10 must-read novels books like All the Water I've Seen Is Running by Elias Rodriques

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All the Water I've Seen Is Running

By: Elias Rodriques

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel. Along…

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1. Mrs. Ted Bliss

By: Stanley Elkin

4.50

Format: None pages,

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2. Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • 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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4. 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
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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6. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls

By: Şeyda Kurt

3.75

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

WER HAT DIE MACHT ZU HASSEN? – Erkundung eines politischen Gefühls Der Hass, dieses knirschende, z… read more

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  • audiobook
  • queer
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8. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Coleman Hill

By: Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. White Horses

By: Alice Hoffman

3.34

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the fairy-tale fantasies of girlhood and the realities of growing up When Teresa slee… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Perris, California

By: Rachel Stark

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and l… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. The Old Neighborhood

By: Avery Corman

4.05

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

A Madison Avenue adman returns to the Bronx of his youth in this New York Times bestseller by the a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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13. Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

3.59

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. All the Water I've Seen Is Running

By: Elias Rodriques

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel. Along… read more

Similar categories in Elias Rodriques's All the Water I've Seen Is Running book and Elias Rodriques's All the Water I've Seen Is Running

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Dove in the Belly

By: Jim Grimsley

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

At the University of North Carolina, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm lif… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Ben was shaking now, sobbing. Ronny watched and let it happen. Ronny wrapped Ben in the blanket. "I came to every game," he said."

-Jim Grimsley, The Dove in the Belly

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17. The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America

By: Anita Hannig

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of ou… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Saving Ruby King

By: Catherine Adel West

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the South Side of Chicago, an epic, enthralling story of a young woman determined to protect… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Just be careful. Our strengths can be our weaknesses, too."

-Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

"Sweetie, there are many things we learn in this world," she says. "Those things can make you hard, but you have a choice to not let it. You don't be the rock. you be the river. You hear me?"

-Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

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19. Lot

By: Bryan Washington

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."

-Bryan Washington, Lot

"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"

-Bryan Washington, Lot

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20. Courting Mr. Lincoln

By: Louis Bayard

3.72

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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22. Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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23. The Witches of Bellinas

By: J. Nicole Jones

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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25. Speech Team

By: Tim Murphy

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive, witty, and moving novel starring four precocious Gen X teens–turned–twenty-first-cent… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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26. The North Line

By: Matt Riordan

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Matt Riordan’s debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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27. The House of Plain Truth

By: Donna Hemans

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel of fractured family and the search to protect–or discard–what unites them, this story trace… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Ruthie Fear

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

In Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. I Want You More

By: Swan Huntley

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by Lev A.C. Rosen

30. Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.85

Format: 352 pages, None

My first time getting it in the butt was kind of weird. I think it's going to be weird for everyone… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I would not look good as a splatter on the floor. It's not my ideal body type"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)

"It's not about making myself less amazing so I blend in - it's about making sure everyone around me in their own shade of glitter."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)

"Relationships should always be handled carefully. Sex is one thing – throw your bodies together, wake up the next day – but if you want to really know someone, it’s best to remember that while you lo…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)

"So maybe you're asexual. But that is not all bad! I know it feels bad. You're pretty much in you're own version of the closet trying to figure it out. I've been there. I thought my liking boys was a …"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)

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31. 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
  • lgbt
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  • adult
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28 Best fiction books like All the Water I've Seen Is Running by Elias Rodriques

Transform Your Habits

Crooked Seeds

Karen Jennings

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

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Bryan Washington

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Jessica Shattuck

3.64

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Roxana Robinson

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Rufi Thorpe

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