15 Best fiction books like Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana

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Do Everything in the Dark

By: Gary Indiana

3.90

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Gary Indiana’s newest autopsy of America’s walking dead examines the tragicomic fate of la vie bohe…

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1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. Two Serious Ladies

By: Jane Bowles

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more

Similar categories in Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. State of Grace

By: Joy Williams

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Nocturnes for the King of Naples

By: Edmund White , Michael Denneny

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startlin… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer

5. Love Junkie

By: Robert Plunket

4.50

Format: None pages,

The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more

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6. Sweet Days of Discipline

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more

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7. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

Similar categories in Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • art
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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9. Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Motherhood book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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10. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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11. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • art
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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12. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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13. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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14. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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15. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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16. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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17. Artless: Stories 2019-2023 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

By: Natasha Stagg

3.91

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.Compose… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Stagg's Artless: Stories 2019-2023 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • art
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18. Do Everything in the Dark

By: Gary Indiana

3.90

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Gary Indiana’s newest autopsy of America’s walking dead examines the tragicomic fate of la vie bohe… read more

Similar categories in Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark book and Gary Indiana's Do Everything in the Dark

  • art
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • queer
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19. 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

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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20. I'm Open to Anything

By: William E. Jones

3.95

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, William E. Jones's I'm Open to Anythin… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 21st century
  • queer
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21. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

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  • fiction
  • queer

10 Best contemporary books like Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana

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The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Motherhood

Sheila Heti

3.66

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Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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