13 Top queer books like And Then The Gray Heaven by R.E. Katz

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And Then The Gray Heaven

By: R.E. Katz

4.11

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

RE Katz’s And Then the Gray Heaven centers on Jules, whose partner B has recently died in a freak a…

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Cover of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Katrina Dodson

1. The Complete Stories

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Katrina Dodson

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new reader… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3) book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

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4. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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5. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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6. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

By: Cherie Jones

3.69

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Jones's How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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7. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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8. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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9. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf

By: Malika Moustadraf

3.83

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more

Similar categories in Malika Moustadraf's Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's Obit book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • adult
  • contemporary
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

Cover of Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) by Jasper Fforde

11. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

Similar categories in Jasper Fforde's Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • adult
  • fiction
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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12. Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Leichter's Terrace Story book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."

-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story

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13. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Biography of X book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

Cover of Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

14. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • adult
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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15. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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16. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Cover of In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) by Seanan McGuire

17. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

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18. Frankissstein: A Love Story

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.54

Format: 344 pages, ebook

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein: A Love Story book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Yet I wish I had a cat."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

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19. All the Things We Don't Talk About

By: Amy Feltman

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, h… read more

Similar categories in Amy Feltman's All the Things We Don't Talk About book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

20. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of And Then The Gray Heaven by R.E. Katz

21. And Then The Gray Heaven

By: R.E. Katz

4.11

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

RE Katz’s And Then the Gray Heaven centers on Jules, whose partner B has recently died in a freak a… read more

Similar categories in R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven book and R.E. Katz's And Then The Gray Heaven

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • gender
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

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Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Katrina Dodson

4.16

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Seanan McGuire

3.85

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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3.56

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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