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The Late Americans
Brandon Taylor
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE, ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEED...
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Cigarettes
Harry Mathews
Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from...
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Min Jin Lee
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES...
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Let's Get Back to the Party
Zak Salih
"It's just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down....
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and...
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And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell
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Manywhere
Morgan Thomas
"The nine stories in Morgan Thomas's shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer determined to find themselves reflected in...
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