8 must-read lgbt books like Home After Dark by David Small

Cover of Home After Dark by David Small

Home After Dark

By: David Small

3.66

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed Calif…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Home After Dark by David Small , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Boundless

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

The cartoonist of This One Summerand SuperMutant Magic Academyexplores the virtual and IRL world of… read more

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2. Patience

By: Daniel Clowes

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Patienceis a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent de… read more

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3. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Clowes's Monica book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Flamer by Mike Curato

4. Flamer

By: Mike Curato

4.32

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more

Similar categories in Mike Curato's Flamer book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
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5. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Crane's Keeping Two book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

6. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
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7. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Cover of Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame by Erin   Williams

8. Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

By: Erin Williams

3.73

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women mus… read more

Similar categories in Erin Williams's Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
"Perspective can be hard to come by, when you spend most of your time licking your own wounds."

-Erin Williams, Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

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9. The Phantom Twin

By: Lisa Brown

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival frea… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel by Chiara Lagani

10. My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel

By: Chiara Lagani

3.35

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Elena Ferrante’s New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend , book one of her Neap… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Lagani's My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

11. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

Similar categories in Lee Lai's Stone Fruit book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Hide: The Graphic Novel by Kiersten White

12. Hide: The Graphic Novel

By: Kiersten White

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition in an abandoned amusement park comes to life in this graphi… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Hide: The Graphic Novel book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs

13. ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico

By: Christine Suggs

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"An absolutely heartwarming and vibrant story of belonging, family, and the meaning of home. This b… read more

Similar categories in Christine Suggs's ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
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14. Parallel

By: Matthias Lehmann

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Karl Klings Geschichte ist eine Offenbarung. Eine Offenbarung gegenüber seiner Tochter Hella, die v… read more

Similar categories in Matthias Lehmann's Parallel book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Our Little Secret by Emily  Carrington

15. Our Little Secret

By: Emily Carrington

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carrington's Our Little Secret book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Home After Dark by David Small

16. Home After Dark

By: David Small

3.66

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed Calif… read more

Similar categories in David Small's Home After Dark book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of Hilda and the Mountain King (Hilda, #6) by Luke Pearson

17. Hilda and the Mountain King (Hilda, #6)

By: Luke Pearson

4.58

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

See what perils await our beloved blue-haired adventurer in the sixth book of Luke Pearson’s widely… read more

Similar categories in Luke Pearson's Hilda and the Mountain King (Hilda, #6) book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Tender by Beth Hetland

18. Tender

By: Beth Hetland

3.91

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

A psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life… read more

Similar categories in Beth Hetland's Tender book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Night Bus by Zuo Ma

19. Night Bus

By: Zuo Ma

3.16

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Quando cala l’oscurità, i mezzi pubblici smettono di circolare. Il solo modo che hai per tornare a … read more

Similar categories in Zuo Ma's Night Bus book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho

20. Onion Skin

By: Edgar Camacho

3.11

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Rolando's job was crushing him... and then it literally crushed his hand. Now he can barely get out… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Camacho's Onion Skin book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness

21. Time Under Tension

By: M.S. Harkness

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for d… read more

Similar categories in M.S. Harkness's Time Under Tension book and David Small's Home After Dark

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

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3.95

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