Eighty-Sixed

9 best books like Eighty-Sixed (David B. Feinberg): Strong Poison, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Shopgirl, The Lost Language of Cranes, Dancer from the Dance, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Ballad of Beta 2, The Dreaming Jewels, Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible

Strong Poison

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0060809086

I'm sorry, Hercule Poirot. There's a new literary detective in my life, and while I will always cherish your silly Belgian antics, Lord Peter Wimsey just understands my needs better - he makes me laugh so much more than you do, and he has that sincerity that you lack.

Now don't cry, Hercule. It's...

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Author	Jeanette Winterson
ISBN	1473563259

From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...

Shopgirl

Author	Steve Martin
ISBN	0786891076

Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She attempts to forge a relationship with middle-aged, womanizing, Seattle millionaire...

The Lost Language of Cranes

Author	David Leavitt
ISBN	1582345732

David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss.

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip,...

Dancer from the Dance

Author	Andrew Holleran
ISBN	0060937068

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard...

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	0060790598

The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity.

Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art...

The Ballad of Beta 2

Author

Samuel R. Delany

Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached their destinations. Two had failed-and nobody, in the hundreds of years since the disaster, had the slightest inkling of what had happened.
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The Dreaming Jewels

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0575071400

Eight-year-old Horty Bluett is mocked by his classmates & abused by his adoptive parents until the day his father severs three of his fingers. He runs away, taking only a gem-eyed doll he calls Junky, & joins a carnival. Finding acceptance at last, Horty never dreams that Junky is more than a...

Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible

Author	Renita J. Weems
ISBN	0446578940

The "Essence" bestselling author of "Listening for God" reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sisters—and how to live a better life because of it..