5 Best lgbt books like Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esme Louise James

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Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

By: Esme Louise James

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories,…

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1. Writing the Other

By: None , Nisi Shawl

4.21

Format: None pages,

During the 1992 Clarion West Writers Workshop attended by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, one of the s… read more

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2. A Curious History of Sex

By: Kate Lister

4.17

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • adult
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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3. Lush Lives

By: J. Vanessa Lyon

3.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With beguiling wit and undeniable passion, Lush Lives is a deliciously queer and sexy novel about b… read more

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  • adult
  • sexuality
  • lgbt
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4. What I Would Do to You

By: Georgia Harper

3.92

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

A near-future Australia. The death penalty is back. But if the victim’s family wants the perpetr… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

By: Therese Oneill

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."

-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

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6. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1)

By: Tara Sim

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Frankenstein meets Indian mythology in this twisty, darkly atmospheric fantasy where the horror is … read more

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  • audiobook
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9. A New Lease on Death (Supernatural Mysteries, #1)

By: Olivia Blacke

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this darkly funny supernatural mystery about an unlikely crime-solving duo that launches a comme… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex by Casey Tanner

10. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex

By: Casey Tanner

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels     the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • lgbt
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11. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

By: Esme Louise James

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories,… read more

Similar categories in Esme Louise James's Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future book and Esme Louise James's Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • adult
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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13. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

By: Tabitha Stanmore

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Psykhe

By: Kate Forsyth

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Kate Forsyth gives voice, power and agency to Psykhe telling this much loved myth from the perspect… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston

16. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Give Me Space but Don't Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety by Haley Weaver

17. Give Me Space but Don't Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety

By: Haley Weaver

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A tender, funny, illustrated memoir about anxiety and self-acceptance from the artist behind @haley… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael   Waters

18. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

By: Michael Waters

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry

19. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

By: Spencer Henry

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more

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  • history
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

20. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

4.41

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

'A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 Best adult books like Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esme Louise James

Transform Your Habits

A Curious History of Sex

Kate Lister

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Lush Lives

J. Vanessa Lyon

3.26

Transform Your Habits

What I Would Do to You

Georgia Harper

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

Therese Oneill

3.72

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21 must-read fiction books like Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

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