All the Gay Saints
By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
4.34
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Whiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s second full-length book, All the Gay Saints, is a colle…
Want to Read $ 9.00"There is nothing more powerful than my mouth and who I choose to let live there. At night, when I speak with God, I say Gluttony strokes the queer to joy. And Honey, we like it that way."-Kayleb Rae Candrilli, All the Gay Saints
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
3. Loose Woman
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects … read more
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- poetry
4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
5. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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6. 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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7. Branded by the Pink Triangle
By: Ken Setterington
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places … read more
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8. This Is Where We Talk Things Out
By: Caitlin Marceau
3.77
Format: 93 pages, ebook
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more
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- lgbt
9. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
By: N.D. Stevenson
4.02
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivati… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
"Ï'm learning to put away the diamond exterior and let people get close again. To be good up close instead of from a distance. I'm letting myself be happy."-N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
10. Flamer
By: Mike Curato
4.32
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more
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- lgbt
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- nonfiction
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
12. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
13. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
14. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
15. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
16. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
17. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
18. Consort of Fire (Bound to Fire and Steel, #1)
By: Kit Rocha
3.94
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
From cult-favorite writing duo Kit Rocha comes a fiery novel set in a lush fantasy world brimming w… read more
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- lgbt
19. 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
- nonfiction
- gay
- lgbt
"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)
20. Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2)
By: Lewis Hancox
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sequel to the Indie bestseller WELCOME TO ST. HELL, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspi… read more
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- nonfiction
- transgender
- lgbt
21. Dearly
By: Margaret Atwood
3.74
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
22. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
23. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
24. To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults
By: Jess T. Dugan
4.81
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- transgender
- lgbt
25. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- transgender
- lgbt
26. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems
By: C.T. Salazar
4.35
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetr… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
27. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
By: Joy Harjo
4.56
Format: 458 pages, Paperback
United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Maybe it is the thunders who breathed life into my body. They are forever wanting to lift me high and carry me away." -Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)"-Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
"Home is elusive. It shapeshifts with the currents of my heart and its will. Home is a trickster changing according to the medicine of the season and its lesson." -Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)"-Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
28. All the Gay Saints
By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
4.34
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Whiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s second full-length book, All the Gay Saints, is a colle… read more
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- poetry
- gay
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
"There is nothing more powerful than my mouth and who I choose to let live there. At night, when I speak with God, I say Gluttony strokes the queer to joy. And Honey, we like it that way."-Kayleb Rae Candrilli, All the Gay Saints
29. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lgbt
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
30. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
31. Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde
By: Kristian Williams
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that p… read more
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