8 Top queer books like Trans Children in Today's Schools by Aidan Key

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Trans Children in Today's Schools

By: Aidan Key

4.26

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Supporting transgender children in school means far more than deciding which bathroom they use or o…

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1. Juliet Takes a Breath

By: Gabby Rivera

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to h… read more

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  • queer
"Read because you’re tired of secrets."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"But it was August and what does love mean at the end of a summer?"

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

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2. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

By: William Zinsser

4.24

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Less is more."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Truth needs no adornment."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Don't be kind of bold. Be bold."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

"Writers are the custodians of memory..."

-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

3. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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4. The Prince of Tides

By: Pat Conroy

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding … read more

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5. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • queer
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6. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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8. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

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  • queer
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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10. One of Us Knows

By: Alyssa Cole

3.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching come… read more

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11. Willodeen

By: Katherine Applegate

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . . Eleven-year-old Willode… read more

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"Mostly I avoided the Faire, with its teeming crowds that made me feel like I was being smothered. So much noise! So much forced merrymaking! Often I would see children there, ones I recognized from m…"

-Katherine Applegate, Willodeen

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12. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Easy Beauty

By: Chloé Cooper Jones

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

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14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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16. American Girls

By: Jessica Roy

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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22. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.00

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more

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  • queer
"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

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23. Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Middle-grade fans of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, will find a new Mexican heroine to love in … read more

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24. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

By: Sarah McBride

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

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27. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls--And How We Can Take it Back

By: Kara Alaimo

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This essential book is a rallying cry for women to recognize and reject the ways social media is be… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Trans Children in Today's Schools

By: Aidan Key

4.26

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Supporting transgender children in school means far more than deciding which bathroom they use or o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
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30. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees

By: Paul Tom

4.46

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive witho… read more

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  • nonfiction

21 must-read nonfiction books like Trans Children in Today's Schools by Aidan Key

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

4.24

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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