17 Top fiction books like Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas

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Manywhere: Stories

By: Morgan Thomas

3.81

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra…

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1. We the Animals

By: Justin Torres

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's We the Animals book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

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2. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child: Stories book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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5. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Gods of Want: Stories book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

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6. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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8. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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9. My Government Means to Kill Me

By: Rasheed Newson

4.25

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more

Similar categories in Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

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10. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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11. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. With Teeth

By: Kristen Arnett

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things a surprising and mov… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Arnett's With Teeth book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"She wasn't sure if ghosts were real, but she believed in magic. Wasn't motherhood a sleight of hand?"

-Kristen Arnett, With Teeth

Cover of Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons

13. Black Light

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.79

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden plac… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's Black Light book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • short story collection
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's me, it's me, it's me."

-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light

"Death is just a countdown to the calm"

-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light

"Every mother rages sometimes--this is called "parenting."

-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light

"I ask her: Wouldn't it be easier to just give death a different name?"

-Kimberly King Parsons, Black Light

Cover of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

14. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • queer lit
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. Sarahland

By: Sam Cohen

3.95

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story coll… read more

Similar categories in Sam Cohen's Sarahland book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"That's how it is with nations," we hear Mother Nature croak from her deathbed. "Nations war."

-Sam Cohen, Sarahland

"It seemed like everyone was wrapping themselves in chrysali and having late-in-life emergences as different kinds of creatures, and what this made clear was that we weren't becoming anything. We felt…"

-Sam Cohen, Sarahland

"Being a tree, affirmation would feel different. Love would feel different. We would be happiest if our soil was full of microbes chatting. We would be happiest if the soil was rich enough to contain …"

-Sam Cohen, Sarahland

Cover of Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn  Harlan

16. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Harlan's Fruiting Bodies: Stories book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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17. Rainbow Rainbow

By: Lydia Conklin

3.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the qu… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Conklin's Rainbow Rainbow book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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18. Manywhere: Stories

By: Morgan Thomas

3.81

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • short story collection
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Slug and Other Stories

By: Megan Milks

3.95

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls i… read more

Similar categories in Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
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20. 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 Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • 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

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21. Brown Neon

By: Raquel Gutiérrez

3.92

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artis… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Gutiérrez's Brown Neon book and Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"It was losing faith that got easy."

-Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

"Maybe I was too educated and too spoiled, and that meant never having to settle for marriage to strengthen my economic lot the way my mother had to do..."

-Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

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Justin Torres

3.72

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Yiyun Li

3.75

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Henry Hoke

4.01

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We Were the Universe

Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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