20 Best queer books like All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

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Similar categories in Ling Ma's Bliss Montage book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Similar categories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

Similar categories in Meg Howrey's They're Going to Love You book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Biography of X book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• lesbian
• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

Similar categories in Hua Hsu's Stay True book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook

"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• queer

"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• lesbian
• literary fiction
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

Similar categories in Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• lesbian
• literary fiction
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

Similar categories in C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's When We Were Sisters book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• queer

Similar categories in Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• lesbian
• literary fiction
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Similar categories in Antonia Angress's Sirens & Muses book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• lesbian
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

Similar categories in Tembe Denton-Hurst's Homebodies book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Haley Jakobson's Old Enough book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• romance
• lesbian
• literary fiction
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The Town of Babylon book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Jamil Jan Kochai's The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"

-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."

-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Similar categories in Gayl Jones's The Birdcatcher book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

"You cannot grow without growing inside."

-Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different

• lesbian
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates