Why I Was Late
By: Charlie Petch
4.11
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's d…
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1. This Book Is Gay
By: None , Juno Dawson
3.77
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
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"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"-None, This Book Is Gay
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2. 群青のすべて [Gunjō no subete]
By: Nagisa Furuya , None , 古矢渚
3.91
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
中1から高2までずっと同じクラスだった牧原快（まきはらかい）と水代漣（みずしろれん）。 でも高校生活最後の１年で別々のクラスへ。変わりなく流れていく日常に、小さな波紋が生まれて…それはいつしか隠して… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
3. She of the Mountains
By: Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make u… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
4. God Loves Hair
By: Juliana Neufeld , Vivek Shraya
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
God Loves Hair is a collection of 20 short stories following a tender, intellectual, and curious ch… read more
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5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. We Can Never Leave This Place
By: Eric LaRocca
3.52
Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition
"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
7. Pardalita
By: Joana Estrela
3.80
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Quando Raquel nos começa a contar a sua história, Pardalita já entrou na sua vida. Não de rompante,… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
8. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By: Da’Shaun Harrison
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
9. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- transgender
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
10. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
By: Janelle Monáe
3.76
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion ico… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Dreams aren't memories. They are memories' voices."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Some days Artis had to remind himself that his dad actually existed, that his mother was not a phantom. Remembering the dead was hard work."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work ou…"-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
11. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
12. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
13. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
14. Better Than Expected
By: Haley Cass
4.23
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
Hannah Dalton had a lot of expectations in her life. Growing up watching her mother struggle for ev… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Anything you want, within my power, is yours."-Haley Cass, Better Than Expected
15. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
16. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- canada
- lgbt
17. Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2)
By: T.J. Alexander
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Urgent and intimate.” — The New York Times Book Review A fake dating arrangement turns to real … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
18. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
By: Phoebe Robinson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a n… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Here for the Wrong Reasons
By: Annabel Paulsen
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this swoon-filled lesbian romcom, two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the lea… read more
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- queer
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20. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
21. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
22. Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son
By: Richie Jackson
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant and urgent love letter to his son, award-winning Broadway, TV and film producer Ri… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
23. Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems
By: Aaiún Nin
3.90
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
24. Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1)
By: Anita Kelly
4.05
Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition
After a lifetime of failed relationships, non-binary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a n… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
25. Rebent Sinner
By: Ivan E. Coyote
4.58
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, … read more
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- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
26. Wherever Is Your Heart (Moonlighters, #3)
By: Anita Kelly
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie’s for the sole purpose of pining after the barten… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Wasn't that what love was, really? Doing beautiful, funny things, just for the hell of it. Because you wanted to. Because the other person made you feel like you could."-Anita Kelly, Wherever Is Your Heart (Moonlighters, #3)
27. Transmutation: Stories
By: Alex DiFrancesco
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives. Building on… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
28. What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems
By: Grant Chemidlin
4.05
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
29. Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights
By: James Persichetti
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this queer reimagining of an Arthurian legend, Knights of the Round Table Lancelot and Tristan s… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
30. Our Favorite Songs (Moonlighters, #2)
By: Anita Kelly
3.99
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Restless and disillusioned with his life, Aiden McCarstle is ready for a night out at The Moonlight… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
31. Why I Was Late
By: Charlie Petch
4.11
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's d… read more
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- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
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