I'm Open to Anything
By: William E. Jones
3.95
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, William E. Jones's I'm Open to Anythin…
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1. We the Animals
By: Justin Torres
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
2. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
4.28
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more
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"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
3. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- erotica
- fiction
- queer
4. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
5. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more
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- fiction
6. The Book of Promethea
By: Hélène Cixous , Betsy Wing
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In writing Le Livre de PrometheaHelene Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
7. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
8. Tendencies
By: None , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Tendenciesbrings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the s… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
9. Nocturnes for the King of Naples
By: Edmund White , Michael Denneny
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startlin… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
10. 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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11. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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12. Nana, Vol. 2 (Nana, #2)
By: Ai Yazawa
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
This is the story of two 20-year old women who share the same name. Even though they come from comp… read more
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13. Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners
By: John Wieners , Joshua Beckman , C.A. Conrad , None
4.67
Format: 523 pages,
"There is no doubt in my mind or in anyone's mind who knows these poems well that they are major Am… read more
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14. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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15. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
16. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
17. 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
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
18. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
19. 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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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"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
20. The Kingdom of Sand
By: Andrew Holleran
3.51
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand
21. 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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- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
"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
22. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
23. 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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- queer lit
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"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
24. 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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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
25. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
26. Castle Faggot
By: Derek McCormack
3.85
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- 21st century
- queer
27. Cleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
28. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
By: Zachary Zane
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more
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- sexuality
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
29. Do Everything in the Dark
By: Gary Indiana
3.90
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Gary Indiana’s newest autopsy of America’s walking dead examines the tragicomic fate of la vie bohe… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- 21st century
- queer
30. The Gay Best Friend
By: Nicolas DiDomizio
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend
31. I'm Open to Anything
By: William E. Jones
3.95
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, William E. Jones's I'm Open to Anythin… read more
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