12 best-selling audiobook books like The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan

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The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p…

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1. Love Junkie

By: Robert Plunket

4.50

Format: None pages,

The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more

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2. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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3. 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 Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. 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 Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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7. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

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8. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

Similar categories in Garrard Conley's All the World Beside book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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9. Ways and Means

By: Daniel Lefferts

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the l… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Lefferts's Ways and Means book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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10. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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11. How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more

Similar categories in Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Providence

By: Craig Willse

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more

Similar categories in Craig Willse's Providence book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."

-Craig Willse, Providence

Cover of Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

13. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

Similar categories in Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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15. Four Squares

By: Bobby Finger

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's Four Squares book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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17. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • film
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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18. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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19. No Road Home

By: John Fram

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangel… read more

Similar categories in John Fram's No Road Home book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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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

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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21. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House book and Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

20 must-read fiction books like The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

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9 must-read adult fiction books like Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

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In Tongues

Thomas Grattan

4.04

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Housemates

Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

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