The Willies
By: Adam Falkner
4.06
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Willies is a book that finds its author grappling with the intersections of race, gender, and a…
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1. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
2. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
3. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By: Brian Selznick
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his s… read more
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4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
5. Depression & Other Magic Tricks
By: Sabrina Benaim
4.27
Format: 359 pages,
Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more
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- poetry
6. A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
By: Michael Cunningham , Yuko Shimizu
4.33
Format: 260 pages,
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours. A poisoned apple and… read more
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7. The New Testament
By: Jericho Brown
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexu… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
8. This Is How You Lose Her
By: Junot Díaz
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital la… read more
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9. A Village Life
By: Louise Glück
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more
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- poetry
10. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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11. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
By: Lana Del Rey
3.98
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more
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- poetry
"Live your life like no one’s listening"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
12. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
13. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
14. The Seep
By: Chana Porter
3.66
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Grief is happy memories."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"-Chana Porter, The Seep
15. How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
By: Leslie Jordan
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about th… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"True happiness can only come from being of loving service to others, especially those in the last throes of life's journey."-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
"I suppose someone had tossed the puppy out of the car, since we were in the middle of nowhere, too far out for a puppy to get to on her own. Who on Earth would do such a thing?! People like that need…"-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
"When our country was erupting in protests and marches, asking for the end of injustice against African American men and women, I was somewhat chastised by many of my followers for not speaking out ag…"-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
16. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
17. Citizen Illegal
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more
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- poetry
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die. they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
18. We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems
By: William Evans
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Probl… read more
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- poetry
19. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
By: Jared Singer
3.93
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more
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- poetry
20. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
By: Jonathan Van Ness
4.19
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The tr… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"At the end of the day, the people we let in our space affect our ability to get to where we want to go, so if they're in the way of realizing your potential, it's okay to disconnect because you must …"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"I hope culturally we can continue to normalize the idea that being a survivor is so much more common than anyone realizes and we all deserve to be heard, but more importantly are deserving of a recov…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"My joy and my accomplishments existed, and so did the pain from my abuse. How can we feel one without the other? Joyful accomplishments exist next to painful memories. I found a lot of my healing whe…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not o…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
21. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
22. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more
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- poetry
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
23. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
By: Brenna Twohy
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more
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- poetry
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
24. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
25. SINK (Button Poetry)
By: Desireé Dallagiacomo
4.27
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Desireé Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. Sink… read more
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- poetry
26. Date & Time (Button Poetry)
By: Phil Kaye
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more
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- poetry
27. Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry)
By: Azura Tyabji
3.82
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Explorin… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
28. How to Maintain Eye Contact
By: Robert Wood Lynn
3.68
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. … read more
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- poetry
29. The Willies
By: Adam Falkner
4.06
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Willies is a book that finds its author grappling with the intersections of race, gender, and a… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- gay
- queer
30. The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry)
By: Michael Lee
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Michael Lee's The Only Worlds We Know is a staggering debut that grapples with sobriety and surviva… read more
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- poetry
31. Where I Dry the Flowers
By: Ollie Schminkey
4.79
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
If Ollie Schminkey’s Dead Dad Jokes asks the question, "What was it like to watch my father die?", … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
