8 must-read queer books like This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew

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This Is What I Know About Art

By: Kimberly Drew

4.14

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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

"It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpaid or underpaid labor."

-Kimberly Drew, This Is What I Know About Art

"It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpaid or underpaid labor."

-Kimberly Drew, This Is What I Know About Art

If you liked the queer plot in This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio, Christian Robinson

1. Gaston

By: Kelly DiPucchio , Christian Robinson

4.28

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

A bulldog and a poodle learn that family is about love, not appearances in this adorable doggy tale… read more

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Cover of Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher

2. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By: Shaun Usher

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Usher's Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography

3. Nerdy Birdy

By: None , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Nerdy Birdy likes reading, video games, and reading about video games, which immediately disqualifi… read more

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4. The Magic Barrel

By: Bernard Malamud , Jhumpa Lahiri

4.67

Format: 360 pages,

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Ma… read more

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5. A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

By: Ann M. Martin

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Newbery Honor author Ann Martin's "heartwrenching and heartwarming" (Kirkus) dog story, now in pape… read more

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6. Tommy: The Gun That Changed America

By: Karen Blumenthal

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would hel… read more

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7. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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8. 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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9. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • art
  • race
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Matt Bors's Be Gay, Do Comics book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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11. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

Cover of Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) by Rio Cortez

12. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

Similar categories in Rio Cortez's Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo

13. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Inheritance: A Visual Poem book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • race
  • audiobook
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14. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
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15. A Polar Bear in the Snow

By: Mac Barnett

3.99

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A polar bear heads out on a mysterious walk in the snow. Follow a polar bear through a world of … read more

Similar categories in Mac Barnett's A Polar Bear in the Snow book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • art
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16. Something Like Possible

By: Miel Moreland

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling YA contemporary from author Miel Moreland, a bisexual teen's path to political s… read more

Similar categories in Miel Moreland's Something Like Possible book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

17. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

By: Sherronda J. Brown

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an … read more

Similar categories in Sherronda J. Brown's Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • race
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Extinction (a play)

By: Hannie Rayson

2.94

Format: None pages, ebook

One wild winter night, Harry Jewell is driving along the Great Ocean Road, when he hits an animal. … read more

Similar categories in Hannie Rayson's Extinction (a play) book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
Cover of Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell

19. Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me

By: Shelby Criswell

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This graphic novel paints a picture of the lives of 10 specific LGBTQIA people from history, framed… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Criswell's Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-w… read more

Similar categories in Agnes Borinsky's Sasha Masha book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I feel like teenagers get a bad rap for changing things up all the time. We're fake or we're insincere or we're superficial. But if you do it to please yourself, what's insincere about that?"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

"Real people are comfortable being themselves and don't have to think about what they want. They laugh out loud and they eat when they're hungry and they say what they're thinking no matter who is lis…"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

"Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Bec…"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

"I feel like I was on autopilot for most of my life. Like I just took for granted the person the world told me I was and I feel like it might have been easier to shake that up a little when I was a ki…"

-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha

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21. Cinderella Liberator

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In her debut children’s book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist … read more

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"When you love someone a lot, they just look like love."

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

"...nobody is good or valuable because of who their parents are, or bad because their parents are bad. They are as good and valuable as they are in their own words and deeds..."

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

"The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy ca…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

"But there isn't actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty. Some people love roundness and softness, and other people love sharp edges and strong muscles…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

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22. The Raven's Tale

By: Cat Winters

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy… read more

Similar categories in Cat Winters's The Raven's Tale book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
"Yes," I say, for my work is poetry, and I am most certainly paying attention."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

"Yes," I saw, for my work is poetry, and I am most certainly paying attention."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

"The kindest thing you can do for the dead... is to weave their names into art."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

"Stop treating me like I’m ignorant and delirious. I understand reality all too well—that’s the source of all my pain."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

Cover of Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream by Julissa  Arce

23. 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

Similar categories in Julissa Arce's Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of What If... Loki Was Worthy? (Marvel's What If...?, #1) by Madeleine Roux

24. What If... Loki Was Worthy? (Marvel's What If...?, #1)

By: Madeleine Roux

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Loki and Valkyrie seek redemption in the first adventure of an epic new multiversal series that rei… read more

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Cover of Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, Vol. 6 (Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, #6) by Akiko Higashimura

25. Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, Vol. 6 (Princess Jellyfish 2-in-1 Omnibus, #6)

By: Akiko Higashimura

4.29

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

LONG DISTANCES In order to save Amamizukan, the girls decide to put up an exhibition of their wo… read more

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Cover of Paolo, Emperor of Rome by Mac Barnett

26. Paolo, Emperor of Rome

By: Mac Barnett

3.80

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A daring dog takes a whirlwind tour of Rome in search of freedom.   Paolo the dachshund is trapped.… read more

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27. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's Death's Country book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew

28. This Is What I Know About Art

By: Kimberly Drew

4.14

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 Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
  • art
  • art history
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • queer
"It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpa…"

-Kimberly Drew, This Is What I Know About Art

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29. Poemsia

By: Lang Leav

3.62

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and poet Lang Leav presents a YA novel that is an absolute fan pleaser!Verity … read more

Similar categories in Lang Leav's Poemsia book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook
"Here's to those who wish us well, and the rest can go to hell!"

-Lang Leav, Poemsia

"The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it's a hurricane."

-Lang Leav, Poemsia

"In the words of Jean de La Fountaine, 'A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

-Lang Leav, Poemsia

"Whatever path you choose will take you to the same destination. The only thing that should guide you is your intuition."

-Lang Leav, Poemsia

Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

30. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki

31. No-No Boy

By: Ken Narasaki

3.42

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aft… read more

Similar categories in Ken Narasaki's No-No Boy book and Kimberly Drew's This Is What I Know About Art

  • audiobook

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Renée Watson

4.61

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Ann Zhao

4.01

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Rio Cortez

4.02

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Elizabeth Acevedo

4.49

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3.83

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3.79

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3.84

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