6 Top gender books like Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men by Brice D. Smith

Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

By: Brice D. Smith

4.30

Format: 224 pages,

If you liked the gender plot in Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men by Brice D. Smith , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Prayer for Owen Meany

By: John Irving

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, h… read more

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2. 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
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3. In the Absence of Men

By: Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

Format: 384 pages,

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  • queer
  • lgbt

4. Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

By: Brice D. Smith

4.30

Format: 224 pages,

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Similar categories in Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • history
  • biography
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

5. City of Night

By: John Rechy

3.85

Format: 128 pages,

When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more

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6. Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity

By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

4.23

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

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7. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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9. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1

By: Ryoko Kui

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a… read more

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10. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

By: None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"We're our own warning."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

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11. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

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12. Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

By: Lindsay Ellis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government mi… read more

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"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so cl…"

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

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13. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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14. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's To Be Taught, If Fortunate book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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15. Summer Sons

By: Lee Mandelo

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

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16. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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17. ダンジョン飯 2 [Dungeon Meshi 2]

By: Ryoko Kui

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

ゴーレムを、たおして耕せ! 餓死の恐れと隣り合わせで、ダンジョンを進むライオス一行。 地下3階で彼らを待っていたのは、ゾンビに幽霊、生ける絵画や、 ゴーレムといった食べられないモンスター… read more

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18. Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

3.95

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

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19. 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

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • history
  • biography
  • 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

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20. 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
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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

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21. Filthy Animals

By: Brandon Taylor

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's Filthy Animals book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3 by Ryoko Kui

22. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3

By: Ryoko Kui

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New dangers and new recipes await the party in the third installment of the utterly unique and ende… read more

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Cover of Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado

23. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

24. 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

Cover of Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

25. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

Cover of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon  Price

26. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Cover of Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4 by Ryoko Kui

27. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 4

By: Ryoko Kui

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The time has come! Showdown with the Red Dragon!!! After finally reaching the fifth floor, it's … read more

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28. Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more

Similar categories in Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

29. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of 僕のヒーローアカデミア 29 [Boku no Hero Academia 29] (My Hero Academia, #29) by Kohei Horikoshi

30. 僕のヒーローアカデミア 29 [Boku no Hero Academia 29] (My Hero Academia, #29)

By: Kohei Horikoshi

4.67

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

デッカい男のせいで、辺り一帯がメチャクチャ! 「主のもとへ」って、死柄木? ……ダメ! こいつが街に降りたら、ひとたまりもない! 雄英生も危険じゃない! 蛇腔病院側で何が!? い・い・か・ら、止まれ… read more

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31. ボーイズ・ラン・ザ・ライオット 4 [Boys Run the Riot 4]

By: Keito Gaku

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

翼との騒動も落ち着き、凌たちはまたゼロから服作りを再開する。だが、カリスマショップのオーナー、迅の父や凌の家族‥‥ 周囲の大人たちから浴びせられるのは「現実を見ろ」という厳しい言葉。そんな時、凌は… read more

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  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

7 best-selling nonfiction books like Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men by Brice D. Smith

Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

Brice D. Smith

4.30

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

4.08

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We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

4.76

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

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Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

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