10 Best nonfiction books like Len & Cub: A Queer History by Meredith J. Batt

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Len & Cub: A Queer History

By: Meredith J. Batt

4.41

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Len & Cub: A Queer History by Meredith J. Batt , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Funny Boy

By: Shyam Selvadurai

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny b… read more

Similar categories in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt

2. Footnotes in Gaza

By: Joe Sacco

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more

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3. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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4. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • canada
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5. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

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6. Washington Black

By: Esi Edugyan

3.95

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more

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  • canada
"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

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7. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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8. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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9. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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10. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

By: Eric Cervini

4.31

Format: 494 pages, Hardcover

The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more

Similar categories in Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • history
  • biography
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"

-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."

-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

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11. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

Similar categories in Bob Joseph's 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
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12. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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13. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir

By: Colton Haynes

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more

Similar categories in Colton Haynes's Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • biography
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. Realm of the Blue Mist (The Rema Chronicles, #1)

By: Amy Kim Kibuishi

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the rich and fantastical world of Rema in the first installment of this middle-grade graphic … read more

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15. This Place: 150 Years Retold

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and fu… read more

Similar categories in Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's This Place: 150 Years Retold book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
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16. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • canada
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17. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

Similar categories in Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • canada
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18. The Sky Blues

By: Robbie Couch

4.12

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the … read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's The Sky Blues book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"A part of me knows that someday soon I'll miss moments like these."

-Robbie Couch, The Sky Blues

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19. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • lgbt
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

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20. 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

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • 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

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21. Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home

By: Matthew Kepnes

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adven… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Kepnes's Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

22. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • history
  • canada
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

23. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • queer
  • lgbt
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24. How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more

Similar categories in Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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25. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Len & Cub: A Queer History by Meredith J. Batt

26. Len & Cub: A Queer History

By: Meredith J. Batt

4.41

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock … read more

Similar categories in Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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27. Brit Happens

By: James Mullinger

4.14

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Description Review “I don’t even like British people, but I love James Mullinger and Brit Happens… read more

Similar categories in James Mullinger's Brit Happens book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • canada
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28. The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2) book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • queer
  • lgbt
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29. Out of Thin Air

By: Anthony Adeane

3.38

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In 1974, two men vanished without a trace under suspicious circumstances, shocking the people of Ic… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Adeane's Out of Thin Air book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Winter Kept Us Warm (Queer Film Classics) by Chris Dupuis

30. Winter Kept Us Warm (Queer Film Classics)

By: Chris Dupuis

4.43

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Widely considered to be English Canada’s first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance b… read more

Similar categories in Chris Dupuis's Winter Kept Us Warm (Queer Film Classics) book and Meredith J. Batt's Len & Cub: A Queer History

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31. It's All TRU

By: Sky Gilbert

2.89

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kurt, a silver fox dance instructor, and his young fiance, Travis, have an arrangement: when one's … read more

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