Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
By: Karla Jay
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped…
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1. Annie on My Mind
By: Nancy Garden
4.02
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and … read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"Real, but sometimes beautiful."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
"Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
"And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
"It’s terrible, … for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we have every right to read."-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
2. The Vagina Monologues
By: Gloria Steinem , V (formerly Eve Ensler)
3.87
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monolo… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Falo porque não devia falar."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
"Minha revolução vai dar um golpe no Estado mental chamado patriarcado."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
"We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
"Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world."-Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
3. The Comet
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
3.80
Format: 319 pages, ebook
In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over … read more
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4. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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5. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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6. 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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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
7. Rubyfruit Jungle
By: Rita Mae Brown
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more
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- lesbian
- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
8. A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian… read more
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9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
10. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
11. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
By: Lillian Faderman
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 190… read more
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12. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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13. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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14. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
15. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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16. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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17. The Difference Between You and Me
By: Madeleine George
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Jesse cuts her own hair with a Swiss Army knife. She wears big green fisherman's boots. She's the f… read more
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18. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
19. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
20. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
21. 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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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
22. A Botanical Daughter
By: Noah Medlock
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
23. Honeybloods : a sapphic vampire romance novella (HONEYBLOODS #1)
By: I.S. Belle
3.78
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
"Remember when you pinkie promised you'd help me bury a body? Is that offer still good?" TWILIGHT … read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
24. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- lesbian
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
25. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
26. The Extraordinaries
By: T.J. Klune
4.07
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Be gay. Do crimes."-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries
"We're a lighthouse, Nick. A beacon to help them find their way home."-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries
"Your house isn't haunted! Your aunt is such a liar. She distracted me with cookies and lies!"-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries
"Boys can be anything girls can. And girls can be anything boys can. My mom says that sometimes; boys can even be girls."-T.J. Klune, The Extraordinaries
27. Naturally Tan
By: Tan France
3.79
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's smash-hit QUEER EYE, tells… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"My biggest fantasy was to be able to take my revenge, which is a seriously screwed-up mentality for a child to have."-Tan France, Naturally Tan
"But I was good at running really fucking fast - my hundred-meter spring was bananas. Racism sucked, but it encouraged me to run faster than the bullies. That's the only silver lining you'll find in t…"-Tan France, Naturally Tan
"There are two things a brown person cannot do, and those are to scream or run through an airport with a backpack on. We struggle to catch flights, too. But we're not allowed to run, because that woul…"-Tan France, Naturally Tan
"All I can say is speak up; ask questions. Explain your concerns. It's the first step in feeling empowered to push forward with your own agenda. There is no reason to stifle yourself! Because as a wis…"-Tan France, Naturally Tan
28. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
29. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
By: Krista Burton
3.86
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more
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- lesbian
- history
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
30. The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
31. Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
By: Karla Jay
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped… read more
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- lesbian
- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
