20 best-selling queer books like Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann

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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

By: T. Fleischmann

4.01

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship…

"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that declare our liberation. Our hands up in the air and then down again, like some people in love. Our hands taking from two stacks of paper, “Nowhere better than this place"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that declare our liberation. Our hands up in the air and then down again, like some people in love. Our hands taking from two stacks of paper, “Nowhere better than this place"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

If you liked the queer plot in Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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2. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

By: Torrey Peters

4.12

Format: None pages,

In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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3. The Queer Art of Failure

By: J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more

Similar categories in J. Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

5. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

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6. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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7. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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8. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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9. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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10. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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11. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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12. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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13. Females

By: Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Long Chu's Females book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

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14. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

By: Maggie Nelson

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"

-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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16. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

17. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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18. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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19. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

By: T. Fleischmann

4.01

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • poetry
  • art
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

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20. Borealis

By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Sabatini Sloan's Borealis book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • poetry
  • art
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

By: Hil Malatino

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or we… read more

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad book and T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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The Queer Art of Failure

J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Transform Your Habits

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

4.76

Transform Your Habits

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Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Transform Your Habits

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Maggie Nelson

4.01

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

Transform Your Habits

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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3.46

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