7 must-read lgbt books like The Dreaming by Andre Bagoo

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The Dreaming

By: Andre Bagoo

4.13

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

These stories have the virtue of taking the everyday lives of gay Trinidadian men utterly for grant…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Dreaming by Andre Bagoo , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Bone Readers

By: Jacob Ross

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak... When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chi… read more

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2. I Do Not Come to You by Chance

By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more

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3. El viento que arrasa

By: Selva Almada

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un reverendo y su hija de viaje por el Chaco, en un clima de conflictos y tormentas, entreveros y c… read more

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4. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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5. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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  • fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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6. The Adventures of China Iron

By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

3.83

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"

-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

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7. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • adult
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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8. The God of Good Looks

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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9. Hungry Ghosts

By: Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more

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  • fiction
"Sorrow felt selfish."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

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10. The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

By: Hugh Ryan

4.45

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window int… read more

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  • lgbt
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11. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

4.40

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between th… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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12. The Membranes

By: Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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13. When We Were Birds

By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

3.79

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"You feeling the thing that in my mother, and her mother and hers, calling to the thing that is you, and in your daughter (...), and in her daughter and hers."

-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

"When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky …"

-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

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14. The Lesson

By: Cadwell Turnbull

3.58

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

THE LESSON explores the nature of belief, the impact of colonialism, and asks how far are we willin… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"He had mistaken his place in this story. The realization filled him with both terror and a little relief, the relief faint but present. He hoped the feeling would someday give him a measure of peace."

-Cadwell Turnbull, The Lesson

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15. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

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  • lgbt
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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16. The Secrets of Catspraddle Village

By: Callie Browning

4.06

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

A grisly murder without a suspect. A bizarre love triangle. A philosopher moonlighting as a garbage… read more

Similar categories in Callie Browning's The Secrets of Catspraddle Village book and Andre Bagoo's The Dreaming

  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Frying Plantain

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Things I Have Withheld

By: Kei Miller

4.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller exp… read more

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  • lgbt
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19. The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.17

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Dreaming

By: Andre Bagoo

4.13

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

These stories have the virtue of taking the everyday lives of gay Trinidadian men utterly for grant… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
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21. Where There Are Monsters

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In these carefully crafted stories, with room for humour, though of a distinctly gothic kind, Brean… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

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4.24

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Roxane Gay

4.26

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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3.69

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