10 Top queer books like Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Cover of Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

By: Blair Imani

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have chang…

If you liked the queer plot in Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Dust Tracks on a Road

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.11

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Mystery is the essence of divinity"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

2. The King's Deception (Cotton Malone, #8)

By: Steve Berry

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Cotton Malone is back! Steve Berry's new international adventure blends gripping contemporary polit… read more

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3. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

By: John Charles Chasteen

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Drawing on the most current scholarship, this concise text presents a direct, compelling narrative … read more

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4. Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

By: Sarah Prager

4.00

Format: 191 pages,

This first-ever LGBTQ history book for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-cult… read more

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5. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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6. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

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8. Inheritance: A Visual Poem

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.49

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Inheritance: A Visual Poem book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • feminism
  • audiobook
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9. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By: Samra Habib

4.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more

Similar categories in Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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10. Friday I'm in Love

By: Camryn Garrett

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Library Binding

It's too late for a Sweet Sixteen but what if Mahalia had a Coming Out Party? A love letter to roma… read more

Similar categories in Camryn Garrett's Friday I'm in Love book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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11. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Vegan JapanEasy: Over 80 Delicious Plant-Based Japanese Recipes by Tim Anderson

12. Vegan JapanEasy: Over 80 Delicious Plant-Based Japanese Recipes

By: Tim Anderson

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Japanese cuisine: Fatty tuna! Wagyu beef! Pork broth! Fried chicken! Squid guts! It's a MINEFIELD f… read more

Similar categories in Tim Anderson's Vegan JapanEasy: Over 80 Delicious Plant-Based Japanese Recipes book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • nonfiction
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13. Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

4.49

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I learned about gender through shame."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

Cover of Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

14. Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales

By: Melanie Gillman

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, femini… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Gillman's Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1) by Emma Steinkellner

15. The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

By: Emma Steinkellner

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Magic is harder than it looks. Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she’s ab… read more

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"I was afraid once... And because I was afraid, my magic was weak and full of fear... If you do not trust in yourself, then you shall indeed fall. Trust in yourself, Moth. When you set your magic free…"

-Emma Steinkellner, The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

Cover of The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton

16. The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.14

Format: 15 pages, Audio CD

She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her fathe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1) by Tegan Quin

17. Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1)

By: Tegan Quin

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

AN INDIE BESTSELLER From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle grad… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

By: Ruby Hamad

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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19. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

Similar categories in Karen Tang's It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

20. Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

By: Blair Imani

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have chang… read more

Similar categories in Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History book and Blair Imani's Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • activism
  • queer
Cover of This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) by Hayley Dennings

21. This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1)

By: Hayley Dennings

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at night the dance halls… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer

12 Best audiobook books like Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Transform Your Habits

Dust Tracks on a Road

Zora Neale Hurston

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Poisons We Drink

Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Inheritance: A Visual Poem

Elizabeth Acevedo

4.49

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Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

Transform Your Habits

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Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

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