How to Fail as a Popstar
By: Vivek Shraya
4.06
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Described as “cultural rocket fuel” by Vanity Fair , Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art…
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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
2. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
By: Robin Coste Lewis
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Tomboy Survival Guide
By: Ivan E. Coyote
3.90
Format: 77 pages,
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Fail… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
4. No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more
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5. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
By: Freya Marske
4.29
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
6. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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7. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
By: Freya Marske
3.91
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
8. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
9. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
10. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.23
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more
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"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
11. Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.48
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more
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"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels
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
- nonfiction
- 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
13. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
By: Ram V.
4.30
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more
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"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
14. Woman World
By: Aminder Dhaliwal
4.04
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of socie… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
15. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
16. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
4.31
Format: 597 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
17. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
18. Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
By: Melanie Gillman
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, femini… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
19. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
20. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
21. it was never going to be okay
By: jaye simpson
4.35
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more
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- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
22. Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
By: Jonathan Van Ness
4.10
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collec… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
23. Such a Lonely, Lovely Road
By: Kagiso Lesego Molope
4.12
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Coming out in South Africa . . . At what cost? All his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect chil… read more
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- queer
- canada
- lgbt
24. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
25. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- canada
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
26. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
By: Brandi Morin
4.30
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- canada
27. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
28. 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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- queer
- canada
- 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
29. real ones
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more
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- canada
30. How to Fail as a Popstar
By: Vivek Shraya
4.06
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Described as “cultural rocket fuel” by Vanity Fair , Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- plays
- queer
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
