Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
By: Mark Doty
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation a…
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1. The Chronology of Water
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"my parents Oedipal fakers"-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"...what is a couple over time but a line..."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
2. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- queer
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3. Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
By: Garrard Conley
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"The power of Conley s story resides not only in the vividly depicted grotesqueries of the therapy … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
4. 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
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- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
5. Wave
By: Sonali Deraniyagala
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost h… read more
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6. Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
By: Mark Doty
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation a… read more
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- queer
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8. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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9. Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
By: Lauren Slater
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to r… read more
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10. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
11. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
12. Tomboyland: Essays
By: Melissa Faliveno
3.98
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and de… read more
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- queer
13. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By: Judith Heumann
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more
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"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
14. Angels Before Man
By: Rafael Nicolás
4.14
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man
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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- queer
- lgbt
"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. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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17. Old Enough
By: Haley Jakobson
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
18. White Magic
By: Elissa Washuta
3.79
Format: 432 pages, None
Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our bes… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Sometimes I think I'm near the end of my energy for living. I plot to travel to another world because this one seems too decimated by the white men who wanted money and skin, too dangerous to navigat…"-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
"If I'm going to die, I want to fight. I've been fighting the colonizer's whispers that I am not wanted here, not worthy of protection, nothing but a body to be pummeled and played with and threatened…"-Elissa Washuta, White Magic
19. Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
By: Paul Lisicky
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The… read more
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- queer
20. The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour
By: Jacqueline Alnes
3.26
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strai… read more
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- memoir
21. Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools
By: Kass Minor
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Revolutionize the way you negotiate the realities of childhood education In Teaching Spreading Joy… read more
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