LGBT

تُلقي القصص الشخصية والأعمال الأكاديمية الضوء على النسيج الغني لحياة مجتمع الميم وأنشطته الحقوقية وحركاته الثقافية عبر التاريخ. تستكشف هذه الكتب المؤثرة الهوية والحب والعائلة والعدالة، مع تضخيم الأصوات والمنظورات الكويرية المتنوعة التي شكّلت — ولا تزال تُحوّل — فهمنا للجندر والجنسانية.

LGBT ملخصات الكتب

The Psychology of Time Travel

بقلم Kate Mascarenhas • 2018

An archaeology student finds a body in a locked basement, killed by bullets fired through time.

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🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🧠 Psychological Sci-Fi 💕 Sapphic Romance 🔗 Generational Trauma 🏛️ Toxic Institution

The Psychology of Time Travel

An archaeology student finds a body in a locked basement, killed by bullets fired through time.

بقلم Kate Mascarenhas 2018 336 صفحة

3.70

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🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🧠 Psychological Sci-Fi 💕 Sapphic Romance 🔗 Generational Trauma 🏛️ Toxic Institution

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

بقلم Matt Baume • 2023

How sitcoms smuggled queer life past the censors and changed what America saw as normal.

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📺 Television History 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Representation 🎭 Sitcom History 📚 Queer History 📰 Media Criticism

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

How sitcoms smuggled queer life past the censors and changed what America saw as normal.

بقلم Matt Baume 2023 288 صفحة

4.30

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📺 Television History 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Representation 🎭 Sitcom History 📚 Queer History 📰 Media Criticism

When You Least Expect It

بقلم Haley Cass • 2020

A divorce lawyer takes on her nemesis's wife as a client, and risks falling in love.

4.26

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🔥 Slow Burn 🎄 Holiday Romance 👩‍👧 Single Mom 🏠 Found Family 💔 Divorce Recovery

When You Least Expect It

A divorce lawyer takes on her nemesis's wife as a client, and risks falling in love.

بقلم Haley Cass 2020 248 صفحة

4.26

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🔥 Slow Burn 🎄 Holiday Romance 👩‍👧 Single Mom 🏠 Found Family 💔 Divorce Recovery

Carol (Movie Tie-In)

بقلم Claire Morgan • 1952

A shopgirl falls for an elegant older woman, but a custody battle threatens their stolen happiness.

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🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Classic 💔 Forbidden Love 💫 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Carol (Movie Tie-In)

A shopgirl falls for an elegant older woman, but a custody battle threatens their stolen happiness.

بقلم Claire Morgan 1952 296 صفحة

4.02

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🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Classic 💔 Forbidden Love 💫 Age Gap Romance 🌸 Sexual Awakening 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Bad Gays

بقلم Huw Lemmey • 2022

Gay history's villains reveal more about power, race, and assimilation than its heroes.

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 📚 Lgbtq Studies 🚫 Anti-Respectability Politics 🏴 Queer Radicalism 🔌 Power And Sexuality

Bad Gays

Gay history's villains reveal more about power, race, and assimilation than its heroes.

بقلم Huw Lemmey 2022 357 صفحة

3.55

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer History 📚 Lgbtq Studies 🚫 Anti-Respectability Politics 🏴 Queer Radicalism 🔌 Power And Sexuality

Afterlove

بقلم Tanya Byrne • 2021

Ashana, a teen grim reaper, is seen by her girlfriend: only the dying can see reapers.

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💀 Grim Reaper Romance 🌈 Queer Paranormal 💔 Doomed Lovers 📋 Afterlife Bureaucracy 🖤 Bittersweet

Afterlove

Ashana, a teen grim reaper, is seen by her girlfriend: only the dying can see reapers.

بقلم Tanya Byrne 2021 389 صفحة

3.96

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💀 Grim Reaper Romance 🌈 Queer Paranormal 💔 Doomed Lovers 📋 Afterlife Bureaucracy 🖤 Bittersweet

The Nightmare Before Kissmas

بقلم Sara Raasch • 2024

The Christmas heir must marry for power, but Halloween's prince has his heart.

