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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Queer (8 books)

The best classic books from the Queer genre.

Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

3.0 (1)

I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne.

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Tales of the City

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

4.0 (3)

Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein

4.0 (3)

I was born in San Francisco, California.

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown

4.0 (3)

No one remembers her beginnings.

#440
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Nightwood

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

3.33 (3)

Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein—a Viennese woman of great strength and military beauty, lying upon a canopied bed of a rich spectacular crimson, the valance stamped with the bifurcated wings of the House of Hapsburg, the feather coverlet an envelope of satin on which, in massive and tarnished gold threads, stood the Volkbein arms—gave birth, at the age of forty-five, to an only child, a son, seven days after her physician predicted that she would be taken.

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Our Lady of the Flowers

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet

2.67 (3)

#551
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Hogg

Hogg

Samuel R. Delany

2.75 (4)

#584
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In Memoriam to Identity

In Memoriam to Identity

Kathy Acker

3.0 (1)

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