I'd like to nominate
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages. This is a short book (~220 pages) that is reasonably priced and readily available pretty much everywhere, and is DRM-free. I recently read it, and quite enjoyed it, as one of four LGBTQ books in a free Tor omnibus, but it's also available standalone.
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San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.
Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.
Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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AmazonUS - $3.99 USD
AmazonCA - $3.99 CAD
AmazonAU - $4.79 AUD
AmazonUK - £2.05 GBP
Overdrive - Yes
Audible - No