6 must-read history books like Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages by Dan Jones

Cover of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages by Dan Jones

Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

By: Dan Jones

3.48

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, ofte…

If you liked the history plot in Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages by Dan Jones , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Drawing Blood

By: Poppy Z. Brite

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Tr… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Z. Brite's Drawing Blood book and Dan Jones's Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

  • queer
  • lgbt

2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, #1)

By: Hayao Miyazaki , Toren Smith , David R. Lewis , Joe Yamazaki , Kaori Inoue

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societi… read more

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3. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

Cover of My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 (Otouto no Otto, #3-4) by Gengoroh Tagame

4. My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 (Otouto no Otto, #3-4)

By: Gengoroh Tagame

4.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanaga… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
"(Kana has been talking about her Uncles with her friends at school and her teacher, Mr. Yokoyama, has called her dad in because he’s concerned that it’s not an appropriate topic for school children a…"

-Gengoroh Tagame, My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 (Otouto no Otto, #3-4)

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5. 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

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Dan Jones's Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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)

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6. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

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7. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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8. Pink Camouflage

By: Gemma Morgan

4.39

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Her husband found her by the roadside, delirious and choking on her own vomit. Gemma Morgan was … read more

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9. A Short History of Queer Women

By: Kirsty Loehr

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Loehr's A Short History of Queer Women book and Dan Jones's Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Dan Jones's Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

11. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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12. Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

By: Dan Jones

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a cele… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • queer
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13. Cuffing Season

By: Monica McCallan

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Maeve Murphy doesn't have much to celebrate this holiday season. Ten years ago, she moved from King… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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14. All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths

By: Jean Menzies

3.94

Format: 88 pages, None

For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancien… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • mythology
  • queer
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15. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

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Cover of Queer As Folklore by Sacha Coward

16. Queer As Folklore

By: Sacha Coward

4.13

Format: None pages, None

Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • queer
Cover of The Asylum Confessions: Killer Families (The Asylum Confession Files) by Jack Steen

17. The Asylum Confessions: Killer Families (The Asylum Confession Files)

By: Jack Steen

4.20

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

They arrive alive. They always leave dead. But first, they give me their confessions. My name is Ja… read more

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Cover of The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1) by Sara Raasch

18. The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1)

By: Sara Raasch

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky romcom where the gol… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

19. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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21. Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

By: Dan Jones

3.48

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, ofte… read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages book and Dan Jones's Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • research
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • mythology
  • queer

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4.55

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

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Josh Winning

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