I’ve Got a Time Bomb
10 best books like I’ve Got a Time Bomb (Sybil Lamb): I'm Afraid of Men, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Gideon the Ninth, The Water Dancer, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Rat Bohemia, All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 0735235937 |
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
| Author | Andrea Lawlor |
| ISBN | 0986086991 |
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
| Author | Tamsyn Muir |
| ISBN | 1250313198 |
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 4091858163 |
Wow, what a macabre masterpiece. This was gory and grotesque and very disturbing and at the same time the story is amazing and I could hardly put it down. It was amazing and it had boundless imagination. The story kept getting more and more hopeless until the bitter end. I mean this really is a horror story,...
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...
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
| Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
Lambda Literary Award finalist
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate...
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 0525937900 |
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians abandoned by their families and forced to find new bonds with one another in the wake of this loss. Navigating the currents...
| Author | Elizabeth Hay |
| ISBN | 0771039735 |
Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.
As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and...
| Author | J.J. Lee |
| ISBN | 0771046472 |
Taking as its starting point a son's decision to alter his late father's last remaining suit for himself, this is a deeply moving and brilliantly crafted story of fathers and sons, of fitting in and standing out -- and discovering what it means to be your own man.
For years, journalist and amateur...
