Second Skins
By: Jay Prosser
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In "Second Skins" Jay Prosser reve…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
5. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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- theory
- gender
- philosophy
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- queer
7. 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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- lgbt
- theory
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
8. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
By: J. Jack Halberstam
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines th… read more
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9. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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10. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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11. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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12. All Souls
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not leas… read more
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13. Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America
By: Esther Newton
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens--homosexual men who make … read more
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14. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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- lgbt
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
15. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
16. Hell Followed With Us
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
17. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance
By: John Waters
3.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
18. 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
19. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
20. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
21. Mamo
By: Sas Milledge
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Family matters aren’t just hocus-pocus for this young witch!Cartoonist Sas Milledge makes her aston… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
22. Histories of the Transgender Child
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- theory
- politics
- gender
- academic
- nonfiction
- queer
23. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
24. 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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- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- philosophy
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- queer
"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?
25. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
By: Megan Milks
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. … read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
26. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
27. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
By: C. Riley Snorton
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
28. A Queen in Bucks County
By: Kay Gabriel
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
29. Transgender Marxism
By: Jules Joanne Gleeson
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Transgender Marxism collects a set of reflections on the relations between gender and labour, showi… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- theory
- politics
- gender
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
30. Second Skins
By: Jay Prosser
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In "Second Skins" Jay Prosser reve… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- theory
- politics
- gender
- academic
- philosophy
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- queer
31. Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
By: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
4.58
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspor… read more
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