11 must-read lgbt books like Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough

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Reckless Paper Birds

By: John McCullough

4.04

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Reckless Paper Birds blends raw emotion, acute social observation and sharp wit to capture the gay …

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1. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • poetry
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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3. The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

By: Stephen Fry

4.17

Format: None pages,

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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4. Full Dark, No Stars

By: Stephen King

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King. 1922 The story opens wit… read more

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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
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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8. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

9. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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10. Selected Tales

By: Jacob Grimm , None , None

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Selected Talescontains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by t… read more

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11. Perrault's Fairy Tales

By: Charles Perrault , Gustave Doré

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passeby the great Charles … read more

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12. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizin… read more

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"An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in..."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also …"

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

13. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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14. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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15. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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16. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Fence, Vol. 1

By: C.S. Pacat

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Combines Issues #1-4. Nicholas, the illegiti… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

18. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

By: Neil Gaiman

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0060515236 (ISBN13: 9780060515232). Fragile Things is … read more

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  • poetry
"Words can wound, and wounds can heal."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"We save our lives in such unlikely ways."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

19. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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20. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection

By: Hans Christian Andersen

3.93

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

'My fairy tales were as much for older people as for children...humour was the real salt in them.' … read more

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21. Our Hideous Progeny

By: C.E. McGill

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

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22. Ghosted

By: Jenn Ashworth

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband Mark vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For week… read more

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Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

23. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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24. Small Bodies of Water

By: Nina Mingya Powles

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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25. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

Cover of Concerning My Daughter by Hye-Jin Kim

26. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

Cover of Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough

27. Reckless Paper Birds

By: John McCullough

4.04

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Reckless Paper Birds blends raw emotion, acute social observation and sharp wit to capture the gay … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of There is (still) love here by Dean Atta

28. There is (still) love here

By: Dean Atta

4.23

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

here is (still) love here, the compelling new collection of poetry by Dean Atta, is a personal and … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

29. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer

30. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings

By: Jane Yeh

4.31

Format: 648 pages, ebook

Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways t… read more

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7 Top nonfiction books like Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough

Transform Your Habits

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Stephen Fry

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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Saeed Jones

3.17

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

4.18

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Transform Your Habits

Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

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Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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Joe Hill

4.08

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