Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By: Robert W. Fieseler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme…
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1. The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone, #10)
By: Steve Berry
3.97
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were pr… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"...Remember, the second mouse to the trap is the one who always gets the cheese."-Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone, #10)
2. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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- nonfiction
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- lgbt
- queer
3. Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome
By: Bob Madgic , None , None
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
The compelling account of recklessness, tragedy, courage, and rescue, this book's sobering depictio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the Cityrolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliv… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
By: Emily R. Mayhew
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is … read more
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- historical
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- history
6. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
By: Kate Summerscale
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
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7. Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
By: Louis Armstrong , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the… read more
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8. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
9. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
10. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By: Elon Green
3.84
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more
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11. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
By: Sesali Bowen
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-bre… read more
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12. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
13. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
By: Casey Cep
3.77
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on ob… read more
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"There’s no news in a newsroom"-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
"Vengeance is as old as violence."-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
"History isn’t what happens, but what gets written down."-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
"Monroeville was hard to get to and easy to get stuck in."-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
14. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By: Robert W. Fieseler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme… read more
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- american history
- history
- true crime
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- nonfiction
- crime
- queer
15. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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16. Alien, Vol. 1: Thaw
By: Declan Shalvey
3.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Declan Shalvey and Andrea Broccardo take the ALIEN franchise to bone-chilling new depths! Talbot En… read more
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17. Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland
By: Issac J. Bailey
3.91
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. … read more
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18. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
By: Paula Yoo
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers… read more
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19. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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20. A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution
By: Martin Padgett
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An electric and intimate story of 1970s gay Atlanta through its bedazzling drag clubs and burgeonin… read more
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21. The Other Mothers
By: Jennifer Berney
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Jenn Berney and her wife decided they wanted to have children, they took the next logical step… read more
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