Fairest: A Memoir
By: Meredith Talusan
3.76
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story tr…
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1. The Creature in the Case (Abhorsen, #3.5)
By: Garth Nix
3.93
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
It is six months since the cataclysmic events of Abhorsen, six months Nicholas Sayre has spent reco… read more
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2. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
4. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
By: Danyel Smith
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
6. Punch Me Up to the Gods
By: Brian Broome
4.33
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing… read more
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- audiobook
- race
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"My second baby was a girl. Cutest thing you ever did see. He was happy with a girl. His first born. He liked havin’ a girl. He fell in love with her and played with her and praised her every move. Se…"-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
"I think about my father and the clarity that comes with age tells me that he must have suffered... He was anxious. He was lonely. And he was insecure. There is no thing on earth more dangerous than a…"-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
7. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
8. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
9. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Sasha Masha
By: Agnes Borinsky
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-w… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
"I feel like teenagers get a bad rap for changing things up all the time. We're fake or we're insincere or we're superficial. But if you do it to please yourself, what's insincere about that?"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
"Real people are comfortable being themselves and don't have to think about what they want. They laugh out loud and they eat when they're hungry and they say what they're thinking no matter who is lis…"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
"Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Bec…"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
"I feel like I was on autopilot for most of my life. Like I just took for granted the person the world told me I was and I feel like it might have been easier to shake that up a little when I was a ki…"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
11. The Thirty Names of Night
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
4.04
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
12. The Body Papers
By: Grace Talusan
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Paper… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Which Side Are You On
By: Ryan Lee Wong
3.60
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian … read more
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- race
- audiobook
14. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
16. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
17. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
18. Fairest: A Memoir
By: Meredith Talusan
3.76
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story tr… read more
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- audiobook
- race
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
19. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- race
- audiobook
20. Pretty: A Memoir
By: KB Brookins
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir ab… read more
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- audiobook
- race
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.37
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more
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- transgender
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- nonfiction
- queer
