THE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOKS EVERY MONTH
You are valid • You are loved • You exist in the literary canon
…and we want to share that joy with you!
This box is a one-off. It’s a curated selection of books and related items which we’ve designed to say ‘hey, we see you, we got you, and there’s a community of bookish queers ready and waiting for you’
Gift this to yourself, or to someone you love.
In this box you’ll find two books, one young adult and one adult contemporary, as well as bookmarks and postcards with quotes from queer books that we love, pins, stickers, a hat, an A5 notebook and a Pride map of the world. There is also a booklet which tells you why we chose these books for you, more about the authors, further reading recommendations and the queer creatives behind the fun items in your box. It won’t necessarily be exactly what’s in this photo, but it will be very similar. Same vibes.
The books in this box:
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare.
“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today.
Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.
Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam—by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family—and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.
Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche—both sacred and profane.