20 Best lgbt books like X by Davey Davis

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X

By: Davey Davis

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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

If you liked the lgbt plot in X by Davey Davis , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

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 Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • queer lit
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"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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3. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
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4. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • 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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5. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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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6. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

7. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Every day I am making a choice, thought Indi as she set the sample wheel onto its shelf in the freezer. Every day I decide I matter more than the people outside this place."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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9. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Davey Davis's X

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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10. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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11. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

12. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
Cover of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

13. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

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14. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

Cover of X by Davey Davis

15. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Future Feeling by Joss Lake

16. Future Feeling

By: Joss Lake

3.55

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse a young… read more

Similar categories in Joss Lake's Future Feeling book and Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The internet is just a low-grade representation of human consciousness."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"Of course, treachery is more entertaining than the repair of the world..."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"...you shouldn't try to do anything without your lawyer present. That's for poor people who get totally chewed up by the system."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"All at once, a deep sadness descended. Why hadn't I known that such possibilities existed before? Why was my childhood a series of miseries and only in my most recent phase of adulthood did delight p…"

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

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17. 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 Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
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18. Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy book and Davey Davis's X

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

19. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Davey Davis's X

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

20. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Davey Davis's X

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook

11 must-read queer lit books like X by Davey Davis

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

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

Lou Sullivan

4.76

Transform Your Habits

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Nevada

Imogen Binnie

3.97

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5 Top science fiction books like Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Transform Your Habits

Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

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