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🫅 Royal Romance 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Forbidden Romance 🏰 Court Intrigue 👑 Toxic Royalty

The Nightmare Before Kissmas

The Christmas heir must marry for power, but Halloween's prince has his heart.

بقلم Sara Raasch 2024 357 صفحة

3.91

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🫅 Royal Romance 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Forbidden Romance 🏰 Court Intrigue 👑 Toxic Royalty

Transgender History

بقلم Susan Stryker • 2008

The trans rights battle traces to 1850s dress-code laws. Stonewall was the middle, not the start.

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📜 Transgender History 🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History 🏥 Medical Gatekeeping 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ✊ Feminist Sex Wars

Transgender History

The trans rights battle traces to 1850s dress-code laws. Stonewall was the middle, not the start.

بقلم Susan Stryker 2008 208 صفحة

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📜 Transgender History 🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History 🏥 Medical Gatekeeping 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ✊ Feminist Sex Wars

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

بقلم Dylan Marron • 2022

He saved the hate mail, then called the haters. Twelve things those conversations taught him.

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🧌 Online Hate 🚫 Cancel Culture 🫂 Empathy Practice 🗣️ Difficult Conversations 📱 Social Media Criticism

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

He saved the hate mail, then called the haters. Twelve things those conversations taught him.

بقلم Dylan Marron 2022 271 صفحة

3.89

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🧌 Online Hate 🚫 Cancel Culture 🫂 Empathy Practice 🗣️ Difficult Conversations 📱 Social Media Criticism

Infamous Park Avenue Prince

بقلم Ella Frank • 2023

At an elite Manhattan college, a wealthy playboy bets on seducing the dean's son as revenge.

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🎲 Secret Bet 👑 Wealthy Elite 🌈 Sexual Awakening 🔄 Reformed Playboy 🤐 Secret Romance

Infamous Park Avenue Prince

At an elite Manhattan college, a wealthy playboy bets on seducing the dean's son as revenge.

بقلم Ella Frank 2023 454 صفحة

3.96

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🎲 Secret Bet 👑 Wealthy Elite 🌈 Sexual Awakening 🔄 Reformed Playboy 🤐 Secret Romance

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

بقلم Becky Chambers • 2022

A tea monk and a curious robot travel the countryside, asking one deceptively simple question.

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☕ Cozy Sci-Fi 🤖 Robot Companion 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🏞️ Quiet Adventure ☀️ Solarpunk

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A tea monk and a curious robot travel the countryside, asking one deceptively simple question.

بقلم Becky Chambers 2022 152 صفحة

4.37

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☕ Cozy Sci-Fi 🤖 Robot Companion 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🏞️ Quiet Adventure ☀️ Solarpunk

Summer Girls

بقلم Jennifer Dugan • 2025

A disgraced socialite and the beach town lifeguard paid to watch her can't stay enemies.

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🥊 Enemies To Lovers 🏡 Forced Proximity ☀️ Summer Romance 💸 Class Divide 🌈 Coming Out

Summer Girls

A disgraced socialite and the beach town lifeguard paid to watch her can't stay enemies.

بقلم Jennifer Dugan 2025 320 صفحة

3.61

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🥊 Enemies To Lovers 🏡 Forced Proximity ☀️ Summer Romance 💸 Class Divide 🌈 Coming Out

Without the Mask

بقلم Charlie Bird • 2020

A gay Mormon discovered his faith and sexuality could coexist; he wrote the book he couldn't find.

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🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq Mormons ✝️ Faith And Sexuality 🚪 Coming Out Stories 🕊️ Religious Inclusion 🙏 Queer Spirituality

Without the Mask

A gay Mormon discovered his faith and sexuality could coexist; he wrote the book he couldn't find.

بقلم Charlie Bird 2020 176 صفحة

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🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq Mormons ✝️ Faith And Sexuality 🚪 Coming Out Stories 🕊️ Religious Inclusion 🙏 Queer Spirituality

Come and Get It

بقلم Kiley Reid • 2024

A visiting professor's relationship with a student RA upends her research and her sense of self.

