5 must-read queer lit books like There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt

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There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the…

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1. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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2. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

Similar categories in Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • queer
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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3. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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4. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's If They Come for Us book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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5. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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6. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • adult
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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7. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Girls That Never Die: Poems book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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8. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • history
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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9. 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 H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
"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

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10. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Homie book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

Cover of The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics by The Kao

11. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

By: The Kao

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more

Similar categories in The Kao's The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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12. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
Cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

13. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Cover of This Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt

14. 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 H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
". . . 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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15. Content Warning: Everything

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.94

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Content Warning: Everything book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more

Similar categories in H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • history
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • queer
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17. 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 H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

Cover of Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose

18. Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

By: Syan Rose

4.20

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied… read more

Similar categories in Syan Rose's Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • history
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Gay Girl Prayers by Emily R. Austin

19. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Gay Girl Prayers book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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20. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by Britteney Black Rose Kapri

21. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri

4.44

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more

Similar categories in Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) book and H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."

-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

14 must-read adult books like There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

Noor Hindi

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Gender Euphoria

Laura Kate Dale

4.11

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If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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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

Transform Your Habits

Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Díaz

4.33

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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Ada Limon

4.11

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