The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS.

"One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years." Dewi, a former sought-after prostitute, walks back to her house and is reunited with her daughter, Beauty, who she had prayed would be born ugly. The novel slips back in time to Dewi's childhood, covering most of Indonesian history from 1940 to the present.

Isherwood captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires―this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Migration of the Depression era, from the postwar civil rights, feminist, and gay liberation movements, to the unabashedly complex sexual explorations of the present day, Black Like Us accomplishes a sweeping survey of 20th century literature.

Combines the horror of the Salem witch trials with the philosophy and poetry of the nun and writer known as the first feminist of the Americas, Sor Juana Iňs de la Cruz.

After enduring an injury during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends a conscientious objector serving as an orderly and their friendship blooms into a discreet romance.

Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.

The lives of three women--transgender and cisgender--collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires.

After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity.

Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can`t die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son--are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem.

A depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to "a game of emotional chairs" in a novel initially condemned for its frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society.

A lesbian Victoriana suspense novel with pickpockets, orphans, grim prisons, and lunatic asylums.

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.

A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.

Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism, bending the genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies

Kansas City, 1925. Ivoe Williams is a black lesbian journalist and has been elected secretary of the Association of Journalists Representing African Diaspora. When no paper will hire her, she and her partner establish their own.

Award winning novels and stories with LGBTQIA+ themes, from one of America's best Science Fiction writers.

For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his tribe, the Ojibwe. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety, but these facts are bound up in his own secret.

Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed.

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.

Published in 1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male desire.

Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war.

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way―except that his is homosexual.

Describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture.

Narrator Cal, an hermaphrodite, takes the reader back to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Cal's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set the narrator's life in motion.

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay

The controversial book is purportedly the first instance of a novel in which the main character undergoes a clinical sex-change. Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.

Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force, has become a classic of modernist and lesbian literature since its first publication in 1936. Set in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna during the decadent period between the two World Wars, Nightwood belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother which unearths a family's history that began Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity.

The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles,

Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story and a modern woman three centuries later.

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how. A queer, feminist masterpiece inspired by Mary Shelley's classic.

When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.

A singular and stunning debut novel about the relationship between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.

A handsome, seductive, sociopathic sailor who has linked the act of theft and murder into a ritual of mystical transcendence.

Derek's father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy. Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge.

A novel on a Jewish community in 19th century Poland. It is centered on four women--one is barren, another gives birth to a child out of wedlock, a third emigrates to America, a fourth has a son arrested for revolutionary activity.

Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America-and living happily ever after. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize for that.

When Alma flees with her young lover to Texas to escape an arranged marriage with an older man, she sets in motion a drama that will put the sisters and their legacy at risk. Pilar, a 14-year-old tomboy, is offered as a replacement bride, and what follows is a courtship and marriage clouded by the black magic of her husband’s former lover, Consuelo.

Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.

When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off.

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize . Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. The Vegetarian is a Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman's struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.

Originally published in 1928, the story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by "polite" society.

In this novel, the unnamed narrator recounts the love triangle between himself and two other men in 1920's Charleston - a very repressive time when even a new dance was considered shocking enough to have people arrested.

A feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, describing the background to Mr Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress.

Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has the story itself been portrayed as victimized.