Auckland Council Libraries: PRIDE fiction

PRIDE fiction

A round-up of queer fiction reading recommendations.

Jay's Gay Agenda

Jason June

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Jay is the only out gay teen in his small town. While all his friends obsess about their straight relationships, Jay dreams of his own firsts, compiling a romance to-do list of all the things he hopes to one day experience-his Gay Agenda.

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Detransition, baby

Torrey. author. Peters

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Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship, a city apartment, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of middle-class comfort. The only thing missing was a child.

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Milk fed

Melissa Broder

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In this tale of appetites, Rachel maintains control by way of obsessive food rituals during the day. At night, she pedals nowhere on her elliptical machine. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young woman intent upon feeding her.

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Greta & Valdin

Rebecca K. Reilly

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From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister Valdin and Greta and must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as navigate the storms of their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian family.

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Who was that woman, anyway?

Aorewa McLeod

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Ngaio goes from factory work to Oxford to rehab. Along the way, she discovers herself and her sexuality - at raucous parties, feminist encounter groups, Wiccan covens, in university classrooms and legendary sapphic hotspots.

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Under the whispering door

TJ Klune

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When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. But he's not ready to abandon the life he has barely lived, so he sets about living a fabulously queer lifetime in seven days.

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All systems red

Martha Wells

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A non-binary android discovers itself in this tense science fiction adventure. Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to watch TV, but everything changes when a neighbouring mission goes dark, and some painful truths are uncovered.

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The priory of the orange tree

Samantha Shannon

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Queen Sabran the Ninth of the Royal House of Berethnet must conceive a daughter to protect her realm and her subjects. She has two major problems: assassins want to eliminate her, and she is seriously in love with her lady in-waiting.

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The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her acting career. Decades of glamour and scandal. When she chooses unknown reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself.

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The sweetness of water

Nathan Harris

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At the end of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife Isabelle. An unexpected relationship develops.

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Real life

Brandon (Brandon L. G.) Taylor

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Almost everything about Wallace, a shy African-American from the south, is at odds with the rich, northern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. He can’t pretend to be white, but can he pretend to be straight?

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The guncle

Steven Rowley

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A warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him looking after his niece and nephew for the summer. Prepare for fabulous chaos!

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Nancy business

R. W. R. (Rob W. R.) McDonald

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Intrepid sleuths the Nancys are re-formed when Riverstone is rocked by an explosion that kills three people and destroys the town hall. Once again, it’ll be up to the Nancys to go against the flow, and ignore police orders, to get to the truth.

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