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Adult Fiction - LGBTQ+
Updated April 14, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
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Days without end : a novel
Barry, Sebastian
Paper Book
COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."--Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning...
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Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel
Brunt, Carol Rifka.
Paper Book
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal * O: The Oprah Magazine * BookPage * Kirkus Reviews * Booklist * School Library Journal In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love,...
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The house of impossible beauties
Cassara, Joseph
Paper Book
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * The Wall Street Journal * The Millions * Southern Living * Bustle * Esquire * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Mashable * Libary Journal * Thrillist "Cassaras's propulsive and profound first novel, finding one's home in the world-...
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The devourers
Das, Indra
Paper Book
For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Mi#65533;ville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON...
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For today I am a boy
Fu, Kim.
Paper Book
"[A] sharply written debut...A coming-of-age tale for our time." --Seattle Times At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, "powerful king." To his parents, newly settled in small-town Ontario, he is the exalted only son in a sea of...
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In one person : a novel
Irving, John
Paper Book
"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary Award A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of...
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Speak no evil : a novel
Iweala, Uzodinma
Paper Book
Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction | A Lambda Literary Award Finalist | A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist | One of Bustle's and Paste's Most Anticipated Fiction Books of the Year "Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to...
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The Swede : a novel
Karjel, Robert
Paper Book
A sophisticated debut novel about a Swedish security force agent on a mysterious special assignment to the U.S., The Swede fuses the psychological tension of Jo Nesbø's thrillers with the gripping international intrigue of I Am Pilgrim and Red Sparrow. Ernst Grip of the Swedish security...
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The end of Eddy : [a novel]
Louis, Édouard
Paper Book
An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up in a poor village in northern France,...
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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 : a novel
Prose, Francine
Paper Book
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and...
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Love, dishonor, marry, die, cherish, perish : a novel
Rakoff, David.
Paper Book
From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and...
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After the blue hour : a true fiction
Rechy, John
Paper Book
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction John Rechy's first novel, City of Night, an international bestseller, is considered a modern classic. Subsequent work asserts his place among America's most important writers. The author's most daring work, After...
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The sweet in-between : a novel
Reynolds, Sheri.
Paper Book
“[WithThe Sweet In-Between,] bestseller Reynolds delivers again . . . Simple prose rich with subtext, convincing dialogue, and a fascinating protagonist combine to produce a heartstring-plucker that’s explicit, tender, sad, and hopeful.” —Publishers Weekly...
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The gods of tango
De Robertis, Carolina
Paper Book
February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends...
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How to be both : a novel
Smith, Ali
Paper Book
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Financial...
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The Lauras
Taylor, Sara
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year From critically acclaimed and Baileys Prize-nominated author Sara Taylor comes a dazzling new novel about youth, identity, and family secrets After a fight with Alex's father...
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Bad boy : a novel
Wake, Elliot
Paper Book
Vlog star Renard Grant has nothing to prove: he's got a pretty face, chiseled body, and two million adoring video subscribers. Plus the scars on his chest and a prescription for testosterone. Because Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as male. He films his transition and shares...
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The paying guests
Waters, Sarah
Paper Book
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa - a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants - life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow...
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She rises : a novel
Worsley, Kate
Paper Book
It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as a lady's maid to a wealthy captain's...
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