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Top Ten Books

Below are Brandon Taylor's favorite books, available to purchase individually or as a set. See the full list...

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Poems 1962-2012

Louise Glück

Glück is my favorite poet, and for most of my life, her rhythms and austerity have governed the way my prose moves and sounds. I wouldn’t be a writer without her poems, which brim with wisdom and lucid brutality, and this book collects most of her work into one really elegant volume.

9

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

This has been on my list forever, but it’s been getting a lot of attention lately because of Todd Haynes’ excellent movie adaptation, “Carol.” It was the first novel about lesbians to have a happy ending, but it’s also a really unnerving and propulsive story, like all of Patricia Highsmith’s books. She originally published it under a pseudonym so it didn’t wreck her career.

8

Call Me by Your Name

Andre Aciman

I read this book as a lonely 18-year old far away from home for the first time, and it cracked my whole universe open. I hadn’t read a book about queer life and adolescence before, and this one was just perfect.
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Maaza Mengiste
$162.79
Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison
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Tsitsi Dangarembga
$187.85
Small Country

Gaël Faye
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Douglas Stuart
$175.84
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson
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Lily Cole
$174.91
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari
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Damian Barr
$161.93
On Forgiveness

Richard Holloway
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Meghan Udell
$204.68
The Moving Finger

Agatha Christie
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Phoebe Bridgers
$152.92
Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado
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Samantha Irby
$147.89
One Hundred Demons

Lynda Barry
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David Gray
$195.88
The Reality Dysfunction

Peter F. Hamilton