6 best-selling lgbt books like Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić

Cover of Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić

Call Me Esteban

By: Lejla Kalamujić

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

With unapologetic vividness, Lejla Kalamujic depicts pre- and post-war Sarajevo by charting a daugh…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Music of a Life by Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan

1. Music of a Life

By: Andreï Makine , Geoffrey Strachan

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

May 24, 1941: Alexei Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow.… read more

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  • fiction

2. Adios, Cowboy

By: Celia Hawkesworth , Olja Savičević Ivančević

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

A gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer of the country's "lost generation" Dad… read more

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3. Štefica Cvek u raljama života

By: Dubravka Ugrešić

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Volite li "ljubice"? Sto god mislili o njima, uzivat cete u ovom vrhunskom pastisu trivijalnih ljub… read more

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4. Permagel

By: Eva Baltasar

3.85

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Permagel book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

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5. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki

6. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

Cover of Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

7. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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8. Catch the Rabbit

By: Lana Bastašić

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia… read more

Similar categories in Lana Bastašić's Catch the Rabbit book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"He reads books that are not for school as if he has nothing better to do with his time."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"His hair was just like yours - black, uncombed, as if someone had left it behind on his head."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

Cover of Mliječni zubi by Lana Bastašić

9. Mliječni zubi

By: Lana Bastašić

4.00

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Nova knjiga priča Lane Bastašić ulazi u područja bizarnog, neobičnog, čudnog i gotovo strašnog. Taj… read more

Similar categories in Lana Bastašić's Mliječni zubi book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda by Milica Vučković

10. Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda

By: Milica Vučković

3.81

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Snažna, iskrena, poetična, ali nikako i patetična knjiga koja rasvetljava kompleksne sisteme manipu… read more

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  • fiction
"O odlasku treba razmišljati kao o povratku sebi."

-Milica Vučković, Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda

"Lepota se može naći i u odsustvu, ali je prisustvo sigurnije, ušuškanije. Ili smo samo nesigurni?"

-Milica Vučković, Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda

"Svašta je u meni budila. Tugu, bes, inat. Ima nešto u svedočenju tuđem bolu što vas rasturi na komade. Život može uvek da se živi iz početka, ali se svaki put drugačije sastavimo."

-Milica Vučković, Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda

"Čovek odraste, shvatila sam, tek onda kada na roditelje počne da gleda kao na ljude, samo ljude, koji nemaju nikakvu moć, nikakav čarobni štap za rešavanje problema, i oni isto lutaju, pokušavaju, po…"

-Milica Vučković, Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda

Cover of My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović

11. My Heart

By: Semezdin Mehmedinović

4.29

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

An intimate work of autobiographical fiction by one of ex-Yugoslavia's greatest writers about his f… read more

Similar categories in Semezdin Mehmedinović's My Heart book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours"."

-Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

"And in fact, I am a foreigner everywhere in the world: as soon as I leave my home, I step into a void."

-Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

"Najbolje fotografije uvijek ostanu nesnimljene. To je u redu. Ne treba sve završiti na fotografiji. Ono što je najvažnije treba da ostane u sjećanju."

-Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

"Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizička pitanja o svijetu, životu i čovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ćemo ovdje biti samo jednom i ka…"

-Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart

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12. Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima

By: Radmila Petrović

4.51

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

U mom selu postoje pokorne žene i mrtve žene. Nikad zaista nisam napustila to mesto, nikad se useli… read more

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"a sad, kojim ćeš me travama lečiti od topline njenih usana"

-Radmila Petrović, Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima

"njega dugo nisam videla veliki je ovaj grad, tata ali nema veze, srešćemo se mi se uvek sretnemo"

-Radmila Petrović, Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima

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13. Space Struck

By: Paige Lewis

4.07

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more

Similar categories in Paige Lewis's Space Struck book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • queer
  • lgbt
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

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14. Ungeenheden

By: Fine Gråbøl

3.68

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more

Similar categories in Fine Gråbøl's Ungeenheden book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • fiction
"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."

-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden

Cover of A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon

15. A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems

By: Emily Jungmin Yoon

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta… read more

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16. The Half-God of Rainfall

By: Inua Ellams

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall … read more

Similar categories in Inua Ellams's The Half-God of Rainfall book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • fiction
Cover of Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić

17. Call Me Esteban

By: Lejla Kalamujić

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

With unapologetic vividness, Lejla Kalamujic depicts pre- and post-war Sarajevo by charting a daugh… read more

Similar categories in Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui

18. All Men Want to Know

By: Nina Bouraoui

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'I wonder who among the crowd has just fallen in love, whose lover has just left them, who has just… read more

Similar categories in Nina Bouraoui's All Men Want to Know book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"They're the same boys who insult my mother, expose themselves to her, lust after her. I share their violence, but I turn it against myself."

-Nina Bouraoui, All Men Want to Know

"I watch unseen as she prays, kneeling on her prayer carpet, hands raised. Her fervour is palpable and I'm envious of it. She's part of a world I don't know, a world that seems kinder than mine."

-Nina Bouraoui, All Men Want to Know

"The gay child is not lacking, she is difference, outside of the norm, inside a normality of her own; not until later will she come to understand that her normality marks her out from others, condemns…"

-Nina Bouraoui, All Men Want to Know

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19. Mars

By: Asja Bakić

3.85

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with makin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

20. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

Similar categories in Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat book and Lejla Kalamujić's Call Me Esteban

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki

21. Gifted

By: Suzumi Suzuki

3.22

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious … read more

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  • fiction

13 Best fiction books like Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić

Transform Your Habits

Music of a Life

Andreï Makine , Geoffrey Strachan

2.60

Transform Your Habits

Permagel

Eva Baltasar

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Terminal Boredom: Stories

Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Catch the Rabbit

Lana Bastašić

3.89

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Transform Your Habits

Estoril

Dejan Tiago-Stanković

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Moj muž

Румена Бужаровска , Rumena Bužarovska , Ivica Baković

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Komo

Srđan Valjarević

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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Miodrag Majić

4.39

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