7 best-selling queer books like Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

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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…

If you liked the queer plot in Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

3. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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4. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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6. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • queer
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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7. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan

8. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Very Bad Company book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

12. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

13. 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 Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

14. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

15. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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16. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of But How Are You, Really by Ella  Dawson

18. But How Are You, Really

By: Ella Dawson

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shoul… read more

Similar categories in Ella Dawson's But How Are You, Really book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. The Villain Edit

By: Laurie Devore

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Emily Henry meets Fleabag ...and The Bachelor ! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cyni… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Devore's The Villain Edit book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab

20. Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

By: Alana Saab

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arr… read more

Similar categories in Alana Saab's Please Stop Trying to Leave Me book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender."

-Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

Cover of Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu

21. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

By: Jon M. Chu

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and… read more

Similar categories in Jon M. Chu's Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen book and Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

  • audiobook

19 must-read fiction books like Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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20 must-read fiction books like The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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