13 Best queer books like Don't Leave Me This Way by Eric Sneathen

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Don't Leave Me This Way

By: Eric Sneathen

4.55

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss. Don’…

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Cover of Obscenely Yours by Angelo Nikolopoulos

1. Obscenely Yours

By: Angelo Nikolopoulos

4.02

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This fearless debut transcends the obscene with its self-conscious probing of sexual identity. Navi… read more

Similar categories in Angelo Nikolopoulos's Obscenely Yours book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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2. 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

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

3. 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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4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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5. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. 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 Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. 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

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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8. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Raving book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • lgbt
  • queer
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9. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

By: Jake Skeets

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more

Similar categories in Jake Skeets's Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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10. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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11. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

Similar categories in Eduardo C. Corral's Guillotine: Poems book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
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13. Slingshot

By: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

4.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Slingshot begins with the author ensconced in the safe, soft, isolation of the rural pastoral, but … read more

Similar categories in Cyrée Jarelle Johnson's Slingshot book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Charif Shanahan

14. Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

By: Charif Shanahan

4.28

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award … read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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15. Water I Won't Touch

By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portr… read more

Similar categories in Kayleb Rae Candrilli's Water I Won't Touch book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. The Life of Tu Fu

By: Eliot Weinberger

4.51

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A book-length poem by “our best living literary essayist” (Forrest Gander). For over fifty years El… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Weinberger's The Life of Tu Fu book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
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17. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

4.42

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more

Similar categories in torrin a. greathouse's Wound from the Mouth of a Wound book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Don't Leave Me This Way

By: Eric Sneathen

4.55

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss. Don’… read more

Similar categories in Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. Togetherness

By: Wo Chan

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from… read more

Similar categories in Wo Chan's Togetherness book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Flunker book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • queer
Cover of Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin

21. Instructions for the Lovers

By: Dawn Lundy Martin

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, a… read more

Similar categories in Dawn Lundy Martin's Instructions for the Lovers book and Eric Sneathen's Don't Leave Me This Way

  • poetry

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Angelo Nikolopoulos

4.02

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Richard Siken

3.67

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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4.27

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Louise Glück

4.18

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Louise Glück

4.18

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Sylvia Plath

4.19

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