The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History
By: Rachel Smith
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories i…
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1. Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
By: Katherine Rundell
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English bo… read more
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2. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
3. Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
By: Wendy Cope
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. Die Verwandlung von Franz Kafka
By: Éric Corbeyran , Horne
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Traumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu eine… read more
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5. The Leipzig Affair
By: None
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned yo… read more
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6. Extra Yarn
By: Mac Barnett , Jon Klassen
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
This looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn. But it turns out it isn't. read more
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7. Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
By: Alicia Cook
4.21
Format: 539 pages,
In Alicia Cook's second poetic effort, designed in the style of an old mixtape, she sets her though… read more
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8. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
By: Nora Krug
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
„Kaip žinoti, kas esi, jei nesupranti, iš kur ateini?“ – klausia iliustratorė ir rašytoja Nora Krug… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Here was the evidence of our collective guilt."-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
"We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat."-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
"Whenever I traveled abroad as a teenager, my guilt traveled with me."-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
"How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?"-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- history
- lgbt
- historical
- nonfiction
- queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
10. The Politician's Wife
By: pir8fancier
3.85
Format: 225 pages, ebook
Hermione hates Draco in the springtime, Hermione hates Draco in the fall, Hermione hates Draco 247.… read more
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- romance
11. 100 Queer Poems
By: Mary Jean Chan
3.82
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
12. Fine: A Comic About Gender
By: Rhea Ewing
4.28
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Washington Post • 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022 A vibrant and informative debut with “great doc… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013"-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender
13. Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
By: Gregory D. Smithers
4.12
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
14. Baby Teeth
By: Meg Grehan
3.67
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A unique verse novel of queer love, lust, and vampires. From the award-winning author of The Deepes… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- lesbian
- lgbt
- queer
"There is a specific type of Shame I think That comes with realising Exactly how little You understand yourself It's It's embarrassing One little life to figure out One little self But For us It's sit…"-Meg Grehan, Baby Teeth
15. Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
By: Jen Campbell
4.34
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologisin… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
16. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- queer lit
- adult
- queer
17. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
18. Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
By: Rachel Plummer
4.31
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Wain is a collection of LGBT themed children's poetry based on retellings of Scottish myths. The co… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"And searched the wood for Jenny, too, as soon as dawn had broken blue"-Rachel Plummer, Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
"How light is your heart? Could you carry it over a bridge made of a single hair?"-Rachel Plummer, Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
"Could you sharpen it to a sword-point, let it carve the ground behind you as you run?"-Rachel Plummer, Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
"Jenny turned and Jenny ran to where she thought the woods began, she turned and ran from you. But deeper into woods she flew with every step, until the dew and darkness led her back to you."-Rachel Plummer, Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
19. Notes from an Island
By: Tove Jansson
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
20. The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History
By: Rachel Smith
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories i… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- lesbian
- history
- lgbt
- historical
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
21. Forest of Noise: Poems
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.73
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winn… read more
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- poetry
- history
- nonfiction
