Recs if you like Memorial...
books your pretentious friend has heard of
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Men Loving Men in Literary Fiction
Some classic, popular, and lesser-known books about the lives and relationships of men who love men. Recommendations welcome---I'm specifically in search of more books centering trans men! [Created Sep '25]
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Messy Queer Fiction for Autumn Hill 💌
Autumn Hill is a Prairieland Defendant, sentenced to 50 years in prison for protesting outside of an ICE detention facility, in a move intended to quell all political dissent. To support her, she says “send me more messy gay fiction” especially by queer authors of color!
Books should be paperbacks, purchased new and sent directly from Amazon, and addressed to:
Johnson County Jail, TX Cameron Arnold, 202502023 P.O. Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131
Suggestions very welcome! 🫶🏽 More info in comments!
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Book(s) of the Month(s) 📚
Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!
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Queer Black Books
Books where the main character is black and part of the lgbt community! A lot of these came from recommendations on a post I made here, thank you to everyone who replied! And feel free to recommend more! :)
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Queer Voices of Color
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quest busters pt. 5
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Stonewall Book Awards and Honors
I thought it would be nice to have all of them in one long list.
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Set in Japan
Fiction books set in Japan
Open to recs!
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these aren't raindrops in my eyes
emotionally resonant and impactful reads that will make you feel all of the feels (and, if you're like me, cry).
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Stonewall Honor Books Literature
The Books that didn't get any of the main awards, but we're still stamped with being an Honor Book.
2016-2025
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🗣️ written by debaters!
It's a surprise that competitive debating hasn't produced more authors; the sport naturally lends itself to the kind of interrogations and iterative explorations that I've always found akin to writing. Entries don't strictly have to feature debating (though many do!).
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