I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
By: Sean DeLear
3.59
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s …
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1. 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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"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
2. 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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3. Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more
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4. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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5. I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext
By: Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , John Kinsella , Matias Viegener
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger
By: Brontez Purnell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"Brontez is a raw tongue of flame blazing through all the blatant fakery and insincere bullshit of … read more
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7. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
By: Tom Spanbauer
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, The Man Who Fell in Love wit… read more
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"Looking for who I am is who I am."-Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
"Felt good, though, just being what I was."-Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
"With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing."-Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
"A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being."-Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
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9. 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
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10. 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
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"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
11. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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12. 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
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"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
13. 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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"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
14. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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15. Play Boy
By: Constance Debré
3.25
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more
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16. 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
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"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
17. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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18. My Dead Book
By: Nate Lippens
4.32
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
My Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching… read more
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19. 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
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20. I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
By: Sean DeLear
3.59
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s … read more
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21. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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