15 best-selling queer books like The Good Arabs by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

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The Good Arabs

By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a …

If you liked the queer plot in The Good Arabs by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings: Poems book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • lgbt
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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2. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • memoir
  • queer
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3. Match

By: Lili Boisvert

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

— J'ai le goût de t'acheter quelque chose ! Je peux t'acheter quelque chose ? Il sautillait littér… read more

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4. Haute démolition

By: Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard

4.06

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Haute démolition, c’est l’histoire de Raph, humoriste en devenir, tout juste sorti de l’École natio… read more

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5. Là où je me terre

By: Caroline Dawson

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Valparaíso, décembre 1986, tremblement de terre entre les quatre murs d’une maison. Un homme et une… read more

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"Parce que c'est ma mère, elle qui a sacrifié chacun de ses jours et plusieurs de ses nuits pour me voir libérée des servilités et soumissions qui étaient les siennes, qui a souahaité le plus ma réuss…"

-Caroline Dawson, Là où je me terre

Cover of Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

6. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

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  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

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7. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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8. Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 (Cosmoknights, #1)

By: Hannah Templer

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. Pan's… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Templer's Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 (Cosmoknights, #1) book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

9. 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

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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

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10. 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • memoir
  • 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

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11. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

Similar categories in Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • memoir
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

Cover of La version qui n'intéresse personne by Emmanuelle Pierrot

12. La version qui n'intéresse personne

By: Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Elle croyait qu’ici, à l’autre bout du monde, au confluent de la rivière Klondike et du fleuve Yuko… read more

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13. Querelle de Roberval

By: Kevin Lambert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Les ouvriers et ouvrières de la scierie de Roberval sont en grève. Sous l'apparente cohésion de la … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Lambert's Querelle de Roberval book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
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14. Corps vivante

By: Julie Delporte

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more

Similar categories in Julie Delporte's Corps vivante book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."

-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante

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15. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • canada
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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16. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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17. Truly, Madly, Deeply

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sparks fly when a lovelorn romance novelist and a divorce lawyer who has sworn off relationships ag… read more

Similar categories in Alexandria Bellefleur's Truly, Madly, Deeply book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Rue Duplessis: Ma petite noirceur by Jean-Philippe Pleau

18. Rue Duplessis: Ma petite noirceur

By: Jean-Philippe Pleau

4.36

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

«Juin 2018. J’effectue une entrevue sur les ondes de Radio-Canada avec l’écrivain Édouard Louis. On… read more

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19. Ce qu'on respire sur Tatouine

By: Jean-Christophe Réhel

3.82

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

La route est longue d’un sous-sol de Repentigny jusqu’à la planète Tatouine. Surtout si l’on passe … read more

Similar categories in Jean-Christophe Réhel's Ce qu'on respire sur Tatouine book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • canada
Cover of Que notre joie demeure by Kevin Lambert

20. Que notre joie demeure

By: Kevin Lambert

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Un spectre hante le roman de Kevin Lambert : le spectre du capitalisme. L’éblouissante Céline Wacho… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Lambert's Que notre joie demeure book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • canada
  • lgbt
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21. La méduse

By: Boum

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Odette a une méduse dans l’œil, qu’elle seule peut voir. Une méduse qui se multiplie. Avec un p… read more

Similar categories in Boum's La méduse book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation

22. The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

By: The Red Nation

4.52

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasse… read more

Similar categories in The Red Nation's The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

"Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. Capitalism is contrary to life. Caretaking promotes life."

-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

"The critical infrastructure of Indigenous worlds is, fundamentally, about responsibility and being a good relative. But our responsibilities do not happen only in the realm of political transformatio…"

-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

Cover of Les têtes brûlées: Carnets d’espoir punk (French Edition) by Catherine Dorion

23. Les têtes brûlées: Carnets d’espoir punk (French Edition)

By: Catherine Dorion

4.45

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Un jour d’automne 2018, une tête brûlée, portée par d’autres têtes brûlées, se fait élire au cœur d… read more

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24. Mise en forme

By: Mikella Nicol

3.56

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Après une rupture, la narratrice de Mise en forme voit ses repères lui échapper. Cloîtrée dans sa n… read more

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25. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

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26. Ténèbre

By: Paul Kawczak

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Un matin de septembre 1890, un géomètre belge, mandaté par son Roi pour démanteler l'Afrique, quitt… read more

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27. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

Similar categories in Yaffa As's Blood Orange book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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28. ZOM-FAM

By: Kama La Mackerel

4.72

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for … read more

Similar categories in Kama La Mackerel's ZOM-FAM book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • queer
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29. Baldwin, Styron et moi

By: Mélikah Abdelmoumen

4.14

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Mélikah Abdelmoumen explore l’amitié entre James Baldwin, écrivain noir, petit-fils d’une esclave, … read more

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30. C'est beau, le rouge

By: Lucia Zamolo

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Pourquoi est-ce que je rougis quand un tampon tombe de mon sac? Pourquoi est-ce que je dis à mon pr… read more

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31. The Good Arabs

By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a … read more

Similar categories in Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs book and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's The Good Arabs

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • queer

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Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

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4.48

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

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4.43

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