Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.31
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these pref…
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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
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2. Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
By: Jennifer Clement
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and th… read more
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- poetry
- art
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
3. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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4. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
5. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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- art
6. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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8. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
9. 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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10. Crazy for Vincent
By: Hervé Guibert , Bruce Hainley , None
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
"In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floo… read more
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11. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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12. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
13. 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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14. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
15. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
16. 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
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17. Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more
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"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
18. My Manservant and Me: madcap novel
By: Hervé Guibert
3.83
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers. … read more
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19. Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.31
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these pref… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- diary
- queer studies
- nonfiction
- queer
20. AIDS Demo Graphics
By: Douglas Crimp
4.31
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
History of ACT/UP and AIDS demonstrations, with photographs of demonstrations and extensive collect… read more
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21. Peter Hujar's Day
By: Linda Rosenkrantz
4.27
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
On December 18, 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he di… read more
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