What to Read After Queer
Readers who loved Queer by William S. Burroughs keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Queer is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Queer
The soft machine
Junky
Cities of the Red Night
The wild boys
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
The yage letters
The ticket that exploded
Exterminator!
The place of dead roads
The western lands
Interzone
The Cat Inside
The Dharma Bums
Notes of a dirty old man.
The subterraneans
Big Sur
Ghost of chance
Tales of ordinary madness
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
The rediscovery of North America
Miracle of the rose
Door wide open
Faggots
Hollywood