9 Top queer books like POLO by Jinnwoo

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POLO

By: Jinnwoo

4.50

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

We’re all dolls that crack. Very rarely is a book so unabashed about obsession and growing pains. T…

If you liked the queer plot in POLO by Jinnwoo , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. 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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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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2. 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

3. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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4. In Their Arms

By: Thomas Moore

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Taking place across a mutating set of darkrooms, art galleries, blank apartments and bedrooms; In T… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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5. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more

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6. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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7. O amor dos homens avulsos

By: Victor Heringer

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer

8. Suicide

By: Édouard Levé

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

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9. Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more

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10. 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

11. 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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12. Hard Rain Falling

By: None , Don Carpenter

4.14

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more

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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"

-None, Hard Rain Falling

13. Godlike

By: Dennis Cooper , Richard Hell

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

"[Hell's] every move and word reveal a naked, impassioned intelligence in the throes of the only tr… read more

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14. A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more

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15. The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993

By: Dennis Cooper

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

With each new novel, Dennis Cooper's reputation as the most daring and distinctive writer working i… read more

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16. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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17. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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18. Try

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • contemporary
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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20. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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  • queer
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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21. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more

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  • contemporary
"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

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22. 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)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

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

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-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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23. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • contemporary
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24. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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25. Changer : méthode

By: Édouard Louis

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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26. 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

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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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27. The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

By: Jack Skelley

3.89

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los… read more

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28. 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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29. POLO

By: Jinnwoo

4.50

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

We’re all dolls that crack. Very rarely is a book so unabashed about obsession and growing pains. T… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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30. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

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  • queer
Cover of Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (New American Canon) by Diarmuid Hester

31. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (New American Canon)

By: Diarmuid Hester

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety o… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer

10 Top contemporary books like POLO by Jinnwoo

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

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In Their Arms

Thomas Moore

4.21

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O amor dos homens avulsos

Victor Heringer

4.00

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A Man's Place

Annie Ernaux

3.88

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Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

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Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

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Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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