17 best-selling queer books like On My Way to Liberation by H. Melt

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On My Way to Liberation

By: H. Melt

4.22

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a …

If you liked the queer plot in On My Way to Liberation by H. Melt , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. How To Be A Normal Person

By: T.J. Klune

3.32

Format: 344 pages, ebook

Gustavo Tiberius is not normal. He knows this. Everyone in his small town of Abby, Oregon, knows th… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's How To Be A Normal Person book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • queer
  • lgbt

2. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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3. Even this Page is White

By: Vivek Shraya

3.67

Format: None pages,

Vivek's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin: its origins, functio… read more

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4. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's What Kind of Woman: Poems book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • feminism
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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5. Flamer

By: Mike Curato

4.32

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more

Similar categories in Mike Curato's Flamer book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. Snow, Glass, Apples

By: Neil Gaiman

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and C… read more

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"I will not scream. I will not give them that satisfaction. They will have my body, but my soul and my story are my own, and will die with me."

-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

"Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life."

-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

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7. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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8. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Pew book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • queer
  • lgbt
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

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9. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Salt Slow book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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10. 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

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • 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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11. Mona

By: Pola Oloixarac

3.30

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more

Similar categories in Pola Oloixarac's Mona book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"

-Pola Oloixarac, Mona

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12. Clementine: Book Two

By: Tillie Walden

3.99

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Clementine and her new friends are rescued by an island community led by an enigmatic doctor called… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's Clementine: Book Two book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • queer
  • lgbt
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13. Milk Blood Heat

By: Dantiel W. Moniz

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary… read more

Similar categories in Dantiel W. Moniz's Milk Blood Heat book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
"She vomited casually into the toilet…"

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

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14. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

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15. 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

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Halfway to Free

By: Emma Donoghue

3.72

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale) Raising a family is the ultimate luxury as… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Halfway to Free book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
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17. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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18. This Telling

By: Cheryl Strayed

3.95

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on … read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Strayed's This Telling book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
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19. Sweet Virginia

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.02

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s a woman to do when she fails to live up to feminine ideals? It depends on what she’s willing… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Kepnes's Sweet Virginia book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
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20. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

Similar categories in Camonghne Felix's Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

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21. Indelicacy

By: Amina Cain

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more

Similar categories in Amina Cain's Indelicacy book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • feminism
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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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

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Content Warning: Everything book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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23. Can You Feel This?

By: Julie Orringer

3.67

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious m… read more

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24. Water I Won't Touch

By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portr… read more

Similar categories in Kayleb Rae Candrilli's Water I Won't Touch book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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25. Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

By: Syan Rose

4.20

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied… read more

Similar categories in Syan Rose's Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • queer
Cover of Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? by Zach  Zimmerman

26. Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

By: Zach Zimmerman

3.62

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm… read more

Similar categories in Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • queer
  • lgbt
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27. On My Way to Liberation

By: H. Melt

4.22

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a … read more

Similar categories in H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • queer
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28. Nothing Is Okay

By: Rachel Wiley

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Nothing Is Okay book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words by Lindsay Herriot

29. Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words

By: Lindsay Herriot

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans  shares stories, essays, art … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Herriot's Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems by Grant Chemidlin

30. What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems

By: Grant Chemidlin

4.05

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

 is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, … read more

Similar categories in Grant Chemidlin's What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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31. Freedom House

By: KB Brookins

4.53

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. … read more

Similar categories in KB Brookins's Freedom House book and H. Melt's On My Way to Liberation

  • poetry
  • gender
  • lgbt
  • queer

12 must-read poetry books like On My Way to Liberation by H. Melt

Transform Your Habits

What Kind of Woman: Poems

Kate Baer

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

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

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Camonghne Felix

3.83

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Transform Your Habits

Ghost Roast

Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Lights (Sheets, #3)

Brenna Thummler

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Closet

James Tynion IV

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Where the Body Was

Ed Brubaker

4.14

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