Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business
By: Frank DeCaro
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drag celebrates the fabulous current and historical influence of drag, and its talented and inspiri…
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1. You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures
By: Alan Cumming
4.00
Format: 4 pages,
If you were to put David Sedaris and Glenn O'Brien in a blender and add a dash of New York and Holl… read more
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2. Elizabeth Is Missing
By: Emma Healey
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbrea… read more
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3. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
By: Kate Bornstein
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to … read more
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4. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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5. Fugletribunalet
By: Agnes Ravatn
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
TV-programleiaren Allis Hagtorn forlet mann og jobb etter ei offentleg sexskandale og byrjar som hu… read more
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6. The Lost Library
By: Rebecca Stead
4.14
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more
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"But aren’t “parents"-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"That delicious book smell, his heart said."-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
7. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
8. Hare House
By: Sally Hinchcliffe
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more
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"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
9. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
10. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
11. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
3.70
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more
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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
12. The Weaver and the Witch Queen
By: Genevieve Gornichec
3.88
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more
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13. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
14. Karma: My Autobiography
By: Boy George
3.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more
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15. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
16. Himawari House
By: Harmony Becker
4.37
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Bilingual Edition in English and Japanese Living in a new country is no walk in the park. Whe… read more
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17. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
18. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
19. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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- audiobook
20. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
By: Sasha Velour
4.41
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Every Exquisite Thing
By: Laura Steven
3.83
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati… read more
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"You deserve to be loved."-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
"I think I was just born hungry."-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
22. Jay's Gay Agenda
By: Jason June
3.52
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
There's one thing Jay Collier knows for sure—he's a statistical anomaly as the only out gay kid in … read more
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- audiobook
"I was the Willy Wonka of slip-ups"-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda
"Why did the city's most notable attraction have to be so "bonery?"-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda
"When most of the football players had left the closet, it was safe enough to pick my material."-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda
"My whole body wanted him, my entire soul too, and it hit me that an item on the Gay Agenda always should have been to find Albert. To find the guy who could set my spirit and sexuality on fire all at…"-Jason June, Jay's Gay Agenda
23. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Oh, and it should go without saying, but fuck capitalism."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
24. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ… read more
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- history
- audiobook
25. Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
4.27
Format: 464 pages, ebook
MP3 CD Format "Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as f… read more
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- history
- lgbt
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- queer
26. To Be a Gay Man
By: Will Young
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Million-selling pop star and co-host of influential podcast ‘Homo Sapiens’, Will Young is calling f… read more
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- audiobook
27. The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore
By: Peter Laws
4.08
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Werewolfism may have scared men in particular, being less accustomed than women to the idea of a monthly, biological cycle beyond their control, which involves the shedding of blood, not to mention a…"-Peter Laws, The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore
28. Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business
By: Frank DeCaro
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drag celebrates the fabulous current and historical influence of drag, and its talented and inspiri… read more
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- queer
29. Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar
By: Kita Mean
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The hilarious tell-all memoir by the season one winner of Ru Paul's Drag Race Down Under Hailing… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
30. Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age
By: Harry James Hanson
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Legends of Queens of a Certain Age is a tribute to the groundbreaking drag icons who helped pave t… read more
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31. Wrecker
By: Noel O'Reilly
3.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A powerful debut exploring the dark side of Cornwall – the wrecking and the drowned sailors – where… read more
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