Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens
By: Ryan Pfluger
4.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Featuring 100 stunning color photographs of queer, interracial couples taken by a renowned photogra…
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1. Ayiti
By: Roxane Gay
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction,… read more
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2. Girls Like Girls
By: Hayley Kiyoko
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Trailblazing pop star, actor, and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age r… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
3. Yerba Buena
By: Nina LaCour
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
4. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
5. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. In Limbo
By: Deb J.J. Lee
4.18
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Disappearing Earth
By: Julia Phillips
3.84
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducte… read more
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"Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el …"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
"Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained stand…"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
"He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred p…"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
8. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
9. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.44
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
10. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
11. Rosewater
By: Liv Little
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
12. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
15. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
16. The Family Outing: A Memoir
By: Jessi Hempel
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
17. Thieves
By: Lucie Bryon
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I'm not just your friend when everything is going well. I'm your friend through the crappy times too."-Lucie Bryon, Thieves
18. Garlic and the Witch
By: Bree Paulsen
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more
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19. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
20. The Ride of Her Life
By: Jennifer Dugan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer r… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"She's coming undone right in front of me and it's turning me on. It should not be turning me on."-Jennifer Dugan, The Ride of Her Life
21. Satisfaction Guaranteed
By: Karelia Stetz-Waters
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
For fans of Casey McQuiston and Abby Jimenez comes a bold, hilarious, and out-of-the-box novel abou… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Love. How had it happened so quickly? Maybe because her soul had been searching for Selena her whole life without even knowing it."-Karelia Stetz-Waters, Satisfaction Guaranteed
22. You Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
23. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
By: Krista Burton
3.86
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
24. Just as You Are
By: Camille Kellogg
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com brings a healthy dose of queerness and a whole lot… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
25. Slip
By: Marika McCoola
3.54
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From Eisner-Award nominated writer Marika McCoola and debut artist Aatmaja Pandya, an emotional com… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
26. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
27. Kitty Language: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Your Cat
By: Lili Chin
4.43
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Learn to identify every meow, tail swish, and slow blink in this fun, informative, illustrated guid… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Old Gays Guide to the Good Life: Lessons Learned About Love and Death, Sex and Sin, and Saving the Best for Last
By: Mick Peterson
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From America’s most beloved foursome—the TikTok sensation @theoldgays—a book of unexpected aspirati… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
29. 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
By: Seán Hewitt
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Greek and Roman love stories that reclaim and celebrate h… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
30. Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens
By: Ryan Pfluger
4.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Featuring 100 stunning color photographs of queer, interracial couples taken by a renowned photogra… read more
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- art
- lgbt
- photography
- nonfiction
- queer
31. Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth
By: Maxwell Poth
4.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Get to know real queer kids from all over the country—these inspiring stories of LGBTQ+ youth, writ… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
