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Immigrant Sneha has moved to Milwaukee after graduation, a perfectly middling city where she believes a new job and the ability to purchase appetizers at trendy bistros is one more step to reaching her American dream. I Want You More

Author: Swan Huntley

Release Date: May 21st, 2024

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This book was so good and fun!

The two are raised and trained together, following each other from open pastures to bloody, wind-swept battlefields. The basis for the 1991 hit film Fried Green Tomatoes, Flagg’s recollection of best friends Idgie and Ruth includes (but is not limited to) sketchy barbeque, a criminal trial, two separate railway accidents, and aggressive onset menopause.

We accompany them on their first few dates and learn about how they started falling in love. No one can see him, sure, but that sounds like a them problem. Detransition, Baby

Author: Torrey Peters

Release Date: January 12, 2021

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The conflict and emotional tension between each of these characters and with themselves is masterful.

As girlfriends in their teens, they couldn’t make space, time, and warring life plans work out. There is no world in which the queer novel could exist in its current form without the work and scholarship of Baldwin.

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People ridiculed, remembered, and loved her for her infamous marriages to famous men.

The plot feels cooked up in a MadLibs factory, but what emerges is an achingly cute romance that’s hard to put down. Every single character was fleshed out and felt real, and I absolutely adored every page.

13. Maria embarks on a quest to help James, despite James not wanting it and Maria not really having her own life in order. Big Swiss

Author: Jen Beagin

Release Date: February 7th, 2023

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Big Swiss is the story of a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with one of the clients she’s transcribing.

This is a lesbian psychological thriller that will keep you reading until the final page.

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  • ‘Under The Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune

    Who will claim your body when you die?

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    Manhunt

    Author: Gretchen Felker-Martin

    Release Date: February 22nd, 2022

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    Gretchen Felker-Martin created an absolutely crushing dystopian world filled with trans people who were doing their best to survive.

    This Love

    Author: Lotte Jeffs

    Release Date: January 14th, 2025

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    One of the most amazing parts of queerness is friendship. The answer, Mia hopes, will tell her whether she should leave her hometown to become a singer or stay with her (also gay!) grandmothers.

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    It should be fine — cause they’re over each other, right? Leslie Feinberg is a butch lesbian who wrote a semi-fictional story about Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl who comes into herself as a butch lesbian in a blue-collar town. But Andrew Sean Greer’s 2017 novel Less makes readers root for the bumbling antics of Arthur Less by building a coming-of-age story for a middle-aged man who has already experienced what he considered to be the great love of his life, and yet finds himself alone in gay bars anyway.