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Amethyst Editions Fiebre Tropical, by Julián Delgado Lopera

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“You must read Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera!” says Andrew Sean Greer. “Written in energetic language, full of joy and anger, it’s inspiring and unputdownable.” I totally agree: the author gloriously captures the sweat and heat of Miami through their young queer protagonist Francisca, who recently immigrated from Bogotá with her family. The both-and-neither nature of Lopera’s prose, written in both English and Spanish, generates that frisson of bucking a binary familiar to those of us who revel in the liminal space between gender, sexual, racial, and national identities.

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Amble Press Doubting Thomas, by Matthew Clark Davison

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T Kira Madden recommends Matthew Clark Davison’s debut novel Doubting Thomas, which follows the titular Thomas, who faces the aftermath of being falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student at the elite private school in Oregon where he teaches. What follows is an incisive critique of class, privilege, and liberal ideals: “[It’s] a phenomenal gift,” Madden says, “a complex and careful layering of the inherent intersectionality of personhood, and a testament to the transcendent possibilities of storytelling.”

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Picador What Belongs to You, by Garth Greenwell

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I finally picked this book up in early quarantine and was in its custody for three fevered days, unable to turn the page fast enough. Gorgeous, melancholy, and moving, with painterly prose, truly dazzling literary depictions of sexual encounters that felt complex and human and not gratuitous, and a well-earned ache throughout. A favorite, for sure. —Isaac Oliver

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Come Clean, by Joshua Nguyen

Joshua Nguyen’s poetry collection Come Clean is a beautiful exploration of Asian American masculinity, family, and the many forms that sexuality can take. These poems experiment with form—Nguyen invents the ‘American lục bát’ after the traditional Vietnamese verse form; another is presented in the form of a Google Calendar—and draw from a wide range of influences, from Marie Kondo and Mitski to the domestic rhythms of laundry and the rituals of making food. Nguyen is a native of Houston currently in a doctorate program at the University of Mississippi, a queer writer on the ace spectrum, and a brilliant voice in Southern poetry. —Angela Chen

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Metonymy Press Small Beauty, by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

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“Jia Qing Wilson-Yang’s Small Beauty is thoughtful, intricate, and beautiful in its scope and concerns. I think of it dearly and often,” says Bryan Washington. And as Zeyn Joukhadar describes it: “Narrated by a mixed-race trans woman returning to her cousin’s cabin in Southern Ontario after his death, it’s a luminous and moving exploration of queer and trans lives lived in rural places, the process of piecing one’s life back together in the face of grief, and the human, animal, and otherworldly forces that anchor us to life itself.”

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One World Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg

How to describe Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox? Carmen Maria Machado says, “It’s everything I want from a novel: metafictional, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, funny, sexy, and queer as fuck.” And Garrard Conley says, “It’s a novel which in its early pages offers the word ‘quim’ (eighteenth-century slang for female genitalia) and its cognates—tuzzy-muzzy, boiling Spot, monosyllable, Water-Mill—to ‘signify any loved point of entry on the body, irrespective of gender or sex.’ If that’s your bag, so to speak, then go out and get this book at once.”

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Bold Type Books No Ashes in the Fire, by Darnell Moore

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Darnell Moore’s No Ashes in the Fire is a thoughtful and gorgeously written memoir highlighting how important it is to love yourself because of your queerness and to see it as a path to one’s liberation. It is the kind of book I wish I had access to growing up when I used to feel alone. And sadly, with our very existence under assault, I can’t think of a better book to recommend to those wondering how to find freedom in the midst of all the cages being built around you. —Michael Arceneaux

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NYU Press Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, by Samuel R. Delany

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I recently re-read Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, and I find it more valuable the more time goes by and the more we take for granted how much of a corporate Disneyland that New York’s 42nd Street is now, compared to the pre-gentrified nineties when queer and queer-adjacent men found casual contact and intimacy in the area’s porn theaters. Delany’s pair of essays, one personal and one theoretical, continue to provoke as much as they arouse. —Meredith Talusan

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Cleis Press We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?, by Achy Obejas

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In these seven stories, writer and translator Achy Obejas examines the many different ways society displaces people. Her strong-willed characters—mostly, though not exclusively queer people from across the Latinx diaspora—navigate tumultuous relationships, their sense of identity and community, addiction, grief, and living with AIDS in the early nineties. Witty, sad, and full of heart, the collection also simmers with a quiet, steady hum of rage. Perhaps that’s what sticks most with me even now, how Obejas captures the frustration and anger of hitting a stasis in one’s life, how we long for some kind of connection to break everything open, to feel alive. —Chris Gonzalez

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Nightboat Books The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, by Larry Mitchell

