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PAGE BREAK PICKS - BOOK RECS
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items a list of our favorite fiction novels. PAGE BREAK picks are often debuts, around 250 pages, mostly feature New York based protagonists or stories, have amazing food references, and are often queer stories.
We love this novella, a self-aware self-drag (but not a satire) you can read in a couple of hours at your favorite fourth wave coffee shop. It'll have you looking in the mirror for long minutes wondering how Vincenzo so accurately captured in so few ...
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Paperback
I still can't believe I read this book two months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit NYC. I recently reread it in an attempt to understand what was happening in my brain during that time. I didn't help, but it did feel oddly comforting. I will always r...
Severance: A Novel
An NYC writer moves to her ex-girlfriend's trans commune in Indiana in an attempt to escape the demons chasing her. They follow her, as demons are famously not constricted by space or time! Chaos (and a lot of deep reflection on the lasting impact of...
Herculine | Book by Grace Byron | Official Publisher Page
A road trip novel for the ages!!!! We ate hot cheeto gnocchi inspired by this book. You'll think about the siblings in the motel for a long time. Don't drive drunk.
Make Sure You Die Screaming
An extremely online novel about sisterhood, anxiety, New York, and the feeling that something is incurably wrong with you but no one can tell you what that thing is and figuring it out yourself might make you actually crazy
Worry: A Novel | Hardcover
Model Home is an incredible queer take on the haunted house novel that explores familial bonds and the memories and places that haunt us from our childhoods. A great read around Halloween!
Model Home: A Novel by Rivers Solomon, Paperback
Open Throat opens with the line, “I've never eaten a human, but today I might.” The protagonist is a queer mountain lion in the hills of California. Slay, diva!
Open Throat: A Novel
FIRE EXIT is an unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.
Fire Exit: A Novel by Morgan Talty, Hardcover
One of my favorite novels from the past year. Set in a not-so-distant future in Denver, a floating weatherman presides over a slightly post apocalyptic society. We follow a woman who's trying to figure out what happened to her brother, and the love s...
There Are Reasons For This | Paperback
A stunning debut that follows two girlfriends growing up in the art scene in 90s downtown New York City, we read Lonely Crowds while canoeing through the Adirondack mountains.
Lonely Crowds: A Novel
A novel that crosses the boundaries of space and time. Slightly sci-fi and 100% full of heart, this is a love story, a queer story, and a story of resilience and revolution.
Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel
if you're gay, read this. if you're not, read this.
In Tongues: A Novel
A novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, resells Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind.
The Coin: A Novel
british! gold bars! barn parties! cancel culture! this little novella has it all
Universality: A Novel
A gorgeous debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest.
Great Black Hope: A Novel
This novel, our March PAGE BREAK pick, is INCREDIBLE. Night Night Fawn follows an aging yenta on her deathbed, recounting her life full of disappointments, including her trans child. The book is heartbreaking, humorous, enlightened, and so well writt...
Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg: 9780593448007