9 best-selling lgbt books like The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

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The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Free People's Village by Sim Kern , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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2. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

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3. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

Similar categories in Jehad Abusalim's Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
Cover of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill

4. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
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5. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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6. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
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8. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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9. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
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10. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

Similar categories in Ahed Tamimi's They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
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11. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • adult
  • fiction
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12. Against the Loveless World

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more

Similar categories in Susan Abulhawa's Against the Loveless World book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • adult
  • fiction
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

Cover of The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

13. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

Similar categories in Sim Kern's The Free People's Village book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • lgbt
  • politics
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Diablo's Curse book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

15. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

16. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine

By: Hannah Moushabeck

4.56

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them st… read more

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17. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

Similar categories in Yaffa As's Blood Orange book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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18. The Stars Too Fondly

By: Emily Hamilton

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of g… read more

Similar categories in Emily Hamilton's The Stars Too Fondly book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor by Andrew  Boyd

19. I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

By: Andrew Boyd

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With gl… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boyd's I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
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20. A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

By: Esther Farmer

4.68

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art A Land With a People is a book of stori… read more

Similar categories in Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • politics
  • social justice
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

21. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Sim Kern's The Free People's Village

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt

6 best-selling fiction books like The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

Transform Your Habits

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

John Wiswell

4.07

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Behind You Is the Sea

Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

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Against the Loveless World

Susan Abulhawa

4.50

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The Free People's Village

Sim Kern

4.13

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10 Top fiction books like Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

Zoulfa Katouh

4.50

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

4.09

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Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

4.20

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