20 Best queer books like Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún Nin

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Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

By: Aaiún Nin

3.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a…

If you liked the queer plot in Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún Nin , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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2. The Queer Art of Failure

By: J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more

Similar categories in J. Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. She of the Mountains

By: Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make u… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's She of the Mountains book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans

4.44

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Mans's Black Girl, Call Home book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

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6. The Route of Ice and Salt

By: José Luis Zárate

3.62

Format: 143 pages, ebook

A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s … read more

Similar categories in José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • lgbt
  • queer
"But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite. What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them."

-José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt

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7. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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8. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's If They Come for Us book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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9. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Homie book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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10. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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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

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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12. Fireheart Tiger

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.40

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Fireheart Tiger book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

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13. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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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

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
"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

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15. Voksbarnet

By: Olga Ravn

3.70

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Den ugifte adelskvinde Christenze Kruckow anklages for trolddom og må flygte fra Sydfyn til Nordjyl… read more

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's Voksbarnet book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • contemporary
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16. Havet i munden

By: Luka Holmegaard

3.85

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Havet i munden er en digtsamling om nydelse, smerte, at svømme og om testosteron. Om at forandre si… read more

Similar categories in Luka Holmegaard's Havet i munden book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
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17. Barbar [Tavshedens objekt]

By: Amina Elmi

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

BARBAR [Tavshedens objekt] er en digtsamling om brutalitet. Amina Elmi skriver om at leve med en ka… read more

Similar categories in Amina Elmi's Barbar [Tavshedens objekt] book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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18. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 58 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phi… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

By: Aaiún Nin

3.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a… read more

Similar categories in Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1)

By: Anita Kelly

4.05

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of failed relationships, non-binary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a n… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1) book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Why I Was Late

By: Charlie Petch

4.11

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's d… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Petch's Why I Was Late book and Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt

8 Top contemporary books like Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún Nin

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Nature Poem

Tommy Pico

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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13 Top adult books like If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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