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10 best books like Post Dykes to Watch Out For (Alison Bechdel): The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library, Message in a Bottle, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, One Hundred Demons, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions, My New York Diary, The Wedding, A Choir of Lies, The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, White Noise

The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library
AuthorNew York Public Library
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.

June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered...
Message in a Bottle
AuthorNicholas Sparks
ISBN0446676071
Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.

Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook,...
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
AuthorMattilda Bernstein Sycamore
ISBN1580051847
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the...
One Hundred Demons
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN1570614598
In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race, and the hood. Name that Demon!!! Freaky boyfriends! Shouting Moms! Innocence betrayed! These are some of the pickled demons...
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN0380789027
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift...
My New York Diary
AuthorJulie Doucet
ISBN1896597831
THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT

Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in...
The Wedding
AuthorNicholas Sparks
ISBN0446615862
After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example...
A Choir of Lies
AuthorAlexandra Rowland
ISBN1534412832
A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation from economic ruin, in the standalone sequel to A Conspiracy of Truths.

Three years ago, Ylfing watched his master-Chant tear a nation apart with nothing but the words on his tongue. Now Ylfing is...
The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
AuthorDiane DiMassa
ISBN1573440841
The Complete Collection combines Hothead Paisan and Revenge of Hothead Paisan with new strips in a single volume for the first time.

Holy smokes, but how have I not read this before?

Are you old enough to remember zines? Ah, the good old days of subversive zines. That I missed reading...
White Noise
AuthorDon DeLillo
ISBN0143129554
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
AuthorLeslie Feinberg
ISBN0807079510
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
The Boondocks: Fresh for '01...You Suckas
AuthorAaron McGruder
ISBN0740713957
The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner city Chicago to live with their grandfather. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans...
Drag Teen
AuthorJeffery Self
ISBN0545829933
A fantastic, fabulous, funny YA debut from Jeffery Self, one of the gay icons of the YouTube generation, that follows one high school student on a drag race to his future.

Debut YA author Jeffery Self takes us on a road trip with an insecure high school senior who has one goal: to be the first in his...
Die Therapie
AuthorSebastian Fitzek
ISBN3426633094
Keine Zeugen, keine Spuren, keine Leiche. Josy, die zwölfjährige Tochter des bekannten Psychiaters Viktor Larenz, verschwindet unter mysteriösen Umständen. Ihr Schicksal bleibt ungeklärt.
Vier Jahre später: Der trauernde Viktor hat sich in ein abgelegenes Ferienhaus zurückgezogen....
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
AuthorA.K. Summers
ISBN1593765401
First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging: Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, “Can butches...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
AuthorMattilda Bernstein Sycamore
ISBN1932360565
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia,...
Aya of Yop City
AuthorMarguerite Abouet
ISBN1897299419
“[Aya] wittily delves into both the political and the pop during an enchanted era when anything seemed possible.” —Vibe Vixen


The original Drawn & Quarterly volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomination and praise for its accessibility...
True Believer
AuthorNicholas Sparks
Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernatural with a regular column in Scientific American, he's just made his first appearance on national TV. When he receives a letter from the tiny town of Boone...
Jokes and the Unconscious: A Graphic Novel
AuthorDaphne Gottlieb
Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb (Final Girl) and Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa, a 19-year-old woman named Sasha loses her father to cancer and takes a job in the hospital where he had worked as a doctor. Moving from room...
Kann man mal machen
AuthorMirellativegal
ISBN3960960549
Im Internet sehen immer alle gut aus, sind glücklich und haben weder Poren noch Probleme. Oder sie vertreten antiquierte Rollenbilder und pöbeln gegen Schwächere. Mirella vom Kanal Mirellativegal hat keine Lust mehr darauf, von überall eingeredet zu bekommen, wie sie zu sein und was sie zu lassen...
Darling Days: A Memoir
AuthoriO Tillett Wright
ISBN0062368222
Unfolding in animated, crystalline prose, an emotionally raw, devastatingly powerful memoir of one young woman's extraordinary coming of age—a tale of gender and identity, freedom and addiction, rebellion and survival in the 1980s and 1990s, when punk, poverty, heroin, and art collided in the...
Lygi
AuthorYrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fjölskylda snýr heim úr íbúðaskiptum en kemst að því að fólkið sem var í húsinu þeirra er horfið. Lögreglukona rekst á áratuga gamla skýrslu sem tekin var af eiginmanni hennar á barnsaldri og telur það mál hugsanlega skýra tilraun hans til að binda enda á líf sitt. Fernt...
Rent Girl
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN0867196203
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Why did it happen? What makes it possible? This book has no point, it barely tells a story, and it is ridiculously aloof. Like talking to a coked up drag queen, smearing mascara all over your sensible sweater and gushing out their life story, morbidly fascinating, but you...
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
AuthorTim Brown
ISBN0061766089
The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities.

This...
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
AuthorPeter Singer
ISBN0300103050
One of the world’s most influential philosophers here considers the ethical issues surrounding globalization. Peter Singer discusses climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid, showing how a global ethic rather than...
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
AuthorMarty Cagan
ISBN1119387507
The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very different from how most companies create products. The goal of the book is to share the techniques of the best companies. This book is aimed primarily at Product Managers working on technology-powered products....
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City
AuthorAra Wilson
ISBN0520239687
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy...
The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
AuthorLisa Duggan
ISBN0807079553
By now we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. The Twilight of Equality? searches out these links through...
Fortitude
AuthorApryl E. Pooley
ISBN1513704451
Anchored by ten years of unedited blog and journal entries, Fortitude illustrates a real-time account of an outwardly successful college student living with secrets of rape, childhood molestation, a closeted lesbian identity, PTSD, alcoholism, addiction, eating disorders, and suicide attempts....
Weil es sagbar ist: Über Zeugenschaft und Gerechtigkeit. Essays
AuthorCarolin Emcke
***Die vielfach ausgezeichneten Texte der renommierten Journalistin und Intellektuellen Carolin Emcke***

Wie lässt sich von Krieg und Gewalt erzählen?

Gibt es dabei Grenzen des Verstehens?

Schwellen des Sagbaren?

Welche Bedingungen muss eine gerechte...
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