19 best-selling queer books like Greasepaint by Hannah Levene

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Greasepaint

By: Hannah Levene

3.85

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-s…

If you liked the queer plot in Greasepaint by Hannah Levene , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. 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 Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

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

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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3. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

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5. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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6. 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 Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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8. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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9. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Cover of Greasepaint by Hannah Levene

10. Greasepaint

By: Hannah Levene

3.85

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Levene's Greasepaint book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

11. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton

12. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Dutton's Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

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13. 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 Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

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

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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14. 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

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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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15. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's Corey Fah Does Social Mobility book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman

17. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hoffman's The Prospects book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

18. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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19. Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

20. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

21. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Hannah Levene's Greasepaint

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

16 Best fiction books like Greasepaint by Hannah Levene

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Play Boy

Constance Debré

3.25

Transform Your Habits

Dykette

Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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