A Socially Acceptable Breakdown
By: Patrick Roche
4.26
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, m…
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1. No Matter the Wreckage
By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
2. Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet
By: Jennifer L. Armentrout , Katie Cotugno , Julie Murphy , Sara Shepard , Nina LaCour , Kass Morgan , Emery Lord , Nicola Yoon , Katharine McGee , Dhonielle Clayton , Jocelyn Davies , Meredith Russo , Ibi Zoboi , Sona Charaipotra
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start som… read more
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- lgbt
3. Depression & Other Magic Tricks
By: Sabrina Benaim
4.27
Format: 359 pages,
Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- mental health
4. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- mental health
5. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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7. For Every One
By: Jason Reynolds
4.30
Format: 102 pages, Hardcover
Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial… read more
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- poetry
"Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines."-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
"When it comes to my dream, the way I like to describe it is that it's a rabid beast that found me when I was young"-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
"The truth is, finding that beast may or may not happen. But the treasures I've discovered under the heavy stones and behind the massive trees and deep in the dark caves have created the hunter and th…"-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
"One thing I am now certain of is that this road less traveled has in fact been traveled by far more suckers than you think. All of us out here, slumped over wearing weird fake broken smiles, trying t…"-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
8. 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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- queer
- lgbt
9. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky
By: Rudy Francisco
4.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more
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- poetry
10. Helium (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.29
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- mental health
"The word “repurpose"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"I held you the way a boat holds water."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
12. May the Best Man Win
By: Z.R. Ellor
3.23
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
13. Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
By: Ngozi Ukazu
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and heartbreaking confessions of a figure skater turned collegiate hockey player who'… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Do you ever think about being with someone but realize it's impossible and then get really sad so you bake a pie instead."-Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
"Crushes are stressful. Dating is disappointing. Every relationship, you either break up or get married & then divorced. Pies can't hurt you."-Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
14. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
By: Andrea Gibson
4.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
"There will be music for you one day."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
15. Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
By: Eliot Schrefer
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people."-Eliot Schrefer, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
16. How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone: A Graphic Novel
By: Alex Norris
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A guide for to dating, relationships, and identity—from a wildly popular web comic artist. Isn’t… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
17. Rose Quartz: Poems
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a s… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"keep this / with you / it is part / of your story / sometimes / to remember / a wound / is the way / of healing"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
"How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and …"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
18. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
19. Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)
By: Maggie Stiefvater
4.11
Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition
An enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her bestselling Rav… read more
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- lgbt
"Yes,"-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)
"It’s not going to be what you imagined, but it’ll be just as good."-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)
"She’d been so afraid of the absolute worst that she’d forgotten how she missed the absolute best."-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)
"It was funny how a dream really just contained the absolute best and absolute worst parts of the animal world. She’d been so afraid of the absolute worst that she’d forgotten how she missed the absol…"-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)
20. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
By: Blythe Baird
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
21. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
22. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- mental health
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
23. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
24. So, Stranger
By: Topaz Winters
4.26
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Topaz Winters’ third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far-reaching… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"So all I remember of my ancestry is what fits on the back of a postcard."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
"I want to know what the world knows & I can't tell if that's because I'm a poet or because I have hands."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
"When I swallow the sea he wakes up gasping & I am sure of nothing except that I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm still sorry."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
"We didn't pray but we drank our coffee out of the same mugs every morning, which we decided was almost the same thing."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
25. Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)
By: Ollie Schminkey
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schm… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"when i spell grief, i can never remember if the i or e comes first, so i spend each day autocorrecting my greif, my grief, greif, grief, greif, until i can finally figure out what the fuck it is i’m …"-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)
"i see an old man using a walker on the sidewalk, and my stomach aches for those 30 years my dad never got. if i die at the same age as my dad, my life is almost half up. i imagine him sitting at a pa…"-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)
26. The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: David Lehman
3.49
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more
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- poetry
27. Date & Time (Button Poetry)
By: Phil Kaye
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more
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- poetry
28. Nothing Is Okay
By: Rachel Wiley
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
29. Butcher
By: Natasha T. Miller
4.16
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more
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- poetry
- mental health
- lgbt
30. A Socially Acceptable Breakdown
By: Patrick Roche
4.26
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, m… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
31. Hated for the Gods: Poems
By: Sean Patrick Mulroy
4.59
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sean Patrick Mulroy’s Hated for the Gods invites the reader to embrace their queer heritage with di… read more
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- poetry
