12 best-selling lgbt books like Feast by Ina Cariño

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Feast

By: Ina Cariño

4.22

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Feast by Ina Cariño , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

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  • poetry
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2. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

3. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Ina Cariño's Feast

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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4. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Ina Cariño's Feast

  • poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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5. 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 Ina Cariño's Feast

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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7. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • poetry
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8. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Ina Cariño's Feast

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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9. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

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10. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's Soft Science book and Ina Cariño's Feast

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

Cover of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris

11. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

By: Katie Farris

4.31

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more

Similar categories in Katie Farris's Standing in the Forest of Being Alive book and Ina Cariño's Feast

  • poetry
Cover of Pig: Poems by Sam Sax

12. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Poukahangatus: Poems by Tayi Tibble

13. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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14. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

15. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • poetry
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

Cover of With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

16. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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  • poetry
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17. God Themselves

By: Jae Nichelle

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern churc… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Ephemera

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets) by Adrienne Chung

19. Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)

By: Adrienne Chung

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

“ Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat...Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Ch… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Feast by Ina Cariño

20. Feast

By: Ina Cariño

4.22

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located… read more

Similar categories in Ina Cariño's Feast book and Ina Cariño's Feast

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna

21. Burning Like Her Own Planet

By: Vandana Khanna

4.13

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Against the backdrop of iconic, ancient Hindu texts, Burning Like Her Own Planet reimagines the liv… read more

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  • poetry

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Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Modern Poetry: Poems

Diane Seuss

4.53

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Robyn Schiff

3.99

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Elisa Gabbert

3.97

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4.22

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