5 must-read biography memoir books like Food-Related Stories by Gaby Melian

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Food-Related Stories

By: Gaby Melian

3.65

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space …

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Food-Related Stories by Gaby Melian , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Carsick

By: John Waters

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo John Waters is putting his l… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

2. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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3. Hot Dog

By: Doug Salati

4.29

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From a critically acclaimed creator comes this summery picture book featuring an overheated--and ov… read more

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4. Stage Dreams

By: Melanie Gillman

3.87

Format: 104 pages, Library Binding

In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award H… read more

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5. My Aunt Is a Monster

By: Reimena Yee

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Curses! Adventures! And drama! Oh my! Safia might not be able to see the world, but that doesn't me… read more

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"And I'll have to stay home. For another nine or ten years or who knows how long.. Till I'm old enough to move out and travel on my own. It's just "sigh" I don't know if I can wait that long. And I do…"

-Reimena Yee, My Aunt Is a Monster

"Aunty Whimsy: I've visited forests under the sea, savored cotton candy pink tea, and met the pope of a very small country! And these are only some of the many special things our world has to offer--i…"

-Reimena Yee, My Aunt Is a Monster

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6. Be Gay, Do Comics

By: Matt Bors

4.22

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal pa… read more

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  • short stories
  • nonfiction
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7. Inheritance: A Visual Poem

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.49

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

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  • audiobook
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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9. May the Best Man Win

By: Z.R. Ellor

3.23

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

By: Michelle Tea

4.02

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

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  • audiobook
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

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12. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

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"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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13. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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14. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

By: Tiffany Jewell

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Who are you? What is your identity? What is racism? How do you choose your own path? How do you sta… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Your privilege is something you don't often think about. It's often invisible to you until you take a moment to gain some insight and awareness into your whole self."

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Using the term Asian to describe all folx from Asian countries and ancestry does not acknowledge the vast and varied histories, cultures, and experiences of everyone."

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Someone described racism to me as the smog we breathe. It is all around us; racism is everywhere. Our lives are polluted by racism and it harms us all. The more we are aware of this smog of racism, t…"

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Folx will be committed to trying to fit you into the box. They will tell you you're too young to make a difference, that you should focus on getting good grades and going to college. They may also te…"

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

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15. Begin Again

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.24

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, thoughtful and bold comment on humanity and its future from one of today’s most thought… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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17. Always Never Yours

By: Emily Wibberley

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Shouldn't a girl get to star in her own love story? Seventeen-year-old Megan Harper is about due… read more

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  • audiobook
"You can’t expect anything to happen if you don’t make a move."

-Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours

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18. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

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  • short stories
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19. A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

By: Archie Bongiovanni

4.37

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

By: Grace Perry

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"That’s the thing about being a queer millennial: it’s not about things getting better in any linear fashion but holding a painful past and an optimistic future together, one in each hand, at the same…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

"God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me . For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal j…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

"Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a w…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

" The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkne…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

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22. Batter Royale: A Graphic Novel

By: Leisl Adams

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Leisl Adams’s fun debut graphic novel, Batter Royale , a talented young chef is selected to part… read more

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  • food
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23. There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. When We Make It

By: Elisabet Velasquez

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it … read more

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  • audiobook
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25. The Fox Maidens

By: Robin Ha

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korea… read more

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26. Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

By: Julissa Arce

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time wi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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27. Cat Massage Therapy Vol. 2

By: Haru Hisakawa

4.38

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Having developed an addiction to the cats' comforting and therapeutic massages, Nekoyama and his fe… read more

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28. You're That Bitch: And Other Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself

By: Bretman Rock

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud."--Chelsea Handler A chaotically j… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"A role could call for an indigenous Aeta woman and they would hire a half white, half Filipina woman and paint her skin Black just so she could play a maid."

-Bretman Rock, You're That Bitch: And Other Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself

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29. Only on the Weekends

By: Dean Atta

3.52

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Award-winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel … read more

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  • audiobook
"He kisses me two times On the top of my head. One for me, I think, And another for Mum."

-Dean Atta, Only on the Weekends

"I’m the artist And the canvas. I’m the only Audience I need. I don’t want to Put on a show. I just want to Shimmer and glow."

-Dean Atta, Only on the Weekends

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30. Food-Related Stories

By: Gaby Melian

3.65

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

Similar categories in Gaby Melian's Food-Related Stories book and Gaby Melian's Food-Related Stories

  • memoir
  • foodie
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • audiobook
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31. You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1)

By: Chris Ying

4.20

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • food
  • foodie
  • essays

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Carsick

John Waters

3.92

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Inheritance: A Visual Poem

Elizabeth Acevedo

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Most Ardently

Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Transform Your Habits

May the Best Man Win

Z.R. Ellor

3.23

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Transform Your Habits

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

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Adiba Jaigirdar

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