18 best-selling queer books like Burgerz by Travis Alabanza

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Burgerz

By: Travis Alabanza

4.56

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a…

If you liked the queer plot in Burgerz by Travis Alabanza , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

1. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

Cover of Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo

2. Cereus Blooms at Night

By: Shani Mootoo

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Nightunveils the myst… read more

Similar categories in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. The Blacker the Berry...

By: Wallace Thurman

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berr… read more

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4. Many Moons

By: Alice Birch

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg ha… read more

Similar categories in Alice Birch's Many Moons book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • theatre
  • plays
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5. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. The History Boys

By: Alan Bennett

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bennett's The History Boys book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • lgbt
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7. Blonde Roots

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly tur… read more

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8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • queer
  • lgbt

9. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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10. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

Similar categories in Édouard Louis's Qui a tué mon père book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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11. 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 Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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12. 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 Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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13. The Adventures of China Iron

By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

3.83

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's The Adventures of China Iron book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

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14. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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15. Rainbow Milk

By: Paul Mendez

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more

Similar categories in Paul Mendez's Rainbow Milk book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert

16. Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

By: M. Rickert

3.39

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awak… read more

Similar categories in M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

Cover of Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day

17. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Weird Fucks

By: Lynne Tillman

3.17

Format: None pages, None

Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more

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19. The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se… read more

Similar categories in Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. Neon Roses

By: Rachel Dawson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Dawson's Neon Roses book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. Burgerz

By: Travis Alabanza

4.56

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's Burgerz book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • poetry
  • drama
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of Princess & the Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba

22. Princess & the Hustler

By: Chinonyerem Odimba

3.77

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Meet Princess. A cheeky 10 year old, with a plan to win the Weston-Super-Mare Beauty Contest. Troub… read more

Similar categories in Chinonyerem Odimba's Princess & the Hustler book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • theatre
  • plays
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23. 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 Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza

24. The Iliac Crest

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.65

Format: 200 pages, ebook

On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they pro… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Rivera Garza's The Iliac Crest book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • queer
"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

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25. Never Was

By: H. Gareth Gavin

3.84

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a beautifully strange novel about grief,… read more

Similar categories in H. Gareth Gavin's Never Was book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry  Nicholas

26. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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27. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri

4.44

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more

Similar categories in Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."

-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

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28. Ear for Eye

By: debbie tucker green

4.03

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

"Marchin' days is over man." Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough… read more

Similar categories in debbie tucker green's Ear for Eye book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • theatre
  • plays
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29. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • lgbt
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships by Meg-John Barker

30. Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

By: Meg-John Barker

4.42

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves stay… read more

Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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31. Some Demon

By: Laura Waldren

4.17

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

'People say life's too short, it's not. It's too bloody long. There's too much time and too many wa… read more

Similar categories in Laura Waldren's Some Demon book and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz

  • plays

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3.87

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