19 best-selling queer books like Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney

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Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c…

If you liked the queer plot in Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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2. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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4. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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5. 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 Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • 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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6. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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7. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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9. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

10. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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11. Greasepaint

By: Hannah Levene

3.85

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Levene's Greasepaint book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Black Friend: Essays

By: Ziwe

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more

Similar categories in Ziwe's Black Friend: Essays book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."

-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays

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13. Reverse Cowgirl

By: McKenzie Wark

4.12

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were … read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. 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 Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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15. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • adult
  • audiobook
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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16. X

By: Davey Davis

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more

Similar categories in Davey Davis's X book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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17. Your Love Is Not Good

By: Johanna Hedva

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispec… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Hedva's Your Love Is Not Good book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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19. Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
  • queer
Cover of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry  Nicholas

20. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner

21. We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff

By: Isabel Waidner

3.63

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff is an innovative and critically British novel, taking issue with the d… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Waidner's We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff book and Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Reading, she says, is for the underemployed."

-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff

"How many times can you divide a minority culture—."

-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff

"We are pacifists, but we have tanks on our sweaters. (The times we live in.)"

-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff

"A stereotype is like a self-fulfilling prophecy maybe (in the popular sense of the term). You can’t escape this reductive sht, this sht defines you."

-Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff

9 best-selling adult books like Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney

Transform Your Habits

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

3.66

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Nevada

Imogen Binnie

3.97

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Greasepaint

Hannah Levene

3.85

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Black Friend: Essays

Ziwe

4.30

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10 best-selling nonfiction books like We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan

Transform Your Habits

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Kate Bornstein

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Thomas Page McBee

3.91

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Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

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We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

4.76

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