10 must-read nonfiction books like Daddy Lessons by Steacy Easton

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Daddy Lessons

By: Steacy Easton

4.05

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Steacy …

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1. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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2. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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3. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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4. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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5. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

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6. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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  • lgbt
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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7. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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8. Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more

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"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

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9. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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10. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

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  • lgbt
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11. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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12. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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13. Thick: And Other Essays

By: Tressie McMillan Cottom

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

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14. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • lgbt
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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"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

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16. Pretend I'm Dead

By: Jen Beagin

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner an… read more

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"You respect me?" Sheila asked, surprised. "As a person?" "No, as a pigeon."

-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

"She smiled. It was rare for her to find someone attractive physically and also to like what came out of their mouth."

-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

"He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system."

-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

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17. Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more

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  • lgbt
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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18. Milk Blood Heat

By: Dantiel W. Moniz

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary… read more

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"She vomited casually into the toilet…"

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

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19. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • lgbt
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"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

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21. Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

By: Maureen Ryan

3.88

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. 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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"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

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23. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more

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  • lgbt
"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

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24. Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun

By: Kaz Rowe

4.43

Format: 98 pages, None

Claude Cahun was a gay, Jewish, genderqueer artist who produced an incredible collection of surreal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars by Kliph Nesteroff

25. Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

By: Kliph Nesteroff

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the cultur… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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27. Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

By: Nadine Sander-Green

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A woman’s coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal―set against the stark… read more

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28. Daddy Lessons

By: Steacy Easton

4.05

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Steacy … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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29. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

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30. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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31. Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure

By: Mx. Sly

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender divers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt

6 Top memoir books like Daddy Lessons by Steacy Easton

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Thick: And Other Essays

Tressie McMillan Cottom

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Transform Your Habits

I'm Afraid of Men

Vivek Shraya

4.23

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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Transform Your Habits

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

3.92

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David Zucker

4.17

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