5 Best history books like Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture by Joe Strike

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Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture

By: Joe Strike

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2017 Ursa Major Award for Best Non-Fiction Work! Furry fandom is a recent phenomenon…

If you liked the history plot in Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture by Joe Strike , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

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  • nonfiction
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

By: Stephen Richard Witt

4.24

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?How Music Got Free is a riveting stor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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4. The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.35

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charm… read more

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"when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"los recuerdos no sólo viven en tu interior minette. Residen en toda la gente y objetos con los que compartes tu vida"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value. You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"everything that happens is part of your wholeness. the sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship -- it is all part of your tapestry .... remember that you are whole."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

5. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)

By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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7. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

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8. Saga, Volume 10

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new...frien… read more

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9. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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10. BEASTARS 19 (Beastars, #19)

By: Paru Itagaki

4.22

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

ルイのかつての生餌仲間、雌ウサギのキュー。草食獣のかつ小柄ながら、レゴシを一瞬で制圧する戦闘能力を持つ。そんな彼女に、メロンとの決戦に向けて修行をお願いしたレゴシだが…!? read more

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11. BEASTARS 18 (Beastars, #18)

By: Paru Itagaki

4.32

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

メロンを捕獲しようと単身シシ組のアジトへ突入してしまったレゴシ。なんとかメロンを追い詰めるも、彼の巧みな逃亡術で逆にレゴシが警察に追われてしまう羽目に…。ほとぼりが冷めるまでのチェリートン学園に潜伏… read more

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12. The Darkness Outside Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.32

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more

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"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

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13. BEASTARS 17 (Beastars, #17)

By: Paru Itagaki

4.38

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

メロンを打倒するために一次休戦したレゴシとシシ組。ジャコウネコが率いる「コピ・ルアク」という組織を探すことになって…!? read more

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"a proper relationship between a carnivores and herbivores, is like the relationship between me and pasta one eats the other is eaten. the relationship between a carnivores and a herbivores... is real…"

-Paru Itagaki, BEASTARS 17 (Beastars, #17)

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14. A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

By: Becket Cook

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The powerful, dramatic story of how a successful Hollywood set designer whose identity was deeply r… read more

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  • nonfiction
"God! You have my life! It’s all yours!"

-Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

"Somewhere in the last decade, “I disagree with you"

-Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

"I had to become a fool before I could become wise."

-Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

"Everyone has a past, but Jesus is sanctifying our present."

-Becket Cook, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption

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15. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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16. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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17. Killer Queens

By: David M. Booher

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Meet Max & Alex. Reformed intergalactic assassins-for-hire. On the run. Also super gay. Their forme… read more

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18. Slip

By: Marika McCoola

3.54

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Eisner-Award nominated writer Marika McCoola and debut artist Aatmaja Pandya, an emotional com… read more

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19. Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime

By: Alex Espinoza

3.80

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to r… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture

By: Joe Strike

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2017 Ursa Major Award for Best Non-Fiction Work! Furry fandom is a recent phenomenon… read more

Similar categories in Joe Strike's Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture book and Joe Strike's Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture

  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Ramen Wolf and Curry Tiger Vol. 1

By: Emboss

3.97

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Food, Fur, and Friendship! Meet your new favorite food critics: a chubby wolf named Mita Jiro an… read more

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Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

3.83

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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Stephen Richard Witt

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Me

Elton John

4.33

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Sakaomi Yuzaki

4.41

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Crazy Food Truck, Vol. 1 (1)

Rokurou Ogaki

3.65

Transform Your Habits

後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1)

Masaaki Nakayama

3.87

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Riddle Kamimura

4.12

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