15 Top queer books like How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

Cover of How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita  Blackburn

How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

By: Venita Blackburn

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware …

If you liked the queer plot in How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Exhibit by R.O. Kwon

1. 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 Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn

2. Dead in Long Beach, California

By: Venita Blackburn

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more

Similar categories in Venita Blackburn's Dead in Long Beach, California book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

3. 100 Boyfriends

By: Brontez Purnell

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"

-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

Cover of I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

4. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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5. The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Min's The Fetishist book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

7. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Cazadora (Wolves of No World, #2) by Romina Garber

8. Cazadora (Wolves of No World, #2)

By: Romina Garber

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In Cazadora, Romina Garber weaves together Argentine folklore and what it means to be illegal in a … read more

Similar categories in Romina Garber's Cazadora (Wolves of No World, #2) book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Flux by Jinwoo Chong

9. 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 Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

By: Laura Warrell

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston

12. Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

By: Jen Winston

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily , Glamour, Shondaland , BuzzFeed , and more! … read more

Similar categories in Jen Winston's Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions."

-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

"Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the o…"

-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

Cover of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

13. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

Cover of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer

14. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

By: Soraya Palmer

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more

Similar categories in Soraya Palmer's The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

15. Pomegranate

By: Helen Elaine Lee

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, following a queer Black woman who w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Elaine Lee's Pomegranate book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • lesbian
  • adult fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

16. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • adult
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

17. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

18. Bluebird

By: Ciel Pierlot

3.87

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space! Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a g… read more

Similar categories in Ciel Pierlot's Bluebird book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita  Blackburn

19. How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

By: Venita Blackburn

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware … read more

Similar categories in Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna

20. 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 Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

21. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Venita Blackburn's How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.16

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3.76

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Megan Fernandes

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Nick Harkaway

4.03

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