The Gentle Bookshop

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API-Owned LGBTQIA+ Owned Woman-Owned

The Gentle Bookshop is an independent online bookshop based in Berlin, selling books written by BIPoC & LGBTQIA+ authors. Founded by a queer book enthusiast from Japan, she currently lives in Berlin.

We believe in amplifying the voices of the BIPoC & LGBTQIA+ community through their stories and lived experiences.

The Gentle Bookshop Playlist

A curated selection of audiobooks written by BIPoC and LGBTQIA+ authors. There are enough books written by...

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Sissy by Jacob Tobia

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim

Human Acts by Han Kang

Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen

Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman

Eat a Peach by David Chang & Gabe Ulla

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Finna by Nate Marshall

Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club) by Ta-Nehisi Coates

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

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