Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im…
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1. Drag King Dreams
By: Leslie Feinberg
3.74
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of M… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
2. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
3. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
By: Alison Bechdel
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydn… read more
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- queer
- 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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- gender
- queer
- lgbt
5. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
6. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
7. Tomboy Survival Guide
By: Ivan E. Coyote
3.90
Format: 77 pages,
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Fail… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
8. Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
By: Maggie Thrash
1.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and … read more
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9. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
10. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
By: Lou Sullivan
4.76
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
11. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
12. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
13. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
14. The Council of Animals
By: Nick McDonell
3.58
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
A captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) … read more
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15. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
16. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)
By: Lewis Hancox
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
17. Something That May Shock and Discredit You
By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start cryin…"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no…"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month …"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
18. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
19. Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
By: Amos Mac
4.71
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Independently published from 2009 to 2018, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationa… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
20. A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
By: Cyrus Grace Dunham
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do y… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be."-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
"Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the tr…"-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
21. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
