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Brittany works in health research in addition to being a bookseller at Charis. She is passionate about queer activism, sex worker rights, and prison abolitionism. A Capricorn Sun, Aries ascendant, and moon in Pisces. She enjoys horror movies, gritty queer novels, and reading poetry to her plants. 

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Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse By Brontez Purnell Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374612696
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Published: MCD - February 13th, 2024

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I've Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along for the intimate ride, and paused only once to write down a part I’d been looking for my whole life." —Miranda July


Death Valley: A Novel By Melissa Broder Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781668024843
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Published: Scribner - October 3rd, 2023

From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

In Melissa Broder’s astonishingly profound new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her.


Down the Drain By Julia Fox Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781668011508
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 10th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.


Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film


Love and Money, Sex and Death By McKenzie Wark Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781804292617
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Published: Verso - September 26th, 2023

A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, motherhood and memory, in this provocative epistolary memoir for readers of Olivia Laing’s Everybody

A breathtaking memoir of transition, history, art, and memory


Natural Beauty: A Novel By Ling Ling Huang Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593472927
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Published: Dutton - April 4th, 2023

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.


Maeve Fly By CJ Leede Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250857859
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Published: Tor Nightfire - June 6th, 2023

A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire) • An Indie Next Pick!

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."—Stephen Graham Jones


Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose By Leigh Cowart Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781541798038
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Published: PublicAffairs - July 18th, 2023

An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers

Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre.


Vampires of El Norte By Isabel Cañas Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593436721
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Published: Berkley - August 15th, 2023

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.


Daddy Boy By Emerson Whitney Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781952119521
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Published: McSweeney's - June 27th, 2023

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they'd been with for ten years--a dominatrix they called Daddy. Living in a tent in the backyard of their marital home, Emerson was startled to realize they didn't know what it meant to be an adult. "We often look to our gender roles as a sort of map for aging," they write.


Ripe: A Novel By Sarah Rose Etter Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9781668011638
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Published: Scribner - July 11th, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A Time Must-Read Book of 2023 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection * A Marie Claire Book Club Pick

A surreal novel with “a dark, delicious edge” (Time) about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she’s willing to give up for succe


Open Throat: A Novel By Henry Hoke Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780374609870
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Published: MCD - June 6th, 2023

Finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023. One of The New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2023.

Open Throat is what fiction should be.” The New York Times Book Review


Sirens & Muses: A Novel By Antonia Angress Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593496459
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Published: Ballantine Books - July 11th, 2023

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut


Dykette: A Novel By Jenny Fran Davis Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250843135
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 16th, 2023

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by VogueNamed a Best Book of 2023 (So Far) by CosmopolitanNamed a Best Book of Spring 2023 by EsquireNamed a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and Them


Acts of Desperation By Megan Nolan Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316429832
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 27th, 2022

"A love story like no other."Karl Ove Knausgaard

"Hot as viscera."
The New Republic

A "blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us.

Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?

In the first scene of this pr


Big Swiss: A Novel By Jen Beagin Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781982153090
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Published: Scribner - August 1st, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE

“Wild…hilarious…so good.” —Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * “A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong.” —Oprah Daily * “Always interesting…too fun to stop.” —Vanity Fair

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The Haunting of Alejandra: A Novel By V. Castro Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593499696
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Published: Del Rey - April 18th, 2023

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review).


Bimboland By Erin Taylor Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781576879917
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Published: Archway Editions - December 6th, 2022

An astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money from writer and poet Erin Taylor.

Erin Taylor’s Bimboland is an astute and confident debut, balancing, in their blistering and tender style, their life as a sex worker and socialist politics.


Ponyboy: A Novel By Eliot Duncan Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781324051220
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 13th, 2023

Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming.


Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth By Pamela Anderson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063226562
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Published: Dey Street Books - January 31st, 2023

The actress, activist, and once infamous Playboy Playmate reclaims the narrative of her life in a memoir that defies expectation in both content and approach, blending searing prose with snippets of original poetry.


A Minor Chorus: A Novel By Billy-Ray Belcourt Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781324021421
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 4th, 2022

Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.


Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) By Cookie Mueller, Olivia Laing (Introduction by), Hedi El Kholti (Editor), Chris Kraus (Editor), Amy Scholder (Editor) Cover Image
By Cookie Mueller, Olivia Laing (Introduction by), Hedi El Kholti (Editor), Chris Kraus (Editor), Amy Scholder (Editor)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781635901665
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Published: Semiotext(e) - April 26th, 2022

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.


Raving (Practices) By McKenzie Wark Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781478019381
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Published: Duke University Press - March 14th, 2023

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures.


Tell Me I'm Worthless By Alison Rumfitt Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250866233
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Published: Tor Nightfire - January 17th, 2023

Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.


X: A Novel By Davey Davis Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781646220939
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Published: Catapult - June 28th, 2022

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City, X is a novel that delves into the psyches of characters on the margins


Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology By Sadie Hartmann (Editor), Ashley Saywers (Editor), Christopher Golden (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Sadie Hartmann (Editor), Ashley Saywers (Editor), Christopher Golden (Foreword by)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781958598009
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Published: Dark Matter Ink - October 18th, 2022

35 BRAND NEW TALES OF TERROR



Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind By Fariha Roisin Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9780063077089
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Published: Harper - June 14th, 2022

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.


It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror By Joe Vallese (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Contribution by), Bruce Owens Grimm (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Joe Vallese (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Contribution by), Bruce Owens Grimm (Contribution by)
$25.95
ISBN: 9781952177798
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Published: Feminist Press - October 4th, 2022

Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings.


Nightbitch: A Novel By Rachel Yoder Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593312148
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Published: Anchor - July 5th, 2022

In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture