At Your Own Risk
By: Derek Jarman
4.32
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
British filmmaker, author, AIDS activist, and all-around cultural upstart, Jarman has written a mov…
Want to Read $ 12.99"How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle."-Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk
"How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle."-Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk
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1. Where I Was From
By: Joan Didion
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her hist… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"There is no real way to deal with everything we lose."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
"Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
2. À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
By: Hervé Guibert
3.98
Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«J'ai eu le sida pendant trois mois. Plus exactement, j'ai cru pendant trois mois que j'étais conda… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Muzil passa une matinée à l'hôpital pour faire des examens, il me raconta à quel point le corps, il l'avait oublié, lancé dans les circuits médicaux, perd toute identité, ne reste plus qu'un paquet d…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
"maintenant qu'il connaissait cette douleur Muzil la craignait par-dessus tout, ça se lisait désormais dans son oeil la panique d'une souffrance qui n'est plus maîtrisée à l'intérieur du corps mais pr…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
"Dans la cour de l'hôpital éclairée par ce soleil de juin qui devenait la pire injure au malheur, je compris, pour la première fois car quand Stéphane l'avait dit je n'avais pas voulu le croire, que M…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
"Je n'ai jamais si peu souffert que depuis que je sais que j'ai le sida, je suis très attentig aux manifestations de la progression du virus, il me semble connaître la cartographie de ses colonisation…"-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
3. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
4. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
5. A Natural
By: Ross Raisin
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others lo… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
6. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
7. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
8. In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
By: David Wojnarowicz , Amy Scholder
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as percep… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
9. My Father and Myself
By: None , J.R. Ackerley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And aft… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and Derek Jarman's At Your Own Risk
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
11. The Incal
By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more
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12. Against The Law
By: Peter Wildeblood
3.40
Format: None pages,
A riveting account of what it meant to be a homosexual in 1950s Britain, by a central figure in the… read more
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13. The Waterfront Journals
By: David Wojnarowicz
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Before his death from AIDS in 1992, David Wojnarowicz became known in the 1980s as an outspoken AID… read more
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14. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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15. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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16. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
17. London Triptych
By: Jonathan Kemp
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds a life… read more
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18. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
19. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
20. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
21. 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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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
22. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
23. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
24. Sabrina
By: Nick Drnaso
3.83
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. R… read more
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"There you are."-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina
"Just remember that crisis leads to opportunity."-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina
"A lot of people are able to turn their grief into something positive. Maybe you’re destined for some kind of job in law enforcement."-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina
"What if an American citizen needs to disappear, for reasons that might never be revealed to you, and you are involved, even peripherally, in the plot? Are you willing to participate in a crime like t…"-Nick Drnaso, Sabrina
25. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
26. 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
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
27. Ghost Image
By: Hervé Guibert
4.14
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Besides writing fiction and personal essays, Hervé Guibert devoted his tragically brief life to the… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
28. At Your Own Risk
By: Derek Jarman
4.32
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
British filmmaker, author, AIDS activist, and all-around cultural upstart, Jarman has written a mov… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- film
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle."-Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk
29. A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
By: Pedro Lemebel
4.56
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
30. Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront
By: Jonathan Weinberg
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary wor… read more
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- nonfiction
- gay
31. Derek Jarman: Protest!
By: Sean Kissane
4.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Derek Jarman was a very English rebel, a maverick and radical artist whose unique and distinctive v… read more
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