18 Top nonfiction books like Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst

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Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

By: Michael Amherst

3.91

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and se…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual by Dan Savage, Charles Kaiser, Merle Miller

1. On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

By: Dan Savage , Charles Kaiser , Merle Miller

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Differentis a pioneering and thought-provokin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

2. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt

5. How Not To Be a Boy

By: Robert Webb

2.76

Format: 320 pages,

RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But … read more

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6. Mr Loverman

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more

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7. 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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  • 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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8. 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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  • 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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9. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

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  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • audiobook
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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10. Un amor

By: Sara Mesa

3.58

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e inexpert… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Los nombres propios

By: Marta Jiménez Serrano

4.32

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

¿Quién es Belaundia Fu? Es la mejor amiga de Marta a los siete años: la amiga invisible que, en eso… read more

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"El amor. Estar en un mismo espacio haciendo cosas distintas."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios

"El deseo más absurdo, más estéril: querer que el otro quiera."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios

"Tú sabes que en cierto modo tienen razón. Lo sabes. Tú quieres volver al agua y a las risas, quieres desenfadarte pero no sabes cómo. Estás sola."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios

"El análisis está en la cabeza, pero no sabes hacerlo descender al pecho y de ahí, al ombligo. Dime, de qué te sirve el diagnóstico sin la deglución."

-Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios

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12. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

By: Jodi Kantor

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "…"

-Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

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13. Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Ryan North

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic… read more

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"Recomendei aos meus filhos que não se envolvam com massacres sob hipótese alguma, e que notícias de massacres de inimigos não devem ser motivo de satisfação ou alegria."

-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

"A coisa mais importante que aprendi em Tralfamadore é que, quando uma pessoa morre, ela apenas parece estar morta. Mas continua bem viva no passado, e é uma bobagem chorar quando ela é enterrada. Tod…"

-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

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14. Vozdevieja

By: Elisa Victoria

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiene nueve años. Su nombre es Marina, pero en el cole la llaman Vozdevieja. Este verano en Sevilla… read more

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Cover of Superemocional: Una defensa del amor by Juanpe Sánchez López

15. Superemocional: Una defensa del amor

By: Juanpe Sánchez López

4.39

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Juanpe Sánchez López se pregunta y nos pregunta en este ensayo sobre el amor, sus distintas y contr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of El descontento by Beatriz Serrano

16. El descontento

By: Beatriz Serrano

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lo único peor que no tener empleo es tenerlo. Una novela afilada y salvaje sobre lo que queda de no… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Las hijas horribles by Blanca Lacasa Carralón

17. Las hijas horribles

By: Blanca Lacasa Carralón

4.04

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

La relación entre madres e hijas está marcada, con frecuencia sospechosa, por la dificultad, el des… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

18. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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19. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

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  • audiobook
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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20. Reina del grito: Un viaje por los miedos femeninos

By: Desirée de Fez

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Tengo miedo a caminar sola de noche por la calle. Miedo a no ser aceptada. Miedo a obsesionarme con… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Lo pasé fatal, pero los miedos prestados siempre son más llevaderos que los propios. De ahí que haya tanto fóbico fan del cine"

-Desirée de Fez, Reina del grito: Un viaje por los miedos femeninos

"Aunque fuera por contraste, siempre le agradeceré a Carrie que me hiciera naturalizar la regla desde el primer día, despojándola de tópicos y tabúes."

-Desirée de Fez, Reina del grito: Un viaje por los miedos femeninos

"al mismo tiempo, el miedo a la posibilidad de trascender mínimamente, porque destacar suele traer consigo tantas alegrías como disgustos. Igual más disgustos que alegrías."

-Desirée de Fez, Reina del grito: Un viaje por los miedos femeninos

"las envidio por su capacidad de frenar la acción en medio del caos, hacer que la atención se concentre en ellas y obligar a los culpables de su desesperación o de su miedo a que las escuchen"

-Desirée de Fez, Reina del grito: Un viaje por los miedos femeninos

Cover of Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia  Shaw

21. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • bisexual
  • queer
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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22. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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23. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

By: C.J. Hauser

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What were you told had to happen in a story for it to feel complete?"

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

"The Story rules are coming from inside the house. And the house always wins."

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

"How do we talk about the loss of a thing for which their is no word? The lack of a word implies that it was never anything. It was never real."

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

"How can we be surrounded by friends of many genders and still have people look at us and think that because we are unpartnered, we are alone? Sometimes even we forget."

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

Cover of (h)amor 9: amigas by Sandra Cendal

25. (h)amor 9: amigas

By: Sandra Cendal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

26. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Cover of Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza

27. Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime

By: Alex Espinoza

3.80

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to r… read more

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  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Resistencia bisexual: Mapas para una disidencia habitable by Elisa  Coll

28. Resistencia bisexual: Mapas para una disidencia habitable

By: Elisa Coll

4.46

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

La escritura de Elisa Coll recurre a la investigación y las vísceras para proponernos una aproximac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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29. Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

By: Michael Amherst

3.91

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and se… read more

Similar categories in Michael Amherst's Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire book and Michael Amherst's Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • queer studies
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • bisexual
  • audiobook
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30. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

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  • audiobook
"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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31. Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For

By: Alison Bechdel

4.38

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Before Lesbian TikTok, before The L Word, before Ellen, there was Dykes To Watch Out For, Alison Be… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • audiobook

12 Best audiobook books like Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Un amor

Sara Mesa

3.58

Transform Your Habits

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Jodi Kantor

4.35

Transform Your Habits

El descontento

Beatriz Serrano

4.09

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14 Best audiobook books like Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

4.55

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