Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
By: Amos Mac
4.71
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Independently published from 2009 to 2018, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationa…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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- queer
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Drag King Dreams
By: Leslie Feinberg
3.74
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of M… read more
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- transgender
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- queer lit
- gender and sexuality
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3. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
4. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- queer
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
5. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
By: Torrey Peters
4.12
Format: None pages,
In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more
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- queer lit
- queer
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6. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- gender
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9. 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
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10. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
11. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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12. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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13. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
14. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
15. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
16. 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
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- queer
- transgender
- 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
17. 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
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"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
18. 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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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- 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
19. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- lgbt
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- queer lit
- queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
20. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
21. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
22. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more
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"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
23. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
24. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
25. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
26. Female Husbands: A Trans History
By: Jen Manion
4.01
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
27. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
28. Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror
By: Lor Gislason
4.28
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
BOUND IN FLESH: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror brings together 13 trans and non-binary writers, … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
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- queer lit
- queer
"It wasn't a perfect body. It was chafed and scarred and bloody. But it was them. God, it was them."-Lor Gislason, Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror
"I wasn't going to be his doll anymore. I'd give him plenty of ways to play with me, but I was going to be this man's God."-Lor Gislason, Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror
29. Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
By: Amos Mac
4.71
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Independently published from 2009 to 2018, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationa… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- anthologies
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
30. Women: A Novella
By: Chloé Caldwell
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more
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- lgbt
"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
31. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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