6 Best queer books like Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet…

If you liked the queer plot in Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Penpal

By: Dathan Auerbach

3.86

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Befo… read more

Similar categories in Dathan Auerbach's Penpal book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, “I wasn’t ready for you to leave. It just wasn’t time,"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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2. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

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3. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

4. Exquisite Corpse

By: Poppy Z. Brite

4.00

Format: 208 pages,

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own de… read more

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5. Tender Is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no … read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Tender Is the Flesh book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Carcass."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"She had the human look of a domesticated animal."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"un matadero debería ignorarse, fundirse con el paisaje y nunca llamarse por lo que realmente es."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"No entiendo por qué nos parece atractiva la sonrisa de una persona. Con la sonrisa uno está mostrando el esqueleto"."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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6. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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7. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's Comfort Me with Apples book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things

By: Iain Reid

3.55

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Reality only happens once." (P. 48)"

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"It hurts, all of it, but we feel nothing."

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"Every story is made up. Even the real ones."

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"I actually want to be older. I’m happy to age, seriously."

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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9. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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10. Bunny

By: Mona Awad

3.50

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Bunny book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."

-Mona Awad, Bunny

"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"

-Mona Awad, Bunny

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11. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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12. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Earthlings book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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13. We Need to Do Something

By: Max Booth III

3.42

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC … read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's We Need to Do Something book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
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14. A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers

3.77

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea G. Summers's A Certain Hunger book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

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15. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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17. Woom

By: Duncan Ralston

3.25

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning: this book contains graphic violence and sexuality most readers will find offensive. "I… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Ralston's Woom book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of 100% Match (Pocket Nasties) by Patrick C. Harrison III

18. 100% Match (Pocket Nasties)

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

3.11

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Bart is thirty. He is bald. He is overweight. He wears glasses. He is a fry cook. He hates cats. An… read more

Similar categories in Patrick C. Harrison III's 100% Match (Pocket Nasties) book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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19. Dead Inside

By: Chandler Morrison

3.29

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In this bleak and disturbingly erotic debut novel, iconoclast Chandler Morrison provides readers wi… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Morrison's Dead Inside book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Boy Parts book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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21. To Be Devoured

By: Sara Tantlinger

3.82

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more

Similar categories in Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured book and Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer

20 Top fiction books like Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Transform Your Habits

Penpal

Dathan Auerbach

3.86

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Sour Candy

Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

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20 Top fiction books like Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan

3.74

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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