18 best-selling queer books like OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

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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…

If you liked the queer plot in OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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2. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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3. 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 Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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4. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. People Collide

By: Isle McElroy

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more

Similar categories in Isle McElroy's People Collide book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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7. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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8. 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 Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. 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 Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. 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 Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • 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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12. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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13. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

14. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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15. Landscapes

By: Christine Lai

3.78

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more

Similar categories in Christine Lai's Landscapes book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • science fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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 Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • adult
  • science fiction
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17. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

18. These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

By: Izzy Wasserstein

3.70

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces h… read more

Similar categories in Izzy Wasserstein's These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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20. 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 Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Anya Johanna DeNiro's OKPsyche

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

20 Best fiction books like OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

Transform Your Habits

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Transform Your Habits

People Collide

Isle McElroy

3.55

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21 must-read fiction books like These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Transform Your Habits

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Ray Nayler

3.85

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