15 Best queer books like Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon

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Kink: Stories

By: R.O. Kwon

3.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and i…

"Mr. Harris kept glancing up and down Omar’s body, lingering around his chest and his groin. At first, Omar pretended not to notice. It was a compulsive kind of looking, one that cis people indulged in when they believed they could do it without being seen, though it was so common to catch them looking that their lack of shame was obvious."

-R.O. Kwon, Kink: Stories

If you liked the queer plot in Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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2. Valencia

By: Michelle Tea

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Valencia book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. What Belongs to You

By: Garth Greenwell

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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4. Abandon Me: Memoirs

By: Melissa Febos

3.64

Format: 221 pages,

For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Abandon Me: Memoirs book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt

5. Whip Smart: A Memoir

By: Melissa Febos

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Whip Smart: A Memoir book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

6. Minty Alley

By: C.L.R. James

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

There is a strong belief among devotees of C.L.R. James that it is not possible to have full compre… read more

Similar categories in C.L.R. James's Minty Alley book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

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7. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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8. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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9. New Animal

By: Ella Baxter

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's New Animal book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."

-Ella Baxter, New Animal

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10. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Cover of Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon

11. Kink: Stories

By: R.O. Kwon

3.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and i… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • erotica
  • short stories
  • sexuality
  • bdsm
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Mr. Harris kept glancing up and down Omar’s body, lingering around his chest and his groin. At first, Omar pretended not to notice. It was a compulsive kind of looking, one that cis people indulged i…"

-R.O. Kwon, Kink: Stories

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12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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13. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. Acts of Service

By: Lillian Fishman

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more

Similar categories in Lillian Fishman's Acts of Service book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

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15. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Cleanness book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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16. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • sexuality
  • queer
  • lgbt
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17. The Book of X

By: Sarah Rose Etter

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's The Book of X book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more

Similar categories in Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • sexuality
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19. Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. Anonymous Sex

By: Hillary Jordan

2.89

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached. A bold collection of stories about sex that leaves yo… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Jordan's Anonymous Sex book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • romance
  • anthologies
  • erotica
  • short stories
  • sexuality
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and R.O. Kwon's Kink: Stories

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

13 must-read fiction books like Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon

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The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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Valencia

Michelle Tea

2.57

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What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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New Animal

Ella Baxter

3.40

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Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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My Husband

Maud Ventura

3.68

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