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🏫 Campus Novel 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist 🌀 Blurred Boundaries 💸 Financial Anxiety 🎭 Social Satire

Come and Get It

A visiting professor's relationship with a student RA upends her research and her sense of self.

بقلم Kiley Reid 2024 400 صفحة

3.32

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🏫 Campus Novel 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist 🌀 Blurred Boundaries 💸 Financial Anxiety 🎭 Social Satire

In the Dream House

بقلم Carmen Maria Machado • 2019

Her girlfriend never hit her, but the terror was real: gaslighting inside a queer relationship.

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🏚️ Domestic Abuse 💭 Psychological Abuse 👩‍❤️‍👩 Lesbian Relationships ✊ Feminist Memoir

In the Dream House

Her girlfriend never hit her, but the terror was real: gaslighting inside a queer relationship.

بقلم Carmen Maria Machado 2019 264 صفحة

4.38

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🏚️ Domestic Abuse 💭 Psychological Abuse 👩‍❤️‍👩 Lesbian Relationships ✊ Feminist Memoir

The Coin

بقلم Yasmin Zaher • 2024

A Palestinian woman scrubs New York clean while a childhood coin remains inside her.

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🧳 Diasporic Alienation 🧼 Obsessive Rituals ✂️ Caustic Voice 🗽 Contemporary NYC 🇵🇸 Palestinian Diaspora

The Coin

A Palestinian woman scrubs New York clean while a childhood coin remains inside her.

بقلم Yasmin Zaher 2024 240 صفحة

3.42

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🧳 Diasporic Alienation 🧼 Obsessive Rituals ✂️ Caustic Voice 🗽 Contemporary NYC 🇵🇸 Palestinian Diaspora

Hild

بقلم Nicola Griffith • 2013

In Anglo-Saxon England, a girl sees the patterns others miss. The king calls it prophecy.

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🌿 Anglo-Saxon England 👑 Court Intrigue 🖤 Sapphic Love 📜 Lyrical Historical 🔮 Seer Protagonist

Hild

In Anglo-Saxon England, a girl sees the patterns others miss. The king calls it prophecy.

بقلم Nicola Griffith 2013 546 صفحة

3.85

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🌿 Anglo-Saxon England 👑 Court Intrigue 🖤 Sapphic Love 📜 Lyrical Historical 🔮 Seer Protagonist

Over the Top

بقلم Jonathan Van Ness • 2019

A hairdresser's path from meth addiction to Queer Eye stardom, and the secret he carried.

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🧑‍🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 💊 Addiction Recovery 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Nonconformity

Over the Top

A hairdresser's path from meth addiction to Queer Eye stardom, and the secret he carried.

بقلم Jonathan Van Ness 2019 269 صفحة

4.18

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🧑‍🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 💊 Addiction Recovery 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Nonconformity

Wayward Son

بقلم Rainbow Rowell • 2019

After saving the world, a hero with nothing left hits the road with his vampire boyfriend.

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🩹 Post-Quest Recovery 🧛 Vampire Boyfriend 🚗 Found Family Road Trip 🥀 Hero Burnout 💬 Sardonic Warmth

Wayward Son

After saving the world, a hero with nothing left hits the road with his vampire boyfriend.

بقلم Rainbow Rowell 2019 356 صفحة

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🩹 Post-Quest Recovery 🧛 Vampire Boyfriend 🚗 Found Family Road Trip 🥀 Hero Burnout 💬 Sardonic Warmth

How to Be You

بقلم Jeffrey Marsh • 2016

Permission to quit performing, trust your gut, and love the one person you've been ignoring: you.

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💖 Self-Acceptance 🛑 Anti-Perfectionism 🌊 Emotional Awareness 🔮 Inner Wisdom 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Self-Help

How to Be You

Permission to quit performing, trust your gut, and love the one person you've been ignoring: you.

بقلم Jeffrey Marsh 2016 190 صفحة

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💖 Self-Acceptance 🛑 Anti-Perfectionism 🌊 Emotional Awareness 🔮 Inner Wisdom 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Self-Help

Count Your Lucky Stars

بقلم Alexandria Bellefleur • 2022

Estranged best friends and former secret lovers become roommates while planning a wedding together.

