Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir
By: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
3.93
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A woman's coming-of-age journey through the rugged landscape of Wales to the reflective quiet of a …
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1. State of Wonder
By: Ann Patchett
3.90
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more
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"One must not be shy where language is concerned."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
2. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
By: Ma-Nee Chacaby , Mary Louisa Plummer
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Two-Spirit Journeyis Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian… read more
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3. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
By: Emily Nagoski
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more
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- nonfiction
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
4. Song of a Captive Bird
By: Jasmin Darznik
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing poet Forugh Farrokhzhad, who defied Iranian socie… read more
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5. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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6. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- nonfiction
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
7. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
8. 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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"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
9. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
10. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
By: Matthew Salesses
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more
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"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
11. 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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- queer
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"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
12. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
By: Megan Milks
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. … read more
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13. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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14. The Bohemians
By: Jasmin Darznik
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the w… read more
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"Live every day as if you might be struck blind--that was the rule I made for myself now. In those first few days after the quarantine was lifted, we went around marveling at the smallest things, as i…"-Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians
15. Old Enough
By: Haley Jakobson
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more
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16. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
By: Zachary Zane
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more
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17. Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir
By: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
3.93
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A woman's coming-of-age journey through the rugged landscape of Wales to the reflective quiet of a … read more
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- lgbt
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- autobiography
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- queer
