How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story
By: Kirk Read
4.12
Format: 428 pages,
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1. Johnny Got His Gun
By: Dalton Trumbo
4.20
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was… read more
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"See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?"-Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
"Thank you mister. You fight for liberty. Me I don't care for some."-Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
"There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own."-Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
"Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen."-Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
2. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner
4.40
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more
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- nonfiction
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
3. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
4. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
5. The Boys on the Rock
By: John Fox
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school stud… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
6. Clay's Way
By: Blair Mastbaum
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Set against the dazzling backdrop of Hawaii's Oahu and Kauai islands, Clay's Way seethes with energ… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Time of Your Life (Season 8, #4)
By: Joss Whedon , Georges Jeanty , Jeph Loeb
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
Willow and Buffy head to New York City to unlock the secrets of Buffy's mysterious scythe, when som… read more
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8. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
9. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
10. The World of Normal Boys
By: K.M. Soehnlein
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
In his stunning debut novel, "The World Of Normal Boys, " K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a g… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
11. How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story
By: Kirk Read
4.12
Format: 428 pages,
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- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
12. 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
13. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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14. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
15. Battle Royale
By: Koushun Takami , Yuji Oniki
None
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of jun… read more
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16. The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book… read more
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17. Piercing
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more
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18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Twilight (Season 8, #7)
By: Joss Whedon , Georges Jeanty , Brad Meltzer
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
Buffy Summers and her Slayer army have suffered heavy losses throughout Season Eight and faced scor… read more
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19. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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20. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Retreat (Season 8, #6)
By: Joss Whedon , Georges Jeanty , Jane Espenson
4.13
Format: None pages,
Buffy Season Eight Volume 6 showcases the first retreat of the Slayer legion. Vampires have solid f… read more
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21. Torch Song Trilogy
By: Harvey Fierstein
3.69
Format: 355 pages,
Drama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Plays Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of th… read more
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22. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- biography
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
23. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By: Elon Green
3.84
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
24. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
25. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
By: Tarana Burke
4.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder and activist behind the largest movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuri… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can't empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
"Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experienc…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
26. 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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- biography
- 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
27. This Is Why They Hate Us
By: Aaron H. Aceves
4.06
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his … read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"What a horrible weight it is to be silent when you want to shout, to hold back when you want to reach out, to freeze when you want to melt."-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"I guess it's true that us queers are starved for stories that mirror our lives. I can't remember a time when I saw a queer person in a movie or TV show or book that I didn't have to actively seek out…"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive becaus…"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
28. Rainbow Milk
By: Paul Mendez
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
29. House of Sand and Fog
By: Andre Dubus III
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down o… read more
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"Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk."-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
"Lester wanted to rise up out of this like a cloud, to drift over the valley and shore to the Pacific, to dissolve into its huge green expanse like rain."-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
"Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen."-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
"It’s easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision…"-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
30. The Husbands
By: Chandler Baker
3.48
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husband… read more
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"We can elbow and push all we want for every packed lunch, picked-up towel, put-away pan, and scheduled doctor’s appointment, but until paternity leave is normalized, until schools call fathers about …"-Chandler Baker, The Husbands
31. Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
By: Liz Brown
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
