17 must-read queer books like Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley

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Personal Attention Roleplay

By: H. Felix Chau Bradley

4.10

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mo…

If you liked the queer plot in Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Wendy

By: Walter Scott

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Wendy is trendy, and has dreams of art stardom--but our young urban protagonist is perpetually dera… read more

Similar categories in Walter Scott's Wendy book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • fiction
  • canada

2. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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3. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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4. A Natural History of Transition

By: Callum Angus

4.22

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more

Similar categories in Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
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5. Woman World

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.04

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of socie… read more

Similar categories in Aminder Dhaliwal's Woman World book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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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 H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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7. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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8. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • fiction
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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9. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's This Wound Is a World book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • canada
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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10. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • canada
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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11. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

Similar categories in Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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12. 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 H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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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13. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

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14. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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15. 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 H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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16. I Fear My Pain Interests You

By: Stephanie LaCava

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie LaCava's I Fear My Pain Interests You book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • fiction
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17. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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18. The Very Nice Box

By: Laura Blackett

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Ava Simon designs storage boxes for STÄDA, a slick Brooklyn-based furniture company. She’s hard-wor… read more

Similar categories in Laura Blackett's The Very Nice Box book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. 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 H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 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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20. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. Personal Attention Roleplay

By: H. Felix Chau Bradley

4.10

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mo… read more

Similar categories in H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay book and H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay

  • lesbian
  • canada
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • queer

17 must-read fiction books like Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley

Transform Your Habits

Wendy

Walter Scott

3.82

Transform Your Habits

A Natural History of Transition

Callum Angus

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Woman World

Aminder Dhaliwal

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Dykette

Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

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17 must-read fiction books like A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Transform Your Habits

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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