Books & Bakes

Laura Sackton is a queer writer, reader, and book nerd. You can find her writing at Book Riot, BookPage, Audiofile, in her newsletter Books & Bakes, and elsewhere on the internet. These are all books she's read, reviewed, and recommended in her newsletter. It's your one-stop shop for under-the-radar queer gems!

The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
Bellies (Original)
Any Other City
Weekend
Nevada
The Death of Vivek Oji
Little Fish
Detransition, Baby
Endpapers
Fiebre Tropical
The Thirty Names of Night
Felix Ever After
The Passing Playbook
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
Sasha Masha
The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
The Sleeping Car Porter
Uranians: Stories
The Breaks
Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
How to Fail as a Popstar
Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
I Want What I Want (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Alexis
A Minor Chorus
Polar Vortex
The New Life
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
The Good Arabs
Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology
Brace for Impact: A Memoir
Moving Truth(s): Queer and Transgender Desi Writings on Family
Personal Attention Roleplay
Spell Heaven: And Other Stories
Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man
Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
Dark Tourist: Essays
Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk about Sex
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
How to Fail as a Popstar
In the Field
Dear Twin
Fair Play
The Cancer Journals
The Tree and the Vine
I Want What I Want (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
At the Bottom of the River
Annie John
Alexis
Harlem Shadows: Poems
Any Other City
Bellies (Original)
The New Life
Edinburgh
In Another Place, Not Here
The Summer We Got Free
Greenland
The Town of Babylon
Cantoras
Yerba Buena
The Thirty Names of Night
Real Life
Rainbow Milk
Detransition, Baby
Patsy
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir
Tomboyland: Essays
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
The Argonauts
Fire Song
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present
White Magic
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
Making Love with the Land: Essays
Night of the Living Rez
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Moon of the Crusted Snow
Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
The Seed Keeper
The Removed
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Stone Fruit
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
We Are Satellites
Summer Sons
Sorrowland
The Marrow Thieves
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
Cantoras
To Night Owl from Dogfish
Full Disclosure
Blue-Skinned Gods
We Had to Remove This Post
Happening
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
The Face: A Time Code
The Cancer Journals
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Aug 9 - Fog
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
A History of Scars: A Memoir
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
The Black Emerald
The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
Any Other City
Bellies (Original)
Mimosa
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Fine: A Comic about Gender
Rebent Sinner
The Thirty Names of Night
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
People Change
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
Peter Darling
A Natural History of Transition