Stray City
By: Chelsey Johnson
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed."-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed."-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
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1. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
2. Valencia
By: Michelle Tea
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled… read more
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- novels
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
3. Rubyfruit Jungle
By: Rita Mae Brown
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
4. The Road to Wellville
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much… read more
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5. Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
By: Hannah Hart
3.14
Format: 32 pages, ebook
The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Timesbestseller My Drunk Kitchen … read more
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6. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
7. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
8. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
By: Lou Sullivan
4.76
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
9. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
10. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
11. The Summer of Everything
By: Julian Winters
3.75
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Comic book geek Wesley Hudson excels at two things: slacking off at his job and pining after his be… read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Don't carry today into tomorrow."-Julian Winters, The Summer of Everything
"If the worst thing you do in this lifetime is fall in love with your best friend, then I'd say you're doing pretty damn good."-Julian Winters, The Summer of Everything
12. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By: T Kira Madden
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
13. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
14. Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World
By: Isabel Gillies
3.28
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, Isabel Gillies, presents a fresh and in… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
15. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
16. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more
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- audiobook
17. Stray City
By: Chelsey Johnson
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- adult
- queer
"Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed."-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"Maybe Flynn at thirty was still becoming, I realized. Maybe the Flynn I loved was on the way out. Or maybe the Flynn. I loved hadn't been around for some time now. It was easy to mistake proximity fo…"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"I seldom even thought of myself as woman or girl, just person. Just human. I only became girl or woman when men walked into the room or I walked into theirs, when that gaze hit me like a hot breath. …"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
18. Old Enough
By: Haley Jakobson
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
19. The Burning Girl
By: Claire Messud
3.25
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including the… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"It's a different story depending on where you start: who's good, who's bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I w…"-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
"You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable in…"-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
20. The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more
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- audiobook
21. That Kind of Mother
By: Rumaan Alam
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
22. Big Girl
By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils―and undeniable be… read more
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- lgbt
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
23. When Katie Met Cassidy
By: Camille Perri
3.10
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Do you like girls? Is. That. A. Thing. You. Do?"-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy
"in such a setting a female body in a tuxedo- a tuxedo without a plunging neckline or cropped bottoms paired with stiletto heels, but a proper men’s tux- confused the hell out of people"-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy
"this larger than life space was in fact just a room like any other. It struck Katie then how much it was about the people who filled a space with drama and personality, with love and grudges and out-…"-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy
24. The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed
By: Noreen Mughees
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev and Uzma Jalaluddin, Noreen Mughees’s sparkling debut novel reunites… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
26. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
27. Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation
By: Hilary Kinavey
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves. Have y… read more
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- audiobook
28. Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
By: Yusef Salaam
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison … read more
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- audiobook
"No matter what life has taken you through...try to live full and die empty."-Yusef Salaam, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
29. When Brooklyn Was Queer
By: Hugh Ryan
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
30. There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
By: Casey Gerald
3.73
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most ur… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"And the primary if not only difference between the liberals and the illiberals on this issue is that the American alt-right and France's National Front and Germany's National Democratic Party (I have…"-Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
31. Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
By: Elsa Sjunneson
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies,… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Did you know that Helen Keller created her own form of sign language to communicate with her family? (Page 32)"-Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
"Most Deaf kids have home signs; they develop their own ways to get what they need. I have my own, too. My colleagues in the science fiction world who sign can get my attention, can communicate with m…"-Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
"The English language is perniciously ableist. We speak in metaphor that constantly puts down disabled bodies, with phrases like "turning a blind eye" and "it fell on deaf ears" falling from our lips …"-Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
