My Body Is Distant: A Memoir
By: Paige Maylott
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our …
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1. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
By: Torrey Peters
4.12
Format: None pages,
In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
2. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
3. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
4. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
By: Georges Perec , John Sturrock
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he die… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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- adult
6. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
7. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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- adult
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
8. The Nightmare Man
By: J.H. Markert
3.87
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line betwee… read more
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- adult
"Scarecrow's scare, That's what they do."-J.H. Markert, The Nightmare Man
9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
10. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
11. Chrysalis
By: Anuja Varghese
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
12. 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
- adult
- 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
13. Initiation (Sex Wizards, #1)
By: Alethea Faust
4.33
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
Magic is a rare gift that only exists in the bloodlines of the rich, the royal, and the reputable. … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
14. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- adult
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
15. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
16. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
17. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
18. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
19. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
20. 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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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"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
21. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
By: Pidgeon Pagonis
4.37
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Hey, hey, listen,"-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
22. The Secret History of Audrey James
By: Heather Marshall
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more
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23. A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
By: Anders Gyllenhaal
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss … read more
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- nonfiction
24. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
25. The Gay Best Friend
By: Nicolas DiDomizio
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend
26. Any Other City
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.14
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more
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- adult
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
27. On Community (Field Notes, #8)
By: Casey Plett
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL We need community to live. But what doe… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
28. 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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- adult
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
29. My Body Is Distant: A Memoir
By: Paige Maylott
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our … read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
30. Am I Trans Enough? How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self
By: Alo Johnston
4.61
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Am I Trans Enough? The answer is undoubtably yes. You are. Alo Johnston has been where you are. … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
