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…
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1. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
2. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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- coming of age
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
3. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
4. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
By: Tessa Hulls
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- memoir
- queer
- lgbt
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- audiobook
7. In Universes
By: Emet North
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
8. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
9. 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
10. Some Strange Music Draws Me In
By: Griffin Hansbury
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more
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- coming of age
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- transgender
- queer
11. Negative Space
By: Gillian Linden
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more
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- audiobook
12. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- audiobook
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13. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
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14. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
By: Cait West
4.14
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
15. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
By: Emma Specter
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more
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- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. 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
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
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- queer
17. Misrecognition
By: Madison Newbound
3.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about t… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
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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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
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- coming of age
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
19. A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
By: Marian Schembari
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neur… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
20. Model Home
By: Rivers Solomon
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more
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21. One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story
By: Abi Maxwell
4.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over three years, uns… read more
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