The Bookshop Recommends: Queer Fiction
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A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quitLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first bookAs heard on BBC…
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In Spencer’s fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown are utopia, a place where he can be free. And when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can’t…
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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025'A house is a precious thing...'An exhilarating tale of twisted desire,…
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The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it…
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The thrilling debut novel of the summer from the Granta Best Young British NovelistAn Observer Best Debut of the YearA Granta Best Young British Novelist‘I loved this book’ JULIA…
Recommended by Liv
‘My Search for Warren Harding is an absolute romp. Plunket chronicles Elliot Weiner’s calamitous quest to get hold of President Warren Harding’s correspondence to his mistress Rebecca Kinney. Only one thing stands in his way – the wizened and unyeilding Kinney herself . . . Desperately funny, wickedly cruel and thoroughly mischievous – the most fun I have had with a novel for a long time.’
Recommend by Gayle
‘The rediscovery of a forgotten Black modernist poet who hung out with the Bright Young Things sends Mathilda on journey involving a mysterious artists’ residency somewhere in Mitteleuropa, secret societies engaging in occult practices, and a lot of fabulous sounding drinks. LOTE by Shola von Reinhold manages to be both a serious interrogation of the lost queerness and Blackness of history, and delicious fun to read.’
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“Underneath the sharp satire and hilarious sexual irreverence this is a deadly serious book: a brilliant novel of a seeker, like The Pilgrim’s Progress refracted by queer internet culture.” Torrey PetersDarryl…
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First published in 1994, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on…
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A fast-paced account of one year in San Francisco's underground scene, filled with sex, drugs and the never-ending search for true love.The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by…
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