14 must-read memoir books like Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes by Gabrielle Korn

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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.59

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal an…

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Cover of Would You Rather?: Growing Up, Coming Out, and (Occasionally) Getting It Right by Katie Heaney

1. Would You Rather?: Growing Up, Coming Out, and (Occasionally) Getting It Right

By: Katie Heaney

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Everabout coming out in … read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein

2. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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3. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

By: Jenn Shapland

4.09

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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4. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

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  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
  • audiobook
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

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5. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

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  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
  • audiobook
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6. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Homebodies

By: Tembe Denton-Hurst

3.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
  • audiobook
Cover of Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston

8. Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

By: Jen Winston

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily , Glamour, Shondaland , BuzzFeed , and more! … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions."

-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

"Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the o…"

-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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9. Save Yourself

By: Cameron Esposito

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From standup comic Cameron Esposito, a memoir that tackles sexuality, gender and equality--and how … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I'm mad at the religion I grew up in. I'm mad that Catholic doctrine still swims in my mind, that I think in Bible stories, regard Sundays as sacred, and love when radio stations start playing Christ…"

-Cameron Esposito, Save Yourself

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10. Mostly Dead Things

By: Kristen Arnett

3.38

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more

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  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
  • audiobook
"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

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11. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

By: Grace Perry

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • queer
"That’s the thing about being a queer millennial: it’s not about things getting better in any linear fashion but holding a painful past and an optimistic future together, one in each hand, at the same…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

"God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me . For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal j…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

"Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a w…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

" The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkne…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

Cover of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

12. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • 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

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13. Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers

By: Stephanie McNeal

3.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multib… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

By: Jill Gutowitz

3.81

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • queer
"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

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15. Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.59

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud … read more

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  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Default World

By: Naomi Kanakia

3.82

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of the… read more

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  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture by Daisy  Jones

18. All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture

By: Daisy Jones

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between. All The Things S… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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19. As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned

By: Paula Stone Williams

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This moving and unforgettable memoir of a transgender pastor’s transition from male to female is an… read more

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  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter

20. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"

By: Emma Specter

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Banks

By: Roxane Gay

3.61

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

A high-stakes heist thriller about the most daring and successful thieves in three generations of … read more

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  • feminism
  • lgbt

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