8 must-read science fiction books like Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22) by Rachel Pollack

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Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

By: Rachel Pollack

4.01

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Rachel Pollack is a sorceress, a wizard with words who spins together the spiritual, the political,…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22) by Rachel Pollack , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Tracks

By: Louise Erdrich

4.50

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Set earliest in time within the cycle of her prizewinning and bestselling books, Love Medicine and … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's Tracks book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • magical realism
  • fiction
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2. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

3. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

4. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

Similar categories in Octavia E. Butler's Bloodchild and Other Stories book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

5. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's Fierce Attachments: A Memoir book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

6. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

3.71

Format: 76 pages,

The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She's Not There is the st… read more

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7. Castle Hangnail

By: Ursula Vernon

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just r… read more

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8. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more

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9. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. The Twisted Ones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

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11. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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12. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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13. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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14. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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15. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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16. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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17. Firebugs

By: Nino Bulling

3.97

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Actually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with … read more

Similar categories in Nino Bulling's Firebugs book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

18. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Minor Mage

By: T. Kingfisher

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day. He only kne… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Minor Mage book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Can I ask a question?"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"You’re a cynical kid,"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"They didn’t know there would be ghuls, and they didn’t really mean to send me off the way they did. They were scared, that’s all."

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

"What good was such a short article? Why didn’t it tell you what you really needed to know, like how far a ghul would follow you, or if they were attached to their home territories? The entry for unic…"

-T. Kingfisher, Minor Mage

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20. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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21. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • magical realism
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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22. Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief

By: Hilarie Burton Morgan

4.23

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller  The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling … read more

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23. The Chromatic Fantasy

By: H.A .

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling … read more

Similar categories in H.A .'s The Chromatic Fantasy book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Jules] No!! No! No! No! I want to be happy!! I want to love and be loved!! I want to feel safe!! I want to be someone who doesn't deserve it!! I want my life and my body and my soul!!"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

"[guard] 'Before we torture you, please sign the release.' [legal form] 'I shall not say "ah, my back really needed that!" when being drawn over the rack. (we've all heard it before. you're not origin…"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

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24. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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25. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

Similar categories in Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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26. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

27. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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28. Time Under Tension

By: M.S. Harkness

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for d… read more

Similar categories in M.S. Harkness's Time Under Tension book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

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29. 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

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

30. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22) by Rachel Pollack

31. Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

By: Rachel Pollack

4.01

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Rachel Pollack is a sorceress, a wizard with words who spins together the spiritual, the political,… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22) book and Rachel Pollack's Beatrix Gates (PM's Outspoken Authors, #22)

  • magical realism
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • gender and sexuality
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Louise Erdrich

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4.01

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4.06

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