7 Best queer books like Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde

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Eleutheria

By: Allegra Hyde

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman’s quest for…

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1. The Quick and the Dead

By: Joy Williams

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is… read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
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2. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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3. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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4. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

Similar categories in Lorrie Moore's I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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6. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's Dinosaurs book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • environment
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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7. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • environment
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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8. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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10. Avalon

By: Nell Zink

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of… read more

Similar categories in Nell Zink's Avalon book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
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11. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

Similar categories in C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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12. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Mobility

By: Lydia Kiesling

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kiesling's Mobility book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • environment
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • fiction
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15. The Guest Lecture

By: Martin Riker

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more

Similar categories in Martin Riker's The Guest Lecture book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Korn's Yours for the Taking book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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17. The Book of Ayn

By: Lexi Freiman

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more

Similar categories in Lexi Freiman's The Book of Ayn book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"

-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn

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18. Endpapers

By: Jennifer Savran Kelly

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Savran Kelly's Endpapers book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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19. Eleutheria

By: Allegra Hyde

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A story of idealism, activism, and systemic corruption, centered on a naïve young woman’s quest for… read more

Similar categories in Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • climate change fiction
  • climate change
  • novels
  • science fiction
  • environment
  • queer
Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

20. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • fiction
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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21. Virtue

By: Hermione Hoby

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: … read more

Similar categories in Hermione Hoby's Virtue book and Allegra Hyde's Eleutheria

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Joy Williams

4.06

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3.24

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3.78

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Beautyland

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Miranda July

3.81

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3.63

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4.34

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