26 must-read queer books like A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel

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A Queen in Bucks County

By: Kay Gabriel

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In…

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1. Self-Portrait in Green

By: Jordan Stump , Marie NDiaye

3.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, … read more

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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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3. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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4. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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5. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • queer
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6. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

Similar categories in Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

7. City of Night

By: John Rechy

3.85

Format: 128 pages,

When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a na… read more

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8. 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

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Mamut book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • queer
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9. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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10. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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11. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

Similar categories in Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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13. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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14. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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15. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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16. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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17. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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18. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

By: Megan Milks

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. … read more

Similar categories in Megan Milks's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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19. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Raving book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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20. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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21. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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22. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

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23. Summer Fun

By: Jeanne Thornton

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and t… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Thornton's Summer Fun book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that."

-Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

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24. About Ed

By: Robert Glück

3.73

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more

Similar categories in Robert Glück's About Ed book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel

25. A Queen in Bucks County

By: Kay Gabriel

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In… read more

Similar categories in Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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26. 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 Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

27. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

By: Cecilia Gentili

4.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more

Similar categories in Cecilia Gentili's Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann

28. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

By: T. Fleischmann

4.01

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

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29. 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

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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30. stemmy things

By: imogen xtian Smith

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more

Similar categories in imogen xtian Smith's stemmy things book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of A Beauty Has Come by Jasmine Gibson

31. A Beauty Has Come

By: Jasmine Gibson

4.10

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage bet… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Gibson's A Beauty Has Come book and Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County

  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters

4.12

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A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

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Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

3.68

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