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29 books

Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson

Voice Like a Hyacinth

Mallory Pearson

367 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
fiction lgbtqia+ thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Here After by Amy Lin

Here After

Amy Lin

257 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson

We Ate the Dark

Mallory Pearson

444 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan

Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

279 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
fiction contemporary literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Ada Calhoun

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

192 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth

The Locked Tomb #2

Tamsyn Muir

512 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

The New Wilderness

Diane Cook

416 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
fiction dystopian literary adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0cecil_reads's review
nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced