Butch Heroes (Mit Press)
By: Ria Brodell
4.52
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender no…
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1. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-c… read more
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- historical
- queer
- lgbt
"Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
2. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
3. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
By: Alison Bechdel
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydn… read more
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- lesbian
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- lgbt
4. 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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5. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- queer
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6. Princess Princess Ever After
By: Kay O'Neill
3.65
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neith… read more
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- queer
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7. Rubyfruit Jungle
By: Rita Mae Brown
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more
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- lesbian
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8. Eye To Eye: Portraits of Lesbians
By: None
4.36
Format: None pages,
Audre Lorde states: "As we need to share our words for power, so also do we need to share the conto… read more
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9. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1
By: Ryoko Kui
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a… read more
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10. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- history
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- gay
- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- queer
11. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- lesbian
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- lgbt
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
12. 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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- lesbian
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- queer
"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
13. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
14. The Times I Knew I Was Gay
By: Eleanor Crewes
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsesse… read more
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15. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- lesbian
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16. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- queer
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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
17. Agua, Aguita/ Water, Little Water (Spanish and English Edition)
By: Jorge Tetl Argueta
3.85
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
"My name / is Water / but everyone / calls me Little Water." In this beautiful, poetic ode to the l… read more
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18. Butch Heroes (Mit Press)
By: Ria Brodell
4.52
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Portraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender no… read more
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- lesbian
- art
- history
- biography
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
19. Fastest Woman on Earth The Story of Tatyana McFadden
By: Francesca Cavallo
4.45
Format: 44 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times Bestselling Author of "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" This nonfiction pi… read more
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- nonfiction
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20. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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21. Trust and Safety
By: Laura Blackett
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A wry yet tenderhearted novel about a couple who attempt to buy their way into a “wild and precious… read more
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