Knot Body
By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
4.36
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Bringing …
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1. The Gilda Stories
By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more
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- queer
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2. 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
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3. This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
By: None
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winnin… read more
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4. 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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5. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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6. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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7. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
8. 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
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9. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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10. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.44
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
11. 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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- poetry
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- 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
12. 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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- queer
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- 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
13. Firebugs
By: Nino Bulling
3.97
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Actually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with … read more
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- queer
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14. A Natural History of Transition
By: Callum Angus
4.22
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
15. 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
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- nonfiction
- 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
16. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
17. 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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- 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
18. Stone Fruit
By: Lee Lai
4.06
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more
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19. 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
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- 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 partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
20. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
21. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children i… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
22. This Wound Is a World
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.49
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
23. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- canada
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
24. Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great c… read more
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"I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it."-Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
25. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.31
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more
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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
26. More Sure
By: A. Light Zachary
4.39
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in n… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
27. Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun
By: Kaz Rowe
4.43
Format: 98 pages, None
Claude Cahun was a gay, Jewish, genderqueer artist who produced an incredible collection of surreal… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
28. Trente
By: Marie Darsigny
3.41
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
Trente, un nombre qui n’arrivera jamais et s’il arrive, je l’éviterai, comme j’ai une fois évité un… read more
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29. Des fleurs comme moi
By: Xavier Gould
4.65
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
hey kid rurally fif·fe pis loudly fag waving around comme un flaming flag quance qu’une maison… read more
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30. Personal Attention Roleplay
By: H. Felix Chau Bradley
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mo… read more
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31. Knot Body
By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
4.36
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Bringing … read more
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