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Kirkus Reviews have released their photos for the best books of the 21st century (so far) in five categories: fiction, non -filming, teenagers and young adults, middle class and pictures with pictures. Last time, I shared Queer’s titles included in their fiction list, so I naturally came back with Queer the titles included in the non -filming list! These are just the titles that jumped to me, so let me know if I missed other strange books on the list.
A fun home by Alison Behdel
After seeing a number from the musical Funny home to Tony RewardsI decided I had to read this book and it didn’t disappoint. Behdel was in college when he went out as a lesbian and shortly after discovering that her father was gay. A few weeks later he was dead. She talks about her childhood, her relationship with her father, and tried to go out and fall in love. Behdel’s literary prose and insightful illustrations make this affecting a trip. – Potics
How do I write an autobiographical novel by Alexander whose
It is difficult for me to put my finger on the thing that raises a collection of essay from a handful of individual pieces to a united book. But whose obviously knows what this thing is, because this book is built on itself. He writes about growing roses and working strange jobs and activism of AIDS and dragging and writing a novel, and each of these essays only moves. But in general, they paint a complex portrait of a piece of the writer’s life. They inform and talk to each other and the result is a book that you can review again and again, you always find something new. – Laura Sckton
How do we fight for our life from Said Jones
Being black south is difficult. That’s the way to be Queer to the south. Being black and weird? Far, far harder than it should be. Said Jones knows us and tells us about this in the vignettes about an attempt to find a place for belonging, his difficult connection with his family, and every fleeting relationship that came and left his life. Passing between prose and poetry and full of biting humor he is known on on Twitter, he tells the story of how he turned into a weapon growing south in the 90s and 2000s. –Caitlin Hobbs
The Argonauts of Maggie Nelson
Argonauts is a memoir focused on love, sex, pregnancy and parenting. Using philosophy and theory to manage her thinking, Nelson is considering her experiences to fall in love with the gender artist of gender Harry Dodge, to marry, to give birth and to live in the first days of motherhood. Nelson’s deep commitment with ideas to understand her experience to the world that makes this title, a revolutionary memoir unforgettable. -Rebecca Hussey
Let the record show from Sarah Shulman
On 736 pages, this book is a commitment – but it’s worth it. The political history of ACT Up and the AIDS activism that is growing from it is not a dry recitation of numbers and facts. It is a bright, lively, complex study of interior and revolutionary lessons of a radical organization that has changed the world. The book is based on interviews with more than two hundred ACT UP members, and their voices shine through strong and clear, just with Schulman’s strict analysis and insight. – Laura Sckton
40 new strange books this week: May 13, 2025
As a bonus for all Access members, here are 40 new strange books this week, including Trans History: Graphic Novel: from ancient times to the present day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Jeret; So many stars: oral history of trance, non -breadcrumbs, gender and two -row people of Caro de Robertsis color; and Sage, the most collection of trans Palestinian poet Yafa
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