5 best-selling queer lit books like Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by Britteney Black Rose Kapri

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Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri

4.44

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr…

"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."

-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."

-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

If you liked the queer lit plot in Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by Britteney Black Rose Kapri , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

2. Moshi moshi

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Gala Maria Follaco

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, … read more

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3. C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Edmund Keeley , Philip Sherrard , George Savidis

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of hi… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·"

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

"Η Ιθάκη σ’ έδωσε τ’ ωραίο ταξείδι. Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

"Vuelve a menudo y tómame, en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan..."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

"Aunque sea con engaños, que me ilusione ahora: pero que no sienta el vacío de mi vida. (Septiembre de 1903)"

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

4. Corregidora

By: Gayl Jones

3.88

Format: 144 pages,

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the ni… read more

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5. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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6. For Every One

By: Jason Reynolds

4.30

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial… read more

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  • poetry
"Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines."

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"When it comes to my dream, the way I like to describe it is that it's a rabid beast that found me when I was young"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"The truth is, finding that beast may or may not happen. But the treasures I've discovered under the heavy stones and behind the massive trees and deep in the dark caves have created the hunter and th…"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"One thing I am now certain of is that this road less traveled has in fact been traveled by far more suckers than you think. All of us out here, slumped over wearing weird fake broken smiles, trying t…"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

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7. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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8. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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9. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

By: Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more

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  • race
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

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10. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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11. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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12. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • poetry
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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13. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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14. 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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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15. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

By: The Kao

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Fireheart Tiger

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.40

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

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17. Honeybee

By: Trista Mateer

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I still wake up with things to tell you."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

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18. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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19. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

By: Circe Moskowitz

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. Patsy

By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

3.92

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfi… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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21. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

By: Jake Skeets

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • queer
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22. Content Warning: Everything

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.94

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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23. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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24. There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

25. 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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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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26. Disintegrate/Dissociate

By: Arielle Twist

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of How to Cure a Ghost: Poems by Fariha Róisín

27. How to Cure a Ghost: Poems

By: Fariha Róisín

3.58

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion … read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month) by Martina McGowan

28. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)

By: Martina McGowan

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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29. We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

By: Jessica Care Moore

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past … read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • african american
Cover of Sydänten salonki: Queer-romanttisia tarinoita by Magdalena Hai

30. Sydänten salonki: Queer-romanttisia tarinoita

By: Magdalena Hai

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

Merirosvoja ja saarentyttöjä, flirttailevia džinnejä, polttavaa kaipuuta ja juonitteluja hovissa. Y… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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31. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri

4.44

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • african american
  • queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."

-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

5 Top politics books like Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Transform Your Habits

I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)

Martina McGowan

4.33

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13 Top adult books like If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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