14 Top lgbt books like Why We Never Danced the Charleston by Harlan Greene

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Why We Never Danced the Charleston

By: Harlan Greene

3.74

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

The homosexual love affair between Hirsch Hess, the son of Jewish immigrants, and Ned Grimske, the …

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Cover of Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S.A. Corey

1. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 608 pages, ebook

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major tel… read more

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  • fiction
"So,"

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"I’m really wishing Titan were still on that list of options."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"The real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"History was a cycle. Everything that had happened before, all the way back through the generations, would happen again."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

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2. A Separate Peace

By: John Knowles

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6) by James S.A. Corey

3. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more

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  • fiction
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4. Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston

By: None

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Twice-told tales about historic Charleston and its African American community. read more

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5. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more

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6. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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7. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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8. Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White

By: Alice Childress

3.93

Format: 300 pages,

It is the summer of 1918, there is a war in Europe, and a smaller war in South Carolina. Julie is a… read more

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9. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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10. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)

By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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11. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry

3.97

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more

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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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12. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Fence, Vol. 1 by C.S. Pacat

13. Fence, Vol. 1

By: C.S. Pacat

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Combines Issues #1-4. Nicholas, the illegiti… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Fence, Vol. 1 book and Harlan Greene's Why We Never Danced the Charleston

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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14. Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.57

Format: 534 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its i… read more

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  • fiction
"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “So not unnatural at all,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “Your dad’s kind of an asshole,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Nineteen: Elvi We just lost two gates, Admiral. And one of them had an entire world filled with people behind it."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

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15. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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16. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Cover of Fence, Vol. 3 by C.S. Pacat

17. Fence, Vol. 3

By: C.S. Pacat

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Combines Issues #9-12. Scrappy fencer Nicholas Cox comes to the end of his path to prove himself… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

18. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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19. All Boys Aren’t Blue

By: George M. Johnson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"History has an interesting way of painting."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

Cover of Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

20. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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21. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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22. Fence, Vol. 5: Rise

By: C.S. Pacat

4.24

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In the highly anticipated next chapter of Fence, Nicholas will stop at nothing until he becomes Sei… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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23. Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals

By: C.S. Pacat

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The team at King’s Row must face the school that defeated them in the fencing state championships l… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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24. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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25. One Woman Show

By: Christine Coulson

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow

26. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

By: Eli Saslow

4.42

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist cha… read more

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"He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships."

-Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

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27. Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption

By: C.S. Pacat

4.42

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A mysterious new fencer arrives at Halverton in the newest chapter of the GLAAD Media Award-nominat… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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28. Fence, Vol. 2

By: C.S. Pacat

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Combines Issues #5-8. Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fe… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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29. The Men

By: Sandra Newman

2.92

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all men mysteriously disapp… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2) by T.J. Klune

30. Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

By: T.J. Klune

4.46

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean S… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Why We Never Danced the Charleston by Harlan Greene

31. Why We Never Danced the Charleston

By: Harlan Greene

3.74

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

The homosexual love affair between Hirsch Hess, the son of Jewish immigrants, and Ned Grimske, the … read more

Similar categories in Harlan Greene's Why We Never Danced the Charleston book and Harlan Greene's Why We Never Danced the Charleston

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • gay fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer

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James S.A. Corey

4.37

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3.97

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4.50

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