My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems
By: Amber Dawn
4.42
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
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1. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievemen… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
2. 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
- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
3. Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
By: Ella Frances Sanders
4.13
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Your Voice in My Head
By: Emma Forrest
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that he… read more
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5. The Great Crash of 1929
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Econo… read more
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6. Felon: Poems
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.34
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
7. Light from Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
4.06
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Lindsey Stirling?"-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
8. Blackwater
By: Jeannette Arroyo
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Riverdale meets Stranger Things in this debut queer YA graphic novel, developed from a hit webcomic… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
9. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
By: Eric LaRocca
3.22
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
10. A Natural History of Transition
By: Callum Angus
4.22
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
11. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- adult
- queer
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
12. The Infinity Particle
By: Wendy Xu
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inve… read more
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13. M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel
By: Talia Dutton
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frank… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
14. Banned Book Club
By: Kim Hyun Sook
3.97
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her … read more
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- nonfiction
"In times like this, no act is apolitical."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"Everyone has a right to the truth. But I don't owe you mine."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"But if they're going to keep calling us communists, we might as well learn what that means!"-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
15. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
By: Yukito Ayatsuji
3.62
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more
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"A cold death mask worn by a living man."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
16. The Butcher of the Forest
By: Premee Mohamed
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more
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- adult
17. 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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- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
18. Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories
By: Lindsay Wong
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious… read more
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- adult
- canada
19. it was never going to be okay
By: jaye simpson
4.35
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more
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- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
20. Walk Me to the Corner
By: Anneli Furmark
3.92
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Stability withers where passion blossoms in this cool-toned meditation on mid-life relationships.A … read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
21. The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
By: Lindsay Wong
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- canada
- mental health
22. Witchy, Volume 1 (Witchy, #1)
By: Ariel Slamet Ries
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. T… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"If others pull you from the darkness, it's because they believe your life is worth living. Don't push them away because you don't feel you deserve it."-Ariel Slamet Ries, Witchy, Volume 1 (Witchy, #1)
23. 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
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- 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
24. Scout Is Not a Band Kid
By: Jade Armstrong
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
A young girl in middle school will do whatever it takes to meet her favorite author--even if it mea… read more
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- lgbt
25. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
By: Phoebe Robinson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a n… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
26. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
27. So Happy for You
By: Celia Laskey
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A wedding weekend spirals out of control in this bold, electrifying, hilarious novel about the comp… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
28. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
29. My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems
By: Amber Dawn
4.42
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, indiv… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
30. Exculpatory Lilies: Poems
By: Susan Musgrave
4.50
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book 2022 Walcott Prize Shortlist … read more
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- poetry
- canada
31. A Witch's Guide to Burning
By: Aminder Dhaliwal
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Dhaliwal creates a land ruled by magic and fire, where the sky is thick with witches A witch’s wor… read more
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