9 Best lgbt books like She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway

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She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

By: Jill Soloway

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editors’ Choice  In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway t…

If you liked the lgbt plot in She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

By: John Yorke

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction

2. Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

By: Martin Brown , Travis Elborough

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This atlas of weird and unusual locations from National Geographic unveils the strange-but-true his… read more

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3. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

By: Janet Mock

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In 2011, Marie Clairemagazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for th… read more

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4. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

By: Samantha Irby

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more

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5. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

By: Laura Jane Grace

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and … read more

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6. Elmet

By: Fiona Mozley

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perr… read more

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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Jill Soloway's She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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8. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • lgbt
  • queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Jill Soloway's She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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10. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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

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12. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

By: Moshe Kasher

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more

Similar categories in Moshe Kasher's Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes book and Jill Soloway's She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat book and Jill Soloway's She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By: Robin DiAngelo

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"

-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

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15. Inverse Cowgirl

By: Alicia Roth Weigel

3.80

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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16. Conviction

By: Jack Jordan

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing hi… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham

17. A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

By: Cyrus Grace Dunham

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do y… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be."

-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

"Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the tr…"

-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

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18. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

By: Sarah McBride

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

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19. Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

By: Zach Zimmerman

3.62

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

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21. She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

By: Jill Soloway

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editors’ Choice  In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway t… read more

Similar categories in Jill Soloway's She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy book and Jill Soloway's She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • queer

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Miranda July

3.81

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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4.24

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Mary Karr

4.56

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Leslie Jamison

3.86

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Claire Dederer

3.79

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