Books like Fairyland by Alysia Abbott

Nineteen‑year‑old huntress Feyre is summoned to a dangerous faerie realm where she discovers love, magic, and an ancient threat that could destroy everything she holds dear.

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

A young man named Tristran Thorn vows to find a lost love by crossing a forbidden wall into the starry sky, where a mysterious meteor unveils a fantastical journey through Cornwall’s ancient legends.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

An insightful non‑fiction history of Pixar Animation Studios, tracing its rise from a 1982 Lucasfilm experiment to a $7.4 billion Disney icon, focusing on key figures such as John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and corporate dynamics with Disney.

A San Francisco-based florist with a gift for interpreting flowers transforms the lives of those around her while confronting her own painful past.

Saeed Jones’ memoir, winner of the Kirkus Prize and Stonewall Book Award, traces the journey of a young black gay man from the South as he navigates family, love, and identity across America.

A whimsical adventure for young readers featuring royalty, magical creatures, and dragons, blending humor and fantasy into a memorable tale.

For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic story anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013, and beyond. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares for the first time his journey as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional understanding of what it means to be an American. He tells the story of the call from the White House committee and all the exhilaration and upheaval of the days that followed. He reveals the inspiration and challenges behind the creation of the inaugural poem, “One Today,” as well as two other poems commissioned for the occasion (“Mother Country” and “What We Know of Country”), published here for the first time ever, alongside translations of all three of those poems into his native Spanish. Finally, Blanco reflects on his life-changing role as a public voice since the inauguration, his spiritual embrace of Americans everywhere, and his vision for poetry’s new role in our nation’s consciousness. Like the inaugural poem itself, For All of Us, One Today speaks to what makes this country and its people great, marking a historic moment of hope and promise in our evolving American landscape.

A candid memoir of growing up gay in pre-Stonewall America, exploring the struggle to 'cure' oneself through psychotherapy.

A biography that reveals the hidden life of Samuel M. Steward—novelist, poet, professor, and post‑Stonewall tattoo artist—through unpublished diaries and research correspondence, illustrating early homosexual existence in America.

An intimate and absorbing biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's former lover, focusing on his life after the famous trial and his conversion to Catholicism.

A coming-of-age story of a gay man struggling to be a straight man, from the 1950s to the present day.

Howard Brown’s first‑hand testimony as a former senior health‑services official, reflecting on life as a gay man in America with clarity and honesty.

Newton Arvin, a Smith College professor known for groundbreaking literary studies, struggled with McCarthyism and betrayed his friends after a raid on his apartment.

In 1989, poet Mark Doty confronts grief when his long‑time partner, Wally Roberts, dies of AIDS, turning memoir, journal and elegy into a poignant tribute to love and loss.

"The Inheritance of Shame" recounts Peter Gajdics’s six‑year ordeal in a British Columbia conversion‑therapy program, set against a family history marked by war, incarceration, and trauma, and explores the lasting effects of repressive practices on identity and resilience.

An intimate memoir of Cuban‑American poet Richard Blanco, tracing his journey from childhood in Miami to embracing his identity as a gay, culturally hybrid artist and the first Latino inaugural poet.