11 Top lgbt books like Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana

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Dagger: On Butch Women

By: Lily Burana

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

"This powerful collection of butch women's voices shocks, delights, and at times titillates. Compri…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Swashbuckler

By: Lee Lynch

4.33

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Greenwich Village... Provincetown... Travel with Frenchy Tonneau through these legendary gay meccas… read more

Similar categories in Lee Lynch's The Swashbuckler book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • butch femme
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer
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2. The Well of Loneliness

By: Radclyffe Hall

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more

Similar categories in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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4. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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5. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • feminism
  • gender
  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. Nothing But The Girl

By: Susie Bright , Jill Posener

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A pictorial representation of the lesbian image by prominent lesbian photographers, this book conta… read more

Similar categories in Susie Bright's Nothing But The Girl book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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7. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

Similar categories in Layli Long Soldier's Whereas book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • nonfiction
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9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

10. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

By: Adrienne Rich

3.75

Format: 166 pages,

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11. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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12. S/He

By: Minnie Bruce Pratt

4.06

Format: 340 pages,

This brave memoir chronicles Pratt's struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of Southern wom… read more

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13. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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14. Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1

By: Kamome Shirahama

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A TOUCH OF MAGIC In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for grant… read more

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15. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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16. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

By: Rafia Zakaria

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more

Similar categories in Rafia Zakaria's Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

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17. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.60

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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18. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • gender
  • queer
  • lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Cover of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela  Chen

19. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

Similar categories in Angela Chen's Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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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

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"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

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21. Dagger: On Butch Women

By: Lily Burana

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

"This powerful collection of butch women's voices shocks, delights, and at times titillates. Compri… read more

Similar categories in Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women book and Lily Burana's Dagger: On Butch Women

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • anthologies
  • butch femme
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer

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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

3.91

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Nothing But The Girl

Susie Bright , Jill Posener

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

4.12

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4.08

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Moi les hommes, je les déteste

Pauline Harmange

3.82

Transform Your Habits

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

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

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Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Samra Habib

4.16

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