Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction

1.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,168 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings
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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,597 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk 4.14 avg rating — 4,470 ratings
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America 4.02 avg rating — 4,058 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,730 ratings
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The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps 4.35 avg rating — 3,405 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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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,086 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,785 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating — 8,774 ratings
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HomoAmerican - The Secret Society
HomoAmerican - The Secret Society 4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,426 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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The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project 4.19 avg rating — 14,158 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 839 ratings
18.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,223 ratings
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Nobody Passes
Nobody Passes 4.01 avg rating — 2,508 ratings
20.
Christopher and His Kind
Christopher and His Kind 4.05 avg rating — 3,668 ratings
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I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child
I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child 4.15 avg rating — 245 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
23.
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us 4.03 avg rating — 6,314 ratings
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Becoming a Man
Becoming a Man 4.17 avg rating — 3,723 ratings
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Stonewall
Stonewall 3.92 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating — 714,135 ratings
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama 3.71 avg rating — 35,015 ratings
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two 4.27 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
by: Mel White
4.09 avg rating — 873 ratings
30.
Epistemology of the Closet
Epistemology of the Closet 4.10 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
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When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution
When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution 4.06 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 793 ratings
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City of Night
City of Night 3.94 avg rating — 4,904 ratings
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past 4.02 avg rating — 487 ratings
35.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,204 ratings
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Transgender History
Transgender History 4.22 avg rating — 5,495 ratings
37.
The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant 4.03 avg rating — 2,696 ratings
38.
A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States 3.90 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 4.27 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History 4.23 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present 4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings
42.
Female Masculinity
Female Masculinity 4.01 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today 3.94 avg rating — 3,618 ratings
44.
Homosexuality and Civilization
Homosexuality and Civilization 4.18 avg rating — 389 ratings
45.
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation 4.05 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 3.99 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 4.29 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
48.
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex 4.02 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out 3.90 avg rating — 649 ratings
50.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,385 ratings
51.
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights 4.27 avg rating — 492 ratings
52.
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 4.04 avg rating — 4,438 ratings
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Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States 4.24 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Cottonmouth Kisses
Cottonmouth Kisses 4.14 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women
Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women 3.93 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating — 286,498 ratings
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I Am Not Myself These Days
I Am Not Myself These Days 3.97 avg rating — 14,676 ratings
58.
Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
Inferno (A Poet's Novel) 3.89 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World 4.06 avg rating — 11,142 ratings
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Faggots
Faggots 3.63 avg rating — 3,885 ratings
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America 3.81 avg rating — 3,357 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 — 2,322 ratings
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Mississippi Sissy
Mississippi Sissy 3.63 avg rating — 1,653 ratings
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S/He
S/He 4.15 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
65.
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia 4.49 avg rating — 185 ratings
66.
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Gender Queer: A Memoir 4.27 avg rating — 74,793 ratings
67.
Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person 3.74 avg rating — 208 ratings
68.
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. 4.27 avg rating — 98 ratings
69.
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law 4.42 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
70.
The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,111 ratings
71.
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue 4.11 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
72.
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain 3.83 avg rating — 41,534 ratings
73.
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution 3.78 avg rating — 966 ratings
74.
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner)
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner) 3.92 avg rating — 132 ratings
74.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest 4.01 avg rating — 2,025 ratings
76.
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
by: Eli Clare
4.37 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
77.
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
by: Mady G.
4.27 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
78.
Boy Erased
Boy Erased 3.62 avg rating — 21,382 ratings
79.
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 4.27 avg rating — 595 ratings
80.
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex 4.44 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies 4.19 avg rating — 2,406 ratings
82.
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
82.
The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise 4.20 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
84.
Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist
Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist 3.86 avg rating — 998 ratings
84.
Holidays on Ice
Holidays on Ice 3.89 avg rating — 129,595 ratings
86.
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics 4.40 avg rating — 930 ratings
87.
Homophobia: A History
Homophobia: A History 3.96 avg rating — 184 ratings
88.
Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk 4.23 avg rating — 82 ratings
89.
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life 4.04 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed 4.35 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
91.
Out & Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office
Out & Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive 3.92 avg rating — 874 ratings
93.
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage 4.04 avg rating — 436 ratings
94.
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer 4.06 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
95.
The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For 4.45 avg rating — 13,094 ratings
96.
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin 4.24 avg rating — 791 ratings
96.
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 4.34 avg rating — 175 ratings
98.
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement 4.35 avg rating — 2,845 ratings
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The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality 4.04 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
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50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read
50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read 3.52 avg rating — 66 ratings
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