16 must-read adult books like I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall

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I Make Envy on Your Disco

By: Eric Schnall

4.44

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midl…

If you liked the adult plot in I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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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2. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • fiction
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4. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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5. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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6. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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7. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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8. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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9. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • fiction
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10. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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11. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • fiction
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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12. Ways and Means

By: Daniel Lefferts

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the l… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Lefferts's Ways and Means book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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13. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • fiction
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15. Four Squares

By: Bobby Finger

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the 1990s … read more

Similar categories in Bobby Finger's Four Squares book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. 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 Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • fiction
"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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17. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez

18. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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19. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels

By: Gary Janetti

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television … read more

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Cover of I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall

20. I Make Envy on Your Disco

By: Eric Schnall

4.44

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midl… read more

Similar categories in Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • germany
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Eric Schnall's I Make Envy on Your Disco

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

20 must-read fiction books like I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

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9 must-read adult fiction books like Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

Transform Your Habits

In Tongues

Thomas Grattan

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Housemates

Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

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