13 Best lgbt books like Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak

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Mean Boys: A Personal History

By: Geoffrey Mak

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Monsters and Gay Bar , a ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, …

If you liked the lgbt plot in Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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2. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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6. No Judgment: Essays

By: Lauren Oyler

3.30

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oyler's No Judgment: Essays book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"

-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

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7. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
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8. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • queer
  • 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

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10. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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11. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

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

-Craig Willse, Providence

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13. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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15. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • 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

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16. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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17. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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18. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
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19. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. Mean Boys: A Personal History

By: Geoffrey Mak

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Monsters and Gay Bar , a ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, … read more

Similar categories in Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History book and Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. 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 Geoffrey Mak's Mean Boys: A Personal History

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt

14 Best audiobook books like Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Parade

Rachel Cusk

3.70

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Hisham Matar

4.34

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Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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