Inverse Cowgirl
By: Alicia Roth Weigel
3.80
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and …
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1. Born Both: An Intersex Life
By: None
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
"Fierce, brave, and a clarion call to celebrate our differences."---People From one of the world's… read more
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2. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. 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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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"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
4. 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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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
5. Burning Butch
By: R/B Mertz
4.39
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans / non-binary butch on a quest to survive conservat… read more
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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe."-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
"How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t."-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
"Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had …"-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
"Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her o…"-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch
6. 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
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- 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
7. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- queer lit
- adult
- audiobook
8. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
9. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
By: Amy Schneider
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! —and a… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"I deprived myself of a joy in my life, because it was a joy only girls were allowed to feel. Life already seemed to be full of joys that one wasn't allowed to feel, so adding one more to the pile cam…"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
10. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"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
11. 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
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
12. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
13. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
14. We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
By: Tre’vell Anderson
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-mom… read more
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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
16. Inverse Cowgirl
By: Alicia Roth Weigel
3.80
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- intersex
- lgbt
- politics
- queer lit
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
17. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
18. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
By: Pidgeon Pagonis
4.37
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- intersex
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Hey, hey, listen,"-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
19. 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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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. A Shot in the Dark
By: Victoria Lee
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An emotionally powerful romance novel about two people finding love after struggling with addiction… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
21. These Letters End in Tears
By: Musih Tedji Xaviere
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wren… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- queer
