6 Top lgbt books like Fraternity: Stories by Benjamin Nugent

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Fraternity: Stories

By: Benjamin Nugent

3.55

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In a Massachusetts college town stands a dilapidated colonial: Delta Zeta Chi. Here, we meet Newton…

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1. South and West: From a Notebook

By: Joan Didion

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two ex… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's South and West: From a Notebook book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • short stories
  • essays
"I've never been any place I wanted to go."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The devastation along the Gulf had an inevitability about it: the coast was reverting to its natural state."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

"The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."

-Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

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2. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

By: Roger Lowenstein

4.20

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk … read more

Similar categories in Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

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3. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

Similar categories in Sappho's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • fiction
  • lgbt
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4. O amor dos homens avulsos

By: Victor Heringer

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more

Similar categories in Victor Heringer's O amor dos homens avulsos book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • lgbt

5. But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

By: Chuck Klosterman

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that c… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Klosterman's But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

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6. 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 Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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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7. The Office of Historical Corrections

By: Danielle Evans

4.18

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Evans's The Office of Historical Corrections book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

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8. 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 Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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9. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.60

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • essays
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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10. Five Tuesdays in Winter

By: Lily King

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever… read more

Similar categories in Lily King's Five Tuesdays in Winter book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's not here anymore." He said. "What?" "What happened."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

"She wondered how other people adjusted to vacations. It was such an unpleasant feeling, like gunning a car in neutral."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

"Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

"Socially we balanced each other out. He was the guy who came into the room and everyone was relieved. I made people deeply uneasy, myself most of all."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

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11. Jock Row (Jock Hard, #1)

By: Sara Ney

4.00

Format: 376 pages, None

Scarlett is always the sensible one: The sober driver. The planner. The one holding your hair back … read more

Similar categories in Sara Ney's Jock Row (Jock Hard, #1) book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • college
  • contemporary
"Her blue eyes meet mine. “What’s the first physical feature you look for in someone you’re attracted to?"

-Sara Ney, Jock Row (Jock Hard, #1)

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12. Sabrina & Corina

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths … read more

Similar categories in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Sabrina & Corina book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Age has nothing to do with sadness."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

"And that is our story of everything."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

"That poor girl. How the world just ate her up."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

"Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

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13. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • lgbt
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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15. Burn the Negative

By: Josh Winning

3.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Burn the Negative book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler

16. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

Similar categories in Anna Marie Tendler's Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

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17. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

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18. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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20. Fraternity: Stories

By: Benjamin Nugent

3.55

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In a Massachusetts college town stands a dilapidated colonial: Delta Zeta Chi. Here, we meet Newton… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • literature
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • college
  • essays
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Over the Influence: A Memoir

By: Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

4.30

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recordi… read more

Similar categories in Joanna "JoJo" Levesque's Over the Influence: A Memoir book and Benjamin Nugent's Fraternity: Stories

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