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• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

  Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

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  Describes the humorous adventures during the childhood of an eccentric girl, whose mother unsuccessfully tries to protect her from temptations.

• The Price of Salt

  Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995

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  Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with--Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce.

• Giovanni's Room

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• For Today I Am a Boy

  Fu, Kim

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  Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.

• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André,

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  The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.

• Speak No Evil

  a Novel

  Iweala, Uzodinma

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  An Ivy League-bound star athlete from a prestigious private school in Washington, D.C., and his best friend, the daughter of prominent government insiders, struggle with brutal responses to the young man's sexual orientation before finding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rubyfruit Jungle

  Brown, Rita Mae

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  Born out of wedlock and adopted by a poor, loving family, Molly Bolt finds the South and even bohemian New York a hostile world for a lesbian but manages to thrive and remain confident.

• Disoriental

  Djavadi, Négar, 1969-

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  25-year-old Iranian expat Kimia Sadr, facing the future she has built for herself after leaving her family behind, is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors in the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic.

• Maurice

  a Novel

  Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970

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  While a student at Cambridge, Maurice Hall discovers that he is sexually attracted to men rather than women.

• A Visit From the Goon Squad

  Egan, Jennifer

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  Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Middlesex

  Eugenides, Jeffrey

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  Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

• Under the Udala Trees

  Okparanta, Chinelo

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  A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair are discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.

• Chelsea Girls

  Myles, Eileen

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  Told in Myles' audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of her 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Katie Met Cassidy

  Perri, Camille,

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  From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another novel about the importance of women taking the reins—this time, when it comes to love, sex and self-acceptance.

• What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

  Stories

  Oyeyemi, Helen

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  A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird features entries about literal and metaphorical keys that open or shut the fates of lovers, the heart of a puppeteering student and the doors of a house of locks that holds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mrs. Dalloway

  Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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  During one day of arranging for her party Mrs. Dalloway remembers her youth, considers the crushing effects of the Great War, and reexamines her marriage.

• Never Anyone but You

  Thomson, Rupert

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  Fictionalizes the true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women and recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars.

• In at the Deep End

  Davies, Kate, 1983-

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  Enduring a dead-end job and three-year romantic dry spell, Julia accepts an invitation to a trendy warehouse party and rediscovers her sexuality as a lesbian before her new lover reveals a darker nature.

• The Awakening

  a Solitary Soul

  Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904

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  Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother, is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.

• The Line of Beauty

  a Novel

  Hollinghurst, Alan

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  Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by…Read moreRead more of this annotation