11 must-read queer books like Soho by Richard Scott

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Soho

By: Richard Scott

4.09

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay …

If you liked the queer plot in Soho by Richard Scott , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

1. Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

3.52

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more

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  • british literature
"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

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2. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
Cover of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson

4. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

Similar categories in Sappho's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. 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 Richard Scott's Soho

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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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 Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt

7. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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8. Hold Your Own

By: Kae Tempest

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's… read more

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9. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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10. Selected Poems, 1923-1958

By: E.E. Cummings

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This selection, made by Cummings himself in 1960, offers a comprehensive introduction to his most c… read more

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11. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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12. Heroides

By: Ovid , Harold Isbell

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myt… read more

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13. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

Cover of The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

14. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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15. Rapture's Road

By: Seán Hewitt

4.28

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and est… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. Dark Days

By: James Baldwin

4.40

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."

-James Baldwin, Dark Days

Cover of Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony  Santorella

17. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

Similar categories in Tony Santorella's Bored Gay Werewolf book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. Bright Fear

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more

Similar categories in Mary Jean Chan's Bright Fear book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. Crudo

By: Olivia Laing

3.19

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more

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  • contemporary
  • adult
  • british literature
"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"

-Olivia Laing, Crudo

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21. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

By: Anne Eekhout

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley’… read more

Similar categories in Anne Eekhout's Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton

22. If All the World and Love Were Young

By: Stephen Sexton

4.04

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in t… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Sexton's If All the World and Love Were Young book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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23. Kingdomland

By: Rachael Allen

3.69

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen - a writer of rare vision and flair. Th… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Allen's Kingdomland book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • contemporary
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24. All the Men I Never Married

By: Kim Moore

4.34

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author po… read more

Similar categories in Kim Moore's All the Men I Never Married book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
Cover of Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves by Jesse Bering

25. Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

By: Jesse Bering

3.92

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a succ… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Bering's Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • nonfiction
Cover of Limbic by Peter Scalpello

26. Limbic

By: Peter Scalpello

4.04

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Limbic is Peter Scalpello’s glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slip… read more

Similar categories in Peter Scalpello's Limbic book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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27. Tot mai multă splendoare

By: Alina Purcaru

3.94

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

„Una dintre cele mai puternice și mai subversive forme de protest ale femeilor și persoanelor queer… read more

Similar categories in Alina Purcaru's Tot mai multă splendoare book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • 21st century
  • poetry
Cover of Soho by Richard   Scott

28. Soho

By: Richard Scott

4.09

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more

Similar categories in Richard Scott's Soho book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph

29. Sonnets for Albert

By: Anthony Joseph

3.99

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Joseph's Sonnets for Albert book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
Cover of More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi

30. More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

By: Kayo Chingonyi

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times - 5 Best Poetry Books of 2022 In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kayo Chingonyi's More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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31. My Darling from the Lions

By: Rachel Long

3.78

Format: None pages, None

Described as a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Long's My Darling from the Lions book and Richard Scott's Soho

  • poetry
  • adult

8 must-read contemporary books like Soho by Richard Scott

Transform Your Habits

Closer

Dennis Cooper

3.72

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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The Orange and Other Poems

Wendy Cope

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Bored Gay Werewolf

Tony Santorella

3.53

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

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Bluets

Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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