Fascination: Memoirs
By: Kevin Killian
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative mov…
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1. Margery Kempe
By: Robert Glück
3.75
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
This tale of romantic obsession chronicles two relationships that take place in disparate worlds, s… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
2. My Life
By: Lyn Hejinian
4.16
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits"-Lyn Hejinian, My Life
3. 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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"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
4. How Should a Person Be?
By: Sheila Heti
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Storiesand Ticknorcomes a bold interrogatio… read more
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5. Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket
By: John Weir
3.71
Format: 32 pages,
Eddie Socket left a small town in deepest New Jersey, suffocating and eccentric parents, a name (Wa… read more
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6. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- queer
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7. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
8. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
9. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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10. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
11. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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- gay
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"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
12. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
13. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
14. The Topeka School
By: Ben Lerner
3.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more
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"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
15. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
16. Dayspring
By: Anthony Oliveira
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more
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- lgbt
"when god died he died whimpering"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
17. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
18. A Queen in Bucks County
By: Kay Gabriel
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In… read more
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- queer
19. Fascination: Memoirs
By: Kevin Killian
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative mov… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
20. Sex Goblin
By: Lauren Cook
4.12
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
A weird, wild ride across non-narrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared in… read more
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- lgbt
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
