7 Best queer lit books like Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture by Amelia Abraham

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Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

By: Amelia Abraham

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the …

If you liked the queer lit plot in Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture by Amelia Abraham , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Les vertus de l'échec

By: Charles Pépin

3.67

Format: 12 pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Pépin's Les vertus de l'échec book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France

2. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

By: David France

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and … read more

Similar categories in David France's How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It by Owen   Jones

3. The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

By: Owen Jones

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In The EstablishmentOwen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting criti… read more

Similar categories in Owen Jones's The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

By: Alan Downs

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more

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5. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

Similar categories in Huw Lemmey's Bad Gays: A Homosexual History book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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6. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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7. It's Not About the Burqa

By: Mariam Khan

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mari… read more

Similar categories in Mariam Khan's It's Not About the Burqa book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know."

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

"In early Islam in seventh century Arabia, Muslim women were feisty and unafraid to fight for their rights. With the passing of the centuries, their dramatic progress stagnated and stalled, causing th…"

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

"Dissecting the rishta sites quickly becomes me and Fiz's favorite pastime. 'Look at this one, Fiz, look at this one. "i am looking for simple, obedient girl." Vom!' 'Why doesn't he just advertise for…"

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

"Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to ac…"

-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa

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8. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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9. 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • 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

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10. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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11. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

Similar categories in Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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12. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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13. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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14. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

Similar categories in Julia Shaw's Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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15. What it Feels Like for a Girl

By: Paris Lees

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads fo… read more

Similar categories in Paris Lees's What it Feels Like for a Girl book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I know it sounds stupid, but I've just realized I'm not actually the centre o' the fuckin' universe."

-Paris Lees, What it Feels Like for a Girl

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16. A Short History of Queer Women

By: Kirsty Loehr

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Loehr's A Short History of Queer Women book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch

17. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By: Afua Hirsch

4.32

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more

Similar categories in Afua Hirsch's Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

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18. 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

Similar categories in Elias Jahshan's This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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

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19. It's Not That Radical

By: Mikaela Loach

4.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more

Similar categories in Mikaela Loach's It's Not That Radical book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

By: Jamie Windust

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

There is no one way to be non-binary, and that's truthfully one of the best things about it. It's a… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Windust's In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"Asking us to push away the very walls that are constantly crushing us into small, confined boxes is toxic."

-Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

"The current socio-political climate, exacerbated by the media's addiction to falsifying our existence, has meant that being trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming in the twenty-first century feels li…"

-Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

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21. Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

By: Amelia Abraham

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture by Daisy  Jones

22. 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

Similar categories in Daisy Jones's All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights by Beth Ditto

23. We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

By: Beth Ditto

4.24

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Di… read more

Similar categories in Beth Ditto's We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer by Suzanne Wrack

24. A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer

By: Suzanne Wrack

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer W… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Wrack's A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • nonfiction
Cover of Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu

25. Here Again Now

By: Okechukwu Nzelu

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you… read more

Similar categories in Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • queer lit
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry  Nicholas

26. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World by Juno Roche

27. Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World

By: Juno Roche

4.32

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Life-affirming interviews with young trans people who share their empowering experiences of questio… read more

Similar categories in Juno Roche's Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf

28. Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

By: Munroe Bergdorf

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioni… read more

Similar categories in Munroe Bergdorf's Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Everything is an attempt to flee if you can't love who you are."

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

"You can't run away from yourself. The destination will always be you. I only stopped running away when I made myself into the home I no longer wanted to run away from. I wish I'd come to that realisa…"

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

"Being conscious of our trauma, and recognising how it unavoidably manifests itself within our approach to romantic and platonic relations, skies is to strategise our connections. It helps us to it he…"

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

"We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. Be it through moving from childhood into adolescence, our sexuality, our gender, in our relationship with love, our racial identity or in…"

-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

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29. Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

By: Amrou Al-Kadhi

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged … read more

Similar categories in Amrou Al-Kadhi's Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • queer
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."

-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of…"

-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to a…"

-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

Cover of All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us by Kieran Yates

30. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us

By: Kieran Yates

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

 ‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more

Similar categories in Kieran Yates's All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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31. United Queerdom

By: Dan Glass

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Throughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently… read more

Similar categories in Dan Glass's United Queerdom book and Amelia Abraham's Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer

20 must-read audiobook books like Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture by Amelia Abraham

Transform Your Habits

The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

Owen Jones

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

It's Not About the Burqa

Mariam Khan

4.21

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13 best-selling audiobook books like All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture by Daisy Jones

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

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Rosewater

Liv Little

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

4.55

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