17 best-selling literary fiction books like Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella

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Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov…

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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2. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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3. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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4. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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5. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Confidence

By: Rafael Frumkin

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two lifelong friends, occasional lovers, and constant conmen find themselves on top of the world af… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. I Will Greet the Sun Again

By: Khashayar J. Khabushani

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Small Joys

By: Elvin James Mensah

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"

-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys

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11. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more

Similar categories in Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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13. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

Similar categories in Garrard Conley's All the World Beside book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • adult fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Ways and Means

By: Daniel Lefferts

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the l… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Lefferts's Ways and Means book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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15. Countries of Origin

By: Javier Fuentes

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two … read more

Similar categories in Javier Fuentes's Countries of Origin book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Lookback Window

By: Kyle Dillon Hertz

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice. Growing… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The great shame of your life is that you weren't raised Catholic," James said to me. "You've got suffering, but you don't have the aesthetic."

-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window

"Some people talk about their PTSD as if it's a badge of honor, and I roll my fucking eyes. I'm not trying to be the PDST-esy of them all. I ignored it for a really long time. I overdosed at seventeen…"

-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window

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17. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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18. Providence

By: Craig Willse

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."

-Craig Willse, Providence

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19. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Uranians: Stories

By: Theodore McCombs

3.90

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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21. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

21 best-selling fiction books like Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

Transform Your Habits

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane

3.93

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22 Top gay books like Confidence by Rafael Frumkin

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Confidence

Rafael Frumkin

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Late Americans

Brandon Taylor

3.38

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