19 best-selling queer books like Lote by Shola von Reinhold

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Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright …

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Cover of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany

1. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

By: Samuel R. Delany

4.18

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seven… read more

Similar categories in Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • lgbt
  • queer
"A glib wisdom holds that people like this just don’t want relationships. They have “problems with intimacy."

-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

"In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never “outside all social constraint."

-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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3. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Orlando book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • novels
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

4. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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5. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more

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6. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

Similar categories in Selby Wynn Schwartz's After Sappho book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

Cover of Lote by Shola von Reinhold

7. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

Similar categories in Shola von Reinhold's Lote book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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8. 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

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

9. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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10. 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

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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11. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

Cover of A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

12. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of Raving by McKenzie Wark

13. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Raving book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

14. Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more

Similar categories in Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner

15. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's Corey Fah Does Social Mobility book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

16. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

17. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Cover of 付き合ってあげてもいいかな 3 [Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii ka na 3] (How Do We Relationship?, #3) by Tamifull

18. 付き合ってあげてもいいかな 3 [Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii ka na 3] (How Do We Relationship?, #3)

By: Tamifull

4.10

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

すべてを知りたい、知られたくない。 全てを委ねてほしいみわと、 自分をさらけ出すことができない冴子。 互いにもどかしい気持ちを抱える恋人同士の二人。 そんな中、高校の同窓会を控え 初恋… read more

Similar categories in Tamifull's 付き合ってあげてもいいかな 3 [Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii ka na 3] (How Do We Relationship?, #3) book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

19. Sterling Karat Gold

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and … read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
Cover of Girlfriends by Emily Zhou

20. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

21. Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Shola von Reinhold's Lote

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

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The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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Orlando

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3.87

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After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

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Shola von Reinhold

4.08

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4.50

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Casey Plett

4.07

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Leslie Feinberg

4.43

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Jenny Hval

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