24 best-selling lgbt books like Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

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Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• feminism
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• memoir
• queer
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook

"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

Similar categories in Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• memoir
• queer
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• feminism
• biography memoir
• religion
• 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

Similar categories in R/B Mertz's Burning Butch book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• religion
• nonfiction
• queer

"Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had …"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her o…"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• biography memoir
• 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

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• nonfiction
• lgbt
• 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

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• biography memoir
• religion
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

Similar categories in Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

Similar categories in Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• feminism
• biography memoir
• religion
• nonfiction
• queer

"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

Similar categories in Prachi Gupta's They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• biography
• memoir
• feminism
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

Similar categories in Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook

Similar categories in Susan Abulhawa's Against the Loveless World book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• feminism
• audiobook

"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

Similar categories in Zaina Arafat's You Exist Too Much book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• queer
• lgbt
• feminism
• audiobook

"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"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

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• memoir
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

Similar categories in Sarah Cypher's The Skin and Its Girl book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• nonfiction
• memoir

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's The Pairing book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues

• lgbt
• queer