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10 best books like Coming and Crying (Melissa Gira Grant): Memento & Following, Young Liars, Vol. 1: Daydream Believer, Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Sugar Rush, Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America, Holding Still For As Long As Possible, Frankenstein's Womb, Talk Dirty to Me, McSweeney's #32, And the Heart Says Whatever

Memento & Following
AuthorChristopher J. Nolan
ISBN0571210473
Christopher Nolan's Memento is an intricate, original, fascinating thriller, hailed by Philip French of the Observer as 'one of the year's most exciting pictures'. Its protagonist Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a puzzle, even to himself. He sports the trappings of an expensive lifestyle, yet he lives in...
Young Liars, Vol. 1: Daydream Believer
AuthorDavid Lapham
ISBN1401219780
From the cover:

"A firecracker of a book... Lightning in a bottle." -- Ain't It Cool News

"Reads like a great rock song sounds." -- Variety.com

"Meh. Garth Ennis does crazy better." -- Seizure Romero

Ok, I'm lying about the last one. Nobody asked me. I mean, I ignore...
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
AuthorLillian Faderman
ISBN0140172483
In Chloe Plus Olivia Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in historical and literary context. This landmark...
Sugar Rush
AuthorJulie Burchill
ISBN0330415832
Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix! It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising...
Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America
AuthorNatasha Vargas-Cooper
ISBN0061991007
Ok, I admit it--I'm hooked on the TV series Mad Men. The Emmy-winning show offers a look back to what my life was like. Well, only in my imagination. Actually, I was just a pre-teenager, had never even been near New York city, was never, ever going to be able to fill out a dress like Joanie, and nobody I knew...
Holding Still For As Long As Possible
AuthorZoe Whittall
ISBN0887842348
What is it like to grow into adulthood with the war on terror as your defining political memory, with SARS and Hurricane Katrina as your backdrop? In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of a generation we've rarely seen in...
Frankenstein's Womb
AuthorWarren Ellis
ISBN1592910599
In the weird darkness of 1816, when a volcanic winter yielded a "year without a summer," Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin began writing the novel Frankenstein on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But the true story of Frankenstein began months earlier when Mary, alongside future husband Percy Shelley...
Talk Dirty to Me
AuthorSallie Tisdale
ISBN0385468555
We live in a world in which almost every public image—every interaction—carries an element of sexual desire. And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex. Talk Dirty to Me is author Sallie Tisdale's frank, funny, and provocative invitation to the conversation we've...
McSweeney's #32
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1934781355
Because it seemed important to know in advance, we've dedicated Issue 32 to an investigation of the world to come--expect a set of near-future stories, written by the likes of Anthony Doerr, Heidi Julavits, and Salvador Plascencia, each of 'em unearthing a different corner of life in the year 2024....
And the Heart Says Whatever
AuthorEmily Gould
ISBN1439123896
my latest CCLaP review!


Emily Gould was, for me and like every other girl of my age & demographic, the most fascinating and brilliant Gawker writer in the mid-2000s. Those were the years, my early twenties, during which I was unhealthily obsessed with that site, the same years that...
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
AuthorMarc Weingarten
ISBN1400049830
This is an incredibly interesting book, especially the beginning, which explains how writers such as Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens were precursors to the "new journalists" who came of age in the 1960s. I would highly recommend this book, even though I had many issues with it. The first is that it...
Men and Feminism: Seal Studies
AuthorShira Tarrant
ISBN1580052584
There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply...
The Girl Who Couldn't Come
AuthorJoey Comeau
ISBN1460920147
this is one of those books that is on the lower end of my three-star rating system. and it pains me to declare that, since i do loves me some joey comeau. but this is a collection of his sexxy stories, by which i of course mean his sexxy-gross stories, because this is joey comeau after all. and i'm just not into...
Sub Rosa
AuthorAmber Dawn
ISBN1551523612
In this stunning, Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision. Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is a teenaged runaway named "Little"; she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing...
My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home
AuthorAmber L. Hollibaugh
ISBN0822326191
Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty years of Hollibaugh’s...
You Private Person
AuthorRichard Chiem
Ridiculously good. It reads like poetry, and the author's mastery of speed and cadence is spectacular. I particularly liked "What If, Wendy" and "Planet B Boy." Richard Chiem's style is really unique and his way of writing without simile is awesome, as he just links words and ideas and feelings with...
Getting Away With It
AuthorSteven Soderbergh
ISBN0571190251
Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester are a generation apart, but theyshare a sense of humour and a passion for cinema. Soderbergh's freshman film, sex, lies and videotape, inaugurated a movementin US independent cinema. Lester's freewheeling work in the '60s and '70s (Help!, A Hard Day's Night,...
Feast: Generous Vegetarian Meals for Any Eater and Every Appetite
AuthorSarah Copeland
ISBN1452129606
Vegetables never tasted better than in these richly flavored, satisfying vegetarian meals from Sarah Copeland, whose Newlywed Cookbook has become a trusted resource in the kitchens of thousands of new cooks. In her latest cookbook, Copeland showcases a global range of flavors, from the peppery...
I’m Coming
AuthorSelma Lønning Aarø
ISBN1770899847
In a society where we discuss sex openly, the most embarrassing secret is to admit that you can’t make “it” happen. I’m Coming is a hilarious and provocative novel about why women fake it.

Ever since her sexual debut, Julie has faked orgasms. One day she decides she’s had enough and...
The Sex Bible: The Complete Guide to Sexual Love
AuthorSusan Crain Bakos
ISBN1592332277
The Sex Bible is an authoritative, comprehensive, and beautifully photographed sex resource book that provides in-depth treatment of sexual topics in frank detail. The book is arranged into different sections, for example, "Foreplay", "Sex Toys", "Oral Sex". It explores sexual subjects you are...
Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball
AuthorWill Leitch
ISBN1401323707
A hilarious tribute to baseball and to the fathers and sons who share the love of the game.

Are We Winning? is built around a trip to Wrigley Field to watch the St. Louis Cardinals play the Chicago Cubs--the "lovable losers" to most fans but the hated enemy to the Leitch men. Along for the ride are...
Faker
AuthorMike Carey
ISBN1401216633
Freshman year of college is the ultimate time for reinvention -- except when you can't physically justify why you even exist. This is the case for Nick Philo. The only thing that reassures him that he's not going crazy is that his best friends seem to know him. Or do they? Chock full of ruthless characters...
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