Recs if you like Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture...
ace, ace, baby
Books about asexuality, be they non-fiction or novels. Everyone should read at least one asexual book from time to time.
Rep is usually the main character but sometimes side characters. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โ ๏ธ
Yes, demi folks are included on this list!
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Queer History
A collection of books to learn more about queer people and their history
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Nonfiction Sexuality and Kink
Nonfiction books about sexuality and kink!
I made a separate list for disability and sexuality because that intersection is especially important to me ๐ซถ check it out
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Lesbian History, Politics, Culture & Identity
โ online discourse, โ๏ธ holistic knowledge fiction & non-fiction that will deepen your understanding of sapphism, its language/label evolution, and its intersections with bipoc, gender diversity and bisexuality. (please note โlesbianโ terminology was originally an expansive umbrella openly inclusive of fluid sapphics when many books were published, and not all identify as specifically/exclusively wlw!)
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Asexual Representation
Fiction and non-fiction in which a main character, prominent supporting character, or narrator is canonically/confirmed to be on the asexual (ace) spectrum.
๐Canon: Confirmed by either the text or original creator. (Subtextual/implied and circumstantial characters can be found on my other ace list)
โDisclaimer: I have not read all these books. Please feel free to correct me in the comments if I have made a mistake in my research. Or if you have any new titles to recommend.
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Taking Our Precious Time
This house runs on CPTโ๏ธThese books explore subversions of hegemonic time, including queer time, crip time, black time, mad time, and postcolonial time. Suggestions welcome!
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asexuality is awesome
a compilation of both fiction and non-fiction books on asexuality/featuring asexual characters!
always open to suggestions
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asexual characters in books ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐
a list of books with ace rep. i have read some of these but not all, so if any of these don't have ace rep or have harmful rep pls do let me know! ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐
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Feed the zombies: Anti-Brainrot Reads
Don't let the poor zombies starve, feed your brain, make it plump and ripe with knowledge and critical thinking skills. It might also be useful if the zombies never come, who knows. You better be ready.
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โ๏ธ Rise, Sisters - Female Rage and Power
Books about feminine power and rage. Inspiring, enraging, validating. Let us rise, my sisters.
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๐ต๐ธ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ but make it non-fiction
Non-fiction titles all about love, romance, friendship, connection and relationships
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Aro/Ace Books
Non-Fiction and Lit Fic featuring Aromanticism and Asexuality
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Books to Read because White Feminism Fails Us
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sapph-lit picks !!
book club book picks
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What Makes Us Human? ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐
Culture, biology, psychology, history. What makes us HUMAN?
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The "I Don't Know Or Care If You're Hot" List
For my fellow asexual community. Go forth and conquer, er, read. ๐๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค Books featuring canonically asexual main characters and perspectives from demi, gray, sex positive, sex neutral, to sex repulsed. Includes nonfiction recs as well.
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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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Listen to the facts
Nonfiction audiobooks about gender, queerness, disability and everything else.
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Reading Specifically, and Deeply
Niche non-fiction to open your mind to a world in specifics
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Diverse Baseline Challenge
These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically donโt reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.
This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.
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