5 must-read queer books like Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman

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Derek Jarman's Garden

By: Derek Jarman

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Paradise haunts gardens," writes Derek Jarman, "and it haunts mine." Jarman's public image is that…

"Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and cabbages, mixed with pinks and peonies, shirley poppies and delphiniums; wouldn't that beautify the land and save us from the garden terrorism that prevails?"

-Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman's Garden

"Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and cabbages, mixed with pinks and peonies, shirley poppies and delphiniums; wouldn't that beautify the land and save us from the garden terrorism that prevails?"

-Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman's Garden

If you liked the queer plot in Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. 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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  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

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2. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

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3. Gli occhiali d'oro: Il romanzo di Ferrara

By: Giorgio Bassani

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

In una Ferrara ricca, affascinante ma oppressa dal fascismo, un giovane studente ebreo, voce narran… read more

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4. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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5. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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6. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

7. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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8. The Changeling

By: Victor LaValle

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One man's thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after … read more

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9. The Sundial

By: Shirley Jackson

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end.... Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one i… read more

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10. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Derek Jarman's Derek Jarman's Garden

  • memoir
  • british literature
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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11. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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12. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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13. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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  • british literature
"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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15. A Perfect Day to Be Alone

By: Nanae Aoyama

3.12

Format: 160 pages, ebook

It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in… read more

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"I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old."

-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone

"Is that how it feels to you? Oh, you bet. Pain, suffering - that stuff's always scary, no matter how long you've been around."

-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone

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16. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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17. 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

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog by Emily Dean

18. Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog

By: Emily Dean

4.24

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

**As featured on BBC2's Between the Covers**'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It was simply not possible for someone to be watching Peep Show one day and cease to exist the next."

-Emily Dean, Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog

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19. Derek Jarman's Garden

By: Derek Jarman

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Paradise haunts gardens," writes Derek Jarman, "and it haunts mine." Jarman's public image is that… read more

Similar categories in Derek Jarman's Derek Jarman's Garden book and Derek Jarman's Derek Jarman's Garden

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • queer
"Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and…"

-Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman's Garden

Cover of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

20. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

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21. Black Swim

By: Nicholas Goodly

4.44

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

In Black Swim , Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness. This stu… read more

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"I cannot ask you for much I see a fire coming form miles away if there is a purpose in this life let me wash my face in it"

-Nicholas Goodly, Black Swim

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4.07

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4.26

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3.70

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