Feeling This Way
By: Ben Esqueda
3.64
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
In the spirit of his debut, Intoxicated Heart, Ben Esqueda returns with a fresh, moving collection …
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1. Mysterious Skin
By: Scott Heim
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endur… read more
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- queer
2. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- queer
3. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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4. 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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5. Swimming in the Dark
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more
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- romance
- queer
"Little sparks cause fires too."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
6. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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- romance
- queer
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
7. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- romance
- poetry
- nonfiction
8. 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
- queer
9. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
10. When You Call My Name
By: Tucker Shaw
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in Ne… read more
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- romance
- queer
"Just so you know,"-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name
"I stop somewhere waiting for you."-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name
"He didn't know yet that he would remember this name forever."-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name
"Tell me why you don’t sleep. I didn’t say goodbye. I knew what was happening, but I didn’t say goodbye. I didn’t even try to."-Tucker Shaw, When You Call My Name
11. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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- nonfiction
"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
12. Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more
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13. A Gentle Reminder
By: Bianca Sparacino
4.27
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
A gentle reminder, for the days you feel light in this world, and for the days in which the sun ris… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- nonfiction
"Maybe the universe fights for certain souls to find one another"-Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
"The love you deserve will choose you just as confidently as you choose it"-Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
"You have to accept that sometimes beautiful things end, that sometimes people leave, that sometimes two people don't beat the odds, and you have to find closure in that."-Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
"You have to accept that sometimes beautiful things end, that sometimes people leave, that sometimes two human beings don’t beat the odds, and you have to find closure in that."-Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
14. Please Love Me at My Worst
By: Michaela Angemeer
3.89
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the wors… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
"who would i be if i had never been loved by you"-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst
"and when the shore seems out of reach don't forget that you can always just float for a while"-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst
"why did you show this hurt to such a little girl her small hands couldn’t handle your blade it ripped her heart open while you poured the acid you can keep your attempt at love"-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst
"today i love me more than i loved you and that's all i can ask of myself i keep waiting for my coming of age but if i wait it will never come so i will sit here i will float i will write about my bod…"-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst
15. Yesterday I Was the Moon
By: Noor Unnahar
3.88
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
yesterday i was the moon is a collection of poetry by noor unnahar - it explores courage, self-love… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- nonfiction
"Dreams live as long as the dreamers do"-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
"Words; they are powerlessly powerful so use yours well."-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
"in pieces yet at peace i am a building in a post war city"-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
"Nothing teaches better than this trio the fears, the tears, the years."-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
16. The Future
By: Neil Hilborn
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Neil Hilborn's highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find c… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"When I was little I broke both my ankles jumping off a roof because I was sure a cape would enable me to fly. My parents attributed this to my strong imagination. Last year my therapist called it a d…"-Neil Hilborn, The Future
"I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill …"-Neil Hilborn, The Future
17. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
By: Ellena Savage
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
18. Anywho, I Love You
By: Samantha King Holmes
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a… read more
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- poetry
19. Save Me an Orange
By: Hayley Grace
4.04
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
In her debut poetry collection, Hayley gives voice to the roots of struggle and pain growing up, as… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- nonfiction
20. Feeling This Way
By: Ben Esqueda
3.64
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
In the spirit of his debut, Intoxicated Heart, Ben Esqueda returns with a fresh, moving collection … read more
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- romance
- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
21. What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems
By: Grant Chemidlin
4.05
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, … read more
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- romance
- poetry
- queer
