16 Top lgbt books like Argento Series by Kevin Killian

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Argento Series

By: Kevin Killian

4.58

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Poetry. LGBT Studies. One of SPD's bestselling authors, Kevin Killian's stories have had wide circu…

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1. Margery Kempe

By: Robert Glück

3.75

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

This tale of romantic obsession chronicles two relationships that take place in disparate worlds, s… read more

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  • lgbt
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2. My Walk with Bob

By: Bruce Boone

4.43

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Memoir. This collection of conversations and ruminations during w… read more

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3. 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

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  • lgbt
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4. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

5. The Waterfront Journals

By: David Wojnarowicz

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Before his death from AIDS in 1992, David Wojnarowicz became known in the 1980s as an outspoken AID… read more

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6. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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7. The Cutting Room

By: Louise Welsh

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes across a collection of highly disturbing … read more

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8. The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext

By: Derek McCormack

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

The Well-Dressed Wound is Derek McCormack's play script "seance": a fashion show by the dead for th… read more

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9. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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10. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • lgbt
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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11. 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

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"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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12. 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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  • lgbt
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13. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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  • lgbt
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14. 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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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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15. 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

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"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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16. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Greasepaint

By: Hannah Levene

3.85

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-s… read more

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  • lgbt
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18. The Water Statues

By: Fleur Jaeggy

3.49

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more

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"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"

-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"

-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"

-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues

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19. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

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  • art
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20. Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

By: Marie Darrieussecq

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French … read more

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21. 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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22. Hervelino

By: Mathieu Lindon

3.57

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

« Ce fut vite ma façon d’appeler Hervé, avec ma manie d’italianiser les noms de mes proches… Hervel… read more

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23. The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1: Novels: In My Room, I'm Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me

By: Guillaume Dustan

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the nar… read more

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  • lgbt
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24. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

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  • art
  • lgbt
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25. 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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  • lgbt
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26. The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)

By: June Jordan

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walk… read more

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  • lgbt
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27. Argento Series

By: Kevin Killian

4.58

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Poetry. LGBT Studies. One of SPD's bestselling authors, Kevin Killian's stories have had wide circu… read more

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28. Dead Animals

By: Phoebe Stuckes

3.61

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more

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29. Gay Heaven Is A Dance Floor but I Can't Relax

By: charles theonia

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The breakout poetry collection in a multiform, poetic conversation between queer and trans artists … read more

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30. All my teachers died of AIDS

By: Sam Moore

4.32

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • poetry
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31. Elements of a Coffee Service

By: Robert Glück

4.35

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Gluck achieves the difficult art of integrating unabashed (gay) erotic writing into an intelligent … read more

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  • poetry

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4.16

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3.76

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Solmaz Sharif

4.21

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4.53

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Édouard Louis

3.77

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4.00

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Madeline Cash

4.05

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Kathryn Scanlan

4.11

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