Depart, Depart!
By: Sim Kern
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the D…
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1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- fiction
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
2. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
3. The Wicked Bargain
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
4.19
Format: 368 pages, None
El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
4. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
By: Malika Moustadraf
3.83
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
5. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.44
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
6. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
By: Matt Baume
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
7. The Seep
By: Chana Porter
3.66
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- novella
- fiction
- science fiction
- queer
"Grief is happy memories."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"-Chana Porter, The Seep
8. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
9. The Henchmen of Zenda
By: K.J. Charles
3.88
Format: 232 pages, ebook
Swordfights, lust, betrayal, murder: just another day for a henchman. Jasper Detchard is a disgr… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"He was watching me under those drooping lids, with need and satisfaction too, much as if he imagined he had the whip hand of me now. That was his youth showing, the peculiar conviction that a hard pr…"-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda
"I have no quarrel with democrats in principle, except that they are as much frauds and liars as the rest. It is often said that mankind will not be free till the last king is strangled with the guts …"-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda
"Goodnight, sweet schoolmaster. It's been a pleasure." On which he walked out, arse-naked, carrying his clothes under his arm and his boots by the heels so as not to mar their leather with thumbprints…"-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda
10. Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)
By: Freydís Moon
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Laced with romance, gothic imagery, Catholic mysticism, diaspora, and horror… When lonely transg… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- novella
- horror
- queer
"Abandonment. Unfinished business. There was always something or someone that caused a house to want, to ache, to make itself known. There was always a reason for anger and lust and becoming lonesome"-Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)
11. The Outside (The Outside, #1)
By: Ada Hoffmann
3.80
Format: 401 pages, ebook
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the futu… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- queer
12. Brooms
By: Jasmine Walls
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
13. Know Your Station
By: Sarah Gailey
3.66
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Death Is the Great Leveler, Even for the top 1%! The wealthiest people in the solar system aband… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- horror
14. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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15. The Call-Out
By: Cat Fitzpatrick
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out
16. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
By: Julian K. Jarboe
3.93
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- queer
"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
17. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.05
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more
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- science fiction
- novella
- fiction
18. The Black Girl Survives in This One
By: Desiree S. Evans
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more
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- horror
- fiction
- lgbt
19. 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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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
20. Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
21. OKPsyche
By: Anya Johanna DeNiro
3.87
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An unnamed trans woman is looking for a sense of belonging, a better relationship with her son, and… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- queer
22. Compound Fracture
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture
23. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
24. Symbiosis (Escaping Exodus, #2)
By: Nicky Drayden
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor… read more
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- science fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
25. These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
By: Izzy Wasserstein
3.70
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces h… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- novella
- fiction
- science fiction
- queer
26. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- queer
27. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
28. Depart, Depart!
By: Sim Kern
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the D… read more
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- transgender
- jewish
- lgbt
- novella
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- climate change
- climate change fiction
- queer
29. Lunar Boy
By: Jacinta Wibowo
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more
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- science fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
30. Cecilia
By: K-Ming Chang
3.32
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire … read more
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- novella
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
31. A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism
By: Esther Farmer
4.68
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art A Land With a People is a book of stori… read more
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- jewish
