6 best-selling nonfiction books like Heaven by Emerson Whitney

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Heaven

By: Emerson Whitney

4.17

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In the first few pages of Heaven, Emerson Whitney writes: "Really, I can't explain myself without m…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Heaven by Emerson Whitney , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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2. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri

By: Tezer Özlü

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more

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4. Moshi moshi

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Gala Maria Follaco

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, … read more

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5. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child: Stories book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
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6. Thin Skin: Essays

By: Jenn Shapland

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Shapland's Thin Skin: Essays book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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7. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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8. Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

By: Roxane Gay

3.99

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. People Collide

By: Isle McElroy

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more

Similar categories in Isle McElroy's People Collide book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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10. 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 Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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11. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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12. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

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13. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • gender
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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14. The Road to the City

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more

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15. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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16. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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17. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

4.42

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more

Similar categories in torrin a. greathouse's Wound from the Mouth of a Wound book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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18. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
Cover of Heaven by Emerson Whitney

20. Heaven

By: Emerson Whitney

4.17

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In the first few pages of Heaven, Emerson Whitney writes: "Really, I can't explain myself without m… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Heaven book and Emerson Whitney's Heaven

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. Trophäe

By: Gaea Schoeters

4.11

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tief… read more

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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Thin Skin: Essays

Jenn Shapland

4.02

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Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

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Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

Roxane Gay

3.99

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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

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The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

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Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

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Olivia Laing

4.01

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