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🖤 Second Chance Romance 🌈 Sapphic Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 💕 Friends To Lovers 🛏️ Roommates To Lovers

Count Your Lucky Stars

Estranged best friends and former secret lovers become roommates while planning a wedding together.

بقلم Alexandria Bellefleur 2022 384 صفحة

3.94

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🖤 Second Chance Romance 🌈 Sapphic Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 💕 Friends To Lovers 🛏️ Roommates To Lovers

Building a Bridge

بقلم James Martin • 2017

A Catholic priest's guide to moving the Church and the LGBT community from blame to belonging.

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🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq Catholics ⛪ Pastoral Theology 🕊️ Inclusive Christianity 🛐 Church Reform 🤝 Modern Catholicism

Building a Bridge

A Catholic priest's guide to moving the Church and the LGBT community from blame to belonging.

بقلم James Martin 2017 160 صفحة

3.96

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🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq Catholics ⛪ Pastoral Theology 🕊️ Inclusive Christianity 🛐 Church Reform 🤝 Modern Catholicism

Ambessa

بقلم C.L. Clark • 2025

A vision of death promises Ambessa a throne. Her family's civil war will collect the price.

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🗡️ Military Fantasy 💀 Grimdark Fantasy 💔 Mother Daughter Conflict ⚔️ Family Civil War 🖤 Villain Origin Story

Ambessa

A vision of death promises Ambessa a throne. Her family's civil war will collect the price.

بقلم C.L. Clark 2025 448 صفحة

3.80

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🗡️ Military Fantasy 💀 Grimdark Fantasy 💔 Mother Daughter Conflict ⚔️ Family Civil War 🖤 Villain Origin Story

Every Heart a Doorway

بقلم Seanan McGuire • 2016

Her Underworld door closed. At a school for magical exiles, a killer harvests students for parts.

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🚪 Portal Fantasy 🏫 Magical Boarding School 💜 Found Family 🖤 Asexual Protagonist 🔪 Boarding School Murder

Every Heart a Doorway

Her Underworld door closed. At a school for magical exiles, a killer harvests students for parts.

بقلم Seanan McGuire 2016 176 صفحة

3.80

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🚪 Portal Fantasy 🏫 Magical Boarding School 💜 Found Family 🖤 Asexual Protagonist 🔪 Boarding School Murder

Pirates of Aletharia

بقلم Britney Jackson • 2021

Fleeing the gallows, a dragon sorceress trades her magic for passage with a scarred pirate captain.

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🏴‍☠️ Sapphic Pirates 🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Found Family 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 🐉 Dragon Bond

Pirates of Aletharia

Fleeing the gallows, a dragon sorceress trades her magic for passage with a scarred pirate captain.

بقلم Britney Jackson 2021 514 صفحة

4.36

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🏴‍☠️ Sapphic Pirates 🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Found Family 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 🐉 Dragon Bond

Dragonfall

بقلم L.R. Lam • 2023

A thief and the last dragon share a stolen bond only a doomed heist can sever.

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🏴‍☠️ Heist Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🐉 Dragon Shifter Romance 🗡️ Criminal Underworld 💫 Fated Mates

Dragonfall

A thief and the last dragon share a stolen bond only a doomed heist can sever.

بقلم L.R. Lam 2023 336 صفحة

3.36

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🏴‍☠️ Heist Fantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🐉 Dragon Shifter Romance 🗡️ Criminal Underworld 💫 Fated Mates

The Pairing

بقلم Casey McQuiston • 2024

Two exes on the same European culinary tour compete to hook up with the most strangers.

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🖤 Second Chance Romance 🚌 Forced Proximity 🌈 Queer Romance 💛 Nonbinary Protagonist 🔥 Sex Positive Romance

The Pairing

Two exes on the same European culinary tour compete to hook up with the most strangers.

بقلم Casey McQuiston 2024 407 صفحة

3.66

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🖤 Second Chance Romance 🚌 Forced Proximity 🌈 Queer Romance 💛 Nonbinary Protagonist 🔥 Sex Positive Romance

Heaven Official's Blessing

بقلم Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù • 2022

A fallen god enters Ghost City and finds a ghost king whose devotion has lasted centuries.

