11 Best queer books like The Weaklings by Dennis Cooper

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The Weaklings

By: Dennis Cooper

4.15

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

First collection of Dennis Cooper's poetry in 12 years

If you liked the queer plot in The Weaklings by Dennis Cooper , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Our Lady of the Flowers

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more

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  • queer
"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

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2. Notes on Suicide

By: David Hume , Simon Critchley

3.74

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends … read more

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"El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal."

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

"Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición."

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

"Cioran escribe que «sólo se suicidan los optimistas, los optimistas que ya no logran serlo. Los demás, no teniendo ninguna razón para vivir, ¿por qué la tendrían para morir?»"

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

"Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmi…"

-David Hume, Notes on Suicide

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3. The Driver's Seat

By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more

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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

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4. Lunar Park

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zerocatapulted him … read more

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5. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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  • queer
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6. Mysterious Skin

By: Scott Heim

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endur… read more

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  • queer
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7. The Piano Teacher

By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more

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8. 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

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  • poetry
  • queer
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9. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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10. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • poetry
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11. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more

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12. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more

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  • poetry
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13. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • queer

14. Suicide

By: Édouard Levé

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

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15. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

16. Crazy for Vincent

By: Hervé Guibert , Bruce Hainley , None

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

"In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floo… read more

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17. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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18. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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19. Funeral Rites

By: Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his … read more

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20. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

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  • queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

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21. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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22. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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23. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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24. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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25. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

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  • queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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26. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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  • queer
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27. Index

By: Peter Sotos

3.99

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Peter Sotos, the writer who 'rapes a blank page', whose pen is 'the verbal knife of a sadist', is n… read more

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28. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • queer
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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29. Forever

By: Thomas Moore

4.44

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more

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  • queer
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30. Your Dreams

By: Thomas Moore

4.52

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

“I’m so close to falling apart. Fuck it. Who isn’t?” Thomas Moore’s latest novel Your Dreams, th… read more

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31. The Weaklings

By: Dennis Cooper

4.15

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

First collection of Dennis Cooper's poetry in 12 years read more

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  • poetry
  • queer

5 Top poetry books like The Weaklings by Dennis Cooper

Transform Your Habits

Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

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Period

Dennis Cooper

3.85

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The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

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Closer

Dennis Cooper

3.72

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