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LGBTQ Books for Adults

We here at Big Blue Marble remember the days when there were only a handful of “LGB” books, and we each took personal pride in owning most of them. 2024 is an entirely different universe, with a deluge of diverse books, in all genres and formats, documenting lesbian, bisexual, gay, queer, intersex, trans, nonbinary, and something-beyond-labels-we-have lives. This page is a small selection of the best of the newest of these books. Look for our lists of LGBTQ books for kids, middle grade, and YA!

George Abraham, "Birthright"

George Abraham, "Birthright"

$17.28

Price includes state and local tax. Book can be picked up at the store or delivered to your home in Northwest Philadelphia. We don’t yet mail books - if you live outside of our delivery area, please visit Bookshop.org to have this great book mailed to you.

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Abraham's highly anticipated debut Birthright constructs a dialogue in which "every pronoun is a Free Palestine." Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing. Birthright begs readers to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it knows now is all we are guaranteed. As trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is owed? What is your Birthright, and where is home?

" Birthright captures how politics penetrates our psyche and consciousness, but as the poems triumph through anguish, we are able to hold onto life. The journey of reading these words is also a universal one, bringing together conceptions of faith, love, family, settler-colonialism, violence, queerness, and the search for home. Never has poetry pierced through my heart, and touched my soul, as while reading Birthright for the first time." -- Dr. Sa'ed Atshan, Author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique "We begin: "let me be brief: by the end of this someone will be cursed" - sit up straight. Take this book, lay it flat: the spine will crack, a horizon waits, unfolding ahead of you. Walk into it. Never stop- Birthright will have changed you. "Another entirely new species will emerge over generations," and is this collection not a new species of poetry? An adrenaline like the reader is hiking along a terrain both psychic and mythic before we reach the heart of it all: Palestine. The only thing Abraham is certain about. Birthright is prophetic and meta-aware. An essential honesty, a new kind of scripture." -- -Communal Blurb from Radius of Arab American Writers Fellows (Jess Rizkallah, Summer Farah, Noor Hindi, Hazem Fahmy, and Noor Al-Ahmadi)

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Josephine Donovan, "The Lexington Six"

$26.95
Tommye Blount, "Fantasia for the Man in Blue"

Tommye Blount, "Fantasia for the Man in Blue"

$18.31
Dave Ring, ed, "Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die"

Dave Ring, ed, "Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die"

$19.43
Nicole Dennis-Benn, "Patsy"

Nicole Dennis-Benn, "Patsy"

$18.31
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Jane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality"

$29.11