Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
By: Joshua Gamson
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his …
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1. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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2. 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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- gender
- queer
3. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
By: Ethan Watters
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of e… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
By: Philip Jenkins
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit … read more
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5. Comfort Me with Apples
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.59
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more
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"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
6. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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- nonfiction
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
7. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- queer
8. Ring Shout
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.99
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more
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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
9. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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10. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
11. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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- queer
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
12. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
13. The Last House on Needless Street
By: Catriona Ward
3.85
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the … read more
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"Kittens don't come back from the woods."-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
"Thoughts are a door that the dead walk through."-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
"Truth has weight. It leaves footprints in your mind."-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
"If there's anything better than a cat on the bed, I don't know about it."-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
14. The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
By: Megan Goldin
4.04
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rache… read more
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"It's a terrible thing for a person to have to stand in judgment of another."-Megan Goldin, The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
"Rach, I still don’t get why you’re so obsessed about this thing. Because Hannah stood you up at the jetty?"-Megan Goldin, The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
"Was it a poor decision for Kelly to walk home in dark? Teenagers routinely make poor decisions. Does that justify them being hurt, or assaulted, or raped? No it does not. A person should be able to w…"-Megan Goldin, The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
15. Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
By: Joshua Gamson
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his … read more
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- nonfiction
- sexuality
- gender and sexuality
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