11 best-selling adult books like So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

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So Lucky

By: Nicola Griffith

3.64

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a for…

"A movement made a hundred times before, a thousand times before, except this time, instead of muscle and nerve performing their everyday miracle of coordination, I tilted to the right and started to fall."

-Nicola Griffith, So Lucky

"A movement made a hundred times before, a thousand times before, except this time, instead of muscle and nerve performing their everyday miracle of coordination, I tilted to the right and started to fall."

-Nicola Griffith, So Lucky

If you liked the adult plot in So Lucky by Nicola Griffith , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Good Kings Bad Kings

By: Susan Nussbaum

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inside the halls of ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, we discover a place that … read more

Similar categories in Susan Nussbaum's Good Kings Bad Kings book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • disability
"Once I make a decision, I stick to it."

-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings

"Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend."

-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings

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2. Bodymap

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Bodymap, Lambda Award winning writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled fem… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Bodymap book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • queer
  • disability
  • lgbt

3. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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4. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Lush Lives

By: J. Vanessa Lyon

3.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With beguiling wit and undeniable passion, Lush Lives is a deliciously queer and sexy novel about b… read more

Similar categories in J. Vanessa Lyon's Lush Lives book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • disability
  • queer
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6. 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 Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Man o' War

By: Cory McCarthy

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimme… read more

Similar categories in Cory McCarthy's Man o' War book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after th…"

-Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

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8. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • disability
  • audiobook
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9. Aspects

By: John M. Ford

3.89

Format: None pages, None

"The best writer in America, bar none."—Robert JordanAt last, the final work of John M. Ford—one of… read more

Similar categories in John M. Ford's Aspects book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • adult
  • fiction
"We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all."

-John M. Ford, Aspects

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10. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

Similar categories in Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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11. The Cellars of the Majestic (Maigret, #20)

By: Georges Simenon

3.75

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurs… read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's The Cellars of the Majestic (Maigret, #20) book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Lent

By: Jo Walton

3.98

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of … read more

Similar categories in Jo Walton's Lent book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • fiction
Cover of Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy

13. Nikhil Out Loud

By: Maulik Pancholy

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor–winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, com… read more

Similar categories in Maulik Pancholy's Nikhil Out Loud book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer

14. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

By: Dexter Palmer

3.74

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed author of Version Control a stunning, powerfully evocative new novel base… read more

Similar categories in Dexter Palmer's Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"One ought to pretend that there is still hope, in this late season, for astonishment."

-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

"English gin is a drink for people who think a sin must always be accompanied by its penance."

-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

". . . calamity comes for every one of us, and assumes the shape that will be sure to hurt us most."

-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

". . . but what they were all waiting for, none could say; nor could one say whether they were all waiting for the same thing, or whether each was waiting for something entirely different."

-Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

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15. A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome

By: Ariel Henley

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it.At only eight months old, identical twin sis… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Henley's A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • disability
  • audiobook
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16. The Tangled Lands

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

17. So Lucky

By: Nicola Griffith

3.64

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a for… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's So Lucky book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • disability
  • queer
"A movement made a hundred times before, a thousand times before, except this time, instead of muscle and nerve performing their everyday miracle of coordination, I tilted to the right and started to …"

-Nicola Griffith, So Lucky

Cover of OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

18. OKPsyche

By: Anya Johanna DeNiro

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An unnamed trans woman is looking for a sense of belonging, a better relationship with her son, and… read more

Similar categories in Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

19. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • adult
  • disability
Cover of Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas

20. Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery

By: Annie Liontas

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom , Esme Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophr… read more

Similar categories in Annie Liontas's Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • disability
  • queer
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21. Or What You Will

By: Jo Walton

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of Among Others, an utterly original … read more

Similar categories in Jo Walton's Or What You Will book and Nicola Griffith's So Lucky

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Writers are not nice people. We can't be."

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

"We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?"

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

15 must-read fiction books like So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

Transform Your Habits

Good Kings Bad Kings

Susan Nussbaum

3.94

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Lush Lives

J. Vanessa Lyon

3.26

Transform Your Habits

Dykette

Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

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20 Top fiction books like Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy

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Ellen Outside the Lines

A.J. Sass

4.37

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Something Like Home

Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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The Unforgettable Logan Foster (Logan Foster, #1)

Shawn Peters

4.03

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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

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