Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
By: Sasha Geffen
4.08
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the q…
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1. The Ethics of Ambiguity
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
2. And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
By: Wayne Curtis
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History "And a Bottle of Rum" tells the r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
By: Laura Jane Grace
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and … read more
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4. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- music
- feminism
- nonfiction
- pop culture
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
5. Tiger Honor (Thousand Worlds, #2)
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Sebin, a young tiger spirit from the Juhwang Clan, wants nothing more than to join the Thousand Wor… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
- history
7. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
8. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- queer
9. Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot
By: Élodie Durand
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
" Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d'un état. Chacun est libre de … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
10. 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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- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"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?
11. How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
4.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Some songs take women places men cannot follow."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"I will say for myself: America, I did the best I could with what I was given."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
12. Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones
By: Elizabeth Winder
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- adult
- history
13. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
By: Krista Burton
3.86
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
14. And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
By: Ricky Tucker
3.95
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
15. Hip-Hop Is History
By: Questlove
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- pop culture
- nonfiction
- adult
16. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
By: Keah Brown
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtfu… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"I know that I'm not the first person in the world to say "I love music; it saved me." But that doesn't make it less true."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
17. Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
By: Sasha Geffen
4.08
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the q… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- pop culture
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
18. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
19. Rust Belt Femme
By: Raechel Anne Jolie
4.06
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Raechel Anne Jolie’s early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Summer days in the valley were the closest thing I had to religion. The shattered-glass water in the creek, the abundance of the mill, running like the wind was carrying me against an earth full of b…"-Raechel Anne Jolie, Rust Belt Femme
20. Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
By: Solomon J. Brager
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-sh… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
21. Lord of the Last Heartbeat (The Sacred Dark, #1)
By: May Peterson
3.70
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
Stop me. Please.Three words scrawled in bloodred wine. A note furtively passed into the hand of a h… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
