Lambda Literary Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist
Cecilia Gentili
Roz Milner digs deep in this new review, Starring in My Own Play: A Review of Cecil Gentili’s Faltas: Letters to Everyone In My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist! #tran #memoir https://t.co/TjWPJPVFtN
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Punks
John Keene
The winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry is John Keene (@jstheater) for Punks: New & Selected Poems, published by @thesongcave #Lammys https://t.co/CEE49dWisa
Paperback, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Ricky Tucker
Pitchfork featured Lambda fellow Ricky Tucker's "And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community" as one of the 15 Best Music Books of 2022! Check out the list here: https://t.co/zfm5GlbMsu https://t.co/M5A5nesn0q
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Loveless
Alice Oseman
How about a coming out story you haven't heard before? Check out this review of Alice Oseman's Loveless by @TheMollyTurner 💘📖 https://t.co/rKoKlPXUIT
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
😉Psst.. We got an excerpt from @ryka_aoki's new novel 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘜𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 📚🌠 Full read in T-minus 3...2...1 🎻🚀 @torbooks https://lambdaliterary.org/2021/10/light-from-uncommon-stars-excerpt/
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Almost Flying
Jake Maia Arlow
YES! @jakewhosagirl named as a Stonewall Honoree for her book Almost Flying. Our hearts are so full (and so are our eyes--because we are crying from joy). 🥲 The students and educators in our @LGBTQWIS program are really getting the best of the best. Congratulations, Jake 🌈🎢 https://t.co/mqntyRqDQC
Hardcover, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Too Bright to See: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
Kyle Lukoff
Wowowow!! @KyleLukoff's Too Bright To See won the Stonewall Book Award and a Newbury Honor! We are the ones that are honored, though, to be able to share your AMAZING reads with the students and educators in our @LGBTQWIS program.😍 https://t.co/cluOWB4mvm
Paperback, 2022
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Want What We Want: Stories
Alix Ohlin
The winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction is @AlixOhlin for We Want What We Want, published by @HouseofAnansi #Lammys https://t.co/h1Jseqbvlw
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mycelial Person
Amanda Monti
"Monti’s undulating, Germanic intonation ripples pensively across disciplines, encompassing precocial divination, post-coital ASMR elegy, and the puckish ecopoetics of their debut collection Mycelial Person" 🍄 🌱 Read the full review here: https://lambdaliterary.org/2022/03/amanda-monti-mycelial-person/
Paperback, 2021
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
John Gay: Selected Poems: John Gay
John Gay
The winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry is John Keene (@jstheater) for Punks: New & Selected Poems, published by @thesongcave #Lammys https://t.co/CEE49dWisa
Paperback, 2006
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book