13 Top queer books like My Dead Book by Nate Lippens

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My Dead Book

By: Nate Lippens

4.32

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

My Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching…

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1. 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 Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. 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

Similar categories in Gary Indiana's Horse Crazy book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
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3. 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 Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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4. O amor dos homens avulsos

By: Victor Heringer

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more

Similar categories in Victor Heringer's O amor dos homens avulsos book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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5. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

Similar categories in Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • queer
  • lgbt

6. Great Expectations

By: Kathy Acker

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, an… read more

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7. Try

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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9. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Boulder book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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10. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Biography of X book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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11. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

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12. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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13. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

14. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. 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

Similar categories in Blake Butler's Molly book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • mental health
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16. My Dead Book

By: Nate Lippens

4.32

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

My Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching… read more

Similar categories in Nate Lippens's My Dead Book book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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17. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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18. Thread Ripper

By: Amalie Smith

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

THREAD RIPPER er en hybrid af forfatter og billedkunstner Amalie Smith med fortællende prosa og not… read more

Similar categories in Amalie Smith's Thread Ripper book and Nate Lippens's My Dead Book

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

By: Lola Olufemi

4.24

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

We collectively build and collectively shatter—every broken window is a new opportunity; every burn… read more

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"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions mea…"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine…"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

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20. Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping

By: Derek Jarman

3.75

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Published here for the very first time, ​Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping … read more

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21. Conflicted Copy

By: Sam Riviere

4.18

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting ‘found’ content and process and transforming … read more

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12 Top fiction books like My Dead Book by Nate Lippens

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Horse Crazy

Gary Indiana

2.78

Transform Your Habits

Closer

Dennis Cooper

3.72

Transform Your Habits

O amor dos homens avulsos

Victor Heringer

4.00

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16 best-selling fiction books like 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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Faggots

Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer

4.26

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What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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