19 Best lgbt books like Freedom House by KB Brookins

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Freedom House

By: KB Brookins

4.53

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. …

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1. Psalms (Bible #19), ESV

By: Anonymous

4.14

Format: None pages,

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  • poetry
Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

3. Rocket Fantastic: Poems

By: None

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantasticreinvents the landscape and language of the body in interco… read more

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4. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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5. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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6. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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7. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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8. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

Similar categories in Melania Luisa Marte's Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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9. 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 KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

10. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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11. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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13. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • lgbt
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14. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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15. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. The Chromatic Fantasy

By: H.A .

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling … read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"[Jules] No!! No! No! No! I want to be happy!! I want to love and be loved!! I want to feel safe!! I want to be someone who doesn't deserve it!! I want my life and my body and my soul!!"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

"[guard] 'Before we torture you, please sign the release.' [legal form] 'I shall not say "ah, my back really needed that!" when being drawn over the rack. (we've all heard it before. you're not origin…"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

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17. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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18. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

Similar categories in Camonghne Felix's Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

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19. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Wood Lynn's Mothman Apologia book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
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20. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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21. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

By: Jake Skeets

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more

Similar categories in Jake Skeets's Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K.  Jarboe

22. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

By: Julian K. Jarboe

3.93

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more

Similar categories in Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

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23. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
Cover of Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco by K. Iver

24. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

Similar categories in K. Iver's Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam

25. We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

By: Andrea Abi-Karam

4.44

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire. Editors An… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • gender
  • lgbt
  • queer
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26. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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27. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of My Dear Comrades by Sunu P. Chandy

28. My Dear Comrades

By: Sunu P. Chandy

4.33

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this poetry collection, Sunu P. Chandy includes stories about her experiences as a woman, civil … read more

Similar categories in Sunu P. Chandy's My Dear Comrades book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • queer
Cover of The Nancy Reagan Collection by Maxe Crandall

29. The Nancy Reagan Collection

By: Maxe Crandall

4.55

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Performance Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. THE NANCY REAGAN COLLECTION is a respon… read more

Similar categories in Maxe Crandall's The Nancy Reagan Collection book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Freedom House by KB Brookins

30. Freedom House

By: KB Brookins

4.53

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. … read more

Similar categories in KB Brookins's Freedom House book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

  • poetry
  • gender
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Not So Stories by David Thomas Moore

31. Not So Stories

By: David Thomas Moore

3.70

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English languag… read more

Similar categories in David Thomas Moore's Not So Stories book and KB Brookins's Freedom House

"My venom exists in the shape of words, and I may use them however I please. If I so desire, I could dilute it's potency, drip it into my prey's ears for decades, until the victim slowly withers of se…"

-David Thomas Moore, Not So Stories

20 Best poetry books like Freedom House by KB Brookins

Transform Your Habits

Psalms (Bible #19), ESV

Anonymous

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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10 Best poetry books like My Dear Comrades by Sunu P. Chandy

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Transform Your Habits

You Better Be Lightning

Andrea Gibson

4.63

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