7 Top lgbt books like The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy

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The Atmospherians

By: Isle McElroy

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two best friends—a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor—who form The Atmospher…

"Your pain won’t impress anyone. The people your pain does impress aren’t worth impressing."

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

"Your pain won’t impress anyone. The people your pain does impress aren’t worth impressing."

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

"Pity, I would have called it, but it wasn’t pity. It was something far scarier and more destabilizing, something I would never let myself name so long as I needed to feel superior to their pain."

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

"Pity, I would have called it, but it wasn’t pity. It was something far scarier and more destabilizing, something I would never let myself name so long as I needed to feel superior to their pain."

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Zazen

By: Vanessa Veselka

3.56

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the fi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"You could always industrialize,"

-Vanessa Veselka, Zazen

"Oh, you must be part of the underground no one’s ever heard about."

-Vanessa Veselka, Zazen

"I like to think of myself as a coworker with lots of experience rather than a boss,"

-Vanessa Veselka, Zazen

"...if anybody was going to blow up the Superland™ Wal-Mart, it was going to be me. Not some fucking crusty punk."

-Vanessa Veselka, Zazen

2. You Deserve Nothing

By: Alexander Maksik

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in an international high school in Paris, You Deserve Nothingis told in three voices: that of W… read more

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3. The Answers

By: Catherine Lacey

3.59

Format: 32 pages,

An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more

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4. Frisk

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."

-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story

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6. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

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7. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Ask Me Again

By: Clare Sestanovich

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim (“Sparing… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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14. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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15. The Atmospherians

By: Isle McElroy

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two best friends—a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor—who form The Atmospher… read more

Similar categories in Isle McElroy's The Atmospherians book and Isle McElroy's The Atmospherians

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • cults
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your pain won’t impress anyone. The people your pain does impress aren’t worth impressing."

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

"Pity, I would have called it, but it wasn’t pity. It was something far scarier and more destabilizing, something I would never let myself name so long as I needed to feel superior to their pain."

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

"Blake crooned cartoonishly to mock the top 40 hits on the radio. He considered these musicians beneath him, sellouts, but his envy was so obvious to me, and I felt closer to him - and distracted from…"

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

"My neighbors’ distress didn’t surprise me. This was New Jersey, after all, home to the insecure and impressionable. Jersey was a land of lacking, the slow-footed little sibling to Manhattan: always n…"

-Isle McElroy, The Atmospherians

Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

16. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. La hijastra

By: Caroline Blackwood

3.53

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Una mujer en la treintena escribe mentalmente, firmando con la inicial «J», cartas sin destinatario… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

18. The Presence of Absence

By: Simon Van Booy

4.29

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

“Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder.”— Washington Post “Simon Van Booy electrifyingly … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Cecilia

By: K-Ming Chang

3.32

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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20. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Highway Thirteen: Stories

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial kille… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Vanessa Veselka

3.56

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Hilary Leichter

3.58

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3.26

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Your Utopia

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Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Hisham Matar

4.34

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