Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (Mit Press)
By: Douglas Crimp
4.43
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Essays challenging the increasing denial of the AIDS crisis and the rise of conservative gay politi…
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1. Trash
By: Dorothy Allison
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out … read more
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"Why write stories? To join the conversation."-Dorothy Allison, Trash
"Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me."-Dorothy Allison, Trash
"I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft."-Dorothy Allison, Trash
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2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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3. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
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"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
4. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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5. Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
By: Essex Hemphill , Charles I. Nero
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Ceremonies offers provocative commentary on highly charged topics such as Robert Mapplethorpe's pho… read more
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6. The Marriage Plot
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.32
Format: 224 pages,
With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Euge… read more
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7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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8. The Waterfront Journals
By: David Wojnarowicz
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Before his death from AIDS in 1992, David Wojnarowicz became known in the 1980s as an outspoken AID… read more
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9. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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10. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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11. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
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"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
12. 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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13. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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14. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
15. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
16. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
By: Sarah Schulman
4.52
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
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17. feeld
By: Jos Charles
4.17
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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18. Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System
By: Christopher Chitty
4.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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19. Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (Mit Press)
By: Douglas Crimp
4.43
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
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20. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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