Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia
By: Sam Elkin
4.37
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Nothing to Hide is Australia's first mainstream anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing, a po…
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2. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
By: Hannah McElhinney
4.54
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
As seen on Tiktok, Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and tr… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
3. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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- australia
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
4. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- australia
5. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
6. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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7. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
8. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- essays
9. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
10. Caught in the Act
By: Courtney Act
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised … read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- australia
- queer
11. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
12. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
13. Stone Fruit
By: Lee Lai
4.06
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
14. Nothing but My Body
By: Tilly Lawless
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more
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- queer
- australia
- lgbt
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
15. Ready When You Are
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.20
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more
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- queer
- australia
- lgbt
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are
16. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
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- poetry
"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
17. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
18. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
19. Songs for the Dead and the Living
By: Sara M. Saleh
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Ja… read more
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20. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Clara Törnvall
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
21. At Certain Points We Touch
By: Lauren John Joseph
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From an electrifying new voice, a "stone-cold masterpiece" (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship, firs… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"I'm trying to stitch these scenes from a life together, I am trying to master the art of cinematic collage, but I find the material has become amorphous. I can no longer tell what is true apart from …"-Lauren John Joseph, At Certain Points We Touch
22. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- poetry
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
23. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
24. Marshmallow
By: Victoria Hannan
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more
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- australia
25. Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia
By: Sam Elkin
4.37
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Nothing to Hide is Australia's first mainstream anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing, a po… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- australia
- queer
26. Little Plum
By: Laura McPhee-Browne
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On the cusp of thirty, Coral learns that a thing is growing inside her body. It is not necessarily … read more
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27. We Come With This Place
By: Debra Dank
4.27
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
28. Growing Up Queer in Australia
By: Benjamin Law
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- australia
- queer
29. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
30. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
31. Normal Functioning Adult: second edition
By: Samantha L. Valentine
4.34
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
The only way to find herself is to lose herself A year ago, Amy Campbell’s life was perfect. Sh… read more
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