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Bunny

Mona Awad • 2020

The Giant Dark A Fairy Tale in Two Acts

Sarvat Hasin • 2021

How To Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond

James Monaco · 2013

The Princess of 72 Street

Elaine Kraf · 1979

As Meat Loves Salt

Maria McCann • 2011

Demian: (Translated by N. H. Piday)

Hermann Hesse • 2018

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes • 2006

The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna―a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.<br/><br/>The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction―there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another persona woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.<br/><br/>Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, Nightwood still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.

Written on the Body

Jeanette Winterson • 1994

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of <i>The Passion</i> and <i>Sexing the Cherry</i>. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. <br><br>“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —<i>New York Times Book Review.</i>

Thirst for Salt

Madelaine Lucas • 2023

Venus and Aphrodite

Bettany Hughes • 2020

Property of

Alice Hoffman • 2002

Grit

Gillian French • 2017

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Mary Ruefle • 2012

The Brides of Rollrock Island

Margo Lanagan • 2013

All the Crooked Saints

Maggie Stiefvater • 2018

THE RABBIT HUTCH

2022

A Prayer for Travelers: A Novel

Ruchika Tomar • 2019

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020

Rachel Kushner • 2021

Bitter Orange

Fuller Claire • 2019

We Are All the Same in the Dark: A Novel

Julia Heaberlin • 2020

Vicious (Villains Book 1)

V. E. Schwab • 2013

The China Garden

Liz Berry • 2018

Kingdoms of Elfin (Handheld Fantasy Classics, 3)

Sylvia Townsend Warner • 2018

A Green Equinox

Elizabeth Mavor • 2023

The Water Statues

Fleur Jaeggy • 2021

Lovers

Daniel Arsand • 2012

Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White • 2023

Josie And Jack: A Novel

Kelly Braffet • 2005

Revelator: A novel

Daryl Gregory • 2021

Flowers in the Attic

V.C. Andrews • 2011

Curious Tides

Pascale Lacelle • 2023

The Last True Poets of the Sea

Julia Drake • 2019

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Emily M. Danforth • 2012

<p>The acclaimed book behind the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie</p><p>"LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth's novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after she gets caught having sex with her friend on prom night."</p><p>The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and provocative literary debut that was named to numerous best of the year lists.</p><p>When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.</p><p>But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both.</p><p>Then Coley Talor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self—even if she’s not quite sure who that is.</p><p><p>Don't miss this raw and powerful own voices debut, the basis for the award-winning film starring Chloë Grace Moretz.</p>

Cherry

Mary Karr • 2001

Girls in Boys' Cars

Felicity Castagna • 2021

Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze

Eliza Fowler Haywood • 2022

Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning • 2015

The Patrick Melrose Trilogy

Edward St. Aubyn • 1998

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Fran Lebowitz • 1994

The Virgin of Bennington

Kathleen Norris • 2001

Martin Eden Martin Eden

Author • 1993

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

Maggie O'Farrell • 2022

Lithium for Medea: A Novel

Kate Braverman • 2002

Cherries in the Snow

Emma Forrest • 2005

Voice Like a Hyacinth: A Novel

Mallory Pearson • 2025

Bad Nature

Ariel Courage • 2025

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden • 2025

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*<br/>“Remarkable…Compelling…Fine and taut…Indelible.” —The New York Times • “Moving, unnerving, and deeply sexy.” —Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring • “A brilliant debut, as multi-faceted as a gem.” —Kirkus Reviews<br/><br/>A “razor-sharp, perfectly plotted” (The Sunday Times, London) tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.<br/><br/>A house is a precious thing...<br/><br/>It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season.<br/><br/>Eva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon, a knife, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem.<br/><br/>Mysterious, sophisticated, sensual, and infused with intrigue, atmosphere, and sex, The Safekeep is “a brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history, and to one’s own desires” (The Guardian).

Norwegian Wood (Vintage International)

Haruki Murakami • 2010

Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

Patti Smith • 2010

<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>

Slow Days, Fast Company

Eve Babitz • 2016

California Golden

Benjamin Melanie • 2023

She's Too Pretty to Burn

Wendy Heard • 2021

Shadow Girls

Carol Birch • 2022

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene • 2011

The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Edith Wharton • 2019

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith • 2012

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde • 2021

The Blue Castle

Lucy Maud Montgomery • 2022

A Room with a View

E.M. Forster • 2018

Maurice

E M. Forster • 2024

Tender is the Night

F Scott Fitzgerald • 2022

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh • 2012

Truly Devious: A Mystery (Truly Devious, 1)

Maureen Johnson • 2018

Gaudy Night (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 12)

Dorothy L. Sayers • 2012