5 Top queer books like Losing Face by George Haddad

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Losing Face

By: George Haddad

3.97

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, Losing Face dea…

If you liked the queer plot in Losing Face by George Haddad , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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3. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. The Lovers

By: Yumna Kassab

2.95

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Iris

By: Fiona Kelly McGregor

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Kelly McGregor's Iris book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • queer
"Thought doesn't necessarily calm a person, nor does confinement calm thought."

-Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris

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6. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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7. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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9. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • australia
  • book club
  • fiction
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11. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's The In-Between book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • queer
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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12. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • book club
  • queer
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13. Son of Sin

By: Omar Sakr

3.69

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

Similar categories in Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • australia
  • audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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15. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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16. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. One Day We're All Going to Die

By: Elise Esther Hearst

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Losing Face by George  Haddad

18. Losing Face

By: George Haddad

3.97

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, Losing Face dea… read more

Similar categories in George Haddad's Losing Face book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • adult
  • book club
  • queer
Cover of Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan

19. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow book and George Haddad's Losing Face

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

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21. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook

19 must-read fiction books like Losing Face by George Haddad

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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The Lovers

Yumna Kassab

2.95

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Iris

Fiona Kelly McGregor

3.53

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Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

4.29

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Seeing Other People

Diana Reid

3.42

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No Hard Feelings

Genevieve Novak

3.80

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Madeleine Gray

3.71

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