Biography & Memoir
The Mare
Mary Gaitskill
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class
This is Pleasure
Mary Gaitskill
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season
Passing
Nella Larsen
A classic of the Harlem Renaissance reissued to coincide with the major Netflix adaptation of Passing (2021)
All of You Every Single One
Beatrice Hitchman
An exhilarating queer love story set in early twentieth-century Vienna
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS
To Walk Alone in the Crowd
Antonio Munoz Molina
The sheer energy of the digital metropolis – superb fiction from a Spanish master at the peak of his powers.
Lose Your Mother
Saidiya Hartman
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past
Sea Change
Alix Nathan
From the acclaimed author of The Warlow Experiment, the moving story of a mother and daughter separated in Regency England
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you.
Cwen
Alice Albinia
A storm, a disappearance, a band of women and a remote island where anything is possible…
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls
Nina Renata Aron
A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, code…
Man Enough to Be a Woman
Jayne County
The true story of trans punk performance art sensation Jayne County's wild and daring life
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai
The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career
Before the Ruins
Victoria Gosling
One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
From the critically acclaimed and Whiting Award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman comes a book about what freedom actually means – and wh…
And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA