10 must-read lgbt books like To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS by Royles

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To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

By: Royles

4.29

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communitie…

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1. The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more

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"Lonely was much better than alone."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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2. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

By: George Chauncey

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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3. The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)

By: Rick Riordan

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of the Argo IIhave made progress in their many quests, they … read more

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4. The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)

By: Rick Riordan

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

At the conclusion of The Mark of Athena, Annabeth and Percy tumble into a pit leading straight to t… read more

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5. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3)

By: Rick Riordan

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward morta… read more

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6. The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)

By: Rick Riordan , John Rocco

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The god Apollo, cast down to earth and trapped in the form of a gawky teenage boy as punishment, mu… read more

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7. The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)

By: Rick Riordan

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo … read more

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8. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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  • lgbt
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

9. The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)

By: Rick Riordan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Annabeth returns in the third installment of the biggest series yet from Rick Riordan, author of th… read more

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10. The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.35

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charm… read more

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  • lgbt
"when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"los recuerdos no sólo viven en tu interior minette. Residen en toda la gente y objetos con los que compartes tu vida"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value. You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"everything that happens is part of your wholeness. the sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship -- it is all part of your tapestry .... remember that you are whole."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

11. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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12. The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.41

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real drag… read more

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  • lgbt
"We won't stay away so long this time. I forgot how good home tastes."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

"Aedhan: My name is Aedhan, of the Shining Wing Clan. Erik: I'm Erik, of the mountain vegetable picker clan!"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

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13. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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14. 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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  • 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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15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

By: Rick Riordan

4.33

Format: 439 pages, ebook

In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he … read more

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  • lgbt
"So,"

-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

"This young woman,"

-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

"Why do I have to like a guy with a death wish?"

-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

"The only difference between a satyr and a faun,"

-Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)

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17. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • lgbt
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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18. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

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"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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19. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

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"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

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20. The Nickel Boys

By: Colson Whitehead

4.26

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of Ameri… read more

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"Even in death the boys were trouble."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world"

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

"The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are."

-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

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21. Female Husbands: A Trans History

By: Jen Manion

4.01

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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22. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

By: Keisha N. Blain

4.17

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

By: Royles

4.29

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communitie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt

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3.84

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4.50

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4.01

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