9 Best memoir books like Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet by Jillian Abby

Cover of Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet by Jillian Abby

Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet

By: Jillian Abby

4.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This humorous, heartwarming memoir follows a wife and mother's journey of self-discovery and accept…

If you liked the memoir plot in Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet by Jillian Abby , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Living Two Lives: Married to a Man And in Love With a Woman

By: Joanne Fleisher

3.92

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

From 1967 to 1979 Joanne Fleisher led a happy life in the suburbs, a mother of two and the wife of … read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women by Candace Walsh, Laura André, L. B. Diamond

2. Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women

By: Candace Walsh , Laura André , L. B. Diamond

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
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3. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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4. Tomboy Survival Guide

By: Ivan E. Coyote

3.90

Format: 77 pages,

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Fail… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
Cover of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) by Ashley Herring Blake

5. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. Mistakes Were Made

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Something To Talk About comes a sharp and sexy rom-com abou… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. Untamed

By: Glennon Doyle

3.99

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing w… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"We forgot how to know when we learned how to please."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

"Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

"Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

"Family is: Whether we're falling or flying, we're going to take care of each other through the whole damn ride."

-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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8. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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9. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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10. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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11. Go the F**k to Sleep

By: Adam Mansbach

4.28

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

A laugh-out-loud, adults-only bedtime story for parents familiar with the age-old struggle of putti… read more

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"All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep."

-Adam Mansbach, Go the F**k to Sleep

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12. Man o' War

By: Cory McCarthy

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimme… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after th…"

-Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

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13. Sorry, Bro

By: Taleen Voskuni

3.66

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"For all my mom knows, I am as straight as Taylor Swift (my mortal enemy)."

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

"There's a moon ring on her index finger, and with her other hand she pinches the moon and twists the ring all the way around and back. I want to be that moon. The I immediately tell myself to dial it…"

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

"I don't need to do a quick self-assessment to know that I read as super-duper straight. And, let's be real, a basic bitch. My hair is long past my shoulders, styled and sleek and very conventional. S…"

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

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14. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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15. All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture

By: Daisy Jones

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between. All The Things S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. The Fixed Stars

By: Molly Wizenberg

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexu… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"She walked the line between man and woman, smudged it under her foot."

-Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

"Do not marry someone who will not go to therapy, both on their own and with you. Refusing to go to therapy with your partner is like looking the other way when they're drowning."

-Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

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17. Gay the Pray Away

By: Natalie Naudus

4.46

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the libr… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Naudus's Gay the Pray Away book and Jillian Abby's Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet by Jillian Abby

18. Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet

By: Jillian Abby

4.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This humorous, heartwarming memoir follows a wife and mother's journey of self-discovery and accept… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
Cover of The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen

19. The Only Way Through Is Out

By: Suzette Mullen

4.53

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Making It

By: Laura Kay

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of Wild Things comes a heartwarming and relatable queer rom-com about an isolated y… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. Over the Influence: A Memoir

By: Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

4.30

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recordi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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3.99

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