11 must-read lgbt books like Misrecognition by Madison Newbound

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Misrecognition

By: Madison Newbound

3.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about t…

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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3. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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4. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more

Similar categories in Rosalind Brown's Practice book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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9. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lesbian
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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11. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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12. 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 Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • literary fiction
  • 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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13. I Want You More

By: Swan Huntley

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more

Similar categories in Swan Huntley's I Want You More book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

14. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

15. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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16. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

Similar categories in Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Our Wicked Histories

By: Amy Goldsmith

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl’s attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a we… read more

Similar categories in Amy Goldsmith's Our Wicked Histories book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • fiction
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

18. 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 Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Misrecognition by Madison Newbound

19. Misrecognition

By: Madison Newbound

3.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about t… read more

Similar categories in Madison Newbound's Misrecognition book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lesbian
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia

20. Mystery Lights

By: Lena Valencia

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more

Similar categories in Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • adult
  • fiction
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21. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Madison Newbound's Misrecognition

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

21 Top fiction books like Misrecognition by Madison Newbound

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

Transform Your Habits

A Good Happy Girl

Marissa Higgins

3.01

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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