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Burning Books

Buffalo, NY

Author-Owned Woman-Owned

Burning Books is a radical bookstore in Buffalo, NY. We have a highly curated selection of titles dealing with activism, race, antifascism, environmentalism, colonialism, indigenisim, capitalism, feminism, queer studies, animal liberation, class, disability, and more — including books for children, middle graders, and young adults. We work to support individuals and movements that are struggling against oppression and domination in all its forms.

Queer Favorites

(Some of) our queer favorites for pride month (or whenever)!

Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman

Nonbinary by Micah Rajunov & Scott Duane

The Women's House of Detention by Hugh Ryan

Before We Were Trans by Dr. Kit Heyam

It Came from the Closet by Joe Vallese & various authors

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay

The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Queer Little Nightmares by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli

Transgender History, second edition by Susan Stryker

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

Punch Me Up To The Gods by Brian Broome

Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful by Jack Lowery

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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