12 must-read nonfiction books like Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga by Sam Elkin

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Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga

By: Sam Elkin

4.41

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgende…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga by Sam Elkin , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

1. 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
  • lgbt
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2. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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3. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • lgbt
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4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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5. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • australia
Cover of What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh

7. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

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  • lgbt
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9. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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  • lgbt
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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10. Nothing but My Body

By: Tilly Lawless

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more

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  • australia
  • lgbt
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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11. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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12. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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13. 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
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz

14. Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

By: Jill Gutowitz

3.81

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

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15. The Sunbird

By: Sara Haddad

4.62

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pot… read more

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16. Home to Biloela: The story of the Tamil family that captured our hearts

By: Priya Nadesalingam

4.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause célèbre all around Austr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston

17. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga by Sam Elkin

19. Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga

By: Sam Elkin

4.41

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgende… read more

Similar categories in Sam Elkin's Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga book and Sam Elkin's Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

20. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon

21. Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk

By: Dominic Gordon

4.05

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in… read more

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Jill Gutowitz

3.81

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Ariane Beeston

4.57

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Oisín McKenna

3.96

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