9 best-selling lgbt books like The Complete Works of Pat Parker (Sinister Wisdom 102) by Pat Parker

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The Complete Works of Pat Parker (Sinister Wisdom 102)

By: Pat Parker

4.67

Format: 484 pages, Paperback

"The Complete Works of Pat Parker gathers all of Parker’s published work from two books (Movement i…

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1. The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

By: Audre Lorde

4.35

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexit… read more

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  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"[…] your smile has been to war"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"I have died too many deaths that were not mine."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"Our labor has become more important than our silence."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

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2. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • classics
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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3. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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4. Rapture

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. 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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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

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"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

7. Electra

By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

8. 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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9. Last Rituals (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #1)

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir , Bernard Scudder

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At a university in Reykjavik, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out an… read more

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10. The January Children

By: Kwame Dawes , Safia Elhillo

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan unde… read more

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11. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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13. Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline… read more

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14. Felon: Poems

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

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15. The Perfect Nanny

By: Leïla Slimani

3.40

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780143132172. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer… read more

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"The baby is dead."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Nous devons prouver que, vous aussi, vous êtes une victime."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’ ‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

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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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  • lesbian
  • 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

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17. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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18. 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

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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19. Catch the Rabbit

By: Lana Bastašić

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia… read more

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"He reads books that are not for school as if he has nothing better to do with his time."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"His hair was just like yours - black, uncombed, as if someone had left it behind on his head."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

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20. Smrtholka

By: Lucie Faulerová

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Hlavní hrdinka druhého románu Lucie Faulerové se vyrovnává s několika tragickými rodinnými událostm… read more

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21. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • classics
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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22. Nikuda ne idem

By: Румена Бужаровска

4.22

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Nakon što je prethodnom zbirkom priča „Moj muž“ postala regionalna književna zvezda, Rumena Bužarov… read more

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  • feminism
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23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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24. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

4.62

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"

-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Cover of Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 by Julie R. Enszer

25. Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

By: Julie R. Enszer

4.66

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years la… read more

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  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"This is not a piece of paper, but my arm extending across all the damn miles between us to hold you and hug you with all the strength, we have had to gain from the pain."

-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

"A year seems like a lot of time now at this end - it isn't. [...] Don't lose your sense of urgency on the other hand, on the other, don't be too hard on yourself - or expect too much."

-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

"Beware the terror of not producing. Beware the urge to justify your decision. Watch out for the kitchen sink and the plumbing and the painting that always needed being done. But remember the body nee…"

-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

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26. Deca

By: Milena Marković

3.96

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

bila jednom jedna devojka lepa i ponosna brza i smejava sa dugom kosom i belim rukama i ta je d… read more

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  • poetry
"toliko se puta zemlja okrenula toliko je naših u grobove ušlo a mi i dalje nismo ljudi nego neka strašna deca"

-Milena Marković, Deca

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27. Tatin sin

By: Dino Pešut

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Nakon neuspješnog pokušaja da pronađe sebe na Zapadu, mladi intelektualac, pjesnik u nastajanju, ml… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

28. Wade in the Water: Poems

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.10

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"History is a ship forever setting sail."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

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29. Dogodek in druga besedila

By: Annie Ernaux

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Francoska pisateljica Annie Ernaux se je rodila 1. septembra 1940 v delavski družini v normandijske… read more

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30. The Complete Works of Pat Parker (Sinister Wisdom 102)

By: Pat Parker

4.67

Format: 484 pages, Paperback

"The Complete Works of Pat Parker gathers all of Parker’s published work from two books (Movement i… read more

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  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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31. Pieśni profana

By: Marcin Świetlicki

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Wiersze. Kolejny tomik wybitnego poety młodego pokolenia. Nominacja do Literackiej Nagrody NIKE 199… read more

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  • poetry

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The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

Audre Lorde

4.35

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Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

Electra

Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None

4.33

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange

4.28

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

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