21 Top queer books like Tin*stories by Joy Reißner

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Tin*stories

By: Joy Reißner

4.17

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Trans*, inter* und nichtbinär – sicher kein Trend! Das zeigt ein Blick in unsere Geschichte. Dort b…

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1. Paper Girls, Volume 2

By: Jared K. Fletcher , Brian K. Vaughan , Cliff Chiang , None

4.10

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The smash-hit series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues with a bold new direction, as… read more

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"The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literally the only thing I'd change. I'd stop being so afraid of other people."

-Jared K. Fletcher, Paper Girls, Volume 2

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2. The Corrections

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.84

Format: 653 pages, Paperback

"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more

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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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3. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Paper Girls, #1)

By: Matthew Wilson , Brian K. Vaughan , Cliff Chiang

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the m… read more

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4. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

4.22

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more

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  • queer
"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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5. The Eighth Life

By: Nino Haratischwili

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearin… read more

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"And if you don’t know who you are, then look at all the possible versions of you, find the most impossible one, and become that."

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"and you asked me where people keep their childhood, and I remember telling you that we keep it hidden, between our ribs, in little liver spots and moles, in the roots of our hair, above our heart, in…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"Love was slow, creeping poison, loge was treacherous and insincere, love was a veil thrown over the misery of the world, love was sticky and indigestible, it was a mirror in which one could be what o…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

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6. 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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  • queer
"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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7. Blutbuch

By: Kim de l'Horizon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Die Erzählfigur in ›Blutbuch‹ identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in eine… read more

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  • queer
"Ich wollte kein Gegenstand sein, ich wollte ein Mensch sein und gross; und gross zu sein, bedeutete, ein Geschlecht zu haben, ein männliches. Als Frau drohte einem, ein Gegenstand zu bleiben oder ein…"

-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch

"Ich wollte dir meine konstante Angst vor meinem Körper erzählen: Mit dem schrecklichsten Monster unterm Bett unter einer Decke zu stecken. Nur ist das keine Decke, sondern meine Haut. Eine Angst, wie…"

-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch

"Und so ass ich meine erste koschere Zimtschnecke mit Dina, es war Anfang Sommer, die Sommerferienekstase der Kinder diffundierte in unsere trägen Glieder rüber, wir sassen vor der Bäckerei, und es wa…"

-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch

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8. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

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  • queer
"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

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9. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

By: Rafia Zakaria

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more

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"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

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10. Bingo Love

By: Tee Franklin

3.93

Format: 92 pages, ebook

Bingo Love is a story of a same-sex romance that spans over 60 years. A chance meeting at church bi… read more

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  • queer
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11. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

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  • queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

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12. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

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  • queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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13. Dschinns

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine… read more

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  • queer
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14. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

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  • queer
"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

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15. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

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  • queer
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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16. 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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  • queer
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17. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

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  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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18. Hässlichkeit

By: Moshtari Hilal

4.46

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Vom Sehen und Gesehenwerden, von Selbstbildern und Selbstzweifeln – Moshtari Hilal schreibt über Hä… read more

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  • essays
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19. Drei Kameradinnen

By: Shida Bazyar

4.25

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Was Freundschaft bedeutet, wenn die Gegenwart Feuer fängt. Seit ihrer gemeinsamen Jugend in der … read more

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20. Vatermal

By: Necati Öziri

4.35

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Arda weiß nicht, wie viel Zeit ihm noch bleibt. Er liegt mit Organversagen im Krankenhaus seiner He… read more

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"Du bist 18 und deine Freunde sind mit Balken vor den Augen in den Zeitungen. Sie liegen in den Parks und auf der Pennerwiese herum, sie sind jetzt die Statistik aus den Talkshows, abgeschoben, in der…"

-Necati Öziri, Vatermal

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21. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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  • queer
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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22. Die Zukunft ist nicht binär

By: Lydia Meyer

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Es gibt nur zwei Geschlechter? Von wegen! Menschen sind mehr als entweder oder. Dennoch sind uns… read more

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  • queer
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23. Ein simpler Eingriff

By: Yael Inokai

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Meret ist Krankenschwester. Die Klinik ist ihr Zuhause, ihre Uniform trägt sie mit Stolz, schließli… read more

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  • queer
Cover of Die Sommer by Ronya Othmann

24. Die Sommer

By: Ronya Othmann

4.36

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Das Dorf liegt in Nordsyrien, nahe zur Türkei. Jeden Sommer verbringt Leyla dort. Sie riecht und sc… read more

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  • queer
Cover of Ada's Room by Sharon Dodua Otoo

25. Ada's Room

By: Sharon Dodua Otoo

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between fou… read more

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"Sicher war, dass es ihr schleichend dämmern würde, dass sie nicht mehr im Raum der unaufhörlichen Zeit schwebte. So war es auch jedes Mal bei mir gewesen."

-Sharon Dodua Otoo, Ada's Room

"Sie blinzelte und schielte. Die Gestalten und Konturen vor ihren Augen nahmen nur zögerlich Formen an. Sämtliche Farben verwandelten sich von einem Einheitsgrau, durch diverse dunklere und hellere Sc…"

-Sharon Dodua Otoo, Ada's Room

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26. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

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  • queer
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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27. Power Bottom

By: Evan Tepest

3.91

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

In sechs literarischen Essays und einem Gespräch mit Lynn Takeo Musiol untersucht Eva Tepest unser … read more

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  • essays
  • queer
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28. Tin*stories

By: Joy Reißner

4.17

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Trans*, inter* und nichtbinär – sicher kein Trend! Das zeigt ein Blick in unsere Geschichte. Dort b… read more

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  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Schwindel: Roman (German Edition) by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

29. Schwindel: Roman (German Edition)

By: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

4.09

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Der neue Roman von Hengameh Yaghoobifarah Freitagabend, ein Hochhaus, 15. Stock. Avas Date mit Rob… read more

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  • queer
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30. Florentia - Im Glanz der Medici

By: Noah Martin

4.21

Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition

Der Glanz der Renaissance, ein tödlicher Kampf um die Macht, und eine scheinbar aussichtslose Liebe… read more

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31. Realitäten: 30 queere Stimmen

By: etece buch

4.60

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Queere Geschichten werden häufig von Menschen erzählt, die nicht queer sind – Zeit, sie selbst zu e… read more

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  • queer

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