21 Top queer books like Uranians: Stories by Theodore McCombs

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Uranians: Stories

By: Theodore McCombs

3.90

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “…

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Cover of Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Andrew Driver

1. Paprika

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui , Andrew Driver

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

When prototype models of a device for entering into patients' dreams go missing at the Institute fo… read more

Similar categories in Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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3. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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4. 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 Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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5. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. 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 Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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8. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
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9. Do You Remember Being Born?

By: Sean Michaels

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more

Similar categories in Sean Michaels's Do You Remember Being Born? book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

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10. 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

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Let's Get Back to the Party

By: Zak Salih

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What Does It Mean to Be a Gay Man Today? It’s just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage … read more

Similar categories in Zak Salih's Let's Get Back to the Party book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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12. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

Similar categories in Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. 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 Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative 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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14. Flowers of Mold

By: Ha Seong-nan

3.54

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Praised for her meticulous descriptions and ability to transform the mundanity of everyday life int… read more

Similar categories in Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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15. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more

Similar categories in Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
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17. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

Similar categories in Djuna's Counterweight book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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19. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

By: Jamil Jan Kochai

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more

Similar categories in Jamil Jan Kochai's The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"

-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."

-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

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20. 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 Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Jewel Box

By: E. Lily Yu

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A luminous collection of short fiction by award-winning writer E. Lily Yu, Jewel Box showcases inca… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's Jewel Box book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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22. My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

3.37

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more

Similar categories in Brando Skyhorse's My Name Is Iris book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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23. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Betancourt's The Male Gazed book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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24. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

Similar categories in Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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25. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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26. The People Who Report More Stress

By: Alejandro Varela

3.87

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The People Who Report More Stress book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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27. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

Similar categories in 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots: Stories book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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28. Uranians: Stories

By: Theodore McCombs

3.90

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “… read more

Similar categories in Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

29. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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30. Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more

Similar categories in Anton Hur's Toward Eternity book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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31. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

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