The beloved author of Don’t Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiveness and perseverance.
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Pride 2025 - Adult Fiction
June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month! Celebrate with these compelling fiction books for adults. Read with pride!
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Newmarket Public Library
14 items
Isaac's Song
a Novel
- Newly single Avery wants to embrace her desire to date women but has no idea where to start, so she enlists notorious flirt Taylor for "flirting lessons." As their weekly sessions evolve into genuine connection, both women must confront their…
- The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits. Enter James Harding, Christopher’s new valet. The two strike up a fragile friendship amid the throes of the London Season . . . a friendship…
- In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. The family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. But when Esther rejects a forceful…
- An unforgettable and heartwarming debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students.
- Torn between her girlfriend, Magdu, and her best friend, Daphne, Finn is looking forward to a day of rock climbing and bonding for the three women on the soaring cliffs near their Australian town. But nothing goes as she planned, and in a horrific…
- Equal parts bravado, tenderness, and humor, and bursting with misfits, magicians, musicians, and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community,…
- After losing his job, Darby returns to his hometown and discovers that his old high school bookstore is a magical portal to 2009, where he can interact with his pre-transition teenage self. This enchanting novel explores identity, self-discovery,…
- Funny, sharp, and poignant, Disappoint Me is a sweeping exploration of love, loss, trans panic, race, millennial angst, and the relationships—familial and romantic—that make us who we are.
- At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form a portrait of a family navigating a period of great change―a reimagined epic for our times.
- In a remote English village in 2002, shy sixteen-year-old James grapples with his burgeoning queer desires, feeling alienated from his family and community. His world shifts with the arrival of Luke, a slightly older, enigmatic boy who stirs a…
- Ethan and Gabe's marriage is tested when Ethan announces his congressional run as a Republican, while Nicole rekindles a romance with Ethan's sister Kate, a political reporter whose life spirals as family and career collide.
- A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination.
- A piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality, love and violence.
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