Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
By: Anthony Christian Ocampo
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in th…
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1. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
2. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)
By: None , Victor M. Rios
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. The Rose That Grew from Concrete
By: Tupac Shakur
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from pove… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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- race
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
5. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
6. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- queer
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
7. Time Out
By: Sean Hayes
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Heartstopper meets Friday Night Lights in this keenly felt coming-of-age story about a teen hometow… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- lgbt
8. This Is Why They Hate Us
By: Aaron H. Aceves
4.06
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his … read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"What a horrible weight it is to be silent when you want to shout, to hold back when you want to reach out, to freeze when you want to melt."-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"I guess it's true that us queers are starved for stories that mirror our lives. I can't remember a time when I saw a queer person in a movie or TV show or book that I didn't have to actively seek out…"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive becaus…"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
9. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- audiobook
10. 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
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- queer
- lgbt
"[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
11. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- family
- audiobook
12. Cantoras
By: Carolina De Robertis
4.38
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel abo… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illus…"-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
"Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena's own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at tim…"-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
13. The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
14. The Backbone of the World
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.93
Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition
An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
By: Krys Malcolm Belc
4.13
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Krys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—c… read more
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- queer
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. High-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
17. Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
18. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
- lgbt
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
19. Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
By: Anthony Christian Ocampo
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in th… read more
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- audiobook
- cultural
- race
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- social justice
- family
- queer
20. Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
By: Paola Ramos
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political traum… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind (Latina/o Sociology, 14)
By: Robert Vargas
4.75
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why millions of Latinx people don’t access the healthcare system, even in times of need More tha… read more
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