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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!

Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
My Powerful Hair: A Picture Book
The Bruising of Qilwa
Boys Weekend
Shubeik Lubeik
Zonia's Rain Forest
We Deserve Monuments
The Sea Cloak: And Other Stories
The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
Mimosa: A Graphic Novel
North Woods Girl
The Autobiography of My Mother
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Happy Stories, Mostly
Rain Makes Applesauce (Restored)
Be Holding: A Poem
Trace Evidence: Poems
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Things I Didn't Do with This Body
Theophanies
Orders of Service
More Sure
Freedom House
The Tiny Journalist
Rifqa
Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
1919
As She Appears
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco
Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys
Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
How to Read Now: Essays
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
Pageboy: A Memoir
Love and Money, Sex and Death
Homie: Poems
Us
Ana on the Edge
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
Depart, Depart!
The Bruising of Qilwa
How to Fail as a Popstar
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Tar Hollow Trans: Essays
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Space Struck
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
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
How to Fail as a Popstar
In the Field a Novel
Dear Twin
Neotenica
Dot & Ralfie
Quicksand
Imre: A Memorandum
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
Alexis
Harlem Shadows: Poems
Any Other City
Bellies (Original)
Edinburgh
In Another Place, Not Here
The Summer We Got Free
Greenland
The Town of Babylon
Cantoras
The Thirty Names of Night
Real Life
Rainbow Milk
Detransition, Baby
Patsy
The Other Mother
A Minor Chorus
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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
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
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