Burning Sugar
By: Cicely Belle Blain
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits famil…
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1. When the Only Light Is Fire
By: Saeed Jones
4.31
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on t… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I’ve lined my throat with the river bottom’s best silt, allowed my fingers to shrivel and be taken for crawfish. I’ve laced my eyelashes with algae. I blink emerald. I blink sea glass green. I am wha…"-Saeed Jones, When the Only Light Is Fire
2. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
3. My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as "not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one" (The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
5. Prelude to Bruise
By: Saeed Jones
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
From "Sleeping Arrangement": Take your hand out from under my pillow. And take your sheets with you… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
6. Even this Page is White
By: Vivek Shraya
3.67
Format: None pages,
Vivek's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin: its origins, functio… read more
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7. A Place Called No Homeland
By: Kai Cheng Thom
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monst… read more
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8. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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9. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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10. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
11. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
12. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Sam Sax
4.18
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
13. 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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- poetry
- 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
14. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- adult
- queer
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
15. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
16. What Big Teeth
By: Rose Szabo
3.37
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to he… read more
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- lgbt
"My younger self can't see it from here, but I can; how charity can be just another form of spite."-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth
"It is madness to love someone: there is no greater feeling of estrangement that the ways in which they are different from you."-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth
"Somewhere, two stories up, was my childhood bedroom, and maybe if I could make it in there, I would be transformed back into someone who belonged here."-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth
17. Sisters of the Snake (Ria & Rani, #1)
By: Sarena Nanua
3.69
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A lost princess. A dark puppet master. And a race against time—before all is lost. Princess Rani… read more
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18. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- queer
- canadian literature
- canada
- lgbt
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
19. Empire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.74
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more
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- adult
- canada
20. Fireheart Tiger
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.40
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
21. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- adult
- canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
22. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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- canadian literature
- canada
23. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
24. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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- canadian literature
- canada
- lgbt
25. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
26. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
27. The Low, Low Woods
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.95
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
28. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
29. The Gospel of Breaking
By: Jillian Christmas
4.38
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artisti… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- race
- canada
- lgbt
- queer
30. Shadow Life
By: Hiromi Goto
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
2022 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Winner for Adult Fiction 2022 L.A Times Book Prize Fi… read more
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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"It's the living who struggle to accept death."-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
"There's a special place kept for the person who first breaks your heart."-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
"It's a relief to leave unnecessary things. But do the necessary things have to be so heavy?"-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life
31. Burning Sugar
By: Cicely Belle Blain
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits famil… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- race
- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- canadian literature
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
