16 best-selling queer books like Berlin's Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld

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Berlin's Third Sex

By: Magnus Hirschfeld

4.02

Format: 150 pages, ebook

Rough trade, drag kings, tea dances, sporty dykes, coded classified ads, campy nicknames, passing, …

If you liked the queer plot in Berlin's Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Histoire de la violence

By: Édouard Louis

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

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2. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

By: Robert Beachy

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimen… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt

4. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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5. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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6. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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7. 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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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • 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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8. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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9. Sorrowland

By: Rivers Solomon

3.83

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

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10. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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11. 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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  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

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12. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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13. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

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14. May the Best Man Win

By: Z.R. Ellor

3.23

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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15. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

By: Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

4.56

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Wei Wuxian was once one of the most powerful men of his generation, a talented and clever young cul… read more

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  • historical
  • queer
  • lgbt
"If you walk the night road too often, sooner or later, you'll run into ghosts."

-Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

"…Who cares about the crowded broad road, I’ll walk the single planked bridge… - Wei Wuxian"

-Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

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16. Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

4.49

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I learned about gender through shame."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

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17. Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. Eine Frau zu sehen

By: Annemarie Schwarzenbach

3.87

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Weihnachten 1929: Im Fahrstuhl eines Hotels in den Schweizer Alpen trifft die junge Erzählerin auf … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"(...) ese nombre que es más que deseo, que se ha convertido ya en posesión a fuerza de haberlo repetido mil veces."

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

"Ich weiß nicht, wie ich ein Gestern ertragen habe, und ein Vorgestern, und die vielen Tage, die sich noch rückwärts reihen."

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

"(...) ¿qué son las posibilidades? ¿No significan acaso promesa, siempre y cuando seamos valientes? ¿No significan acaso poder de la voluntad?: y saberlo es suficiente para ser capaz de esperar."

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

"Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noche de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar? ¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo…"

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

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19. The New Queer Conscience

By: Adam Eli

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"I wish someone had told me that being queer means you are never alone"

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

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20. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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21. Berlin's Third Sex

By: Magnus Hirschfeld

4.02

Format: 150 pages, ebook

Rough trade, drag kings, tea dances, sporty dykes, coded classified ads, campy nicknames, passing, … read more

Similar categories in Magnus Hirschfeld's Berlin's Third Sex book and Magnus Hirschfeld's Berlin's Third Sex

  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • 20th century
  • queer

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Robert Beachy

2.00

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Édouard Louis

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Qui a tué mon père

Édouard Louis

4.16

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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

4.61

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Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

Tang Jiu Qing

4.50

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

4.56

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Meng Xi Shi

4.43

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4.46

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