I got this book as a gift from a poet I was in love with in my early twenties. Part fairy tale, part manifesto, the book hinges on the titular faggots’ gleeful anti-assimilation and utter undermining of dominant patriarchal society. I read this at twenty-four and never looked back. DELIVER US FROM BABYLON!!!!!!!! —Brontez Purnell

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Coffee House Press Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, by T Fleischmann

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This is a book-long essay about art, ice, lovers, and community—told from the perspective of someone who is changing their own body, their own gender, but not with any particular destination in mind, beyond the pull to experience life fully. To communicate how gorgeous this book is, I would need to write a blurb the same length as the book itself, and probably, I would have to use the exact same words as the book in the exact same order. —Torrey Peters

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Bad Girls, by Carmila Sosa Villada (translated by Kit Maude)

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I’ve heard this book talked about in Latin America for two years now, where it was a bestseller. Now it’s finally translated into English: a group of travesti Sex Workers in Argentina find a child and adopt him to raise as a family—but that description doesn’t get into the magic, literal and figurative, in Villada’s ability to tell a story. She is a wise, uncommon, and bewitching storyteller. —Torrey Peters

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Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder

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lesbian desire + frozen yogurt = yum yum. —Samantha Irby

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Atria Books Redefining Realness, by Janet Mock

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Most people today know Janet Mock through her work on the hit show Pose, but I fell in love with her through her first memoir. The book follows her coming-of-age as a multiracial trans woman growing up in Honolulu, to moving to New York and landing a job at People magazine. With vivid prose that immerses you in her world, Mock offers candid, deeply-felt reflections about her experiences with her family, her friendships, her romantic life, her relationship to gender and class and privilege, and what she had to do to survive. I’m especially inspired by the care and grace with which she renders everyone in her story. There are no one-note characters here. Just as in life, the people we meet in her book are complicated, nuanced, and always beautifully human. —Edgar Gomez

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On Top of Glass, by Karina Manta

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I love this compassionate, beautiful memoir from ice dancer Karina Manta. It sees her navigating the pressures of her sport while coming to terms with her queer identity. Manta’s prose is at once fluid and hard-hitting, and I found myself impressed time and again with the rawness she was able to convey. I would fall and die immediately on the ice, so it was fun to watch Manta fly both in the rink and here on the page. I’m excited to see what she does next! —JP Brammer

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Vintage Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson

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When I read this book, I was in grad school, dating a man, pining after a woman, my own novel’s first stirrings in my stomach. A professor told me, "You’re someone who will always have longing within you." Winterson would be the salve. I wept as I read—for the gender-neutral narrator’s love and loss, for the realization that I was so queer, for this reflection of self, and for how badly I needed it. —Zaina Arafat

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Semiotext(e) Written in Invisible Ink, by Hervé Guibert (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman)

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For the last five years, I’ve become obsessed with the work of French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert, who chronicles, in sharp and striking diary entries, the fantasies and degradations of desire, sex, family, aging, and illness. His work is addictive: hungry for bodies and haunted by death. One excellent new volume, Written in Invisible Ink, gathers short pieces—stories and fragments of fiction—in sparkling translations from Jeffrey Zuckerman, who captures Guibert’s intensity of expression, his quick turns of language, splendid and vulgar. —Richie Hofmann

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Gods of Want, by K-Ming Chang

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K-Ming Chang’s inspired mix of magic and realism returns in full fabulist force in this new collection of short stories, the follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut novel Bestiary. The stories are eclectic—ghost cousins haunting a living cousin, aunties kissing women at temple, a woman in a cigarette ad coming to life—and united by Chang’s fascination with the queer and quotidian in her characters’ worlds. That the author is so young and her insights so piercing speaks to not only her talents, but the value in drawing from our myths, elders, and histories.

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Tin House Books Junk, by Tommy Pico

Junk is more than just poetry. It is a ride. Tommy Pico’s poetics are composed of pure kinetic energy, at once stylish and intimate, cool and warm—the lyrical equivalent of an IcyHot medical patch. Described as a book-length breakup poem in couplets, this masterwork delights in the carnal and gustatory (“Frenching with a mouthful of M&Ms dunno if I feel polluted / or into it”). To the speaker, nothing is unworthy of attention, which is to say: everything is worth something. As the third book in Pico’s Teebs trilogy, Junk is one show-stopping finalé.

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Ballantine Books Here for It, by R. Eric Thomas

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R. Eric Thomas is known for his comic flair. His regular column on current events in Elle made him an internet darling, and he continues to showcase his wit in his weekly newsletter, in his plays, and in TV writers’ rooms (Dickinson, Better Things). But his deep acuity shines bright in this debut book of essays, which cover class, faith, race, sexuality—and the intersections therein—with great deftness. There’s little order in the chaos of living, Thomas writes: “Life, of course, can quickly get complicated and human.” Here for It is queer gospel.

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