What's up friends welcome back to another video or welcome if you're new here. My name's Alex my pronouns are he-him and this is my channel pucks and paperbacks where I talk all about LGBTQ plus books. In the book world November is nonfiction November and readers dedicate the month to reading nonfiction books. So today I'm going to recommend you my favorite nonfiction books by LGBTQ plus authors. I will have a blog post on my website linked down below with all of the books I mentioned and third trigger warnings. If you enjoy this video give it a like to help more people see it and let's get started. First I'm going to be recommending short books. This is one of my favorite books of the year skate for your life by Leo Baker. This is a short book a part of the pocket change collective series and it is a series of short books by today's leading activists. Leo Baker is a transmask non-binary pro skater. Leo talks all about their experience being a pro skater and just a trans athlete in general and if you're looking to read more about trans people in sports this is the first book I'm going to recommend you. Next is another book in the pocket change collective and this is Continuum by Chell O'Man. This is all about self acceptance. Chell O'Man is deaf trans gender queer Jewish and Chinese and they just talk all about self acceptance. This is a great book if you're looking to read more from the trans perspective especially if you're looking to read more about disabled trans people and trans people of color. Next I have a guide and this is a quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities by Maddie G and J. R. Zuckerberg. This has so many fun colors and it has a really good information inside. The title is Self-Explanatory. It teaches you what gender identity is. It goes through sexualities. I really enjoyed that it mentions a sexuality and I just thought it was awesome. I think if you're really looking to learn more this is a book that I would recommend you. Those were all of the short books I have to recommend and now on to the novels. First is the Pretty One on Life Pop Culture, Disability and other reasons to fall in love with me by Kia Brown. One of my favorite books that are read last year. Kia Brown is a black bisexual disabled woman. She has cerebral palsy and she talks all about accessibility in this book but she also talks about disability representation on TV and that was one of my favorite parts of the book. She also talks about depression. She talks about music and I just love this book so much and I just recommend it to everybody. If you are able to listen to this on audiobook I would recommend your first time reading this to be with an audiobook because her audiobook is so awesome. I just love this book so much and I hope that you will pick it up. Next is In the Dreamhouse by Carmen Murray Moshado. This is a powerful memoir where Carmen recounts her experience with abuse in a queer relationship. It is told in first person so it kind of sounds like she's running a letter to herself. Each chapter is told in a different theme or idea that relates to the Dreamhouse and I just love this so much so if the topics are not triggering to you I would highly recommend this book. Next is All Boys Are in Blue by George M. Johnson. This is by a non-binary and they recall the events of their childhood. I love this so much. I personally love the grief aspect of this book so it holds a sentimental value for me. I have two more books to recommend you. Yesterday I was rudely interrupted by a leaf blower and could not finish out the video so here are the rest of the book recommendations. Next I have a poetry collection and this is Homey by Dinesmith. They are a black queer non-binary poet and they are also HIV positive. The poems are about their life experiences, grief, mourning the loss of people taken too soon, American racism and much more. I love this poetry collection so much and I would highly recommend it. And last I have a graphic memoir. I love graphic memoirs and this is one of my all-time favorites. It is Honor Girl by Maggie Thresh. This is about Maggie at 15 years old going to an all-girl summer camp dealing with her first heartbreak and coming to terms with her sexuality. I love this book so much. Those were all of my LGBTQ plus non-fiction book recommendations. Feel free to leave your recommendations down in the comments below. I would love to get more recommendations so I can keep making these kind of videos. If you're new here I make book recommendations pretty often on this channel so feel free to hit subscribe so you can get more LGBTQ plus book recommendations on your feed. 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