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items The sotu sickened me 🤢 these books are some of my all time favorites and I feel like I never see them recommended! Support stories about undocumented and trans lives by reading any of these books. I always recommend using your library, Libby, or hoo...
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Underhyped
More well known but still great books!
Underhyped
My favorite book of 2025!!! Everyone in America should read this. Nonfiction, memoir, and extremely relevant.
The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math
I dragged my feet finishing this book because I did not want it to end. Absolutely beautiful storytelling and prose. I already miss the world and the characters now that it's over.
The Story of the Hundred Promises
It was hard to put down: every chapter grabbed and pulled me through, I loved Maddie and all the varied personalities that surrounded her, and of course I became invested in their Free People's Village.
This alternate timeline Kern has designed is ...
The Free People's Village
A great reference book! Whether you’re cis and want to expand your knowledge of trans experiences (esp if you’re a helping professional!), or if you’re trans and looking to feel seen and to receive information directly from your community, this book ...
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities
Hilarious coffee table book. Can be read quickly or thumbed through a bit a day. If you don’t already follow Kyle Prue, you should. He’ll have you cracking up!!
How to Piss Off Men: 109 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego
More well known but still great books!
I loved this book. I'm not one who tends to love dystopian, but I read it from time to time. If it's too dark, I drag my feet reading it. For example, Parable of the Sower/Talents by Octavia E. Butler - loved it but took me awhile to get through beca...
The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection
When I was in high school, “bloodchild” was a required short story. And wow, was I weirded out 😂 but when I got older, I just NEEDED to know more. “Bloodchild” is just one story in a collection of short stories and I loved them all. This story has l...
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Another nonfiction memoir. I listened to the audiobook of this coming-of-age story and loved it. It was hard to put down! It’s impossible to not feel compassion towards Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez’s experiences, family, and story. It was so good th...
My Side of the River: A Memoir
While this is a young adult novel, adults who love urban fantasy will love it, too. It deals with some pretty heavy topics. A queer polyamorous fantasy about teenagers who realized they are REINCARNATED GODS!! And the sequel is even better than the f...
Godly Heathens: A Novel
Heavy but worth the read. Another nonfiction memoir on my list. This book melds pertinent history regarding the politicization of reproductive care, the confusion and misunderstanding around abortion and miscarriage, and the personal story of two wom...
I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
In 1998, Octavia E Butler wrote a sequel to “Parable of the Sower” — “Parable of the Talents”
In her dystopian novel, she writes of a frightening America, and a presidential candidate who “insists on being a throwback to some earlier, ‘simpler’ tim...
Parable of the Sower
If you STILL haven’t read it, it’s never too late! Great audiobook too. You could start here and read in the order of publication! Or, you could read chronologically (ballad of songbirds and snakes, sunrise on the reaping, hunger games, catching fire...
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)
One of my fave reads ever!! Immaculate nature vibes, beautiful prose, easy to get lost in this novella 🌿🪵 a dystopian fable about the last two humans alive: a young girl and her father. He teaches her about what was once civilization, and about ho...
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