16 Top queer books like Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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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…

"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

"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

"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

If you liked the queer plot in Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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2. Firebugs

By: Nino Bulling

3.97

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Actually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with … read more

Similar categories in Nino Bulling's Firebugs book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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3. 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 Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

Similar categories in Loghan Paylor's The Cure for Drowning book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

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8. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

9. 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 Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • short stories
  • 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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10. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

Similar categories in Conor Kerr's Prairie Edge book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

11. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. 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 Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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13. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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15. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

By: Danny Ramadan

4.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more

Similar categories in Danny Ramadan's Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

16. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
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17. 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 Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Wild Failure: Stories

By: Zoe Whittall

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's Wild Failure: Stories book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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20. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's real ones book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Bluff: Poems book and Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer

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