6 Top queer books like The Young and the Evil by Charles Henri Ford

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The Young and the Evil

By: Charles Henri Ford

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Note that the correct title of this book is The Young and Evil, not The Young and the Evil as seen …

If you liked the queer plot in The Young and the Evil by Charles Henri Ford , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Cover of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James Grieve

3. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Cover of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" by Linda Williams

5. Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"

By: Linda Williams

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship… read more

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6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

7. Pepsi Cola Addict

By: None

3.33

Format: 140 pages,

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8. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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9. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

10. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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11. Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more

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12. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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13. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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Cover of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

14. 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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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

By: Kazuo Umezz

4.03

Format: 744 pages, Hardcover

A definitive edition featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablishe… read more

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  • fiction
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16. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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17. How We Fight For Our Lives

By: Saeed Jones

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Some songs take women places men cannot follow."

-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

"Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe."

-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

"I will say for myself: America, I did the best I could with what I was given."

-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

"The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness."

-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

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18. Reverse Cowgirl

By: McKenzie Wark

4.12

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

By: Aria Aber

4.50

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documenta… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"And I cannot see / their faces, who is foreign, who native."

-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

"I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window."

-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

"Ich. Ich: far from Auge, the eye. Sounds like licht, which is light, or dicht, which is dense - I, the dense light of my eyeball that strives to look forward only."

-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

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20. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

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  • queer lit
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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21. The Young and the Evil

By: Charles Henri Ford

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Note that the correct title of this book is The Young and Evil, not The Young and the Evil as seen … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • united states
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer

10 must-read fiction books like The Young and the Evil by Charles Henri Ford

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

4.15

Transform Your Habits

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

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6 Top adult books like Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

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