11 Top lgbt books like Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh

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Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

By: Will Tosh

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex queer life…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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2. The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3 (The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, 3)

By: Cassandra Clare

4.30

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

The third installment of the graphic novel adaptation of Cassandra Clare's bestselling The Mortal I… read more

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3. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

By: Pete Wharmby

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more

Similar categories in Pete Wharmby's Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."

-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

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5. Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino

By: Sagan Sagan

4.29

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Thirty-nine-year-old Nozue went from living a routine, melancholic life of sleep and work to spendi… read more

Similar categories in Sagan Sagan's Old-Fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. The Scottish Boy

By: Alex de Campi

4.16

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

1333. Edward III is at war with Scotland. Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himse… read more

Similar categories in Alex de Campi's The Scottish Boy book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • historical
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Iain,’ he says softly. ‘If you’re in heaven, I cannot let you go. I keep seeing you, trying to put you back in the world by sheer force of desire. I saw you in the Black Knight, and I feel like every…"

-Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

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7. The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 6

By: Cassandra Clare

4.43

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

THE SIXTH INSTALLMENT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF CASS ANDRA CLARE’S BESTSELLING THE MORTAL … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 6 book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • lgbt
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8. The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 5

By: Cassandra Clare

4.39

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF CASSANDRA CLARE'S BESTSELLING THE MORTAL I… read more

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9. Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining

By: Scarlett Drake

4.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Caspien Deveraux was poison. It took me years to realise that he hadn’t been born like that. He… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Drake's Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Caspien was an altarpiece, Deveraux his reredos, and I came to him in blind idolatry."

-Scarlett Drake, Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining

"These walls and the two men inside had swallowed me whole once before, so when I emerged from the belly of the beast, I staggered into the world blinking and raw. This time, though, I have come armed…"

-Scarlett Drake, Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining

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10. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • historical
  • adult
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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11. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hoffman's The Prospects book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

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12. Monsters You Should Know

By: Emma SanCartier

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Meet the world's most unusual monsters in this darkly funny collection of creatures and cryptids fr… read more

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13. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

Similar categories in Sara Glass's Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • biography
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • historical
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh

15. Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

By: Will Tosh

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex queer life… read more

Similar categories in Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • biography
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Queer As Folklore

By: Sacha Coward

4.13

Format: None pages, None

Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and… read more

Similar categories in Sacha Coward's Queer As Folklore book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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17. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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18. Let the Games Begin

By: Rufaro Faith Mazarura

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura’s … read more

Similar categories in Rufaro Faith Mazarura's Let the Games Begin book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • adult
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

19. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • lgbt
Cover of The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2) by Eliot Schrefer

20. The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.61

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Schrefer's The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2) book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • queer
  • lgbt
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Will Tosh's Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

  • nonfiction
  • history
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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4.35

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4.16

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4.24

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4.25

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3.77

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3.88

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