Looking for recommendations of fiction novels that are relatively fast-paced with some LGBTQ+ representation (doesn't have to be explicitly queer). Some of my recent favorite books are On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Blackouts by Justin Torres, and Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
I love literary fiction, mysteries, thrillers, dystopian science fiction, and short stories. All suggestions are welcome!!
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*Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel* by Emma Pérez and *Into the Beautiful North* by Luis Alberto Urrea come to mind.
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane is great, it’s kind of similar to *Chain Gang,* it’s literary dystopian fiction where comitting a crime gives you an extra shadow, a new mom is raising her daughter, they both have an extra shadow because her wife died in childbirth. Very moving and well written.
In Universes by Emet North read like short stories to me, each chapter imagines the same character in different universes, some of which are only slightly different, and others are more sci/fi dystopian. Very moving and beautifully written but also fast paced because each chapter is different.
Monstrillio is literary/horror and very unique! Parents lose their son and the mom carves out a piece of his lung that grows into a monster that they try to raise. Very gory but also super moving? Also a great exploration of grief and allegory for queerness.
If you haven’t read This is How You Lose The Time war that’s also a good rec for a novella length queer literary sci/fi.
our wives under the sea
love and other thought experiments
henry henry
she who became the sun
frankissstein: a love story
*This is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Beautiful, trippy, violent, and fucking beautiful.
Fried Green Tomatoes by Fanny Flagg