Ma and Me
By: Putsata Reang
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she o…
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1. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
2. Gods of Want: Stories
By: K-Ming Chang
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories
3. 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
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- 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
4. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
5. 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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- lesbian
- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- 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
6. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
7. 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
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- 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
8. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
By: Tessa Hulls
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
- memoir
9. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
13. A Nail the Evening Hangs On
By: Monica Sok
4.37
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge … read more
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14. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
By: Gulchehra Hoja
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary memoir of a woman who gave up everything to help her people In February 2018, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Cinema Love
By: Jiaming Tang
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- queer
16. Ma and Me
By: Putsata Reang
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she o… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
17. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Others Were Emeralds
By: Lang Leav
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling… read more
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- adult
19. A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
By: June Thomas
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half … read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
By: Hyeseung Song
4.13
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Full Shift: A Graphic Novel
By: Jennifer Dugan
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this queer, supernatural YA graphic novel from the author of Some Girls Do and the illustrator o… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- queer
