14 must-read queer books like You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views) by Chase Joynt

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You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

By: Chase Joynt

4.14

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, u…

If you liked the queer plot in You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views) by Chase Joynt , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Cytomégalovirus: Journal d'hospitalisation by Hervé Guibert

1. Cytomégalovirus: Journal d'hospitalisation

By: Hervé Guibert

4.10

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

« Cytomégalovirus. Depuis deux jours, j'avais du mal à lire, de plus en plus de mal. Soudain je fer… read more

Similar categories in Hervé Guibert's Cytomégalovirus: Journal d'hospitalisation book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

2. 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

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • transgender
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"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

3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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4. Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more

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5. The Gods Themselves

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more

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6. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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7. 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

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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8. A Natural History of Transition

By: Callum Angus

4.22

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more

Similar categories in Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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10. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

4.39

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

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11. Filthy Animals

By: Brandon Taylor

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's Filthy Animals book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

12. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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13. Querelle de Roberval

By: Kevin Lambert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Les ouvriers et ouvrières de la scierie de Roberval sont en grève. Sous l'apparente cohésion de la … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Lambert's Querelle de Roberval book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • canada
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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14. My Government Means to Kill Me

By: Rasheed Newson

4.25

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more

Similar categories in Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

15. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • essays
  • lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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16. Un apartamento en Urano

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Un apartamento en Urano book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

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17. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

Cover of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

18. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Leduc's Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Cover of My Manservant and Me: madcap novel by Hervé Guibert

19. My Manservant and Me: madcap novel

By: Hervé Guibert

3.83

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers. … read more

Similar categories in Hervé Guibert's My Manservant and Me: madcap novel book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views) by Chase Joynt

20. You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

By: Chase Joynt

4.14

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, u… read more

Similar categories in Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views) book and Chase Joynt's You Only Live Twice: Letters on Death, Sex and Gender (Exploded Views)

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • canada
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of It Really Is by Cole Degenstein

21. It Really Is

By: Cole Degenstein

5.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Canadian winter takes its toll Winter begins with good intentions—baking, flower arranging cla… read more

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