9 best-selling queer books like The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor

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The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-…

If you liked the queer plot in The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Late Nights on Air

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.… read more

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2. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
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3. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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4. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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5. A Sweet Sting of Salt

By: Rose Sutherland

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more

Similar categories in Rose Sutherland's A Sweet Sting of Salt book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more

Similar categories in Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • adult
  • fiction
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7. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Graham's The Secret Keeper book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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8. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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9. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

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  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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10. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

Similar categories in Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • queer
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11. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

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12. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

Similar categories in Shilpi Somaya Gowda's A Great Country book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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13. Moon Road

By: Sarah Leipciger

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Leipciger's Moon Road book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • fiction
Cover of The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1) by Laura R. Samotin

14. The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

By: Laura R. Samotin

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing … read more

Similar categories in Laura R. Samotin's The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1) book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"It's not shameful to seek help for a wound," Mischa continued. "Whether a wound to your body, or one to your mind."

-Laura R. Samotin, The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

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15. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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16. A Man Downstairs

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? From the acclaimed author … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Lundrigan's A Man Downstairs book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

17. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

Similar categories in Conor Kerr's Prairie Edge book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • novels
  • fiction
  • canada
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18. Unrest

By: Gwen Tuinman

4.25

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fan… read more

Similar categories in Gwen Tuinman's Unrest book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • historical fiction
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

19. 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

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • queer
Cover of Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir by Danny Ramadan

20. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

By: Danny Ramadan

4.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more

Similar categories in Danny Ramadan's Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
Cover of We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr

21. We Rip the World Apart

By: Charlene Carr

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhoo… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Carr's We Rip the World Apart book and Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club

18 best-selling fiction books like The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

A Sweet Sting of Salt

Rose Sutherland

3.88

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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