8 Best queer books like The Queens' Ball by Copi

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The Queens' Ball

By: Copi

4.04

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris underground, The Queens’ Ball follows the na…

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1. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot)

By: Tennessee Williams

3.65

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow, recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting.… read more

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2. artforum

By: César Aira

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

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3. Nocturnes for the King of Naples

By: Edmund White , Michael Denneny

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startlin… read more

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  • queer
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4. Wittgenstein’s Nephew

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

4.03

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more

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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

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5. Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner

3.79

Format: 248 pages,

In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handf… read more

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6. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

By: Sarah Schulman

4.04

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebel… read more

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  • queer
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7. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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8. Victorine

By: Terry Castle , None

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Victorine is thirteen, and she can't get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its… read more

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9. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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10. Perras de reserva

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more

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"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

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11. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

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12. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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13. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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14. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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15. About Ed

By: Robert Glück

3.73

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more

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  • queer
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16. Cartoons

By: Kit Schluter

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of ou… read more

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17. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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18. The Queens' Ball

By: Copi

4.04

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris underground, The Queens’ Ball follows the na… read more

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19. Ripcord

By: Nate Lippens

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Ripcord, Lippens continues his meditations on escape and connection, class, sex and intimacy. St… read more

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20. On the Calculation of Volume I

By: Solvej Balle

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train o… read more

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21. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

By: Edmund White

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and… read more

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10 must-read fiction books like Perras de reserva by Dahlia de la Cerda

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Hurricane Season

Fernanda Melchor

4.06

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Perras de reserva

Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

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Brenda Navarro

4.07

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Liliana Blum

4.01

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