do what’s right while hiding her own painful secrets.
Bound by fate and tested by truth, both women must decide what they’re willing to risk for love, family, and the chance to belong.
Heather Webber’s South of the Buttonwood Tree blends small-town charm, heartfelt emotion, and a touch of magic into one unforgettable story.
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When a wealthy heir falls for a hopeful young writer, their secret love begins a journey that spans decades of change, heartbreak, and joy.
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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When a wealthy heir falls for a hopeful young writer, their secret love begins a journey that spans decades of change, heartbreak, and joy. From Yale to Hollywood, Farrell and Nate navigate class, identity, and desire in a world transforming around them. Paul Rudnick’s Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style is witty, moving, and unforgettable.
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At Yale, a working-class writer meets a golden boy who could have anything but chooses him. Their love begins in secret, glittering beneath the weight of privilege and fear.
Farrell Covington is wealthy, magnetic, and born into one of America’s most powerful conservative families. Nate Reminger dreams of writing stories that matter. Together they find a bond that defies class, convention, and time itself.
Through decades of passion and loss, from 1970s Manhattan to Hollywood’s hidden corners, their relationship endures through the changing tides of the LGBTQ+ movement and the heartbreak of the AIDS era.
Told with wit, tenderness, and sharp insight, Paul Rudnick’s Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style celebrates the beauty and resilience of lasting love.
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When Willa’s sister vanished twenty-five years ago, her life froze in that moment.
Things Don’t Break on Their Own
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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When Willa’s sister vanished twenty-five years ago, her life froze in that moment. Now, one dinner party and one familiar face threaten to shatter the careful order she’s built. Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins is an aching, beautifully written mystery about loss, love, and the secrets we never stop keeping.
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Some absences echo louder than any sound.
Twenty-five years ago, two sisters set out for school. One arrived. One vanished. The disappearance of her sister has shaped Willa’s entire life, an invisible thread tugging her through every relationship and every fleeting glimpse of someone who looks just close enough to be her.
Now, an invitation to a dinner party hosted by her first love stirs up memories she has fought to bury. What begins as an ordinary evening soon unravels into a reckoning with guilt, longing, and the past that never stopped haunting her.
Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins is a haunting, emotionally charged mystery about love, memory, and the fragile bonds that hold us together.
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When Margaret marries a man haunted by depression, her choice echoes through generations.
Imagine Me Gone
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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When Margaret marries a man haunted by depression, her choice echoes through generations. As their son Michael struggles to make sense of the world, his family fights to hold him close. Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett is a deeply affecting novel about love, mental illness, and the ties that both sustain and unravel us.
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Love can save us. It can also undo us.
When Margaret’s fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces an impossible choice: walk away or stand beside him through whatever comes. She chooses love, and that decision shapes the lives of their three children for decades to come.
Their eldest son, Michael, brilliant and anxious, filters the world through music and wit while his siblings, Celia and Alec, navigate the emotional weight of his illness. Together, they form a family bound by fierce devotion and fragile hope.
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone is a profoundly moving portrait of inheritance, resilience, and the beautiful, heartbreaking cost of loving someone you cannot save.
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In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, beauty and brutality coexist.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, beauty and brutality coexist. When a robbery shatters the lives of a young mother and her husband, the illusion of paradise begins to crumble. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones is a searing, lyrical novel about violence, class, and the haunting legacy of stories told to keep women safe.
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In paradise, every story hides a wound.
On the glittering beaches of Barbados, beneath the sun and sand of Baxter’s Beach, lives are bound together by violence and longing. Lala grows up with her grandmother’s warning about the one-armed sister, a tale meant to keep girls safe from the dangers that lurk beneath the surface. But adulthood brings its own traps.
When her husband’s botched robbery ignites a chain of tragedy, Lala’s world collides with that of the wealthy tourists and desperate locals who share the same fragile shore.
Cherie Jones’s How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is a fierce, heart-wrenching novel about class, power, and survival in a paradise built on pain—a story as luminous as it is devastating.
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From the world of The Cider House Rules comes the story of Esther Nacht, a Viennese-born orphan whose life in America is marked by loss, love, and resilience.
Queen Esther
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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From the world of The Cider House Rules comes the story of Esther Nacht, a Viennese-born orphan whose life in America is marked by loss, love, and resilience. Spanning decades and continents, Queen Esther by John Irving is a profoundly moving exploration of identity, faith, and the families we build when the world denies us one.
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History can shape a life, but love defines it.
Born in Vienna in 1905, Esther Nacht survives tragedy before she can speak. Her father dies on the voyage to Maine. Her mother is murdered soon after. Taken in by Dr. Wilbur Larch at the St. Cloud’s orphanage, Esther grows up among the lost and the unwanted, her Jewish heritage marking her as both survivor and outsider.
At fourteen, she finds an unlikely home with the Winslows, a New England family who despise hatred as fiercely as they cherish her. Through war, loss, and the search for belonging, Esther’s devotion to them never falters.
In Queen Esther, John Irving returns to the world of The Cider House Rules with a sweeping, deeply humane novel about identity, faith, and endurance.
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In Tokyo, a son living far from home is forced to confront his past when his estranged mother arrives uninvited.
Palaver
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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In Tokyo, a son living far from home is forced to confront his past when his estranged mother arrives uninvited. Over shared meals and quiet reckonings, they search for what remains of love and belonging. Palaver by Bryan Washington is a luminous, National Book Award–finalist novel about family, forgiveness, and the places we call home.
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Home is the hardest place to return to.
In Tokyo, a young man builds a life far from Houston, teaching English by day and drinking with friends by night. He has found love and chosen family, but not forgiveness. When his mother arrives unannounced ten years after their estrangement, old wounds reopen beneath the glow of city lights.
Across meals, memories, and the quiet companionship of a cat named Taro, mother and son circle the hurts that divide them. She recalls her youth in Jamaica and the brother she lost; he learns how deeply love can disappoint and still endure.
A National Book Award finalist, Palaver by Bryan Washington is a tender, life-affirming novel about family, distance, and the fragile grace of forgiveness.
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