Godspeed: A Memoir
By: Casey Legler
3.09
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award “Raw and poetic…lean and ferocious.…
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
3. Sex and Rage
By: Eve Babitz
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more
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4. The Between
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more
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5. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
6. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
7. The Dark Dark: Stories
By: Samantha Hunt
3.77
Format: 342 pages,
The acclaimed novelist Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories blends the literary and the fant… read more
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8. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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9. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
10. The Ghost Notebooks
By: Ben Dolnick
3.92
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more
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11. The Answers
By: Catherine Lacey
3.59
Format: 32 pages,
An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more
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12. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
13. Scribe
By: Alyson Hagy
3.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytelling A brutal civil war has ravaged the co… read more
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14. 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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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
15. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- mental health
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
16. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
17. The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Richard Coles
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- psychology
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
18. Most Ardently
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently
"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently
"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently
19. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
By: Wendy Loggia
4.68
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Taylor Swift, the Grammy A… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
20. Nothing but My Body
By: Tilly Lawless
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body
21. Kokomo
By: Victoria Hannan
3.55
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more
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- mental health
"Mina let Valerie envelop her in silk and perfume. The smell was so pungent Mina could see it: a sunset of whipped egg-white clouds, a field of foxgloves, pink on pink on pink on pink."-Victoria Hannan, Kokomo
22. We Ride Upon Sticks
By: Quan Barry
3.79
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts (which in 1692 was Salem Village, site of the ori… read more
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- sports
"We were taking one step for jocks, one giant leap for jock-kind."-Quan Barry, We Ride Upon Sticks
"It all makes you wonder what you would've done had you been kicking around back then. If a teen girl, would you have followed the herd? If the mother of eight dead babies like Ann Putnam Sr., would y…"-Quan Barry, We Ride Upon Sticks
23. Cherry
By: Nico Walker
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas… read more
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- mental health
"He said, “You look mentally ill."-Nico Walker, Cherry
"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."-Nico Walker, Cherry
"He said, "You look mentally ill" I said "I am, Let's go"-Nico Walker, Cherry
"Emily’s gone to take a shower. The room’s half-dark and I’m getting dressed, looking for a shirt with no blood on it, not having any luck."-Nico Walker, Cherry
24. Speaking in Tongues
By: Tom Tilley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinve… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
25. The Dreamers
By: Karen Thompson Walker
3.63
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more
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"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"Every one of her days hums with the possibility that she might be doing it wrong."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
26. Cross the Line (Lights Out, #1)
By: Simone Soltani
3.68
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Her brother’s best friend sends her heart racing in this sparkling Formula 1 romance. Formula 1… read more
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- sports
27. Joy Enough: A Memoir
By: Sarah McColl
3.90
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Belletrist Book of the Month, this “exquisite memoir” ( Los Angeles Times ) is the perfect balm f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I never understood the term 'co-dependent'," she said. "Isn't that the nature of being human, to depend on each other?"-Sarah McColl, Joy Enough: A Memoir
28. Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings
By: Dylan Alcott
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The astonishing life of Australia's most inspirational athlete Not long after he was born in 1990, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
29. Fourteen
By: Shannon Molloy
4.29
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Fourteen is this generation’s Holding the Man – a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man’s s… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- mental health
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- queer
30. Godspeed: A Memoir
By: Casey Legler
3.09
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award “Raw and poetic…lean and ferocious.… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- queer
31. Five-Star Stranger
By: Kat Tang
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more
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