15 Best lgbt books like Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda

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Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racis…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Under This Red Rock

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Under This Red Rock book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • mental health
  • lgbt
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2. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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3. Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossib… read more

Similar categories in Shawnelle Gibbs's Ghost Roast book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

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4. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

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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

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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

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6. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
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7. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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8. Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.29

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe launched her career and in the years since has become a beloved favo… read more

Similar categories in Darcie Little Badger's Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0) book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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9. Kindling

By: Traci Chee

3.76

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-r… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's Kindling book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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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 Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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11. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

Similar categories in Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • mental health
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12. Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School

By: Tiffany Jewell

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid , … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Jewell's Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. Bright Red Fruit

By: Safia Elhillo

4.49

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Bright Red Fruit book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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14. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology

By: Amber McBride

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, … read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • mental health
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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18. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. 49 Days

By: Agnes Lee

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Day 1 Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what’… read more

Similar categories in Agnes Lee's 49 Days book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

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20. Wander in the Dark

By: Jumata Emill

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's Wander in the Dark book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

21. 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

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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22. The Fox Maidens

By: Robin Ha

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korea… read more

Similar categories in Robin Ha's The Fox Maidens book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

23. 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

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
Cover of Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda

24. Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racis… read more

Similar categories in Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
  • queer
Cover of Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole

25. Ariel Crashes a Train

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.99

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting w… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Ariel Crashes a Train book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Parents set themselves up for failure by giving their kids names that mean too much. Some people put so much weight in names, and how is a baby supposed to carry anything so heavy as their parents’ d…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Ariel Crashes a Train

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26. The Breakup Lists

By: Adib Khorram

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's The Breakup Lists book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • disability
  • queer
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27. Dark Parts of the Universe

By: Samuel Miller

3.73

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Outer Banks meets Bone Gap in New York Times bestselling author Samuel Miller’s propulsive and genr… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Miller's Dark Parts of the Universe book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook
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28. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's Death's Country book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account by Ernesto Saade

29. Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account

By: Ernesto Saade

3.95

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

"This is the story of Carlos and Elena, the story of thousands, the story of my country . . . This … read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Saade's Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

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31. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's Everything We Never Had book and Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  • audiobook

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