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Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition by Steven Greenberg

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informative

4.5

Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont by Teresa M. Mares

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informative slow-paced

4.5

Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich

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4.25

Little Fish by Casey Plett

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is written for transgender people, particularly trans women . 10/10 raw, funny, mel ncholic, and real.
Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

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emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.0

this one is better than the original book 
Close to Spider Man by Ivan Coyote

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emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Nostalgic and dreamy, stories of gender non-confirming tomboy life in the rural Yukon, stories of close-knit family, refusing to wear swim tops, strong women, open landscapes. I love most things Ivan Coyote writes. You can tell they are an oral storyteller from their writings. 
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

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adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful flowing language, 2 queer love stories and tenderness, deeply Jewish, hopeful, like a dream. 
One romance is wlw, one is kinda mlm(?) (they were chavrusas....) or vague in gender. Similar to other immigrant narratives. Lots of magical realism and Jewish folk references. 

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

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emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is a love letter to pieces of stories left behind- and a trans allegory about the ways we cling to stories in the margins. In this world vampirism is a real medical condition that requires hiding from sunlight, and shows how people are unwelcome in society- this is so interesting and it's almost an allegory for transgender people, AIDs, and disability all at once. The AIDs crisis was co-occuring in this world though. The main character is a archivist, vampire, ex-fanfic writer (LOTR and Star Trek) and transgender man who lives in his office (illegally). It's about falling in love as a late-bloomer and about connections people make between stories. In some ways, this romance is also a love letter to science fiction fanfic culture, and the importance it has in queer and trans lives.