24 Best fiction books like Counterillumination by Audrey Szasz

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Counterillumination

By: Audrey Szasz

4.48

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The Story of Z. A witty and extravagant erotic classic for the 21st Century. Audrey Szasz’s thir…

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1. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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2. Period

By: Dennis Cooper

3.85

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

The stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "… read more

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3. 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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4. After Dark, My Sweet

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping fro… read more

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5. 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

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6. Mountainhead

By: New Juche

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Dennis Cooper has described New Juche as "one of the most inspiring, original and groundbreaking ar… read more

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7. 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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8. Guide

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fa… read more

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9. Try

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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10. Portnoy's Complaint

By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more

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11. Snuff

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.35

Format: None pages,

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where n… read more

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12. Alien III

By: William Gibson

3.45

Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio

Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more

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13. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

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"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

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14. 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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"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 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 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'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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15. Castle Faggot

By: Derek McCormack

3.85

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland … read more

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16. 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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17. Alone

By: Thomas Moore

4.45

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Has Grindr killed psychic gay powers? For Halloween I’m dressing as a YouTube video of Corey Hai… read more

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18. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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19. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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20. The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty

By: Charlene Elsby

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable tal… read more

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21. Violent Faculties

By: Charlene Elsby

4.04

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments… read more

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22. Bloodletter

By: David Kuhnlein

4.36

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

We are proud to present Amphetamine Sulphate 50 AS Horror Vol.2 With cover design, illustration… read more

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23. 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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24. So Beautiful and Elastic

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.58

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more

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25. Human Rights

By: Philip Best

4.29

Format: 614 pages, Paperback

Over 600 pages of original SF novellas and stories by Thomas Moore, Audrey Szasz, Christopher Zeisc… read more

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26. The Devils

By: New Juche

4.42

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Adieu all you Judges. New Juche returns with his book of ‘The Devils.’ An unsparing look into the d… read more

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27. 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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28. Counterillumination

By: Audrey Szasz

4.48

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The Story of Z. A witty and extravagant erotic classic for the 21st Century. Audrey Szasz’s thir… read more

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29. Creation: On Art and Unbecoming

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Creation is a stunning new collection by one of the most exciting living writers. Reading a Christ… read more

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30. What Are You

By: Lindsay Lerman

4.38

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk a… read more

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31. The Holy Day

By: Christopher Norris

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel about a former teen detective going on vacation to die. Featuring original art by Robert Hi… read more

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16 best-selling fiction books like 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

Transform Your Habits

The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Faggots

Reynolds Price , Larry Kramer

4.26

Transform Your Habits

What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

4.29

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