16 Top lgbt books like Queer Heartache by Kit Yan

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Queer Heartache

By: Kit Yan

4.50

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Queer Heartache is a full length poetry collection adapted from Kit Yan’s award-winning one-person …

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1. Dissolving Classroom

By: Junji Ito

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

A pair of twisted siblings—Yuuma, a young man obsessed with the devil, and Chizumi, the worst littl… read more

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2. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Beautiful Darkness

By: Fabien Vehlmann , Helge Dascher , Kerascoët

3.87

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation… read more

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4. The End of the Fucking World

By: Charles Forsman

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

TEotFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they f… read more

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5. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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6. SuperMutant Magic Academy

By: Jillian Tamaki

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches. T… read more

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7. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

By: Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Format: 388 pages, ebook

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • gay
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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9. Melissa

By: Alex Gino

4.10

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Girl problems?"

-Alex Gino, Melissa

"My dad’s cleaning!"

-Alex Gino, Melissa

"Some of us take death very seriously."

-Alex Gino, Melissa

"I still don’t see why I can’t just take the next bus,"

-Alex Gino, Melissa

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10. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

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  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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11. Our Dining Table

By: Mita Ori

4.50

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Boys’ Love Cooked To Perfection Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, d… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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12. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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13. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

By: Laura Gao

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, La… read more

Similar categories in Laura Gao's Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • queer
  • lgbt
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14. 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

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • 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

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15. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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16. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Skaja's Brute: Poems book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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17. Dear Mothman

By: Robin Gow

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Poet and author Robin Gow’s moving middle-grade novel in verse Dear Mothman is about a young trans … read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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18. There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

19. Ander & Santi Were Here

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Ander & Santi Were Here book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • gay
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

20. The New Queer Conscience

By: Adam Eli

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"I wish someone had told me that being queer means you are never alone"

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

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21. Queer Heartache

By: Kit Yan

4.50

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Queer Heartache is a full length poetry collection adapted from Kit Yan’s award-winning one-person … read more

Similar categories in Kit Yan's Queer Heartache book and Kit Yan's Queer Heartache

  • poetry
  • gay
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer

16 Top queer books like Queer Heartache by Kit Yan

Transform Your Habits

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Melissa

Alex Gino

4.10

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28 must-read fiction books like Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

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