19 must-read lgbt books like A World Between by Emily Hashimoto

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A World Between

By: Emily Hashimoto

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 2004, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the …

"Leena pulled Eleanor back to her, and this kiss was the one to ruin empires and build cathedrals and change the universe, with flashes of yearning that went beyond kissing, with a passion first honed as college kids."

-Emily Hashimoto, A World Between

"Leena pulled Eleanor back to her, and this kiss was the one to ruin empires and build cathedrals and change the universe, with flashes of yearning that went beyond kissing, with a passion first honed as college kids."

-Emily Hashimoto, A World Between

If you liked the lgbt plot in A World Between by Emily Hashimoto , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Marriage of a Thousand Lies

By: S.J. Sindu

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conserv… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Sindu's Marriage of a Thousand Lies book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

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2. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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3. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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4. Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's Yerba Buena book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

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5. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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6. 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 Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • lesbian
  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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7. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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8. Wild Things

By: Laura Kay

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two best friends. One huge crush. A year that could change everything... A warmhearted, hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Laura Kay's Wild Things book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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10. We Do What We Do in the Dark

By: Michelle Hart

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

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11. All This Could Be Different

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

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12. 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 Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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13. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. 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 Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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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15. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

Similar categories in Zaina Arafat's You Exist Too Much book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

Cover of Here for the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen

16. Here for the Wrong Reasons

By: Annabel Paulsen

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this swoon-filled lesbian romcom, two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the lea… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Paulsen's Here for the Wrong Reasons book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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17. Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

By: Jill Gutowitz

3.81

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essa… read more

Similar categories in Jill Gutowitz's Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • adult
  • queer
"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

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18. Well-Behaved Indian Women

By: Saumya Dave

3.78

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generation… read more

Similar categories in Saumya Dave's Well-Behaved Indian Women book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of A World Between by Emily Hashimoto

19. A World Between

By: Emily Hashimoto

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 2004, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Hashimoto's A World Between book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"Leena pulled Eleanor back to her, and this kiss was the one to ruin empires and build cathedrals and change the universe, with flashes of yearning that went beyond kissing, with a passion first honed…"

-Emily Hashimoto, A World Between

Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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 Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • lesbian
  • adult 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 These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere

21. These Letters End in Tears

By: Musih Tedji Xaviere

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wren… read more

Similar categories in Musih Tedji Xaviere's These Letters End in Tears book and Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

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Anna Dorn

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Meryl Wilsner

3.77

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3.87

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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