Him or Her or Whatever
By: Tyler Friend
4.73
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Him or Her or Whatever is ultimately a collection of love poems — it’s just that the poems sometime…
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1. Abandon Me: Memoirs
By: Melissa Febos
3.64
Format: 221 pages,
For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more
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- lgbt
2. Ox
By: Ryan Ridge
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
We call Ryan Ridge's Ox a collection of poetry, but it's probably unlike any book of poetry you've … read more
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3. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
By: Lewis Hyde
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
7. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
By: James Hannaham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more
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- lgbt
8. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
9. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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- poetry
10. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
11. Tomboyland: Essays
By: Melissa Faliveno
3.98
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and de… read more
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12. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
13. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
14. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
15. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
By: Matthew Salesses
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more
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"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
16. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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17. Joy: 100 Poems
By: Christian Wiman
4.36
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary po… read more
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18. The Other Black Girl
By: Zakiya Dalila Harris
3.36
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two you… read more
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"Locs or no locs, though… you know one of your coworkers is gonna mix you and the new Black girl up at least once. I promise you."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien...."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"At a historically Black college, Diana had been granted the blessed gift of tunnel vision. She'd been blessed with the ability to forget white people existed, if only for a little while. I had been b…"-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
"..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something …"-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
19. Laziness Does Not Exist
By: Devon Price
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human … read more
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"If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"We live in a world where hard work is rewarded and having needs and limitations is seen as a source of shame. It's no wonder so many of us are constantly overexerting ourselves, saying yes out of fea…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"If you're entitled to moments of rest, of imperfection, of laziness and sloth, then so are homeless people, and people with depression, and people who are addicted to drugs. If your life has value no…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
20. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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- lgbt
21. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
22. Shit Cassandra Saw
By: Gwen E. Kirby
3.83
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking po… read more
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23. Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
By: Meg-John Barker
4.08
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
Challenging society's rigid and binary ways of thinking, this original work shows the limitations t… read more
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"Indigenous, Black, and Brown bodies are often non-consensually objectified, exoticized, and touched in public, especially, but not only, if presenting as feminine. It's as if bodies that "don't matte…"-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
"The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western domi…"-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
"Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends"…"-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
"Knowing who we are, what we want, and being able to express our needs, wants, and desires - so that we can find others to share them - makes us poor targets for capitalism, because we can now access …"-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
24. Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
By: Micah Rajunov
4.29
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundan… read more
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"The woman in me cannot be researched."-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
"The dress code of "business casual" is highly gendered, and I have to decide which "drag" to wear to work."-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
"We are dreaming things that a previous generation never imagined, but those dreams are sometimes night terrors too, frustrated visions of our oppression."-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
"Perhaps all my shifts from room to room were just social camouflage, but that wouldn't convey the magic of catharsis. Every bed-bound woman saw in me what they needed most, mistaking a single part fo…"-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
25. Dunce
By: Mary Ruefle
3.94
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist,… read more
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26. Watermark: Poems of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889
By: Barbara Sabol
5.00
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
A once-in-a-century storm coupled with a structurally fraught mountain lake in the rough steel and … read more
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27. Him or Her or Whatever
By: Tyler Friend
4.73
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Him or Her or Whatever is ultimately a collection of love poems — it’s just that the poems sometime… read more
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28. Winter Dance Party
By: Brett Biebel
5.00
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the wee hours of a cold winter morning, the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P… read more
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29. Fish Love
By: Bryanna Licciardi
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In FISH LOVE, Bryanna Licciardi leans into her obsessive nature and twisted humor, offering readers… read more
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30. Letterlocking
By: Stephanie Staab
5.00
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
LETTERLOCKING is an ode to postcards, grocery lists, ideas on cocktail napkins, notes passed under … read more
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31. black has every right to be angry
By: Ashley Elizabeth
5.00
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
This poetry collection tells stories for those who can’t. Those who are scared. Those who are silen… read more
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