The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
By: Matt Ortile
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" (Bitch Magazine) essays by a gay Filipino immigrant…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Like most Filipino immigrants I knew, I traded my accent for class anxiety."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
"Our clothing, our bodies, and even our names were reframed as inferior to those of our colonizers."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
"Loneliness can feel like what's private has been made public, as if your belly button has come undone and your liver, lungs, and beating heart have spilled onto the sidewalk."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
"To counter that 'all lives matter' is to dismiss the specificity of antiblack racism, how the gradations of violence inflicted on nonwhite bodies is dependent on the darkness or lightness of our skin."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
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1. Salt
By: Nayyirah Waheed
4.24
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
salt. a literary work. read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- adult
"i like myself. when i am myself."-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
"poetry. is the fire leaving my body."-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
"healing begins the moment you want it to"-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
"she was a beautiful place to bare my legs."-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
By: David Sedaris , Ian Falconer
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed anim… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
3. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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4. White Girls
By: Hilton Als
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Womenfourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker… read more
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- race
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
5. Bath Haus
By: P.J. Vernon
3.76
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriet… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
6. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
By: Aparna Nancherla
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
7. Yes, Daddy
By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage
3.59
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
8. I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
By: Rachel Bloom
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
9. Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
By: Daniel Sloss
3.94
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
From one of today’s hottest young comedians, a transgressive and hilarious deep-dive into his favor… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"Focus on the now...Life is a series of infinite Nows."-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
"My point is that life is long, and parts of it can be immensely shitty. You shouldn't focus on the future because you've got little control over it. All you can do is make sure the steps you take now…"-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
"A lot of people like to listen to people talk about death because we don't do it enough...We make it taboo, and I think that gives it too much power...I hope that for some of you, this made sense. Th…"-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
"I'm thirty years old, and I have signed five separate divorce papers. None of them were mine. Don't worry. I was merely autographing the papers of people whose divorces I've caused. They lined up, in…"-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
10. Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
By: Kayleen Schaefer
3.46
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
From Girls to Parks and Recreation to Bridesmaids, the female friendship has taken an undeniable fr… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
12. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
13. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
14. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
15. Lot
By: Bryan Washington
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."-Bryan Washington, Lot
"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"-Bryan Washington, Lot
16. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
17. The Farm
By: Joanne Ramos
3.49
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong."-Joanne Ramos, The Farm
"And suddenly she is exhausted. And sad. A sadness so vast she feels like she is drowning in it... Because nothing is going to change."-Joanne Ramos, The Farm
18. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
By: John Paul Brammer
4.05
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming me… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"I thought of myself more as "a person with unique difficulty accessing heterosexuality."-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
"All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also sufferi…"-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
19. The Body Papers
By: Grace Talusan
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Paper… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
By: Stephanie Kiser
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
By: Matt Ortile
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" (Bitch Magazine) essays by a gay Filipino immigrant… read more
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- audiobook
- race
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- queer
"Like most Filipino immigrants I knew, I traded my accent for class anxiety."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
"Our clothing, our bodies, and even our names were reframed as inferior to those of our colonizers."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
"Loneliness can feel like what's private has been made public, as if your belly button has come undone and your liver, lungs, and beating heart have spilled onto the sidewalk."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
"To counter that 'all lives matter' is to dismiss the specificity of antiblack racism, how the gradations of violence inflicted on nonwhite bodies is dependent on the darkness or lightness of our skin."-Matt Ortile, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance
