Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
By: Mark Eisner
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Rev…
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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- nonfiction
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
3. Nothing More to Lose
By: Najwan Darwish , Kareem James Abu-Zeid
4.25
Format: 127 pages, ebook
Nothing More to Loseis the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear i… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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5. New People
By: Danzy Senna
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manne… read more
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6. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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7. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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8. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
By: Kamilah Cole
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
9. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
10. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
11. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
12. The Poisons We Drink
By: Bethany Baptiste
3.75
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
13. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
14. Tomb Sweeping
By: Alexandra Chang
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more
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- anthologies
15. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
16. Full Exposure
By: Thien-Kim Lam
3.25
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back--with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi G… read more
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17. The Black Kids
By: Christina Hammonds Reed
4.03
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re… read more
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- social justice
"Nobody calls boys sluts."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"It's not just about Rodney. It's about all of us."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"They don't fucking see us even when they're looking right at us."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"Sometimes when you want to disappear, it's easiest to hide in music."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
18. Green Frog: Stories
By: Gina Chung
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more
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- anthologies
19. House of Marionne (House of Marionne, #1)
By: J. Elle
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Rich is the blood of the chosen 17 year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. She and … read more
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20. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
21. Give Me a Sign
By: Anna Sortino
4.11
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more
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22. Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
23. The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1)
By: Saara El-Arifi
4.22
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control. Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
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24. Dyke [geology]
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.31
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science wri… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
25. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
26. Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
By: Carla D. Hayden
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Nativ… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anthologies
27. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
By: Joy Harjo
4.56
Format: 458 pages, Paperback
United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- anthologies
"Maybe it is the thunders who breathed life into my body. They are forever wanting to lift me high and carry me away." -Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)"-Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
"Home is elusive. It shapeshifts with the currents of my heart and its will. Home is a trickster changing according to the medicine of the season and its lesson." -Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)"-Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
28. The Next Best Fling (Librarians in Love, #1)
By: Gabriella Gamez
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Two broken hearts decide that the best way to get over their first loves is with a no-strings-attac… read more
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29. The Truth According to Ember
By: Danica Nava
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much mor… read more
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30. Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
By: Mark Eisner
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Rev… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
31. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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- lgbt
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