9 Best queer books like Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette

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Coachella Elegy

By: Christian Gullette

4.41

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2023 Trio Award, Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy explores the queer promised lan…

If you liked the queer plot in Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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2. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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3. 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

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • lgbt
  • queer
"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

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4. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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5. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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6. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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7. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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8. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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9. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • lgbt
  • queer
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10. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
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11. A Hundred Lovers: Poems

By: Richie Hofmann

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Richie Hofmann's A Hundred Lovers: Poems book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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13. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)

By: Cindy Juyoung Ok

4.37

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation   “The… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Juyoung Ok's Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118) book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
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14. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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15. Pleasure Principle: Poems

By: Madeleine Cravens

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Cravens's Pleasure Principle: Poems book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
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16. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall

17. I Make Envy on Your Disco

By: Eric Schnall

4.44

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midl… read more

Similar categories in Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Bluff: Poems book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. mother (Penguin Poets)

By: m.s. RedCherries

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity mother is a work roote… read more

Similar categories in m.s. RedCherries's mother (Penguin Poets) book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
Cover of Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette

20. Coachella Elegy

By: Christian Gullette

4.41

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2023 Trio Award, Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy explores the queer promised lan… read more

Similar categories in Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. Hold Everything: Poems

By: Dobby Gibson

4.11

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A beloved poet captures the beauty that attention to the public and private offers In his latest… read more

Similar categories in Dobby Gibson's Hold Everything: Poems book and Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy

  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

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Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Judas Goat: Poems

Gabrielle Bates

4.21

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

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In Tongues

Thomas Grattan

4.04

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Housemates

Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

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