7 Top queer lit books like Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé

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Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex

By: Gilles Dauvé

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In a fascinating and radical critique of identity and class, Your Place or Mine? examines the moder…

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1. 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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  • queer lit
"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

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2. Fellow Travelers

By: Thomas Mallon

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more

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3. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

By: David Fernbach , Heinz Heger , Klaus Muller

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interm… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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5. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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6. Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

By: Jonathan Ned Katz

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

In Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the ninetee… read more

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7. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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8. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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9. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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11. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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12. Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

By: Joseph Osmundson

3.83

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Most Anticipated Book of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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13. Best Men

By: Sidney Karger

3.34

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

When two best men in a wedding party fall for each other, they realize love isn't a piece of cake i… read more

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14. An Honest Man

By: Ben Fergusson

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In West Berlin in 1989, eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden su… read more

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"Like all of my friends, I’d seen the ubiquitous soft-core pornography on late-night German television that our English relatives found scandalous. Police interviews, maths lessons, doctors’ visits tu…"

-Ben Fergusson, An Honest Man

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15. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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16. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

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"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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19. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

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  • queer lit
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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20. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

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"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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21. Memorial

By: Bryan Washington

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and th… read more

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"How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?"

-Bryan Washington, Memorial

"Efteråt är vi bara två killar i en bil som håller på med någon sorts omöjlig yoga."

-Bryan Washington, Memorial

"So, the next morning, despite everything, I’m at his door. My father’s door. And then I am knocking. Waiting. It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions o…"

-Bryan Washington, Memorial

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22. Some Girls Do

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more

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"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

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23. Love, Leda

By: Mark Hyatt

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

It’s mid morning. Cool. Not many coffee bars open. I, the brave one, god of any telephone kiosk, wa… read more

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  • queer lit
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24. Just as You Are

By: Camille Kellogg

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com brings a healthy dose of queerness and a whole lot… read more

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25. Providence

By: Craig Willse

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more

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  • queer lit
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."

-Craig Willse, Providence

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26. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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27. Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

By: Adam Zmith

3.56

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, … read more

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  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The future is who we become in the next forty-five seconds."

-Adam Zmith, Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

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28. Unruly Desires: American Sailors and Homosexualities in the Age of Sail

By: William Benemann

3.87

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the ni… read more

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29. 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World

By: Seán Hewitt

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Greek and Roman love stories that reclaim and celebrate h… read more

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  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
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30. Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex

By: Gilles Dauvé

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In a fascinating and radical critique of identity and class, Your Place or Mine? examines the moder… read more

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  • philosophy
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O'Brien

31. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides … read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction

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