Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives)
By: Lillian Faderman
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay …
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1. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
By: Cleve Jones
4.34
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning s… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- lgbt
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
2. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
By: Sarah Schulman
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
3. Lawn Boy
By: Jonathan Evison
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
"Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sh… read more
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- lgbt
4. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
5. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
By: Nina Willner
4.27
Format: None pages, ebook
In this memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War es… read more
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7. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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8. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
9. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
By: Cassandra Peterson
4.36
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween,… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"My favorite band's lyrics spoke to me more powerfully than any parent or teacher ever could. They helped me figure out who I was, what I was feeling, and possibly, where I was headed."-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
"Suddenly one day I sprouted boobs. Not *just* boobs. Enormous boobs. When puberty finally struck, I developed faster than a Polaroid. In my mind at least, I remember going to bed flat as a board one …"-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
"I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous prec…"-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
10. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
11. The Temps
By: Andrew DeYoung
3.50
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside a… read more
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- audiobook
12. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
13. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
15. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- history
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
16. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Jeff Guinn
4.16
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
18. The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
By: Hugh Ryan
4.45
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window int… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
19. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
21. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
22. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
By: Michael K. Williams
4.49
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Town of Babylon
By: Alejandro Varela
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
25. Forever and a Day - A Those Who Wait story (Those Who Wait, #1.5)
By: Haley Cass
4.43
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08FTF1C4W moved to the more recent edition Good things come to those who wait and now Sutt… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
26. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
27. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
29. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more
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- nonfiction
30. The Fall
By: Michael Wolff
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives)
By: Lillian Faderman
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay … read more
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- history
- biography
- jewish
- lgbt
- politics
- judaism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
