Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
By: Robert Beachy
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimen…
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1. Christopher and His Kind
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
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2. The Swimming-Pool Library
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more
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3. Mr Norris Changes Trains
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more
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- germany
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4. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
By: Robert Beachy
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimen… read more
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- historical
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5. The Thief's Journal
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
3.00
Format: 144 pages,
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying… read more
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6. Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4)
By: Anthony Trollope
3.99
Format: None pages,
After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons. But … read more
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7. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
By: Michael Warner
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Michael Warner, one of our most brilliant social critics, argues that gay marriage and other moves … read more
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8. 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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9. How to Be Gay
By: David M. Halperin
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his ey… read more
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10. 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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11. Goodbye to Berlin
By: Christopher Isherwood
3.95
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more
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12. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
By: Alan Downs
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more
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13. 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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14. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
By: James Hannaham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more
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15. 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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- germany
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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
16. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
By: Jenn Shapland
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more
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17. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
18. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
By: Matt Baume
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more
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19. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
20. The Inheritance
By: Matthew López
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more
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"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
21. Beautiful Star
By: Yukio Mishima
3.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father fro… read more
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"Every morning, the newspapers are crammed full of human-interest stories, and on television we see one human after another. When animals do make an occasional appearance, they are ascribed human char…"-Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star
