28 Best lgbt books like A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham

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Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• gender
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's Edinburgh book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Black Wave book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• 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

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• 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

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Honor Levy's My First Book book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• gender
• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• lgbt
• queer

"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• gender
• lgbt
• transgender
• 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

Similar categories in Chelsea Manning's README.txt book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

Similar categories in Daniel Mallory Ortberg's Something That May Shock and Discredit You book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start cryin…"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no…"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month …"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Similar categories in Andrea Long Chu's Females book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• biography memoir
• 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

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"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

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

Similar categories in Davey Davis's X book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

Similar categories in Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be."

-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

"Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the tr…"

-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

Similar categories in Jacob Tobia's Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

"No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical"

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

"Oh, and it should go without saying, but fuck capitalism."

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

"and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent."

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

Similar categories in Joss Lake's Future Feeling book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"The internet is just a low-grade representation of human consciousness."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"Of course, treachery is more entertaining than the repair of the world..."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"...you shouldn't try to do anything without your lawyer present. That's for poor people who get totally chewed up by the system."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"All at once, a deep sadness descended. Why hadn't I known that such possibilities existed before? Why was my childhood a series of miseries and only in my most recent phase of adulthood did delight p…"

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

Similar categories in Dianna E. Anderson's In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• audiobook
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

Similar categories in Kasey LeBlanc's Flyboy book and Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt