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Books like Faggots
A frantic, sweat-soaked descent into 1970s gay hedonism that masks a desperate, aching plea for true love. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Faggots.
- hedonistic
- chaotic
- desperate
- sweat-soaked
- claustrophobic
- 01
The Sluts
Dennis Cooper
A dizzying, voyeuristic descent into an internet forum where desire, myth, and extreme violence blur into a terrifying hall of mirrors.
- 02
Dancer from the Dance
Andrew Holleran
A glittering, tragic love letter to the endless nights and profound loneliness of 1970s queer New York.
- 03
City of Night
John Rechy
An unflinching, neon-lit journey through the gritty margins of mid-century America, pulsing with restless energy and the search for self.
- 04
Closer
Dennis Cooper
A dark, unflinching exploration of obsessive desire and the destructive search for meaning in the hollows of middle America.
- 05
A boy's own story
Edmund White · 1983
A lush, deeply introspective journey through the lonely, sensual labyrinth of a queer adolescence.
- 06
The Lord Won't Mind
Gordon Merrick · 1999
A lush, unapologetic vintage soap opera that revels in the glamorous, turbulent throes of forbidden romance.
- 07
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg · 1993
A raw, unflinching, and deeply tender testament to surviving in a world that refuses to make space for you.
- 08
B-boy blues
James Earl Hardy · 1994
A vibrant, unapologetic collision of hip-hop culture and queer romance set against the electric backdrop of 1990s New York City.
- 09
After Delores
Sarah Schulman · 1988
A gritty, neon-lit descent into heartbreak and obsession set against the raw backdrop of 1980s queer New York.
- 10
Midnight cowboy ; a novel
James Leo Herlihy
A heartbreaking, neon-lit descent into urban squalor that finds unexpected tenderness in the darkest corners of the American Dream.
- 11
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1993
A devastating, beautifully written confession of doomed love and the tragic cost of denying one's own heart.
- 12
Almost like being in love
Steve Kluger
A witty, mixed-media romp through the bittersweet nostalgia of first love and the hilarious, heart-pounding leap of trying to win it back.
