11 Best lgbt books like Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky

Cover of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky

Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

By: Paul Lisicky

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Lure: A Novel

By: Felice Picano

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In 1979, Felice Picano rocketed to fame with the publication of this shocking, controversial thrill… read more

Similar categories in Felice Picano's The Lure: A Novel book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt

2. Firebird

By: Mark Doty

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Firebird,Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, … read more

Similar categories in Mark Doty's Firebird book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer

3. Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

By: Mark Doty

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation a… read more

Similar categories in Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer

4. Role Models

By: John Waters

4.01

Format: None pages,

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that wil… read more

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5. The Day of the Locust

By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more

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6. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • historical
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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8. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
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9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. 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 Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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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11. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O'Connell's Just by Looking at Him book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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12. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

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13. The Body in Question

By: Jill Ciment

3.59

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Sov… read more

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14. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.25

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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15. Lot

By: Bryan Washington

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Lot book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."

-Bryan Washington, Lot

"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"

-Bryan Washington, Lot

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16. 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 Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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17. The Town of Babylon

By: Alejandro Varela

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The Town of Babylon book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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18. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lin's Here After book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky

19. Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

By: Paul Lisicky

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World book and Paul Lisicky's Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • queer lit
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Shrapnel Maps

By: Philip Metres

4.48

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres' fourth … read more

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Cover of The Honeymoon Homicides: A Provincetown Mystery (Sydney Riley Series) by Jeannette de Beauvoir

21. The Honeymoon Homicides: A Provincetown Mystery (Sydney Riley Series)

By: Jeannette de Beauvoir

4.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Despite an unforeseen disaster ruining her carefully planned wedding reception, hotelier Sydney Ril… read more

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Firebird

Mark Doty

3.92

Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Mark Doty

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

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