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Under the Whispering Door
Wallace Price was a workaholic lawyer who didn’t particularly like people. Then he died. Now he’s at a tea shop run by a ferryman named Hugo, somehow falling in love with being alive for the first time. Warm, funny, and genuinely moving. A novel about showing up for your own life.
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Book Review: The Price of Salt (Carol)
Published under a pseudonym in 1952 because no publisher would touch it otherwise, The Price of Salt gave lesbian readers something almost unheard of at the time: a love story that didn’t end in punishment. Therese and Carol, 1950s New York. A landmark of queer literature.
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Lie With Me
A French writer looks back on a secret teenage love affair from the 1980s. Thomas Andrieu was everything he wanted and couldn’t have. Lie With Me is slim, precise, and quietly heartbreaking, a novel that understands exactly how much damage a love you can’t name can do.
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Book Review: Giovanni’s Room
David is an American in Paris, engaged to a woman, and falling in love with Giovanni, a bartender he cannot stop thinking about. Baldwin’s 1956 novel is still one of the most honest books ever written about desire, cowardice, and the cost of refusing to live truthfully.
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Book Review: Call Me By Your Name
One summer in Italy. Elio is seventeen. Oliver arrives as a houseguest and stays long enough to change everything. Andre Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name is a novel about desire so precisely rendered it almost hurts to read. The kind of book that makes the past feel close enough to touch.