The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity
By: Andrew Gelwicks
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Meet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and bey…
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1. This Book Is Gay
By: None , Juno Dawson
3.77
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"-None, This Book Is Gay
2. The Between
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more
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3. Rubyfruit Jungle
By: Rita Mae Brown
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. Boy Meets Boy
By: David Levithan
4.03
Format: None pages,
This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harley… read more
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5. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
6. Love at First Set
By: Jennifer Dugan
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Sometimes true love takes a little heavy lifting The gym is Lizzie's life--it's her passion, he… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
7. Cleat Cute
By: Meryl Wilsner
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute
8. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
9. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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- history
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
10. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
11. Coming Up for Air
By: Tom Daley
4.06
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from one of the most celebrated and influential names in Bri… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"We are often told to just be ourselves but what does that really mean?...There is no 'just' in any of these statements, because it is hard. I think we are often told how to be; how to behave, how to …"-Tom Daley, Coming Up for Air
12. Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh
By: Rachael Lippincott
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost h… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
13. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
14. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- history
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
15. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
16. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
17. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
18. Fly with Me
By: Andie Burke
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp b… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
19. Memorial
By: Bryan Washington
3.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and th… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?"-Bryan Washington, Memorial
"Efteråt är vi bara två killar i en bil som håller på med någon sorts omöjlig yoga."-Bryan Washington, Memorial
"So, the next morning, despite everything, I’m at his door. My father’s door. And then I am knocking. Waiting. It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions o…"-Bryan Washington, Memorial
20. I Kissed a Girl
By: Jennet Alexander
3.31
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Can an up-and-coming horror actress and the makeup artist for her newest “creature feature” tur… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
21. Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
By: Paul Rudnick
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed writer Paul Rudnick, a riotously funny, perceptive, and life-affirming novel fol… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"If all the world's a stage, gay people are often expected to understudy themselves, reinterpreting the truth of their performances, depending on who's out front, and who's paying their salary."-Paul Rudnick, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
22. Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
By: Jen Winston
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily , Glamour, Shondaland , BuzzFeed , and more! … read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions."-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
"Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the o…"-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
23. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
24. The Memory of Lavender and Sage
By: Aimie K. Runyan
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more
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25. That Summer Feeling
By: Bridget Morrissey
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Turns out you're never too old for a summer camp romance. Or a change of heart. When a divorced wom… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Signs didn't just exist to tell me where to go. Sometimes signs reminded me of what I needed to avoid."-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
"That's who I was to my core---a person who believed in magic. Who found secrets tucked into the fabric of the universe. Who wished on shooting stars and took leaps of faith based on nothing but feeli…"-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
"I'd always known to my parents, love meant suffering. It meant enduring everything, no matter how bad. Only something publicly shameful was worth splitting up over. Even then, a case could be made fo…"-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
"Ethan sat besides me, watching as he always did. An observer of life not unlike my sister. A lot of the time, I'd felt it was up to me to be the one who shimmered enough for the both of us. And I did…"-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling
26. Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
By: Jill Gutowitz
3.81
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essa… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
27. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
By: Abbi Jacobson
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully u… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Love revealed how covered up I was, but heartache broke me open."-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
"Real life is like a constant Yelp review, everyone has notes on how the experience could be improved."-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
"I thought about how pain is also a symptom of transformation. I thought about bouncing back. How we can start again. And again."-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
"From that poorly lit room on the top floor of a tiny mini mall in Sedona, a stranger told me exactly what I knew already. I guess that's what I was looking for, someone to see me and my fears and my …"-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
28. Skye Falling
By: Mia McKenzie
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman who's used to going solo discovers that there's one relationship she can't run away from in… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I don't like it when other people break my habits for me."-Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling
"People can be tricky when they're trying to get something from you. Especially if that something is love."-Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling
29. The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity
By: Andrew Gelwicks
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Meet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and bey… read more
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- history
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- essays
- education
- queer
30. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
31. Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire
By: Tea Uglow
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. A sist… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