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💕 Danmei ⚔️ Xianxia 🖤 Fallen God 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💫 Hidden Devotion

Heaven Official's Blessing

A fallen god enters Ghost City and finds a ghost king whose devotion has lasted centuries.

بقلم Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 2022 438 صفحة

4.63

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💕 Danmei ⚔️ Xianxia 🖤 Fallen God 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💫 Hidden Devotion

Wish You Weren't Here

بقلم Erin Baldwin • 2024

Summer camp is Juliette's escape from Priya's shadow. This year, Priya moves into her cabin.

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⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 🏕️ Summer Camp Romance 🛖 Forced Proximity ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine 💬 Witty Banter

Wish You Weren't Here

Summer camp is Juliette's escape from Priya's shadow. This year, Priya moves into her cabin.

بقلم Erin Baldwin 2024 304 صفحة

3.91

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⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 🏕️ Summer Camp Romance 🛖 Forced Proximity ☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine 💬 Witty Banter

The Darkest Part of the Forest

بقلم Holly Black • 2015

A horned boy wakes from a glass coffin. Two siblings chase him into the faerie-haunted woods.

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🧚 Modern Faerie Tale 👑 Faerie Court Intrigue 🤝 Faerie Bargain 🌙 Secret Double Life 🦋 Changeling Identity

The Darkest Part of the Forest

A horned boy wakes from a glass coffin. Two siblings chase him into the faerie-haunted woods.

بقلم Holly Black 2015 328 صفحة

3.86

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🧚 Modern Faerie Tale 👑 Faerie Court Intrigue 🤝 Faerie Bargain 🌙 Secret Double Life 🦋 Changeling Identity

The Stonewall Riots

بقلم Gayle E. Pitman • 2019

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

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🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

The Stonewall Riots

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

بقلم Gayle E. Pitman 2019 224 صفحة

4.04

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🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

How to Say I Do

بقلم Tal Bauer • 2023

A Texas rancher meets a jilted New Yorker. One week in Cancun turns strangers into soulmates.

4.42

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🤠 Cowboy Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🌃 Opposites Attract 🩹 Hurt Comfort 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family

How to Say I Do

A Texas rancher meets a jilted New Yorker. One week in Cancun turns strangers into soulmates.

بقلم Tal Bauer 2023 406 صفحة

4.42

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🤠 Cowboy Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 🌃 Opposites Attract 🩹 Hurt Comfort 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family

Another Word for Love

بقلم Carvell Wallace • 2024

Childhood taught him survival meant armoring up; recovery taught him presence takes more courage.

4.25

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔗 Generational Trauma 🟤 Racial Identity 🖤 Black Men

Another Word for Love

Childhood taught him survival meant armoring up; recovery taught him presence takes more courage.

بقلم Carvell Wallace 2024 272 صفحة

4.25

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔗 Generational Trauma 🟤 Racial Identity 🖤 Black Men

Brim Over Boot

بقلم Emmy Sanders • 2025

Small-town farriers and sworn enemies, they seal a barroom bet with a kiss neither can forget.

4.23

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🥊 Enemies To Lovers 💡 Bi Awakening 🏘️ Small-Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💬 Witty Banter

Brim Over Boot

Small-town farriers and sworn enemies, they seal a barroom bet with a kiss neither can forget.

بقلم Emmy Sanders 2025 330 صفحة

4.23

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🥊 Enemies To Lovers 💡 Bi Awakening 🏘️ Small-Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💬 Witty Banter

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

بقلم Rachael Lippincott • 2023

A magical coin flings an artist into 1812, where a repressed heiress becomes her forbidden muse.

3.94

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✨ Time Travel Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance 🎩 Regency Era 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Forbidden Love

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

A magical coin flings an artist into 1812, where a repressed heiress becomes her forbidden muse.

بقلم Rachael Lippincott 2023 336 صفحة

3.94

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✨ Time Travel Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance 🎩 Regency Era 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Forbidden Love

The Best Strangers in the World

بقلم Ari Shapiro • 2023

He follows a Syrian refugee and sings with a band; his real job is listening.

