21 Top lgbt books like There is (still) love here by Dean Atta

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There is (still) love here

By: Dean Atta

4.23

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

here is (still) love here, the compelling new collection of poetry by Dean Atta, is a personal and …

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1. The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

By: Audre Lorde

4.35

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexit… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"[…] your smile has been to war"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"I have died too many deaths that were not mine."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"Our labor has become more important than our silence."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

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2. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

3. 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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4. This Winter

By: Alice Oseman

3.64

Format: 216 pages, ebook

A short story, based on characters from Solitaire - praised as 'The Catcher in the Rye for the digi… read more

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5. Stage Dreams

By: Melanie Gillman

3.87

Format: 104 pages, Library Binding

In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoonist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award H… read more

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  • lgbt
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6. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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7. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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  • lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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8. Fence, Vol. 3

By: C.S. Pacat

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Combines Issues #9-12. Scrappy fencer Nicholas Cox comes to the end of his path to prove himself… read more

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  • lgbt
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9. I Think Our Son Is Gay, Vol. 1

By: Okura

4.24

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

A doting mother and her two beloved sons, one of whom she thinks is probably gay, go about their da… read more

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  • lgbt
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10. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • lgbt
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11. The Kingdom of Sand

By: Andrew Holleran

3.51

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more

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  • lgbt
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"

-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand

"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"

-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand

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12. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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  • poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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13. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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14. A Million to One

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 make… read more

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  • lgbt
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15. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

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"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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16. Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

3.59

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a rese… read more

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  • lgbt
"Three months ago Valentine would have said no because it was easy to be gracious when you were largely indifferent. When manner were just another mask. Three weeks ago, he would have said yes because…"

-Alexis Hall, Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1)

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17. 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
"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

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18. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)

By: Jill Johnson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more

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19. 100 Queer Poems

By: Mary Jean Chan

3.82

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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20. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

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"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

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21. PRINCE OF LUST

By: Lucien Burr

3.63

Format: None pages, None

Alessandro senses his devotion to the monastery slipping away, haunted by regret over the years he … read more

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  • lgbt
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22. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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23. Tongues of Fire

By: Seán Hewitt

4.23

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A remarkable first collection by an important new poet In this collection, Seán Hewitt gives us … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"I did not / realize how far I had walked you / into my life, until your hand let go." - "Epithalamium"

-Seán Hewitt, Tongues of Fire

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24. Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

By: Sophia Thakur

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A compelling collection of poems that explores the emotions and experiences of growing up as a mixe… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Prince's Dearest Guards (The Prince's Dearest Guards, #1) by Beau Van Dalen

25. The Prince's Dearest Guards (The Prince's Dearest Guards, #1)

By: Beau Van Dalen

3.43

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

Prince Hal wants a boyfriend. Sadly, he’s much too shy to find any suitable partners. That is… un… read more

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Cover of At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica

26. At Least This I Know

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.07

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

The powerful debut collection exploring ancestry, racism, nationhood, activism and queerness in a j… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
Cover of There is (still) love here by Dean Atta

27. There is (still) love here

By: Dean Atta

4.23

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

here is (still) love here, the compelling new collection of poetry by Dean Atta, is a personal and … read more

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Cover of Queer Power: Icons, Activists and Game Changers from Across the Rainbow by Dom&ink

28. Queer Power: Icons, Activists and Game Changers from Across the Rainbow

By: Dom&ink

4.13

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

You’re about to meet so many incredible humans. Are you ready hun? Celebrate some of the modern-da… read more

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Cover of The Carnivorous Plant by Andrea Mayo

29. The Carnivorous Plant

By: Andrea Mayo

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

What makes a carnivorous plant trap you? How can we avoid it? How can we run away from it devouring… read more

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  • lgbt
"La planta carnívora tiene movimiento propio. Deglute. Atrapa presas vivas. Cuando hacen contacto, activa la trampa. Y las encierra en su interior si están el tiempo suficiente a su alcance."

-Andrea Mayo, The Carnivorous Plant

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30. Let's Split Up

By: Bill Wood

3.98

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

A nail-biting and perfectly formed Thriller for the YA BookTok generation. This is SCOOBY DOO meets… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of The Prince's Loving Guards (The Prince's Dearest Guards, #2) by Beau Van Dalen

31. The Prince's Loving Guards (The Prince's Dearest Guards, #2)

By: Beau Van Dalen

3.76

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Crown Prince Hal wished for a boyfriend. Until he met his new guards. Now, he has two lovers … read more

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9 Best poetry books like There is (still) love here by Dean Atta

Transform Your Habits

The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

Audre Lorde

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Warsan Shire

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Dearly

Margaret Atwood

3.74

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21 must-read fiction books like The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

Kate Atkinson

3.71

Transform Your Habits

August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Naomi Alderman

3.86

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