10 Best queer books like Anything That Moves by Jamie Stewart

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Anything That Moves

By: Jamie Stewart

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A memoir of sexual misbehavior, abuse and no redemption. The stories are mostly funny but also depr…

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Cover of Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman

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

Similar categories in Jean-Paul Sartre's Our Lady of the Flowers book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"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. 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

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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3. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Closer book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt

4. Wrong

By: Dennis Cooper

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

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5. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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6. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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7. My Loose Thread

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relati… read more

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8. Frisk

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. 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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10. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
  • lgbt
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11. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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12. 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

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
  • 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

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13. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's I Wished book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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14. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

Similar categories in Blake Butler's Molly book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Antkind

By: Charlie Kaufman

3.71

Format: 720 pages, Kindle Edition

The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Being John Mal… read more

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"Would that I could be a gay man. I would like myself better. But I am the most heterosexual of all my many acquaintances."

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

"Comedy is a lie, too, of course. It’s a defense, an aggression. It is a thing created to separate, to say, “I am not like this."

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

"I have often felt that I am being watched. That my life is being witnessed by unseen forces, that adjustments are made as these forces see fit, to thwart me, to humiliate me."

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

"Not much of note in my waking life. People get sick, or don’t. People die, or don’t. I watch TV, or don’t. Sometimes I smoke without remembering lighting up. I continue to go to a deranged hypnotist …"

-Charlie Kaufman, Antkind

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17. Porn: An Oral History

By: Polly Barton

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more

Similar categories in Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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18. Your Love Is Not Good

By: Johanna Hedva

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispec… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. Anything That Moves

By: Jamie Stewart

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A memoir of sexual misbehavior, abuse and no redemption. The stories are mostly funny but also depr… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • music
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • queer
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20. Putty Pygmalion

By: Lonnie Garcia

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Derryl, a lonely radish, attempts to create a boyfriend out of a defunct and now illegal children's… read more

Similar categories in Lonnie Garcia's Putty Pygmalion book and Jamie Stewart's Anything That Moves

  • queer
Cover of If Only by Vigdis Hjorth

21. If Only

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking but timeless early work from one of the world's most heralded novelists A relat… read more

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5 must-read gay books like Anything That Moves by Jamie Stewart

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

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3.72

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Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Mona Awad

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