Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
By: Rowan Jette Knox
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,…
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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
2. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
3. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
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"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
4. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
5. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
6. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
7. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
8. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
10. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
11. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- canada
- queer
12. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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13. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
By: Rowan Jette Knox
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,… read more
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- memoir
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- lgbt
- transgender
- gender
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
14. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
By: Robyn Maynard
4.57
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
- audiobook
"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
15. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
16. Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
By: Mia Violet
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
With entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Being the funnyt person is an easy part to play when you hate yourself, because it feels like your whole life is a joke written by somebody else."-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
"If you don't know that being trans is even a concept, you're unlikely to realize there's a valid reason why you don't fit in-you just assume the problem is you."-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
"It was like I had grown up with a limiter on my emotions, blocking me from feeling anything too deeply-positive or negative-but finally it had been taken off. I was feeling things profoundly and mean…"-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
17. The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
By: Raquel Willis
4.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of tra… read more
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- queer
18. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
By: Daniel Allen Cox
3.57
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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19. Uranians: Stories
By: Theodore McCombs
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “… read more
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20. Out of the Dark
By: Julie Lawson
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A follow-up of the bestselling, Geoffrey Bilson Award — and Victoria Book Prize — nominated A Blind… read more
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21. Machine Without Horses
By: Helen Humphreys
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What is an ordinary life worth? A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is… read more
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