Pretty: A Memoir
By: KB Brookins
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir ab…
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1. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- poetry
- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
2. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
3. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
4. Canto Contigo
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
5. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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- gender
- race
- nonfiction
6. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
8. The Z Word
By: Lindsay King-Miller
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
9. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
By: Shefali Luthra
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Looking for Smoke
By: K.A. Cobell
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more
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- audiobook
11. House of Bone and Rain
By: Gabino Iglesias
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more
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- audiobook
12. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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- audiobook
13. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
14. A Little Kissing Between Friends
By: Chencia C. Higgins
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends
15. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
By: Priyanka Mattoo
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
16. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- race
- audiobook
17. Pretty: A Memoir
By: KB Brookins
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir ab… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
18. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.37
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
19. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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- race
20. 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
- nonfiction
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
