10 must-read lgbt books like One or Several Deserts by Carter St Hogan

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One or Several Deserts

By: Carter St Hogan

4.43

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Queer, strange, eight intimate fictions give voice to bodies at the margins as they yearn and claw…

If you liked the lgbt plot in One or Several Deserts by Carter St Hogan , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

Similar categories in Anaïs Nin's A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • fiction
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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2. Let the Right One In

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist

3.85

Format: None pages,

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a tee… read more

Similar categories in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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4. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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5. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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6. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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7. 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 Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

"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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8. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's My Death book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. The Fifth Wound

By: Aurora Mattia

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more

Similar categories in Aurora Mattia's The Fifth Wound book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more

Similar categories in Mazey Eddings's Late Bloomer book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"

-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

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12. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

Similar categories in Emily Habeck's Shark Heart book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • fiction
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

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13. 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

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Memorial book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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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14. The Book of the Most Precious Substance

By: Sara Gran

3.57

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally renowned author Sara Gran, author of Come … read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's The Book of the Most Precious Substance book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Book people aren't exactly silver-lining types."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

"Books were a dirty job, one of the black arts, along with witchcraft and printing."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

"I'd been so alone that I'd thought it was just the feeling of life when it went on too long."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

"Books are heavy and dirty and messy and have strong smells and leave your skin dry and dusty."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

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15. Basura

By: Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny

4.18

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Alicia fue abandonada de niña en el basurero municipal de Ciudad Juárez; su diario rascar en busca … read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny's Basura book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Hogar es donde uno va, hogar es uno, es su frase favorita."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

"Mi tía les demostró lo que nuestra sociedad se niega a entender: una mujer sola es capaz de mucho. De todo."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

"No sé cómo lo imaginé, supongo que esperaba silencio o gritos, porque así se comunican la rabia y la tristeza."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

"Tú me ves aquí como santa matrona del trabajo en esa esquina a la que ni el olvido llega, pero ya te dije que yo tenía una vida soñada."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

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16. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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17. Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

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18. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. 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

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Flunker book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of One or Several Deserts by Carter St Hogan

20. One or Several Deserts

By: Carter St Hogan

4.43

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Queer, strange, eight intimate fictions give voice to bodies at the margins as they yearn and claw… read more

Similar categories in Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts book and Carter St Hogan's One or Several Deserts

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer

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Transform Your Habits

A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

Anaïs Nin

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Black Sheep

Rachel Harrison

3.60

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Transform Your Habits

Moj muž

Румена Бужаровска , Rumena Bužarovska , Ivica Baković

3.54

Transform Your Habits

El cielo de la selva

Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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Mónica Ojeda

3.86

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