5 must-read lgbt books like Nothing to See by Pip Adam

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Nothing to See

By: Pip Adam

3.85

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their …

If you liked the lgbt plot in Nothing to See by Pip Adam , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Trouble

By: Non Pratt

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this dazzling debut novel, a pregnant teen learns the meaning of friendship--from the boy who pr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Priestdaddy: A Memoir

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more

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3. The Rehearsal

By: Eleanor Catton

3.91

Format: None pages,

All the world's a stage - and nowhere is it that more true than at an all-girls high school, partic… read more

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4. 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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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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7. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • contemporary
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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9. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

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10. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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11. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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12. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Pip Adam's Nothing to See

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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15. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Loop Tracks

By: Sue Orr

4.16

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has t… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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18. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter

By: Noelle McCarthy

4.13

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more

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19. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Nothing to See by Pip Adam

21. Nothing to See

By: Pip Adam

3.85

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their … read more

Similar categories in Pip Adam's Nothing to See book and Pip Adam's Nothing to See

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • queer
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22. Bug Week

By: Airini Beautrais

3.90

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A grou… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. When I Open the Shop

By: romesh dissanayake

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of Lucky: Learning to live again by Louise Thompson

24. Lucky: Learning to live again

By: Louise Thompson

4.39

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you learn to live again when you've danced with death?Louise’s road to having a baby was far… read more

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25. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. All Who Live On Islands

By: Rose Lu

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate an… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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27. The New Ships

By: Kate Duignan

3.79

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife’s death. His attempts to understand the turn his lif… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Come Join Our Disease

By: Sam Byers

3.04

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Sam Byers's mastery of tone and attentiveness to every psychological shift confirms him as one of t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"For Zelma it was less about expression and more about reply. She couldn't tune out the exhortations but neither could she allow them simply to pass through her unchecked and uninterrogated. She had t…"

-Sam Byers, Come Join Our Disease

"I understood, too, what was upsetting my supposed benefactors. This wasn't about my work or my Instagram feed, or whatever uncomfortable email or phone call. Ryan and Seth had received this morning f…"

-Sam Byers, Come Join Our Disease

"But what aren't you doing already? What more can you possibly do?’ ‘I guess he means the team stuff’, I said. ‘The bonding. The camaraderie I've never really been –‘. ‘Don't start judging yourself’, …"

-Sam Byers, Come Join Our Disease

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29. Big Time

By: Jordan Prosser

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The most electrifying debut novel of 2024: Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five. Big Time is … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Prosser's Big Time book and Pip Adam's Nothing to See

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
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30. Woo Woo

By: Ella Baxter

3.50

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful … read more

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's Woo Woo book and Pip Adam's Nothing to See

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. rock flight

By: Hasib Hourani

4.83

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest —Hasib Hourani Hasib Ho… read more

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