17 best-selling fiction books like Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

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Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif…

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1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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2. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • queer
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3. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer

4. Salt Fish Girl: A Novel

By: Larissa Lai

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form t… read more

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5. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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6. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

Similar categories in Shola von Reinhold's Lote book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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7. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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8. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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9. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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11. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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12. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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13. 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 Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • 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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14. Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more

Similar categories in Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • gender
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
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15. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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16. X

By: Davey Davis

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more

Similar categories in Davey Davis's X book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
Cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

17. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

Similar categories in M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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18. 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 Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • 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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19. Any Other City

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.14

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas

21. A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

By: June Thomas

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half … read more

Similar categories in June Thomas's A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture book and Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox

  • queer
  • lgbt

10 must-read adult books like Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Transform Your Habits

Lote

Shola von Reinhold

4.08

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Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Nevada

Imogen Binnie

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Dead Collections

Isaac Fellman

3.63

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

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Mattie Lubchansky

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