God Loves Hair

10 best books like God Loves Hair (Vivek Shraya): First Spring Grass Fire, When I Arrived at the Castle, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, Woman World, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, Giant Days: Early Registration

First Spring Grass Fire

Author	Rae Spoon
ISBN	1551524805

Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural...

When I Arrived at the Castle

Author

Emily Carroll

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."

Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

Author	Malaka Gharib
ISBN	0525575111

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family's rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib's illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest...

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

Author	Jeanette Winter
ISBN	0152054456

"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"*
--Alia Muhammad Baker

Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along...

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Author	Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN	0807530174

His white teacher tells her all-black class, You’ll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his...

Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition

Author	Julia Kaye
ISBN	1449489621

A highly personal collection documenting the early months of artist Julia Kaye’s gender transition.
 

Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular...

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

Author	Amber Dawn
ISBN	1551525003

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...

Woman World

Author	Aminder Dhaliwal
ISBN	1770463356

The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men

With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

Author	Archie Bongiovanni
ISBN	1620104997

Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide...

Giant Days: Early Registration

Author	John Allison
ISBN	1684152658

Flashback to freshman year with Esther, Susan and Daisy to see how they first met and became the best of friends, in these bonus Giant Days stories.

Take a trip through the past in these early Giant Days stories, and discover the origin of Daisy, Esther and Susan’s friendship as they embark...

The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

Author	Emma
ISBN	1609809181

A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist.

"The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at...