The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
By: Bonnie Ruberg
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer vide…
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1. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
By: Anna Anthropy
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Part critical essay, part manifesto, part DIY guide, and altogether unprecedented, Rise of the Vide… read more
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- game design
- video games
- lgbt
- research
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
- queer
"The Guildhall was in the middle of Plano, Texas. Plano Texas, is brown and not much else. They have a Frito-Lay factory, parking lots, and a videogame school. At the time, I kept a strict vegan diet …"-Anna Anthropy, Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
2. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
3. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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4. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
5. Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades… read more
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6. Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1)
By: Mira Grant
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" b… read more
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7. Maeve Fly
By: C.J. Leede
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more
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"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
8. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
By: James Tynion IV
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysteri… read more
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9. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- nonfiction
11. The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
12. Nothing But Blackened Teeth
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.66
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more
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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
13. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
14. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
15. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
16. 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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- 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
17. Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
By: J. Robert Lennon
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today … read more
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- video games
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
18. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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- nonfiction
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
19. Sister, Maiden, Monster
By: Lucy A. Snyder
3.58
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
20. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
21. Hit Parade of Tears
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more
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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears
22. Complaint!
By: Sara Ahmed
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuse… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
23. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
24. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the univer… read more
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"People outgrow me,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I don’t even think about you,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
25. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
By: Molly Smith
4.61
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more
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- nonfiction
"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
26. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
27. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
28. The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
By: Bonnie Ruberg
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer vide… read more
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- game design
- video games
- theory
- lgbt
- research
- queer studies
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
- queer
29. How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design (Playful Thinking)
By: Katherine Isbister
3.59
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences … read more
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- game design
- video games
- research
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
30. Video Games Have Always Been Queer (Postmillennial Pop, 16)
By: Bo Ruberg
4.19
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video… read more
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- game design
- video games
- lgbt
- research
- queer studies
- nonfiction
- games
- queer
31. Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture
By: Shaw
4.12
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a… read more
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- game design
- video games
- lgbt
- research
- nonfiction
- gaming
- games
