20 must-read lgbt books like Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

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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…

"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"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

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

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

If you liked the lgbt plot in Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife by Eric Schlich

1. Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

By: Eric Schlich

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Eric Schlich’s Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big… read more

Similar categories in Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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5. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

6. 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

Similar categories in Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • retellings
  • 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

Cover of Angels & Man by Rafael Nicolás

7. Angels & Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.59

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

A Queer Retelling of the Watcher's Flood The angel Azazel is miserable in Heaven. In the afterma… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Nicolás's Angels & Man book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of All the World Beside by Garrard Conley

8. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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9. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Providence

By: Craig Willse

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more

Similar categories in Craig Willse's Providence book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."

-Craig Willse, Providence

Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

11. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

12. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

13. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

14. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

15. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. 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

Similar categories in Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez

17. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

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

18. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

20. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis

21. 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 Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring

  • romance
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

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