12 must-read queer books like Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager

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Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

By: Sarah Prager

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused LGBTQ+ illustrated biography collection takes readers on a…

If you liked the queer plot in Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

By: Rachel Ignotofsky

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

It's a scientific fact: Women rock! A charmingly illustrated and educational book, Women in Scienc… read more

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2. A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book

By: Frank Warren

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller The award-winning PostSecret project's most profound and stunning postcard… read more

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3. Branded by the Pink Triangle

By: Ken Setterington

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places … read more

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4. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

Similar categories in Vashti Harrison's Big book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • childrens
Cover of Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language by Roxane Gay

5. Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

By: Roxane Gay

3.99

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • audiobook
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6. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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7. Ploof

By: Ben Clanton

4.19

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Come play with Ploof! Meet a friendly cloud full of feelings in this interactive picture book for f… read more

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  • childrens
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8. Out of Left Field

By: Jonah Newman

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-auto… read more

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  • lgbt
"I'm gay"

-Jonah Newman, Out of Left Field

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9. Evergreen

By: Matthew Cordell

4.30

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A picture book by Caldecott medal winner Matt Cordell about a timid squirrel who makes a brave jour… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Cordell's Evergreen book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • childrens
Cover of Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica     Love

10. Julián Is a Mermaid

By: Jessica Love

4.51

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Love's Julián Is a Mermaid book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • queer
  • childrens
  • lgbt
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11. Death in Soho (Augusta Peel, #1)

By: Emily Organ

4.10

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the Roaring Twenties. London’s bright young things are partying, Soho’s nightlife is buzzing a… read more

Similar categories in Emily Organ's Death in Soho (Augusta Peel, #1) book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • historical
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Alok Vaid-Menon's Beyond the Gender Binary book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • audiobook
  • 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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13. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.86

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"

-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

Cover of Who Is RuPaul? by Nicolas David Medina

14. Who Is RuPaul?

By: Nicolas David Medina

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world's most famo… read more

Similar categories in Nicolas David Medina's Who Is RuPaul? book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • biography
  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Prince & Knight (Prince & Knight, #1) by Daniel Haack

15. Prince & Knight (Prince & Knight, #1)

By: Daniel Haack

4.45

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In this modern fairy tale, a noble prince and a brave knight come together to defeat a terrible mon… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Haack's Prince & Knight (Prince & Knight, #1) book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • queer
  • childrens
  • lgbt
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16. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

17. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more

Similar categories in Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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18. Lilith

By: Eric Rickstad

3.96

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New… read more

Similar categories in Eric Rickstad's Lilith book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • audiobook
"I find no comfort in it, eternity, everlasting life. When I am dead, I will be gone, and I will never know I existed. I will not know I ever was. Just as when I am asleep, I do not know I exist or ev…"

-Eric Rickstad, Lilith

Cover of Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage by Tori Amos

19. Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

By: Tori Amos

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been o… read more

Similar categories in Tori Amos's Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is lef…"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband and your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is…"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Certain relationships can just wear you down. So you mirror or reflect back- kind of like a pet, reflecting back what its master wants. This can seem easier in the moment: Whatever it takes to back t…"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

Cover of Me and My Dysphoria Monster: An Empowering Story to Help Children Cope with Gender Dysphoria by Laura Kate Dale

20. Me and My Dysphoria Monster: An Empowering Story to Help Children Cope with Gender Dysphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.57

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Nisha's monster follows her everywhere. It used to be small, but recently her monster has begun to … read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Me and My Dysphoria Monster: An Empowering Story to Help Children Cope with Gender Dysphoria book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • queer
  • childrens
  • lgbt
Cover of What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary by Juno  Dawson

21. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

By: Juno Dawson

4.34

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

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22. My Rainbow

By: Trinity Neal

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transg… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Neal's My Rainbow book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • queer
  • childrens
  • lgbt
Cover of Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene

23. Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

By: Adrienne Keene

4.60

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Keene's Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • biography
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
Cover of Who Was Harvey Milk? by Corinne A. Grinapol

24. Who Was Harvey Milk?

By: Corinne A. Grinapol

4.30

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Learn about one of the most influential leaders in the fight for gay rights. Although he started o… read more

Similar categories in Corinne A. Grinapol's Who Was Harvey Milk? book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of A Haunted Girl by Ethan Sacks

25. A Haunted Girl

By: Ethan Sacks

3.67

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

The fate of all life on Earth depends on a girl who doesn’t know if she wants to live Cleo, a 16-ye… read more

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26. Pride Puppy!

By: Robin Stevenson

4.25

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A young child and their family are having a wonderful time together celebrating Pride Day—meeting u… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevenson's Pride Puppy! book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • queer
  • childrens
  • lgbt
Cover of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor

27. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

By: Candacy A. Taylor

4.23

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide… read more

Similar categories in Candacy A. Taylor's Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager

28. Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

By: Sarah Prager

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused LGBTQ+ illustrated biography collection takes readers on a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Métis Like Me by Tasha Hilderman

29. Métis Like Me

By: Tasha Hilderman

4.40

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Whether or not you're Métis, there's so much to experience and learn about this amazing Indigenous … read more

Similar categories in Tasha Hilderman's Métis Like Me book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • childrens
Cover of Who Is Megan Rapinoe? (Who HQ Now) by Stefanie Loh

30. Who Is Megan Rapinoe? (Who HQ Now)

By: Stefanie Loh

3.86

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Learn about the bold and courageous life of soccer champion and activist Megan Rapinoe in the new W… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Loh's Who Is Megan Rapinoe? (Who HQ Now) book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Out!: How to Be Your Authentic Self by Miles McKenna

31. Out!: How to Be Your Authentic Self

By: Miles McKenna

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The ultimate coming out survival guide by queer and trans activist—and social media superstar—Miles… read more

Similar categories in Miles McKenna's Out!: How to Be Your Authentic Self book and Sarah Prager's Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

  • biography
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 must-read audiobook books like Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager

Transform Your Habits

Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

Roxane Gay

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Death in Soho (Augusta Peel, #1)

Emily Organ

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Beyond the Gender Binary

Alok Vaid-Menon

4.49

Transform Your Habits

How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

Barbara Kingsolver

3.86

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Transform Your Habits

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Emily Ladau

4.41

Transform Your Habits

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

Anton Treuer

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

Adrienne Keene

4.60

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