8 best-selling memoir books like Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson

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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

By: Joseph Osmundson

3.83

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Most Anticipated Book of …

If you liked the memoir plot in Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski, #11) by Sara Paretsky

1. Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski, #11)

By: Sara Paretsky

3.85

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most distinguished writers in American crime fiction - her most brilliant and darin… read more

Similar categories in Sara Paretsky's Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski, #11) book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • audiobook
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2. Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer

3. Body Work (V.I. Warshawski, #14)

By: Sara Paretsky

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The audacious new V. I. Warshawski novel from the New York Times-bestselling author "Doctors take d… read more

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4. Hardball (V.I. Warshawski, #13)

By: Sara Paretsky

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Chicago politics-past, present, and future-take center stage in "New York Times"-bestselling author… read more

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Cover of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

5. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • audiobook
  • science
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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6. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

Similar categories in Steven W. Thrasher's The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

By: Joseph Osmundson

3.83

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Most Anticipated Book of … read more

Similar categories in Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • audiobook
  • science
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • health
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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9. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

10. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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11. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

12. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

By: Sarah Schulman

4.52

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive politica… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • audiobook
Cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

13. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • lgbt
  • queer
  • audiobook
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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14. Pretty Baby

By: Chris Belcher

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominat… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

By: Ben A. Barres

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for… read more

Similar categories in Ben A. Barres's The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • audiobook
  • science
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Dyke [geology] by Sabrina Imbler

16. Dyke [geology]

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.31

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science wri… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's Dyke [geology] book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • science
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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17. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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18. High-Risk Homosexual

By: Edgar Gomez

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith

19. Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

By: Adam Zmith

3.56

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

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20. Junk

By: Tommy Pico

4.30

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

An NPR Best Book of the Year From 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length brea… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up"

-Tommy Pico, Junk

Cover of Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies by Gaia Bernstein

21. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

By: Gaia Bernstein

3.76

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselve… read more

Similar categories in Gaia Bernstein's Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies book and Joseph Osmundson's Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

  • nonfiction

16 Best audiobook books like Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson

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Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski, #11)

Sara Paretsky

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Nature Poem

Tommy Pico

3.89

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Judas Goat: Poems

Gabrielle Bates

4.21

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Soft Science

Franny Choi

3.93

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