Swollening
By: Jason Purcell
4.09
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staki…
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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- poetry
3. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
4. Notice
By: Heather Lewis , None
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she n… read more
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- lgbt
5. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
7. How to Wash a Heart
By: Bhanu Kapil
4.15
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Bhanu Kapil's extraordinary and original work been published in the U.S. over the last two decades … read more
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- poetry
"Because living with someone who is in pain Requires you to move in a different way."-Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
8. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
9. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
10. Skater Boy
By: Anthony Nerada
4.03
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In this YA pop-punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to wr… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"If we can convince our own minds we aren't good enough, we can't really be disappointed when we don't get what we truly want."-Anthony Nerada, Skater Boy
11. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- adult
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
12. Paper Planes
By: Jennie Wood
3.66
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Ca… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
13. Mall Goth
By: Kate Leth
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"-Kate Leth, Mall Goth
14. 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
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- 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
15. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- adult
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
16. The Deep Dark
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.42
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
17. Swollening
By: Jason Purcell
4.09
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staki… read more
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- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- adult
- disability
- queer
18. People Change
By: Vivek Shraya
3.96
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE* “A deeply generous and honest gift to … read more
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- adult
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
"Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
19. a "Working Life"
By: Eileen Myles
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
20. 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
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- adult
- 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
21. 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
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
