6 must-read queer books like Oye by Melissa Mogollon

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Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo…

If you liked the queer plot in Oye by Melissa Mogollon , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

1. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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2. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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3. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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4. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

Similar categories in Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

Similar categories in Essie J. Chambers's Swift River book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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7. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

Cover of Bear by Julia  Phillips

8. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

9. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Cover of Oye by Melissa Mogollon

10. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

11. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

Cover of Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris

12. Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more

Similar categories in Terah Shelton Harris's Long After We Are Gone book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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14. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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15. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

16. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez

18. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. The World After Alice

By: Lauren Aliza Green

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Aliza Green's The World After Alice book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

20. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Mother Cursed My Name by Anamely Salgado Reyes

21. My Mother Cursed My Name

By: Anamely Salgado Reyes

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they… read more

Similar categories in Anamely Salgado Reyes's My Mother Cursed My Name book and Melissa Mogollon's Oye

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like Oye by Melissa Mogollon

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Julia Alvarez

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Jessica Shattuck

3.64

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Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Catherine Newman

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