LGBTQ+ Memoirs

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,133 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,083 ratings
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Gender Queer: A Memoir 4.27 avg rating — 74,774 ratings
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In the Dream House
In the Dream House 4.40 avg rating — 153,021 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,427 ratings
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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness 4.11 avg rating — 29,544 ratings
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The Other Mothers
The Other Mothers 4.25 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer 3.70 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,371 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
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Spinning
Spinning 3.89 avg rating — 23,106 ratings
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Other Boys
Other Boys 4.14 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing 3.79 avg rating — 992 ratings
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The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures 4.01 avg rating — 8,754 ratings
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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 18,851 ratings
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir 4.28 avg rating — 4,250 ratings
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Lost & Found: A Memoir
Lost & Found: A Memoir 4.10 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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Hijab Butch Blues
Hijab Butch Blues
by: Lamya H.
4.47 avg rating — 16,911 ratings
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Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation 3.77 avg rating — 3,693 ratings
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Save Yourself
Save Yourself 3.95 avg rating — 3,455 ratings
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Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences 4.02 avg rating — 5,211 ratings
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When They Tell You To Be Good: A Memoir
When They Tell You To Be Good: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Inverse Cowgirl
Inverse Cowgirl 3.81 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition 3.55 avg rating — 2,689 ratings
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Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family 3.62 avg rating — 21,381 ratings
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GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet
GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting 4.52 avg rating — 744 ratings
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The Making of a Woman: From the Inside Out
The Making of a Woman: From the Inside Out
by: Jewels
4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class
That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Becoming a Man
Becoming a Man 4.17 avg rating — 3,722 ratings
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The Cruising Diaries: Expanded Edition
The Cruising Diaries: Expanded Edition 4.14 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Fat Off, Fat On
Fat Off, Fat On 3.96 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Caught in the Act
Caught in the Act 4.10 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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Finding Sunlight: A Coming-of-Age Memoir about Love within the Wreckage of Purity Culture
Finding Sunlight: A Coming-of-Age Memoir about Love within the Wreckage of Purity Culture 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman 4.14 avg rating — 2,321 ratings
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The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,643 ratings
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Gay Giant
Gay Giant 3.74 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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The Times I Knew I Was Gay
The Times I Knew I Was Gay 3.92 avg rating — 7,270 ratings
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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline 4.32 avg rating — 506 ratings
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How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual 4.13 avg rating — 3,963 ratings
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The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family 3.94 avg rating — 6,869 ratings
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Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen 3.87 avg rating — 5,566 ratings
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All Boys Aren’t Blue
All Boys Aren’t Blue 4.19 avg rating — 44,453 ratings
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The Waterfront Journals
The Waterfront Journals 4.22 avg rating — 742 ratings
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House Fires
House Fires 4.01 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir 3.65 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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I Have Something to Tell You
I Have Something to Tell You 4.23 avg rating — 6,626 ratings
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Teaching the Cat to Sit: A Memoir
Teaching the Cat to Sit: A Memoir 4.26 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Lettin It All Hang Out
Lettin It All Hang Out
by: RuPaul
3.97 avg rating — 753 ratings
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¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons 4.04 avg rating — 8,772 ratings
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Toil & Trouble
Toil & Trouble 3.95 avg rating — 7,231 ratings
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Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love 4.19 avg rating — 67,698 ratings
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Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown 3.90 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders 3.97 avg rating — 12,943 ratings
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nîtisânak
nîtisânak 4.22 avg rating — 329 ratings
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How We Fight for Our Lives
How We Fight for Our Lives 4.27 avg rating — 22,734 ratings
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The Rules Do Not Apply
The Rules Do Not Apply 3.70 avg rating — 35,111 ratings
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Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition (Super Late Bloomer, #1)
Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition (Super Late Bloomer, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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Flocks
Flocks 3.84 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Long Red Hair
Long Red Hair 3.47 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Holding the Man
Holding the Man 4.41 avg rating — 6,314 ratings
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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs 4.26 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Mean
Mean 4.24 avg rating — 3,886 ratings
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir 4.37 avg rating — 2,888 ratings
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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me 4.40 avg rating — 7,790 ratings
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How We Fight For Our Lives
How We Fight For Our Lives 4.27 avg rating — 22,734 ratings
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A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir 4.12 avg rating — 2,253 ratings
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Something That May Shock and Discredit You 3.84 avg rating — 3,584 ratings
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Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-of-Age Story
Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-of-Age Story 4.32 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water 4.20 avg rating — 15,680 ratings
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Autobiography of Shadows
Autobiography of Shadows 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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When I Came Out
When I Came Out 3.21 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant 4.05 avg rating — 8,735 ratings
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Born to Be Public
Born to Be Public 4.18 avg rating — 405 ratings
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High-Risk Homosexual
High-Risk Homosexual 4.06 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found
Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found 4.37 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen 4.21 avg rating — 3,261 ratings
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Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World 4.24 avg rating — 6,195 ratings
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Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis 3.43 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Rust Belt Femme
Rust Belt Femme 4.05 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Lot Six
Lot Six 3.97 avg rating — 358 ratings
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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood 4.12 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy
Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy 4.09 avg rating — 152 ratings
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As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body 3.90 avg rating — 258 ratings
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What About the Rest of Your Life
What About the Rest of Your Life
by: Sung Yim
4.43 avg rating — 626 ratings
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README.txt
README.txt 4.23 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties
You Can't Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties 4.17 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Family Outing: A Heartfelt Memoir of Coming Out, Family Transformations, and Self-Discovery
The Family Outing: A Heartfelt Memoir of Coming Out, Family Transformations, and Self-Discovery 3.97 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
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Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
by: Lars Horn
4.29 avg rating — 374 ratings
92.
Pageboy
Pageboy 3.73 avg rating — 72,697 ratings
93.
A Place for Us: A Memoir
A Place for Us: A Memoir 4.32 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
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A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings 4.01 avg rating — 617 ratings
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The Yards Between Us: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football
The Yards Between Us: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football 4.16 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir
Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir 3.52 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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I'm Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss
I'm Never Fine: Scenes and Spasms on Loss 4.50 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Tweakerworld
Tweakerworld 4.29 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It 3.95 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness 3.57 avg rating — 481 ratings
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