Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She…
Want to Read"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
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1. Before the Next Bomb Drops
By: Remi Kanazi
3.31
Format: None pages,
we are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the ir… read more
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2. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
3. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
4. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
5. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
6. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
7. Nayra and the Djinn
By: Iasmin Omar Ata
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this coming-of-age graphic novel with a fantastical twist, Nayra Mansour, a Muslim American girl… read more
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- lgbt
8. Squire
By: Nadia Shammas
4.06
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more
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9. Second Night Stand
By: Karelia Stetz-Waters
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A burlesque performer and a professional ballerina fall in love while competing on a reality TV tal… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
10. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- nonfiction
11. The Diablo's Curse
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
12. The Marble Queen
By: Anna Kopp
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Marble Queen is a YA Fantasy graphic novel that’s the political drama of Nimona meets the heart… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I’m not the strong, brave queen Iliad deserves."-Anna Kopp, The Marble Queen
"It seems so natural. Like she’s done it a hundred times. Does she prefer dancing with women? I thought this marriage was only an arrangement. And if I’m right and it is, then why do I feel so strange?"-Anna Kopp, The Marble Queen
13. Thirsty
By: Jas Hammonds
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
14. Something More
By: Jackie Khalilieh
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more
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"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
15. There Are Trans People Here
By: H. Melt
4.19
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
16. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
By: Hannah Moushabeck
4.56
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them st… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Prospects
By: K.T. Hoffman
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more
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- adult
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects
18. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
19. This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
By: Elias Jahshan
4.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Ara… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Those of us who suffer from severe anxiety and PTSD, in my case due to inferiority complexes and repeated emotional, physical and religious trauma from a young age, know that the fear of being found …"-Elias Jahshan, This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
20. Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
21. Compound Fracture
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture
22. 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
23. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
24. 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
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
25. Where Black Stars Rise
By: Nadia Shammas
3.55
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger's Where Black Stars Rise is an eldritch horror graphic novel that exp… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
26. A Little Kissing Between Friends
By: Chencia C. Higgins
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends
27. Lunar Boy
By: Jacinta Wibowo
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
28. Exes & Foes
By: Amanda Woody
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When two ex-best friends decide to hold a competition for the new girl's heart, they don't expect t… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
29. Birthright
By: George Abraham
4.55
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Birthright is a book that balances the weight of place. The pride and shame and worth of homeland. … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
30. A Bánh Mì for Two
By: Trinity Nguyen
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
31. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
