5 Top biography books like Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling by Joshua Whitehead

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Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.27

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

A tender, eclectic reflection from an Indigenous author on his life, work, and queer identity. E…

If you liked the biography plot in Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling by Joshua Whitehead , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

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2. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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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

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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4. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

Similar categories in Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

5. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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6. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
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7. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

Similar categories in Ahed Tamimi's They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity by Leah Myers

8. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

By: Leah Myers

3.81

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more

Similar categories in Leah Myers's Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • indigenous
"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"You don't have the right to define my identity."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"She gave up herself and her identity for security."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

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9. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's This Wound Is a World book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • queer
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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10. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
Cover of The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman

11. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

By: Kent Monkman

4.31

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformati… read more

Similar categories in Kent Monkman's The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas, #2)

By: Adriana Herrera

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An Entertainment Weekly "Best Romance Novels of Spring 2023" Pick! One last summer.  For Manu… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Herrera's An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas, #2) book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • queer
  • lgbt
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13. Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.27

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

A tender, eclectic reflection from an Indigenous author on his life, work, and queer identity. E… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hoffman's The Prospects book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

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15. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

Similar categories in Yaffa As's Blood Orange book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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16. Any Other City

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.14

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1) by Anita Kelly

17. Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1)

By: Anita Kelly

4.05

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of failed relationships, non-binary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a n… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1) book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

18. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • indigenous
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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19. Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions

By: Tomson Highway

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasu… read more

Similar categories in Tomson Highway's Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt

20. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.43

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"A country is how men hunt in the dark"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field

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21. Tonguebreaker

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.52

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Pi… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Tonguebreaker book and Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

14 must-read nonfiction books like Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling by Joshua Whitehead

Transform Your Habits

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Raja Shehadeh

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

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Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

Brontez Purnell

4.16

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16 must-read nonfiction books like This Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Transform Your Habits

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Making Love with the Land: Essays

Joshua Whitehead

4.11

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Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Díaz

4.33

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Ada Limon

4.11

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