13 Top queer books like Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex by Aimée Duc

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Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

By: Aimée Duc

3.43

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Deeply engaged in women’s rights debates and discussions of the “third sex,” Are They Women? is abo…

If you liked the queer plot in Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex by Aimée Duc , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Plot Against America

By: Philip Roth

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more

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2. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer
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3. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

4.22

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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4. A Marriage Below Zero

By: Matthew Kaiser , None , Alan Dale

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

All is not well in the Ravener household. Arthur shows little interest in his pretty new bride. He … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Kaiser's A Marriage Below Zero book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer
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5. Nimona

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more

Similar categories in None's Nimona book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer

6. Under the Udala Trees

By: Chinelo Okparanta

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more

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7. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Giovanni’s Room book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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8. Monster

By: Walter Dean Myers

3.73

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The … read more

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9. Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more

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10. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, or Carol book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

11. A Wreath for Emmett Till

By: Marilyn Nelson , None

4.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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12. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

Similar categories in Nella Larsen's Passing book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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13. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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14. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

Similar categories in Mariko Tamaki's Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

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15. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. Watch Over Me

By: Nina LaCour

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the eagerly anticipated follow-… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer
"The common man pays for the internet,"

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"It was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"The trick is not to let the line intimidate you. Everyone can wait a few minutes for flowers. There's no rush."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"I was surprised, at first, by her sadness. I had thought she felt only delight—but sadness, of course, was a feeling all of us have always known."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

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17. Dragon Hoops

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.33

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

In his latest graphic novel, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight o… read more

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18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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19. Mostly Dead Things

By: Kristen Arnett

3.38

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Arnett's Mostly Dead Things book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

Cover of Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1) by Tegan Quin

20. Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1)

By: Tegan Quin

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

AN INDIE BESTSELLER From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle grad… read more

Similar categories in Tegan Quin's Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1) book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex by Aimée Duc

21. Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

By: Aimée Duc

3.43

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Deeply engaged in women’s rights debates and discussions of the “third sex,” Are They Women? is abo… read more

Similar categories in Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex book and Aimée Duc's Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer

13 Best lgbt books like Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex by Aimée Duc

Transform Your Habits

A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

Transform Your Habits

A Marriage Below Zero

Matthew Kaiser , None , Alan Dale

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Nimona

None

4.00

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18 Top fiction books like Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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