7 Best queer books like Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

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Sterling Karat Gold

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and …

If you liked the queer plot in Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Verderame by Michele Mari

1. Verderame

By: Michele Mari

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

La memoria di Felice si sta sbriciolando: per tutta la vita si e occupato della grande casa di camp… read more

Similar categories in Michele Mari's Verderame book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. The Emperor's Babe

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.24

Format: 200 pages,

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Similar categories in Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

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3. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

Cover of Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien

5. Diego Garcia

By: Natasha Soobramanien

3.89

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Soobramanien's Diego Garcia book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Open Throat by Henry Hoke

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 Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Lote by Shola von Reinhold

7. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

Similar categories in Shola von Reinhold's Lote book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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8. 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

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • 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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9. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. The Forgery

By: Ave Barrera

3.91

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish va… read more

Similar categories in Ave Barrera's The Forgery book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño.…"

-Ave Barrera, The Forgery

"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidie…"

-Ave Barrera, The Forgery

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11. Red Pill

By: Hari Kunzru

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more

Similar categories in Hari Kunzru's Red Pill book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

Cover of It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

12. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Cover of Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman

13. Weird Fucks

By: Lynne Tillman

3.17

Format: None pages, None

Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Tillman's Weird Fucks book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi

14. Parasol Against the Axe

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more

Similar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky

15. An Inventory of Losses

By: Judith Schalansky

3.36

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more

Similar categories in Judith Schalansky's An Inventory of Losses book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literature
  • contemporary
Cover of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

16. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

By: M. John Harrison

3.39

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a deca… read more

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • novels
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Keeping the House by Tice Cin

17. Keeping the House

By: Tice Cin

3.39

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that’s where we put the heroin… Imagine… read more

Similar categories in Tice Cin's Keeping the House book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

18. Sterling Karat Gold

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and … read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • british literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
Cover of Emergency by Daisy Hildyard

19. Emergency

By: Daisy Hildyard

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Hildyard's Emergency book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Never Was by H. Gareth Gavin

20. Never Was

By: H. Gareth Gavin

3.84

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a beautifully strange novel about grief,… read more

Similar categories in H. Gareth Gavin's Never Was book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

21. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

18 must-read fiction books like Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

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Verderame

Michele Mari

4.00

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I'm a Fan

Sheena Patel

3.32

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Diego Garcia

Natasha Soobramanien

3.89

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Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

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The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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Orlando

Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

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After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

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Lote

Shola von Reinhold

4.08

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