10 Best lgbt books like On Hell by Johanna Hedva

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On Hell

By: Johanna Hedva

4.21

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

On Hell transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, h…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. Notes of a Crocodile

By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more

Similar categories in Qiu Miaojin's Notes of a Crocodile book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

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3. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

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"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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4. An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

By: None , Ann Cvetkovich

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. Sh… read more

Similar categories in None's An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. The Immoralist

By: André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan

3.55

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his o… read more

Similar categories in André Gide's The Immoralist book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • literature
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Existing is occupation enough."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"إنني اترك الماضي خلفي بعيدا كأنه عصفور يطير ويترك ظله."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer

8. Aliens & Anorexia

By: Chris Kraus

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for sof… read more

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9. Wrong

By: Dennis Cooper

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

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10. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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11. 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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12. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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13. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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14. Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.86

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more

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  • fiction
"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

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15. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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16. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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  • fiction
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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17. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

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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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  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. Is Gender Fluid?

By: Sally Hines

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This stimulating entry in the “Big Idea” series assesses the connections between gender, psychology… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hines's Is Gender Fluid? book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. On Hell

By: Johanna Hedva

4.21

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

On Hell transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, h… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Hedva's On Hell book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • fiction
  • queer
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21. I'm a Queerfeminist Cyborg, That's Okay. Gedankensammlung zu Anti/Ableismus

By: Mika Murstein

4.31

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

I’m a queerfeminist Cyborg, that’s okay verknüpft Theorien mit biographischen Erzählungen und Forme… read more

Similar categories in Mika Murstein's I'm a Queerfeminist Cyborg, That's Okay. Gedankensammlung zu Anti/Ableismus book and Johanna Hedva's On Hell

  • queer
  • lgbt

7 best-selling fiction books like On Hell by Johanna Hedva

Transform Your Habits

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

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The Immoralist

André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan

3.55

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Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

3.86

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

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The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

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In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing

4.01

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