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The Women Could Fly
Tell the Machine Goodnight
My Murder
Annie Bot
Lakewood
Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
The Shutouts
Hysterical: A Memoir
Fixed Stars
A Fish Growing Lungs: essays
Fire Becomes Her
Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Doppelgangbanger
Madame Clairevoyant's Guide to the Stars: Astrology, Our Icons, and Our Selves
Telepathologies
White Magic
My Body Is a Book of Rules
Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence
Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story Born to Be Public Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
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Queer Coming-of-Age: Personal Narratives of Belonging, Identity, and Finding Community

How to Raise a Feminist Son: A Memoir & Manifesto The Leaving Season: A Memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
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Women Who Leave

Those Bones Are Not My Child
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
A History of My Brief Body
Cenzontle
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
There Are Trans People Here
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Divine, Divine, Divine
The Freezer Door
Squad: A Graphic Novel
We the Animals
All the Flowers Kneeling
The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
Meet Behind Mars
Love War Stories
In the Not Quite Dark: Stories
Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories
Wild Women and the Blues: A Fascinating and Innovative Novel of Historical Fiction
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Dead Dead Girls
Training School for Negro Girls
Fire Is Not a Country: Poems
Constellation Route
The Déjà Vu: Black Dreams & Black Time
Return Flight
Map to the Stars
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Crawlspace
Lessons on Expulsion: Poems
Interrupted Geographies
Rocket Fantastic: Poems
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Starshine & Clay
Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 16
Let's Not Live on Earth
From the Inside Quietly
Inciting Joy: Essays
Hysterical: A Memoir
Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary
I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Abandon Me: Memoirs
Everything Is Flammable
Marlena
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
The Tower of the Antilles
Swallowing Mercury
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Mouths Don't Speak
Empty Set
Census
Mona at Sea
Severance
Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club
Edie Richter Is Not Alone
Days of Distraction
The Glass Hotel
Love, Death & Photosynthesis
Win Me Something
What If We Were Somewhere Else
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
Women Talking
Nevada
The Quick and the Dead
Luster
Pizza Girl (Lambda Literary Award Finalist)
Convenience Store Woman
Barn 8
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Look at Me
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