10 must-read queer books like Cecilia by K-Ming Chang

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Cecilia

By: K-Ming Chang

3.32

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire …

If you liked the queer plot in Cecilia by K-Ming Chang , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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3. Ask Me Again

By: Clare Sestanovich

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim (“Sparing… read more

Similar categories in Clare Sestanovich's Ask Me Again book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. 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 K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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6. Parasol Against the Axe

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more

Similar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

Similar categories in Nicolette Polek's Bitter Water Opera book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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9. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

Cover of Negative Space by Gillian Linden

11. Negative Space

By: Gillian Linden

3.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Linden's Negative Space book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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13. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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14. I Want You More

By: Swan Huntley

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more

Similar categories in Swan Huntley's I Want You More book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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15. Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lessons in Chemistry  meets  Mad Men  in this wildly entertaining debut novel, set in glamorous Rom… read more

Similar categories in Emily Dunlay's Teddy book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

16. 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 K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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17. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Cecilia by K-Ming Chang

18. Cecilia

By: K-Ming Chang

3.32

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire … read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Cecilia book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

19. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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20. Gender Theory

By: Madeline Docherty

4.27

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Docherty's Gender Theory book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and K-Ming Chang's Cecilia

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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4.06

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3.01

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3.26

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