7 best-selling queer books like Running Upon the Wires: Poems by Kae Tempest

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Running Upon the Wires: Poems

By: Kae Tempest

3.90

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

“Running Upon the Wires is full body art, smack against love in all its stages, a battle to the fin…

If you liked the queer plot in Running Upon the Wires: Poems by Kae Tempest , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Rapture

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more

Similar categories in Carol Ann Duffy's Rapture book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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2. Hera Lindsay Bird

By: Hera Lindsay Bird

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial… read more

Similar categories in Hera Lindsay Bird's Hera Lindsay Bird book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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3. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night

By: Morgan Parker

3.79

Format: None pages,

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a powerful debut collection from a promising new and… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

4. Refugee Boy

By: Benjamin Zephaniah

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Junior Library Guild Selection A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A Children's Book … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

5. Plum

By: Hollie McNish

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her compel… read more

Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Plum book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

6. Record of a Night Too Brief

By: Hiromi Kawakami , Lucy North

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. In these three hau… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Record of a Night Too Brief book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

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7. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

Similar categories in André Aciman's The Gentleman From Peru book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • audiobook
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9. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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10. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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11. Running Upon the Wires: Poems

By: Kae Tempest

3.90

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

“Running Upon the Wires is full body art, smack against love in all its stages, a battle to the fin… read more

Similar categories in Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • british literature
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • english literature
  • adult
  • queer
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12. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

By: Arlo Parks

3.89

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning deb… read more

Similar categories in Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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13. England's Green

By: Zaffar Kunial

4.08

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more

Similar categories in Zaffar Kunial's England's Green book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • poetry
"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "

-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green

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14. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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15. X

By: Davey Davis

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more

Similar categories in Davey Davis's X book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. Sincerity

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with  Sincerity , her last full collection as Poet Laureate, … read more

Similar categories in Carol Ann Duffy's Sincerity book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
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17. Die Sommer

By: Ronya Othmann

4.36

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Das Dorf liegt in Nordsyrien, nahe zur Türkei. Jeden Sommer verbringt Leyla dort. Sie riecht und sc… read more

Similar categories in Ronya Othmann's Die Sommer book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16) by Anahit Behrooz

18. BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16)

By: Anahit Behrooz

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

BFFs examines female friendship as a site of radical intimacy, as told through the cultural touchst… read more

Similar categories in Anahit Behrooz's BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16) book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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19. The Brush: Poems

By: Eliana Hernández-Pachón

4.16

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and G… read more

Similar categories in Eliana Hernández-Pachón's The Brush: Poems book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • poetry
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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of They Came to Slay: The Queer Culture of D&D (Inklings, #9) by Thom James Carter

21. They Came to Slay: The Queer Culture of D&D (Inklings, #9)

By: Thom James Carter

3.71

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Since its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an es… read more

Similar categories in Thom James Carter's They Came to Slay: The Queer Culture of D&D (Inklings, #9) book and Kae Tempest's Running Upon the Wires: Poems

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer

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Hera Lindsay Bird

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4.19

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4.00

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3.28

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Wendy Cope

3.88

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Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

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