I Wished
By: Dennis Cooper
3.95
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about …
Want to Read $ 9.99"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they’re trying hard."-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or from the books I read incessantly. It was like I’d found myself, and I was someone who had never had the things I really wanted, plainly never would, and whom no one would fully comprehend."-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just when I socialized with other people but when I even thought of other people, which, put together, constituted almost always. That my wish had been completely understanding because it knew me, unlike my friends."-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
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1. Horse Crazy
By: Gary Indiana
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
A love story set in the age of AIDS, Horse Crazy tells of a successful 35-year-old writer's obsessi… read more
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2. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
3. Left Hand
By: Paul Curran
4.13
Format: None pages,
"Left Hand is every reason why Paul Curran is one of the smartest, most daring, meticulous, violent… read more
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- novels
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4. In These Words, Volume 1
By: Kichiku Neko , TogaQ , Guilt Pleasure
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Asano Katsuya is a US trained psychiatrist who has been recruited by the Tokyo Police Department to… read more
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5. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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6. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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7. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
8. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
9. I Wished
By: Dennis Cooper
3.95
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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- 21st century
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- queer
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
10. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
11. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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12. Castle Faggot
By: Derek McCormack
3.85
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland … read more
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13. Amygdalatropolis
By: B.R. Yeager
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more
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- 21st century
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"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis
14. Bonding
By: Maggie Siebert
4.13
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more
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15. Forever
By: Thomas Moore
4.44
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more
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16. Alone
By: Thomas Moore
4.45
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Has Grindr killed psychic gay powers? For Halloween I’m dressing as a YouTube video of Corey Hai… read more
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17. Reverse Cowgirl
By: McKenzie Wark
4.12
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were … read more
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18. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
19. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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20. Your Dreams
By: Thomas Moore
4.52
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
“I’m so close to falling apart. Fuck it. Who isn’t?” Thomas Moore’s latest novel Your Dreams, th… read more
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21. Anything That Moves
By: Jamie Stewart
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A memoir of sexual misbehavior, abuse and no redemption. The stories are mostly funny but also depr… read more
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