4.02

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📻 Radio Journalism 🌍 Foreign Correspondence 🎙️ Storytelling Craft 🔍 Curiosity As Practice 💞 Radical Empathy

The Best Strangers in the World

He follows a Syrian refugee and sings with a band; his real job is listening.

بقلم Ari Shapiro 2023 256 صفحة

4.02

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📻 Radio Journalism 🌍 Foreign Correspondence 🎙️ Storytelling Craft 🔍 Curiosity As Practice 💞 Radical Empathy

The T in LGBT

بقلم Jamie Raines • 2023

A trans man's guide to transition: identity, coming out, hormones, and finding joy.

4.53

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Identity 🔄 Gender Transition 📖 Trans Memoir 💔 Gender Dysphoria 🚪 Coming Out

The T in LGBT

A trans man's guide to transition: identity, coming out, hormones, and finding joy.

بقلم Jamie Raines 2023 256 صفحة

4.53

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Identity 🔄 Gender Transition 📖 Trans Memoir 💔 Gender Dysphoria 🚪 Coming Out

Lover Boy

بقلم Brianna Flores • 2024

Estranged stepbrothers become college roommates and find their hatred has always burned like need.

3.83

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👥 Stepbrother Romance ⛓️ Power Play 💔 Trauma Bonding 🩹 Scarred Hero 🏫 College Campus

Lover Boy

Estranged stepbrothers become college roommates and find their hatred has always burned like need.

بقلم Brianna Flores 2024 292 صفحة

3.83

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👥 Stepbrother Romance ⛓️ Power Play 💔 Trauma Bonding 🩹 Scarred Hero 🏫 College Campus

Roman

بقلم Grae Bryan • 2022

A haunted vampire finds his fated mate in an exhausted nurse, but his maker is closing in.

3.86

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🖤 Fated Mates 🧛 Vampire Romance 🩹 Hurt/Comfort ⏳ Age Gap Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

Roman

A haunted vampire finds his fated mate in an exhausted nurse, but his maker is closing in.

بقلم Grae Bryan 2022 273 صفحة

3.86

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🖤 Fated Mates 🧛 Vampire Romance 🩹 Hurt/Comfort ⏳ Age Gap Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

Sweet Obsession

بقلم Katee Robert • 2025

The son of a traitor seduces his captor while a sorceress's fleet blockades Olympus.

3.58

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🔗 Captor Captive Romance 🏛️ Mythological Retelling 💔 Hurt Comfort ⚡ Power Exchange 👑 Palace Intrigue

Sweet Obsession

The son of a traitor seduces his captor while a sorceress's fleet blockades Olympus.

بقلم Katee Robert 2025 336 صفحة

3.58

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🔗 Captor Captive Romance 🏛️ Mythological Retelling 💔 Hurt Comfort ⚡ Power Exchange 👑 Palace Intrigue

Shameless Puckboy

بقلم Eden Finley • 2022

After a scandal, a PR manager must tame the shameless hockey star he's falling for.

4.02

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🏒 Hockey Romance 🚪 Forced Proximity 😤 Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Reformed Playboy 🌧️ Grumpy Sunshine

Shameless Puckboy

After a scandal, a PR manager must tame the shameless hockey star he's falling for.

بقلم Eden Finley 2022 301 صفحة

4.02

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🏒 Hockey Romance 🚪 Forced Proximity 😤 Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Reformed Playboy 🌧️ Grumpy Sunshine

Lucien

بقلم Grae Bryan • 2022

A vampire's beast hungers for its mate. The man it possesses is terrified to love.

4.13

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🖤 Fated Mates 🧛 Vampire Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🔮 Psychic Hero 🩹 Hurt Comfort

Lucien

A vampire's beast hungers for its mate. The man it possesses is terrified to love.

بقلم Grae Bryan 2022 267 صفحة

4.13

٥٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🖤 Fated Mates 🧛 Vampire Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🔮 Psychic Hero 🩹 Hurt Comfort

I Don't Want to Die Poor

بقلم Michael Arceneaux • 2020

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

3.71

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💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

I Don't Want to Die Poor

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

بقلم Michael Arceneaux 2020 240 صفحة

3.71

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💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

The Gathering Dark

بقلم Tori Bovalino • 2022

Teen girls battle cursed houses and hungry forests in folk horror stories where trauma grows teeth.

