Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
By: Paul Baker
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. I…
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1. The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
By: Andrew Taylor
3.75
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historic… read more
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- historical
"One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark."-Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)
2. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.34
Format: 247 pages, ebook
*** A Sunday Times Bestseller *** In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way… read more
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- history
- gay
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- historical
- nonfiction
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"The love that dares not speak its name has never stopped talking."-Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
"Sexuality was a fluid, infinitely malleable and indefinite condition. It permeated the streets of London like the smell of pies and sweetmeats."-Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
3. De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde , Hesketh Pearson
4.37
Format: None pages,
This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammatic genius which capture… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
By: Kory Stamper
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "… read more
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5. The Weird Sisters
By: Eleanor Brown
4.20
Format: None pages,
A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters, the power of books, and the places w… read more
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6. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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7. London Triptych
By: Jonathan Kemp
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds a life… read more
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8. Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
By: Roger Clarke
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henr… read more
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9. The Orton Diaries
By: John Lahr , Joe Orton
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to b… read more
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10. Creepy Archives, Vol. 1
By: Ambrose Bierce , Gray Morrow , Edgar Allan Poe , Bram Stoker , Roy G. Krenkel , Archie Goodwin , Shawna Gore , None , Al Williamson , Bill Pearson , Reed Crandall , Joe Orlando , Otto Binder , Alden McWilliams , Jack Davis , Frank Frazetta , None , None , None , Larry Ivie , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest dep… read more
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11. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- gay
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- nonfiction
- queer
12. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- queer
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13. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- nonfiction
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14. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
15. Radical Love
By: Neil Blackmore
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more
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- historical
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16. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- queer
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
17. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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18. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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- historical
19. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
20. Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
By: Paul Baker
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. I… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
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21. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- history
22. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
23. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
By: Sherronda J. Brown
4.53
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an … read more
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- history
- queer
- lgbt
24. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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- historical
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
25. You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here
By: Frances Macken
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but it’s cleverer, darker, mo… read more
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26. Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
By: Amelia Abraham
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
27. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- history
28. Dangerous Remedy (Battalion of the Dead, #1)
By: Kat Dunn
3.49
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aris… read more
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29. The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story
By: Sean O'Connor
3.89
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
In 1928, Eric and Mabel Smith arrived from India to take over the lonely parish of Borley on the no… read more
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30. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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31. We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain
By: Daniel Sonabend
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War IIIn 1946 ma… read more
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- history
