29 must-read queer books like Greenland by David Santos Donaldson

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Greenland

By: David Santos Donaldson

3.80

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young auth…

If you liked the queer plot in Greenland by David Santos Donaldson , here is a list of 29 books like this:

1. Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more

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2. 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 David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • 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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3. 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

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical 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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4. The Whale Tattoo

By: Jon Ransom

3.75

Format: None pages, None

Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more

Similar categories in Jon Ransom's The Whale Tattoo book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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5. 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

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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6. 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

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • queer
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7. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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8. The Kingdom of Sand

By: Andrew Holleran

3.51

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Holleran's The Kingdom of Sand book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for"

-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand

"When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one …"

-Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand

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9. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O'Connell's Just by Looking at Him book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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10. My Government Means to Kill Me

By: Rasheed Newson

4.25

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more

Similar categories in Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

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11. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

Similar categories in Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. 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

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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13. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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14. 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 David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. Tweakerworld

By: Jason Yamas

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francis… read more

Similar categories in Jason Yamas's Tweakerworld book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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17. 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

Similar categories in Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • 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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18. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Greenland

By: David Santos Donaldson

3.80

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young auth… read more

Similar categories in David Santos Donaldson's Greenland book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Homebodies

By: Tembe Denton-Hurst

3.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more

Similar categories in Tembe Denton-Hurst's Homebodies book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. The Town of Babylon

By: Alejandro Varela

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The Town of Babylon book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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22. 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 David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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23. 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 David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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24. 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 David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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25. 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

Similar categories in Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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26. 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 David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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27. 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

Similar categories in Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro  Varela

28. The People Who Report More Stress

By: Alejandro Varela

3.87

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The People Who Report More Stress book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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29. Up With the Sun

By: Thomas Mallon

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York C… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mallon's Up With the Sun book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

30. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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31. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and David Santos Donaldson's Greenland

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

28 Top fiction books like Greenland by David Santos Donaldson

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The New Life

Tom Crewe

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Whale Tattoo

Jon Ransom

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

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16 Top fiction books like The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela

Transform Your Habits

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Consequences: Stories

Manuel Muñoz

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Late Americans

Brandon Taylor

3.38

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