8 best-selling gay books like Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu

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Here Again Now

By: Okechukwu Nzelu

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you…

If you liked the gay plot in Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. A Natural

By: Ross Raisin

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others lo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

2. Mr Loverman

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more

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3. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. A Spell of Good Things

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
  • adult
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

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5. The Foghorn Echoes

By: Danny Ramadan

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more

Similar categories in Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."

-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes

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6. Radical Love

By: Neil Blackmore

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more

Similar categories in Neil Blackmore's Radical Love book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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7. In Defence of the Act

By: Effie Black

4.12

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more

Similar categories in Effie Black's In Defence of the Act book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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8. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

Similar categories in Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
  • adult
  • queer
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11. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. 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 Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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13. Small Joys

By: Elvin James Mensah

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more

Similar categories in Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"

-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys

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14. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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15. Sounds Like Fun

By: Bryan Moriarty

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eoin is doing great. He's 27, gainfully employed and in a long-term relationship with his boyfriend… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Moriarty's Sounds Like Fun book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • fiction
  • adult
  • gay
  • lgbt
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16. An Ordinary Wonder

By: Buki Papillon

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An Ordinary Wonder is a story of the courage needed to be yourself. Oto leaves for boarding scho… read more

Similar categories in Buki Papillon's An Ordinary Wonder book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury

17. Some Strange Music Draws Me In

By: Griffin Hansbury

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Hansbury's Some Strange Music Draws Me In book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu

18. Here Again Now

By: Okechukwu Nzelu

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you… read more

Similar categories in Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
  • adult
  • queer
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19. The Things That We Lost

By: Jyoti Patel

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

*** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE***Nik has lots of questions about his late f… read more

Similar categories in Jyoti Patel's The Things That We Lost book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. An Olive Grove in Ends

By: Moses McKenzie

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bris­tol neighborhood known as Ends, the tight-knit but s… read more

Similar categories in Moses McKenzie's An Olive Grove in Ends book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The seasons were getting ready to swap shifts. The gloom hadn't completely taken the skies but the grey that characterised the British firmament was arriving at an alarming pace."

-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends

"A car pulled up behind us ... some yutes stepped from it. They all wore masks and gloves; it was like a surgeons' convention. And in many ways it was; everyone had blood on their hands."

-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends

"Before, if someone asked me to describe her, I would've said that she was a light. One that everyone wanted for themselves . At times her energy would often be drained brightening those around her..."

-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends

"And what a strange emotion disappointment was to circumnavigate. It wasn't a mountain to climb, or a valley to trek. It didn't share the emotional highs that anger brought, nor was it low enough to w…"

-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends

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21. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Think Again book and Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 must-read fiction books like Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu

Transform Your Habits

A Natural

Ross Raisin

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Foghorn Echoes

Danny Ramadan

4.06

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20 Best fiction books like Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Transform Your Habits

Born on a Tuesday

Elnathan John

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

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