Adult Fiction Books
A Select List of Brown County Library Adult Fiction Books Click on each title below to see the library's catalog record. Then click on the title in the record for details, current availability, or to place a hold. For additional books and items on this theme, ask your librarian or search the library’s online catalog.
Contemporary and Historical Fiction: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Carol by Patricia Highsmith (originally published as The Price of Salt) The Color Purple by Alice Walker Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Hours by Michael Cunningham The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Less by Andrew Sean Greer Lot by Bryan Washington Maurice by E. M. Forster Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett My Lady’s Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zagerias The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Made by the Brown County Library 7/19 *=First in a series
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Orlando by Virginia Woolf Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Ruby Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner Tack and Jibe by Lilah Suzanne Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin* The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall You Exist Too Much by Zania Arafat
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James* The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Neon Yang* The Deep by Rivers Solomon and Daveed Diggs Docile by K. M. Szpara The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire* Finna by Nino Cipri* Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir* Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Her Silhouette Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
Made by the Brown County Library 7/19 *=First in a series
The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers* A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine* Miranda in Milan by Katherine Duckett The Outside by Ada Hoffmann The Perfect Assassin by K. A. Doore* Prey of the Gods by Nicky Drayden Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey* The Seep by Chana Porter Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh* Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson The True Queen by Zen Cho Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed. by Bogi Takács An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Witchmark by C. J. Polk*
Mystery/Thriller/Suspense: The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco Deadline for Murder by Val McDermid Death of Friends by Michael Nava Death Trick by Richard Stevenson* Faint Praise by Ellen Hart* The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka* Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (also Fantasy)
Made by the Brown County Library 7/19 *=First in a series
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell (also Science Fiction)*
Graphic Novels: Bingo Love by Tee Franklin Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn Kim and Kim by Magdalene Visaggio Exit Stage Left: the Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Waves by Ingrid Chabbert What Did You Eat Yesterday? by Fumi Yoshinaga When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable’s annual Rainbow Book List: https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/rainbow-books-lists American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable’s annual Stonewall Award for Youth Books: http://www.ala.org/rt/glbtrt/award/stonewall GLAAD Media Awards: https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards Lambda Literary Awards: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards
Made by the Brown County Library 7/19 *=First in a series