Woodsqueer
By: Gretchen Legler
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an…
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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- nature
- gardening
- nonfiction
- adult
- environment
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
2. 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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- queer
- lgbt
3. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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4. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
5. No One Else
By: R. Kikuo Johnson
3.65
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
In this graphic novel, Charlene is a divorced mom, has a young son named Brandon, and works full-ti… read more
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- adult
6. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
7. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- nature
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
8. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel
By: Archie Bongiovanni
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
9. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
10. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
11. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
12. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- gardening
- nonfiction
- environment
13. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- adult
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
14. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
15. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- nature
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
16. Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
By: Qing Li
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"Children who have fun in nature will become adults to care for and protect it. If we let our children play outside now, they will become the green architects of the future…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"In the end, it is our children’s relationship with the natural world that determines its future. If we let our children go into the forest, they will become adults who will protect it."-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"Czy zwróciłeś kiedyś uwagę, jak przyjemnie chodzi się boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze się to tylko z ulgi po zdjęciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz podło…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
"Wszyscy znamy cudowny zapach lasu po ulewie. Kiedy długo nie pada, w glebie i na skałach gromadzą się olejki roślinne. To jeden ze sposobów roślin na przetrwanie okresów suszy. Podczas deszczu woda u…"-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
17. Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
By: Daisy Johnson
3.75
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos… read more
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18. Cantoras
By: Carolina De Robertis
4.38
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel abo… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illus…"-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
"Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena's own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at tim…"-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
19. Lucky Red
By: Claudia Cravens
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
20. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
21. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
22. Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1)
By: Tegan Quin
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
AN INDIE BESTSELLER From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle grad… read more
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- queer
- memoir
- lgbt
23. Boys of Alabama
By: Genevieve Hudson
3.35
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, question… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
24. Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
4.25
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
Together we are looking up into all we do not own and we are listening. Everything Comes Next … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek"-Naomi Shihab Nye, Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems
"If you knew how to read, you could never be lonely."-Naomi Shihab Nye, Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems
25. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
26. Stay and Fight
By: Madeline Ffitch
3.76
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off the land. T… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"The ones that belong in jail are rarely the ones you see in there."-Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
"If you think the civil rights movement is over, you're the one who's out of touch, not me."-Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
"We preferred to imagine ourselves on the right side of things, including history. We preferred to stand side by side, thinking despising thoughts about people who were long dead and the mistakes that…"-Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
27. Eleutheria
By: Allegra Hyde
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman’s quest for… read more
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- queer
- environment
- lgbt
28. Houses of the Unholy
By: Ed Brubaker
3.73
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more
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29. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- adult
30. Woodsqueer
By: Gretchen Legler
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- environment
- nature
- queer
31. Guillotine
By: Delilah S. Dawson
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more
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- adult
