6 must-read lesbian books like Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

Cover of Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the l…

If you liked the lesbian plot in Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

1. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

Cover of The Future by Catherine Leroux

2. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

Cover of Grey Dog by Elliott  Gish

3. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

4. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

Cover of A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland

5. A Sweet Sting of Salt

By: Rose Sutherland

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more

Similar categories in Rose Sutherland's A Sweet Sting of Salt book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi

6. Her First Palestinian

By: Saeed Teebi

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Linghun by Ai Jiang

7. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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8. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

9. 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 Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

10. 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 Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller

11. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

12. 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 Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

13. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

14. 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 Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

15. Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the l… read more

Similar categories in Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • lesbian
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

16. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Play by Jess  Taylor

17. Play

By: Jess Taylor

4.15

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You… read more

Similar categories in Jess Taylor's Play book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
Cover of real ones by Katherena Vermette

18. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's real ones book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Peacocks of Instagram: Stories by Deepa Rajagopalan

19. Peacocks of Instagram: Stories

By: Deepa Rajagopalan

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Peacocks of Instagram is a fresh and intimate debut collection of short stories suffused with the d… read more

Similar categories in Deepa Rajagopalan's Peacocks of Instagram: Stories book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
Cover of The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill

20. The Capital of Dreams

By: Heather O'Neill

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more

Similar categories in Heather O'Neill's The Capital of Dreams book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
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21. Pacifique

By: Sarah L. Taggart

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Is love real if the beloved isn’t? Girl, Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and ma… read more

Similar categories in Sarah L. Taggart's Pacifique book and Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit

  • fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt

11 must-read canada books like Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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And Then She Fell

Alicia Elliott

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Her First Palestinian

Saeed Teebi

4.37

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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