Fat Girl Finishing School
By: Rachel Wiley
4.24
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
“Fat girls of the world will find their voice through Wiley’s brilliance, and we all owe her for th…
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1. Look
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
2. Horoscopes for the Dead
By: Billy Collins
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
WINNER--BEST POETRY--GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/T… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
3. Depression & Other Magic Tricks
By: Sabrina Benaim
4.27
Format: 359 pages,
Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
4. Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair
By: William Evans , William Evans
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
5. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
6. blud
By: Rachel McKibbens
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more
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8. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
9. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
10. Dragonfruit
By: Makiia Lucier
3.89
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more
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"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit
"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit
"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit
11. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky
By: Rudy Francisco
4.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more
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- poetry
12. Helium (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.29
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"The word “repurpose"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"I held you the way a boat holds water."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
13. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
By: Andrea Gibson
4.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"There will be music for you one day."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
14. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
15. 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
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
16. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
17. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
18. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
19. Closer Baby Closer
By: Savannah Brown
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
20. Rangikura
By: Tayi Tibble
4.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
21. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
By: Blythe Baird
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
22. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
23. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
24. Life of the Party
By: Olivia Gatwood
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
- queer
"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
25. The Song of Us
By: Kate Fussner
3.93
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
This stunning debut and wholly original queer middle grade novel-in-verse retelling of “Orpheus and… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
26. Fat Girl Finishing School
By: Rachel Wiley
4.24
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
“Fat girls of the world will find their voice through Wiley’s brilliance, and we all owe her for th… read more
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- poetry
- womens
- queer
- lgbt
- feminism
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- bodies
- adult
- fat
27. Ephemera
By: Sierra DeMulder
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
28. Drive Here and Devastate Me
By: Megan Falley
4.51
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Megan Falley's much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry shocks you with its whether through ex… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
29. July
By: Kathleen Ossip
3.72
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.… read more
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- poetry
30. Urbanshee
By: Siaara Freeman
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Urbanshee is Siaara Freeman's retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern an… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"After the funeral, I see him everywhere. Every time a man is shot in the head. I see him between the couch cushions. The blunt’s end, in Jamaica drinking a Red Stripe on a patch of grass, in a backya…"-Siaara Freeman, Urbanshee
"I thought about having a child, naming it after you. Then I realized that child would never know its namesake & that it’s not fair to want someone just because you want someone else. Instead I named …"-Siaara Freeman, Urbanshee
31. What to Miss When: Poems
By: Leigh Stein
3.78
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Poems about pop culture, mortality, and the internet, written during the Coronavirus pandemic--for … read more
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- poetry
