6 Best lgbt books like Loverboys by Ana Castillo

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Loverboys

By: Ana Castillo

3.66

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

“Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York…

"No, it's too much. I should never have let you know that I was here. After all, there was no reason to tell you. It was just that we landed and I was sucked up by the tentacles of this, your city, and your name and that summer that were all inseparable and I called as soon as I put my bag down on the bed in this room."

-Ana Castillo, Loverboys

"No, it's too much. I should never have let you know that I was here. After all, there was no reason to tell you. It was just that we landed and I was sucked up by the tentacles of this, your city, and your name and that summer that were all inseparable and I called as soon as I put my bag down on the bed in this room."

-Ana Castillo, Loverboys

"It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not talking about romantic/love/sex capture of another soul but the true captivation of another's spirit, which happens between people of the same sex sometimes."

-Ana Castillo, Loverboys

"It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not talking about romantic/love/sex capture of another soul but the true captivation of another's spirit, which happens between people of the same sex sometimes."

-Ana Castillo, Loverboys

If you liked the lgbt plot in Loverboys by Ana Castillo , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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4. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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5. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • fiction
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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6. In Watermelon Sugar

By: Richard Brautigan

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the … read more

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  • fiction
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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • queer
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8. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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9. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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  • fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

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10. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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  • literature
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

11. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008

By: Louise Erdrich

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

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12. All the Names

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead shar… read more

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13. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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14. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

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15. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

3.90

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more

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  • womens
  • fiction
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

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16. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

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17. Heavy

By: Kiese Laymon

4.48

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more

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"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

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18. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more

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  • fiction
"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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19. Time to Shine

By: Rachel Reid

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A merry and bright hockey romance about finding your place, finding your people and finding your wa… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

20. 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

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  • queer
  • 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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21. Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams

By: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This hilarious and thoughtful memoir from comedy legend Anjelah Johnson-Reyes explores questions of… read more

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22. Lot

By: Bryan Washington

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more

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  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."

-Bryan Washington, Lot

"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"

-Bryan Washington, Lot

Cover of Loverboys by Ana Castillo

23. Loverboys

By: Ana Castillo

3.66

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

“Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York… read more

Similar categories in Ana Castillo's Loverboys book and Ana Castillo's Loverboys

  • lgbt
  • literature
  • banned books
  • latino
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • womens
  • queer
"No, it's too much. I should never have let you know that I was here. After all, there was no reason to tell you. It was just that we landed and I was sucked up by the tentacles of this, your city, an…"

-Ana Castillo, Loverboys

"It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not t…"

-Ana Castillo, Loverboys

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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