10 must-read queer books like Forever by Thomas Moore

Cover of Forever by Thomas            Moore

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 …

If you liked the queer plot in Forever by Thomas Moore , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Period by Dennis Cooper

1. Period

By: Dennis Cooper

3.85

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

The stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Period book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Sluts by Dennis Cooper

2. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Dovid Bergelson

3. 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

Similar categories in Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • fiction
"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

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4. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Closer book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

5. My Loose Thread

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relati… read more

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6. Guide

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fa… read more

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7. Try

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. 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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Cover of Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager

9. Burn You the Fuck Alive

By: B.R. Yeager

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Burn You the Fuck Alive book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • fiction
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10. Bedlam

By: Charlene Elsby

4.30

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"One of my favorite contemporary writers. Each of these vicious little stories is a perfect articul… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Bedlam book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • fiction
Cover of I Wished by Dennis Cooper

11. 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

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's I Wished book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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12. 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

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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

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13. 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

Similar categories in Derek McCormack's Castle Faggot book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yeager

14. 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

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Amygdalatropolis book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • literary fiction
  • sexuality
  • fiction
"/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

Cover of Bonding by Maggie Siebert

15. 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

Similar categories in Maggie Siebert's Bonding book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Forever by Thomas            Moore

16. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Moore's Forever book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • mental health
  • sexuality
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Deliver Me by Elle Nash

17. 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

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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18. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Gag Reflex by Elle Nash

19. Gag Reflex

By: Elle Nash

3.89

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Through diaristic ellipses, Nash crafts an origin story of obsessional masochism. 2005. Lucy sha… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Gag Reflex book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mental health
Cover of So Beautiful and Elastic by Gary J.  Shipley

20. So Beautiful and Elastic

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.58

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • fiction
Cover of Flunker by Dennis Cooper

21. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Flunker book and Thomas Moore's Forever

  • fiction
  • queer

17 Top fiction books like Forever by Thomas Moore

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3.66

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2.97

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3.85

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