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…
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1. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
By: Susan Bell
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
The Artful Editexplores the many-faceted and often misunderstood--or simply overlooked--art of edit… read more
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2. 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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3. Abandon Me: Memoirs
By: Melissa Febos
3.64
Format: 221 pages,
For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more
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4. 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
5. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
By: John Guy
3.34
Format: None pages,
A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the lead… read more
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6. Whip Smart: A Memoir
By: Melissa Febos
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more
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7. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
8. 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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"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
9. 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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10. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
11. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
By: Michelle Tea
4.02
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more
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- queer
12. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
13. Rainbow Rainbow
By: Lydia Conklin
3.41
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the qu… read more
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- audiobook
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14. 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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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"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
15. Still True
By: Maggie Ginsberg
4.28
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-o… read more
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16. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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17. Women: A Novella
By: Chloé Caldwell
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more
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- lgbt
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"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
18. Water I Won't Touch
By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portr… read more
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19. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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20. Bright and Tender Dark
By: Joanna Pearson
3.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, an enthralling, wire-t… read more
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21. Now You Know It All (Drue Heinz Literature Prize)
By: Joanna Pearson
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers o… read more
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