Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
4.27
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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1. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
By: Meghan Daum , Kate Christensen , Tim Kreider , Paul Lisicky , M.G. Lord , Rosemary Mahoney , Sigrid Nunez , Jeanne Safer , Lionel Shriver , Geoff Dyer , Danielle Henderson , None , Anna Holmes , Elliott Holt , Pam Houston , Michelle Huneven , Laura Kipnis
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen Literary Luminaries On The Controversial Subject Of Being Childless By Choice, Collected In… read more
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"Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether."-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"A number of children kept coming over to the tennis courts, rattling on the gate, and trying to get in. The watching middle-class mums did nothing to restrain them. Eventually my friend yelled, “Go A…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"As a woman who chooses to be childless, I generally have just one problem: other adults. Living in a culture where women are assumed to prioritize motherhood above all else and where a woman's person…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
"I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contem…"-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
2. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
By: Kate Bornstein
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to … read more
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- nonfiction
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3. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
By: Diana Helmuth
3.76
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fa… read more
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- audiobook
"It occurs to me that the energy in my body is the same as the energy in the red power lights, just a different current. What’s inside the office lights is inside me. It’s also what’s in the stars a m…"-Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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- audiobook
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"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
5. Where the Dead Wait
By: Ally Wilkes
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more
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"Why would I want to die last?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
6. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- lgbt
- queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
7. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
By: Cynthia Carr
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
9. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
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"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
10. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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- queer
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
11. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- history
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12. Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben
By: Josh Trujillo
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A graphic novel biography of Baron von Steuben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual w… read more
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13. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- queer
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- audiobook
14. The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
By: Emily Ballesteros
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings … read more
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- nonfiction
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15. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
16. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
By: Therese Oneill
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
17. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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18. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
By: Sasha Velour
4.41
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more
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- history
- queer
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- audiobook
19. 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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"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
20. Hide and Seeker
By: Daka Hermon
3.98
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a night… read more
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21. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
By: Zachary Zane
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more
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22. Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more
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- lgbt
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23. High-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more
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- gay
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24. The Z Word
By: Lindsay King-Miller
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more
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25. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
26. All About Yvie: Into the Oddity
By: Yvie Oddly
3.60
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
#1 Amazon BestsellerThe world’s oddest drag artist This book is an intimate and in-depth look into… read more
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- queer
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27. Diary of a Drag Queen
By: Crystal Rasmussen
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
“This book changed my life. Tom Rasmussen’s honesty, vulnerability, and fearlessness jump out of ev… read more
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28. Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
4.27
Format: 464 pages, ebook
MP3 CD Format "Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as f… read more
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- new york
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- gender and sexuality
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29. Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
By: Kathleen DuVal
4.46
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the power of Indigenous North America from ancient cities to fights for sover… read more
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30. My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves
By: Kristen Chenoweth
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This empowering collection of inspirational essays from some of today’s most powerful women in medi… read more
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31. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By: Tabitha Stanmore
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more
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