Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By: Sarah McBride
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e…
Want to Read $ 14.99"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
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1. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
By: Cleve Jones
4.34
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning s… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
2. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
3. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
4. Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
By: Debbie Cenziper , Jim Obergefell
4.00
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groun… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
5. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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6. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
By: Janet Mock
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certaintyis a portrait of a young woman searching f… read more
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7. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
8. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
9. 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
- feminism
- 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
10. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- audiobook
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
11. 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
- transgender
- lgbt
- 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
12. 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
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- audiobook
- 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
13. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
14. 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
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- 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
15. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
16. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
17. How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood
By: Trystan Reese
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As featured in People magazine : One LGBTQ family’s inspiring, heartfelt story of the many alterna… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
18. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
By: Rowan Jette Knox
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
19. Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
By: Amber McBride
4.26
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, … read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
20. 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
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th
By: Harry Dunn
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
22. Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
By: Mia Violet
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
With entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Being the funnyt person is an easy part to play when you hate yourself, because it feels like your whole life is a joke written by somebody else."-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
"If you don't know that being trans is even a concept, you're unlikely to realize there's a valid reason why you don't fit in-you just assume the problem is you."-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
"It was like I had grown up with a limiter on my emotions, blocking me from feeling anything too deeply-positive or negative-but finally it had been taken off. I was feeling things profoundly and mean…"-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love
23. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- 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
24. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By: Sarah McBride
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
25. 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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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
26. Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change
By: Danica Roem
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation's first openly trans person elec… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
27. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
28. The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
By: Paige McClanahan
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the wor… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
29. The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MSNBC'S Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presiden… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Leave It to the March Sisters
By: Annie Sereno
2.99
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This modern take on Little Women features “Bronte brooding and rom-com banter”—a classic romance … read more
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- audiobook
31. Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives)
By: Lillian Faderman
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
