8 Top queer lit books like Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith

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Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

By: Adam Zmith

3.56

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, …

"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

If you liked the queer lit plot in Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 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 Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • queer lit
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • 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

2. Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more

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3. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

Similar categories in Huw Lemmey's Bad Gays: A Homosexual History book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) by Armistead Maupin

4. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • audiobook
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5. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more

Similar categories in Seán Hewitt's All Down Darkness Wide book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

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7. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

8. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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9. 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

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • queer lit
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • 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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10. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Cover of Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise by Jack Parlett

11. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

By: Jack Parlett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more

Similar categories in Jack Parlett's Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer studies
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • queer lit
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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13. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Cleanness book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

Cover of The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour

14. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

By: Sasha Velour

4.41

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Velour's The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Something That May Shock and Discredit You

By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mallory Ortberg's Something That May Shock and Discredit You book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start cryin…"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no…"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month …"

-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

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16. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

4.22

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Cover of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

17. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

18. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • sexuality
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt

19. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Betancourt's The Male Gazed book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith

20. Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

By: Adam Zmith

3.56

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, … read more

Similar categories in Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer studies
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • essays
  • queer
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

Cover of Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza

21. Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime

By: Alex Espinoza

3.80

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to r… read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime book and Adam Zmith's Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • essays
  • queer

14 Best audiobook books like Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

Armistead Maupin

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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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

Transform Your Habits

Faggots

Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer

4.26

Transform Your Habits

What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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