10 Top lgbt books like Some Integrity by Padraig Regan

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Some Integrity

By: Padraig Regan

4.09

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious p…

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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

By: Muriel Spark

3.65

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more

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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

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2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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  • poetry
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3. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • lgbt
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4. Several Short Sentences About Writing

By: Verlyn Klinkenborg

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education… read more

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"People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter."

-Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing

5. The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

By: Bhanu Kapil

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of th… read more

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6. The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)

By: Jonathan Stroud

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of … read more

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7. Death of a Naturalist

By: Seamus Heaney

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

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8. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

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9. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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  • lgbt
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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10. Children of Paradise

By: Camilla Grudova

3.49

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more

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11. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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12. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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13. 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

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14. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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15. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • lgbt
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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16. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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17. 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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  • poetry
"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

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18. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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  • poetry
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19. If All the World and Love Were Young

By: Stephen Sexton

4.04

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in t… read more

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  • poetry
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20. The Sun is Open

By: Gail McConnell

4.23

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more

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  • poetry
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21. We Still Belong

By: Christine Day

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning aut… read more

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22. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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23. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

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  • lgbt
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24. Certain American States: Stories

By: Catherine Lacey

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists comes Certain American States, whose insightf… read more

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25. Limbic

By: Peter Scalpello

4.04

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Limbic is Peter Scalpello’s glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slip… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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26. Some Integrity

By: Padraig Regan

4.09

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious p… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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27. We Play Here

By: Dawn Watson

4.28

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023; shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Priz… read more

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  • poetry
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28. New Life

By: Ana Bozicevic

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her latest book,  New Life , Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I … read more

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  • poetry
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29. Perennial Fashion Presence Falling

By: Fred Moten

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Cheryl's Destinies

By: Stephen Sexton

3.78

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn't" It is the decade o… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Gub

By: Scott McKendry

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and … read more

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  • poetry

16 must-read poetry books like Some Integrity by Padraig Regan

Transform Your Habits

Look

Solmaz Sharif

4.16

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Patricia Lockwood

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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