3.53

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🌒 Folk Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌲 Vengeful Nature 🔥 Female Rage

The Gathering Dark

Teen girls battle cursed houses and hungry forests in folk horror stories where trauma grows teeth.

بقلم Tori Bovalino 2022 272 صفحة

3.53

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🌒 Folk Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌲 Vengeful Nature 🔥 Female Rage

Malice

بقلم Heather Walter • 2021

Briar needs her curses but despises her blood. The princess doomed at twenty-one just needs her.

3.91

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🖤 Villain Origin Story 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 💕 Forbidden Romance 🦇 Monstrous Protagonist 🏰 Fairy Tale Court

Malice

Briar needs her curses but despises her blood. The princess doomed at twenty-one just needs her.

بقلم Heather Walter 2021 470 صفحة

3.91

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🖤 Villain Origin Story 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 💕 Forbidden Romance 🦇 Monstrous Protagonist 🏰 Fairy Tale Court

How to Find a Missing Girl

بقلم Victoria Wlosok • 2023

A missing sister. A vanished ex. A podcast of secrets someone is killing to keep quiet.

3.59

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🕵️ Amateur Sleuths 🏘️ Small Town Mystery 🎙️ True Crime Podcast 🔍 Missing Sister 📚 High School Secrets

How to Find a Missing Girl

A missing sister. A vanished ex. A podcast of secrets someone is killing to keep quiet.

بقلم Victoria Wlosok 2023 320 صفحة

3.59

٥٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🕵️ Amateur Sleuths 🏘️ Small Town Mystery 🎙️ True Crime Podcast 🔍 Missing Sister 📚 High School Secrets

The Doors of Eden

بقلم Adrian Tchaikovsky • 2020

When her lover vanishes into another Earth, a cryptozoologist must save parallel worlds from ruin.

3.87

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🌍 Parallel Worlds 🧬 Alternate Evolution 💕 Sapphic Romance 💔 Lost And Found Love 🪐 Cosmic Scale

The Doors of Eden

When her lover vanishes into another Earth, a cryptozoologist must save parallel worlds from ruin.

بقلم Adrian Tchaikovsky 2020 609 صفحة

3.87

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🌍 Parallel Worlds 🧬 Alternate Evolution 💕 Sapphic Romance 💔 Lost And Found Love 🪐 Cosmic Scale

When the Tides Held the Moon

بقلم Venessa Vida Kelley • 2025

A Brooklyn blacksmith falls for the captive merman he's hired to keep in a tank.

4.14

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🎪 Carnival Sideshow 🧜‍♂️ Merman Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance

When the Tides Held the Moon

A Brooklyn blacksmith falls for the captive merman he's hired to keep in a tank.

بقلم Venessa Vida Kelley 2025 464 صفحة

4.14

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🎪 Carnival Sideshow 🧜‍♂️ Merman Romance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance

Not My Father's Son

بقلم Alan Cumming • 2014

A genealogy show reveals his grandfather died playing Russian roulette. But that was the easy part.

4.06

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🎭 Celebrity Memoir 📜 Family Secrets 🧬 Family History 💔 Childhood Abuse 🪖 War Trauma

Not My Father's Son

A genealogy show reveals his grandfather died playing Russian roulette. But that was the easy part.

بقلم Alan Cumming 2014 294 صفحة

4.06

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🎭 Celebrity Memoir 📜 Family Secrets 🧬 Family History 💔 Childhood Abuse 🪖 War Trauma

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

بقلم Alexander Chee • 2018

A novelist's confession: memoir cannot hold the truth of what happened to him. Only fiction can.

4.38

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Autofiction 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🌗 Mixed-Race Identity 🩹 Trauma Healing

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

A novelist's confession: memoir cannot hold the truth of what happened to him. Only fiction can.

بقلم Alexander Chee 2018 280 صفحة

4.38

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Autofiction 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🌗 Mixed-Race Identity 🩹 Trauma Healing

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