Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask)
By: Brynn Tannehill
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Leading activist and essayist Brynn Tannehill tells you everything you ever wanted to know about tr…
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1. Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)
By: Audrey Coulthurst
3.76
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her fu… read more
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- lgbt
"And if time was kind, I’d find something to live for besides the memory of her."-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)
"Rock was slow to change, but it would in time. Even the most difficult things become easier to bear."-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)
"Worse, I knew that given the chance to do everything over again, I would willingly make the same mistakes twenty times over."-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)
"For the love of the Six, don't call me that. Just Mare. Yes, like a horse. Stupid, I know, but I can't stand Amaranthine. What a ridiculously overlong and pretentious collections of syllables."-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
By: Sherman Alexie
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestsel… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more
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"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
5. Rivers of London: Body Work
By: Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan , Luis Guerrero
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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7. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
8. The Cherry Robbers
By: Sarai Walker
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Kn… read more
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- feminism
- lgbt
9. Trust Exercise
By: Susan Choi
3.14
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high sch… read more
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"Neither can drive."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
10. Murder on the Christmas Express
By: Alexandra Benedict
3.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Eighteen passengers. Seven stops. One killer.In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train… read more
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11. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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- nonfiction
"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
12. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
13. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
14. A Snake Falls to Earth
By: Darcie Little Badger
3.95
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still … read more
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- lgbt
"Hey Daysona!"-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth
"And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had…"-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth
15. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
16. The Test
By: Sylvain Neuvel
3.83
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f… read more
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17. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
18. Beyond the Gender Binary
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
4.49
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
"I learned about gender through shame."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
19. Such a Bad Influence
By: Olivia Muenter
3.52
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more
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20. Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
By: Julia Serano
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized–the… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
"In other words, sexualization is a more general tactic to delegitimize and dehumanize people. This helps to explain why there is often so much shame, reluctance, and secrecy surrounding discussions o…"-Julia Serano, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
"However, the answer "Some people simply are transgender" doesn't seem to satisfy certain people, so they may feel compelled to seek out some kind of alternative explanation. Once again, this isn't th…"-Julia Serano, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
21. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask)
By: Brynn Tannehill
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Leading activist and essayist Brynn Tannehill tells you everything you ever wanted to know about tr… read more
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- health
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- gender and sexuality
- science
