12 must-read lesbian books like All the Things We Don't Talk About by Amy Feltman

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All the Things We Don't Talk About

By: Amy Feltman

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h…

If you liked the lesbian plot in All the Things We Don't Talk About by Amy Feltman , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's Yerba Buena book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"

-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

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2. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

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3. We Do What We Do in the Dark

By: Michelle Hart

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

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4. All This Could Be Different

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thankam Mathews's All This Could Be Different book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"

-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different

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5. The Summer Love Strategy

By: Ray Stoeve

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A sweet and swoony YA rom-com about two friends making a pact to find summer romance like they’ve s… read more

Similar categories in Ray Stoeve's The Summer Love Strategy book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Cochrun's Here We Go Again book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more

Similar categories in Mazey Eddings's Late Bloomer book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"

-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

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8. The Lady Upstairs

By: Halley Sutton

3.18

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Halley Sutton's The Lady Upstairs book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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10. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

Similar categories in Haley Jakobson's Old Enough book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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13. Endpapers

By: Jennifer Savran Kelly

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Savran Kelly's Endpapers book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

By: Reyna Grande

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the… read more

Similar categories in Reyna Grande's Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • contemporary
Cover of A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick

15. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

By: Will Betke-Brunswick

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

During Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagno… read more

Similar categories in Will Betke-Brunswick's A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Threat by Nathaniel Stein

16. The Threat

By: Nathaniel Stein

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Dripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustrat… read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Stein's The Threat book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in

By: Ayser Salman

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American . "A rare voice that is both relatable… read more

Similar categories in Ayser Salman's The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Things We Don't Talk About by Amy Feltman

18. All the Things We Don't Talk About

By: Amy Feltman

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h… read more

Similar categories in Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • disability
  • queer
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19. 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 Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Homesick: Stories

By: Nino Cipri

4.08

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme o… read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Homesick: Stories book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael   Waters

21. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

By: Michael Waters

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more

Similar categories in Michael Waters's The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports book and Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer

17 Top fiction books like All the Things We Don't Talk About by Amy Feltman

Transform Your Habits

Yerba Buena

Nina LaCour

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Interesting Facts about Space

Emily R. Austin

3.85

Transform Your Habits

We Do What We Do in the Dark

Michelle Hart

3.54

Transform Your Habits

All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.85

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18 best-selling fiction books like The Threat by Nathaniel Stein

Transform Your Habits

Dangerous Women (Secret Lives #2)

Mark de Castrique

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Rabbit Hole

Kate Brody

3.10

Transform Your Habits

A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

Raul Palma

3.55

Transform Your Habits

This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Eric LaRocca

3.67

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