17 must-read queer books like Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) by Laura Westengard

If you liked the queer plot in Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) by Laura Westengard , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Similar categories in Katherine Dunn's Truck book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

"I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter."

-Katherine Dunn, Truck

"Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that…"

-Katherine Dunn, Truck

Similar categories in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic

"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Similar categories in None's Queer Gothic book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic
• history
• lgbt
• theory
• nonfiction
• gender and sexuality
• queer

Similar categories in Sally Green's Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• lgbt

"Me gusta ser tan fácil de olvidar"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

"Tengo tantas ganas de verla que duele"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

"Vivos y respirando como si fuéramos uno"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

"Así que cierras los ojos y recuerdas cosas. A veces está bien hacer eso"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

Similar categories in Jewelle L. Gómez's The Gilda Stories book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Mark Thompson's Leather Folk book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• nonfiction
• history
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

Similar categories in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Similar categories in Emily M. Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic
• queer
• lgbt

"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• lgbt

"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

Similar categories in Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic

"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

Similar categories in Rick Riordan's The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"You’re cute when you’re nervous."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

"And no light was brighter than Noco di Angelo."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

"All things can change, if given the opportunity."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

"I got you,’ he breathed into Will’s ear. ‘I got you."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic
• queer
• lgbt

"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"And it was hard to explain. That they didn't want to be a man, but that they had never felt quite right as a girl. That they only started to feel really okay when they understood they could be their …"

-Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters (Love & Other Disasters, #1)

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• nonfiction

"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Similar categories in Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• theory
• nonfiction
• history

"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Similar categories in Ava Reid's The Wolf and the Woodsman book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

"It’s not about cruelty."

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"I’m tired of this honorable Woodsman pretense,"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"A dragon is a beast." "If girls can be wolves, can't men be beasts?"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

Similar categories in A.J. Hackwith's The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

"I won't know the right words..... No writer ever does. The words will be right eventually."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"A library does not have a name; a library has all of them. A library is not a place; a library is a purpose. A library does not have eyes, a library has I's."

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"Listen. That's the part of the librarian's job that everyone forgets. Listen. Listen to your books, listen to your patrons. Listen to your enemies, even; when they're maddest is when you know you're …"

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

"The patron god of the library is the one who needs it, who claims the necessity of a place of stories and souls and is willing to build it. Sometimes that's the librarians and curators, sometimes tha…"

-A.J. Hackwith, The God of Lost Words (Hell's Library, #3)

Similar categories in Molly Smith's Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• nonfiction
• history

"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Similar categories in C.L. Clark's The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in A.M. Strickland's Court of the Undying Seasons book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic
• art
• history
• lgbt
• theory
• nonfiction
• goth
• gender and sexuality
• queer

Similar categories in Paulina Palmer's The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic (Gothic Literary Studies) book and Laura Westengard's Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

• gothic
• nonfiction
• gender and sexuality
• lgbt