Salt Fish Girl
10 best books like Salt Fish Girl (Larissa Lai): Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, He, She and It, Turning Darkness Into Light, Snow, Glass, Apples, Silver in the Wood, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, Sodom Road Exit, Midnight Robber, On Such a Full Sea, The People of Paper
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
| Author | Andrea Lawlor |
| ISBN | 0986086991 |
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0449220605 |
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah,...
Turning Darkness Into Light
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765377616 |
As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study.
When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1472262913 |
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
| Author | Emily Tesh |
| ISBN | 1250229790 |
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.
When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely...
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0525508805 |
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love comes to life in original speculative stories that challenge oppression and embrace inclusiveness--from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, and more.
For many Americans, imagining a bright...
| Author | Amber Dawn |
| ISBN | 1551527162 |
It's the summer of 1990 and Crystal Beach has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community that Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant...
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0446675601 |
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It's Carnival time, and the Carribean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the...
| Author | Chang-rae Lee |
| ISBN | 1594486107 |
Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.
On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity,...
| Author | Salvador Plascencia |
| ISBN | 0156032112 |
tl;dr review: High on style and imagination, low on substance.
Salvador Plascencia wanted the People of Paper (PoP) to make a smashing impression at the party. He went to great lengths to pick a dazzling dress, right accessories, make-up and all that. While this made for an eye-catching...
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
| Author | Ivan E. Coyote |
| ISBN | 1551523973 |
Lambda Literary Award finalist
American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue...
| Author | Monique Truong |
| ISBN | 0618446885 |
Binh, a Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as a galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Toklas...
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
| Author | Thomas Page McBee |
| ISBN | 1501168746 |
From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love” (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.
In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity...
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0312420137 |
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the...
| Author | Alexander Chee |
| ISBN | 0312305036 |
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but...
| Author | Chen Qiufan |
| ISBN | 0765389312 |
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.
Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they’ve created for...
| Author | Ariel Gore |
| ISBN | 1558614338 |
Spurred on by nineties “family values” campaigns and determined to better herself through education, a teen mom talks her way into college. Disgusted by an overabundance of phallocratic narratives and Freytag’s pyramid, she turns to a subcultural canon of resistance and failure. Wryly riffing...
Binti: The Complete Trilogy
Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka di Namib è una ragazza di etnia Himba, talmente brava in matematica e nella tecnica dell'astrolabio da venire selezionata per frequentare la prestigiosa Oomza University. È l'occasione della vita e così, nonostante la contrarietà della sua famiglia, e le radicate...
