20 must-read queer books like Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

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Body Grammar

By: Jules Ohman

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling …

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1. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • 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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2. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • 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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3. The Adult

By: Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.  In the wet grass… read more

Similar categories in Bronwyn Fischer's The Adult book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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6. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

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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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • 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. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • 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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10. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • 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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12. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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13. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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. Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Angress's Sirens & Muses book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

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16. 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • 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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17. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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18. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

Similar categories in Haley Jakobson's Old Enough book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

19. Body Grammar

By: Jules Ohman

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling … read more

Similar categories in Jules Ohman's Body Grammar book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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 Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • 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. Trust and Safety

By: Laura Blackett

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A wry yet tenderhearted novel about a couple who attempt to buy their way into a “wild and precious… read more

Similar categories in Laura Blackett's Trust and Safety book and Jules Ohman's Body Grammar

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

21 best-selling fiction books like Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Yerba Buena

Nina LaCour

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Adult

Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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