Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry
By: Amber Dawn
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the i…
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1. Lullabies for Little Criminals
By: Heather O'Neill
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more
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- canada
"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
2. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt
3.93
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- queer
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
3. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
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- queer
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
4. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
5. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry tha… read more
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6. Love Is a Dog from Hell
By: Charles Bukowski
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more
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7. Salt Fish Girl: A Novel
By: Larissa Lai
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form t… read more
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9. Goodnight Desdemona
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Consta… read more
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10. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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11. Not Wanted On The Voyage
By: Timothy Findley
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Not Wanted on the Voyageis the story of the great flood and the first time the world ended, filed w… read more
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12. The First Bad Man
By: Miranda July
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more
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13. Kim's Convenience
By: None , None
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
Winner of Best New Play and the Patron's Pick Award at Toronto's Fringe Festival, Kim's Convenience… read more
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14. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- nonfiction
15. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
16. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
17. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
18. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
19. 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
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- nonfiction
- 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
20. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
21. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- anthologies
- lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
22. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
23. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
24. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
By: Cinzia Arruzza
4.03
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
25. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
26. Gay Girl Prayers
By: Emily R. Austin
4.10
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
27. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more
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- poetry
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
28. Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry
By: Lola Davina
4.49
Format: 220 pages, ebook
A self-help book for sex workers. Sex work is “easy money?” Hardly. The adult industry is riddled … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- sex work
- sexuality
29. Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry
By: Amber Dawn
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the i… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
- feminism
- sex work
- anthologies
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- queer
30. Eat the World: A Collection of Poems
By: Marina Diamandis
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of… read more
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- nonfiction
31. A Map of My Want
By: Faylita Hicks
4.35
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch , Faylita Hicks’s second collection explores the … read more
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- lgbt
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