16 Best queer books like Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado

Cover of Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado

Blue Hunger

By: Viola Di Grado

3.37

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of Italy's most electrifying voices, "a powerful and original writer" (Michael Cunningham)…

If you liked the queer plot in Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Self-Portrait in Green by Jordan Stump, Marie NDiaye

1. Self-Portrait in Green

By: Jordan Stump , Marie NDiaye

3.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Stump's Self-Portrait in Green book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror

2. Promising Young Women

By: Suzanne Scanlon

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, … read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Scanlon's Promising Young Women book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

Cover of Boulder by Eva Baltasar

3. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Boulder book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

Cover of Perfume & Pain by Anna  Dorn

4. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

Cover of Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

5. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

Cover of Exhibit by R.O. Kwon

6. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Chlorine by Jade Song

7. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

Cover of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

8. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

Cover of Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women by Molly Llewellyn

9. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women

By: Molly Llewellyn

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more

Similar categories in Molly Llewellyn's Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

10. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Girls Against God by Jenny Hval

11. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Girls Against God book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

Cover of A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins

12. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis

13. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of youthjuice by E.K. Sathue

14. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado

15. Blue Hunger

By: Viola Di Grado

3.37

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of Italy's most electrifying voices, "a powerful and original writer" (Michael Cunningham)… read more

Similar categories in Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Mrs. S by K.    Patrick

16. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

Cover of Deliver Me by Elle Nash

17. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

Cover of Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger

18. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho yeeun

19. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

Cover of A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle

20. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

Similar categories in Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki

21. Medusa of the Roses

By: Navid Sinaki

3.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Sex, vengeance, and betrayal in modern day Tehran—Navid Sinaki’s bold and cinematic debut is a quee… read more

Similar categories in Navid Sinaki's Medusa of the Roses book and Viola Di Grado's Blue Hunger

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

20 Top fiction books like Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado

Transform Your Habits

Self-Portrait in Green

Jordan Stump , Marie NDiaye

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Boulder

Eva Baltasar

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

3.55

View all the books

25 must-read fiction books like Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki

Transform Your Habits

Pink Slime

Fernanda Trías

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Napalm al cor

Pol Guasch

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Thirst

Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.