Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit…
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- queer
"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more
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- fiction
3. Mysterious Skin
By: Scott Heim
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endur… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
4. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- horror
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
5. Breaking and Entering
By: Joy Williams
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
7. Notice
By: Heather Lewis , None
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she n… read more
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- contemporary
- horror
- fiction
- lgbt
8. 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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9. 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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10. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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11. Great Expectations
By: Kathy Acker
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, an… read more
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12. Rent Boy
By: Gary Indiana
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more
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13. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
14. 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
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- contemporary
- novels
- fiction
- horror
15. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
16. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
17. Castle Faggot
By: Derek McCormack
3.85
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
18. Amygdalatropolis
By: B.R. Yeager
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis
19. Bonding
By: Maggie Siebert
4.13
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
20. Forever
By: Thomas Moore
4.44
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more
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- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
21. Alone
By: Thomas Moore
4.45
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Has Grindr killed psychic gay powers? For Halloween I’m dressing as a YouTube video of Corey Hai… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
