8 Top queer books like Vagablonde by Anna Dorn

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Vagablonde

By: Anna Dorn

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom…

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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2. 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 Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • 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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4. Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voic… read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Vacuum in the Dark book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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6. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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7. 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 Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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8. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

Similar categories in Jessie Gaynor's The Glow book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

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9. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. 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 Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

12. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • 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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15. Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more

Similar categories in Katya Apekina's Mother Doll book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • literature
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Vagablonde by Anna  Dorn

16. Vagablonde

By: Anna Dorn

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Vagablonde book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

17. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

18. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia

20. The Most Famous Girl in the World

By: Iman Hariri-Kia

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Stars―they're just like us! Except much, much worse. Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phon… read more

Similar categories in Iman Hariri-Kia's The Most Famous Girl in the World book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Kill For Love

By: Laura Picklesimer

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more

Similar categories in Laura Picklesimer's Kill For Love book and Anna Dorn's Vagablonde

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

21 must-read fiction books like Vagablonde by Anna Dorn

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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All-Night Pharmacy

Ruth Madievsky

3.52

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Vacuum in the Dark

Jen Beagin

3.60

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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