7 Top nonfiction books like Boston Marriages: Romantic but Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians by Esther D. Rothblum

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Boston Marriages: Romantic but Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians

By: Esther D. Rothblum

3.67

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

This collection of theoretical essays and personal stories is not just about "Boston marriages," a …

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1. The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

By: Monique Wittig

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writin… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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2. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt

3. Harley Quinn's Greatest Hits

By: Scott Snyder , Paul Dini

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Get ready for this summer s most anticipated movie SUICIDE SQUAD with the comics that inspired the … read more

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4. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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5. Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema

By: Pol Guasch

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Efervescència i una novel·la sobre l’amistat en un món abocat al col·lapse. La Rita viu a la Co… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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7. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more

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8. Carcoma

By: Layla Martínez

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more

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  • feminism
"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."

-Layla Martínez, Carcoma

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9. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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10. Moi les hommes, je les déteste

By: Pauline Harmange

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

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11. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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12. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

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13. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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14. Out There

By: Kate Folk

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more

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15. La seducción

By: Sara Torres

3.68

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Tras el éxito de Lo que hay, vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la au… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Esa es la propuesta del 'amor' humano hacia los animales: adáptate a mi ley o muere."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"No elegimos las primeras imágenes que capturan nuestro deseo. Nos son impuestas: por azar, por poder o por norma."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Imagino ese concretísimo gesti para poder correrme. ¿Qué dice de mi? ¿Qué dicen de nosotras las imágenes que nos desatan?"

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Las observaba y sus gestos, imaginados en mi propia carne, me dolían, pero a ellas no. Parecía natural su ser suaves, imberbes, con aroma a frambuesa y a plátano."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

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16. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

By: Tasha Suri

4.13

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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17. Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor y desamor

By: Gloria Fuertes

4.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Para Gloria Fuertes el amor era algo involuntario, como la poesía o el hipo. Curiosa, melancólica y… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. Olor a hormiga

By: Júlia Peró

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

El esperado debut novelístico de la poeta Júlia Peró. A Olvido ya nada le parece más evidente qu… read more

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"-Olvido, soy... -Ah, sí, ahora caigo. Pasa, niña. No, no caía. Pero si se empeñaba en limpiar la casa por mí, no iba a ser yo quien le dijera que no."

-Júlia Peró, Olor a hormiga

"Luego la chica, estúpidamente candida y con una sola palabra, desplegó mi vejez sobre la mesa. Como un mantel de cuadritos rojos y blancos, la vejez. Hay palabras inocentes y otras que te arrugan la …"

-Júlia Peró, Olor a hormiga

"PIENSO DE POLLO PARA GATOS DE INTERIOR (todo el capítulo es <3) Se me caen de la boca. De la boca se me caen porque están duros y son pequeños y cuesta morderlos. Dicen ser de pollo, pero con esto no…"

-Júlia Peró, Olor a hormiga

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19. When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. The New Me

By: Halle Butler

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more

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21. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

By: Sherronda J. Brown

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an … read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • queer
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22. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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23. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

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"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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24. Harley Quinn: Reckoning (DC Icons Series)

By: Rachael Allen

4.16

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this new launch of a trilogy within the DC Icons universe, experience the origin story of a Supe… read more

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  • lgbt
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25. Planning Perfect

By: Haley Neil

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this charming, heartfelt YA romcom about being on the asexual spectrum, a girl tries to craft th… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
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26. (h)amor 9: amigas

By: Sandra Cendal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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27. Harley Quinn: Ravenous (DC Icons: Harley Quinn #2)

By: Rachael Allen

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Harley Quinn's journey gets even more chaotic as she falls in love and embraces her inner Super-Vil… read more

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  • lgbt
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28. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

By: Keah Brown

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtfu… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

"I know that I'm not the first person in the world to say "I love music; it saved me." But that doesn't make it less true."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

"Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

"Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

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29. Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.74

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Into the queer new yonder! To conclude the trio of anthologies that started with critically acclaim… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
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30. The Art of Saving the World

By: Corinne Duyvis

3.61

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One girl and her doppelgangers try to stop the end of the world in this YA sci-fi adventure When… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
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31. Boston Marriages: Romantic but Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians

By: Esther D. Rothblum

3.67

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

This collection of theoretical essays and personal stories is not just about "Boston marriages," a … read more

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  • lesbian
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer

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Transform Your Habits

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Monique Wittig

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

3.94

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Ofert a les mans, el paradís crema

Pol Guasch

4.14

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Alana S. Portero

4.55

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#MURDERTRENDING

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4.88

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Jeff Zentner

4.46

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Laurie Faria Stolarz

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