Books exploring our identity through love, sex, and romance

Nothing But My Body
A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friendship.
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As Beautiful As Any Other: A Memoir of My Body
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame.
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Kink
Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star...
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Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life
Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. Then at age 36 she received a life-changing diagnosis: she was autistic.
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Take Care
The poems in Take Care explore what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness
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A History of My Brief Body
A dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.
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Sarahland
Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists -- almost all of whom are named Sarah.
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Found, Wanting
This is a book for anyone who has ever loved someone who has died. Or who has ever loved someone. Because grief is the language of love, after all.
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Eating with My Mouth Open
Eating with My Mouth Open is food writing like you've never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, revelling in body positivity...
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A Room Called Earth
A brilliant debut from a neurodivergent author that shows the magical, sensitive world of a woman on the autism spectrum.
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How We Love: Notes on a Life
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys.
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How to Make a Basket
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
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My Body Keeps Your Secrets
A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation
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Stone Fruit
An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times
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Dissolve
This story of a writer finding her voice, struggling to have a room of her own, is the story of ALL women finding space for themselves against the 'very important men' in their lives. It's the story of every woman's life.
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My Year of Living Vulnerably
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably.
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Milk Blood Heat
One of the hottest US debuts of 2021, Milk Blood Heat is a breakout collection of stories about race, sex, love, death, and the intimate wonders and violences of the female body.
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Dear Son: Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons
Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism.
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Milk Fed
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces.
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Vociferate
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Detransition, Baby
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit.
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Muddy People: A Memoir
A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming oneself in an Egyptian Muslim family
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Black is the Body
In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more.
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Stars in their Eyes
In this debut graphic novel, pop culture-obsessed Maisie can't wait to get to her first Fancon. But being a queer, disabled teenager with chronic pain comes with challenges. Can Maisie make it through the day without falling over,...
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The Lost Arabs
Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality.
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Fairest
An immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love --
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Old Seems to be Other People
Sparkling with wit and wisdom, Old Seems to be Other People is a collection of essays by Lily Brett that explores the hilarity, challenges and poignancy of getting older. Stories are simultaneously hilarious, serious and utterly...
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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All About Yves: Notes from a Transition
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience.
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Two-Week Wait: An IVF story
An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them.
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The Right to Sex
Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today
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