Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth
By: Madian Al Jazerah
4.38
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. 'Are you this?' s…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. When the Moon Was Ours
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
3.89
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
"She wanted you to have the life you wanted,' Aracely said. 'So figure out what kind of life you want."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
"He wanted to be a girl who wanted to be a girl, or a boy who was, in a way no one could question, a boy."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
"They're expected to forget everything they knew about being anything other than what they're supposed to be."-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
3. The Clothesline Swing
By: Danny Ramadan
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Clothesline Swingis a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Sy… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
4. الهويات القاتلة
By: Amin Maalouf , أمين معلوف
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"mndh 'n Gdrt lbnn llstqrr fy frns, km mn mr@ s'lny lb`D `n Tyb ny@ n knt 'sh`r bnfsy "frnsyan" 'm … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
5. Guapa
By: Saleem Haddad
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set ov… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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7. Koolaids: The Art of War
By: Rabih Alameddine
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of frien… read more
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8. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
By: Alan Downs
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more
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9. Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
By: Marie Lu
4.04
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In a world broken by war, a team of young warriors is willing to sacrifice everything to save what … read more
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"May there always be future dawns."-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
"Sometimes a crime is an act of heroism."-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
"But sometimes you cope by wasting time, yes?"-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
"I accept, then. A few hundred dinners here with you."-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
10. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.03
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
11. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
12. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
4.23
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
13. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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14. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
15. 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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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"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
16. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
17. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
18. A Snake Falls to Earth
By: Darcie Little Badger
3.95
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Hey Daysona!"-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth
"And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had…"-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
20. Sex and Lies
By: Leïla Slimani
3.96
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling aut… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Devenir une femme est un parcours semé d'humiliations. Face à la police, face à la justice comme dans l'espace public, être une femme est un inconvénient. Comme l'écrivait le romancier turc Livaneli …"-Leïla Slimani, Sex and Lies
21. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
22. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
23. This Way Out
By: Tufayel Ahmed
4.03
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you’re getting married (and gay)… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Love is a gift. Mariam's words stick with me. People are more concerned by what two men or two women do in bed than about love. Love is companionship, feeling content and safe in the arms of another …"-Tufayel Ahmed, This Way Out
24. The Mother Wound
By: Amani Haydar
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
By: Kacen Callender
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe."-Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
26. You Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
27. The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
28. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
29. This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
By: Elias Jahshan
4.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Ara… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"Those of us who suffer from severe anxiety and PTSD, in my case due to inferiority complexes and repeated emotional, physical and religious trauma from a young age, know that the fear of being found …"-Elias Jahshan, This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
30. Mister N
By: Najwa Barakat
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left … read more
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"My wife was of salt. Grains of salt, ready to dissolve. Salt always has a kind of coercion. There's something in its flavor that tastes like distress..."-Najwa Barakat, Mister N
"Lazarus may have made a report when he returned. He must have written something, left something behind somewhere. It's inconceivable for someone to live through that experience and say nothing about …"-Najwa Barakat, Mister N
"Ah! Here I am reverting to the third-person pronoun. What makes it so hard to write "I"? Just one letter, and I would become the center around which things are divided up and arranged. My brother, Sa…"-Najwa Barakat, Mister N
31. Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth
By: Madian Al Jazerah
4.38
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. 'Are you this?' s… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
