8 best-selling historical fiction books like Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

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Cantoras

By: Carolina De Robertis

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel abo…

"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illusions of safety."

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illusions of safety."

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Delay of Game

By: Tracey Richardson

3.96

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Passion and patriotism sizzle on the ice at the Winter Olympics. It’s been a dozen years since two… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
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2. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

4.22

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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3. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • queer

4. Under the Udala Trees

By: Chinelo Okparanta

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more

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5. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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6. Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

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7. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

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  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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8. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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9. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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10. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. 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

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  • lesbian
  • feminism
  • 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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12. 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 Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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

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13. The Death of Vivek Oji

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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14. All This Could Be Different

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

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15. 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

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

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17. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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18. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

By: Bushra Rehman

3.98

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

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19. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)

By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

4.50

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks) book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • adult
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20. Cantoras

By: Carolina De Robertis

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illus…"

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena's own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at tim…"

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

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21. 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

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • 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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22. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

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  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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23. Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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24. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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25. Nie wszyscy pójdziemy do raju

By: Olga Górska

3.57

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Puszka z jasnym pełnym, w jednej ręce różaniec, w drugiej papieros, w radiu Aerosmith. Trzy dziewcz… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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26. The Thirty Names of Night

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

4.04

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more

Similar categories in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

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27. Moja ukochana i ja

By: Renata Lis

4.00

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Intymna, intelektualna i interwencyjna Książka, po którą powinna sięgnąć każda lesbijka w Polsce. … read more

Similar categories in Renata Lis's Moja ukochana i ja book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
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28. Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

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29. Hipodrom

By: Nora Iuga

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Copilăria, tinerețea și senectutea sînt cele trei borne pe care este construit bildungsromanul Nore… read more

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30. The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her temp… read more

Similar categories in Caro De Robertis's The Palace of Eros book and Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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31. The Land in Our Bones

By: Layla K. Feghali

4.51

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon an… read more

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