8 Best queer books like Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

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Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

By: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

4.78

Format: 46 pages, None

In Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza reclaims a cloudy, dr…

If you liked the queer plot in Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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2. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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3. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Orlando book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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4. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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5. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.10

Format: 264 pages,

In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • poetry
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6. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • queer

8. Rocket Fantastic: Poems

By: None

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantasticreinvents the landscape and language of the body in interco… read more

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9. 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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10. The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)

By: R.F. Kuang

4.37

Format: 658 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atroc… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2) book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

"What you don't get to do is to remain neutral."

-R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)

"He had the mathematics of fighting down to a science."

-R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)

"He made some gestures with his hands that clarified nothing."

-R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)

"Our dead don't leave us. They'll hunt you as long as you let them."

-R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)

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11. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • lgbt
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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13. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

Similar categories in Donika Kelly's The Renunciations: Poems book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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14. Detransition, Baby

By: Torrey Peters

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • lgbt
  • queer
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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15. Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

By: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

4.78

Format: 46 pages, None

In Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza reclaims a cloudy, dr… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope book and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

7 must-read lgbt books like Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Transform Your Habits

Orlando

Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Nevada

Imogen Binnie

3.97

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7 Top fiction books like The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Donika Kelly

4.29

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