Tracing the Desire Line
By: Melissa Matthewson
4.33
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer's journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The st…
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1. Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song
By: Kara Vernor
4.41
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost lo… read more
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2. Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover
By: Mila Jaroniec
4.16
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Through flashbacks, photographs, confessions and letters, we discover our narrator—as queer sex sto… read more
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3. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
By: Claire Dederer
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
4. I Once Met You But You Were Dead
By: S.J. Sindu
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2016 TURNBUCKLE CHAPBOOK CONTEST I Once Met You But You Were Dead is a hybrid chapboo… read more
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- memoir
5. Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home
By: None
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home delivers on its title with wonderfully knowing stories at once gene… read more
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6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
7. The State That Springfield Is in
By: None
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Inspired by America's most prominent hallmark of modern pop culture, The Simpsons, poet Tom C. Hunl… read more
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8. felt in the jaw
By: Kristen Arnett
4.25
Format: 194 pages,
In her debut story collection, Kristen Arnett, with dark humor, explores the lives of queer women a… read more
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9. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
10. The Church of Wrestling
By: Emily Thomas Mani
4.27
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Eleven-year-old Jenny Arsenault is an undefeated wrestler, thanks in large part to the guiding prin… read more
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11. The Space Poet
By: Samantha Edmonds
4.74
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
In this hybrid work of prose and poetry, Samantha Edmonds tells the story of an artist—the first in… read more
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12. Tracing the Desire Line
By: Melissa Matthewson
4.33
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer's journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The st… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
13. Flee
By: Calvin Walds
4.80
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Flee is on the move. Flee is… read more
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14. Double Negative
By: Claudia Putnam
4.80
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Double Negative examines the grammatical l… read more
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- memoir
15. The Part That Burns
By: Jeannine Ouellette
4.26
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
“You can tear a thing apart and tape it back together,” writes Jeannine Ouellette, “and it will sti… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
16. The Incredible Shrinking Woman
By: Athena Dixon
4.50
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon's debut essay collection, The Incredibl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
17. Phantom Advances
By: Mary Lynn Reed
4.81
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In Mary Lynn Reed’s debut short story collection, Phantom Advances, young queer women travel Americ… read more
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18. Hungry People
By: Tasha Coryell
4.57
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
"In Hungry People, Tasha Coryell gives us food for hungry hearts. The women are anxious and complic… read more
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19. To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Emily Halnon
4.59
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. The Quiet Part Loud
By: Tyler Barton
4.61
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Tyler Barton's flash fiction chapbook, The Quiet Part Loud, is a collection of eleven very short st… read more
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21. This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.
By: Jennifer Wortman
4.69
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. contains thirteen stories, full-length and flash, that expl… read more
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22. The Invention of Love
By: Sara Schaff
4.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What is love, if not an invention -- not just a human instinct but an artful construction? The wome… read more
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23. An Inventory of Abandoned Things
By: Kelly Ann Jacobson
4.47
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Fiction Chapbook Contest In Kelly Ann Jacobson's An Inventory of Abandoned T… read more
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24. My Share of the Body
By: Devon Capizzi
4.82
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
My Share of the Body, Devon Capizzi's debut story collection, explores loss and the cost of coming … read more
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25. 48 Blitz
By: Brett Biebel
4.80
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Set along the 455 Nebraska miles of Interstate 80, the 48 stories in Brett Biebel’s debut collectio… read more
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26. Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second
By: Melissa Llanes Brownlee
4.93
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
As sharp and profound as it is deeply funny and moving, this novella-in-flash fuses psychology with… read more
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27. Maybe This Is What I Deserve
By: Tucker Leighty-Phillips
4.91
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Isle McElroy Tucker Leighty-Phillips b… read more
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28. Exit the Body: Essays
By: Heather Bartel
5.00
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel makes an offering-as-essay-collection, if a collection of essays c… read more
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29. Halfway from Home
By: Sarah Fawn Montgomery
4.81
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
When she left a chaotic home at eighteen, Sarah Fawn Montgomery chased restlessness, claiming place… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
30. Whistler's Mother
By: Sophia Stid
4.83
Format: 20 pages, Chapbook
In lyric sections meant to evoke the experience of wandering through a museum, Whistler’s Mother ta… read more
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31. Ribald
By: Alina Stefanescu
4.60
Format: 23 pages, Chapbook
Seven essays by Alina Stefanescu. read more
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