5 Best lgbt books like Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee

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Lost, Found, Remembered

By: Lyra McKee

4.55

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Determined, tenacious, intelligent, and honest in her approach.' - Anna Burns When the Northern…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. Juno and the Paycock

By: Seán O'Casey

3.23

Format: 403 pages,

The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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3. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • nonfiction
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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4. Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna , Donald Teskey

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of bei… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

By: Pamela Des Barres , Dave Navarro

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

6. Them: Adventures with Extremists

By: Jon Ronson

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more

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7. Moonrise

By: Sarah Crossan

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds o… read more

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8. The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

By: Martin Dillon

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

Reprint of the 1989 edition with a new afterword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (book… read more

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9. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

10. Foster

By: Claire Keegan

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more

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11. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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12. The Troubles with Us

By: Alix O’Neill

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The troubles with us is a hilarious and moving memoir of the madness and mundanities of life in Nor… read more

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  • irish literature
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • ireland
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13. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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14. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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15. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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16. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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17. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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18. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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19. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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20. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

By: Deesha Philyaw

4.17

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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21. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • irish literature
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • ireland
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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22. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

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23. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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24. These Days

By: Lucy Caldwell

3.71

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • lgbt
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25. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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26. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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27. Factory Girls

By: Michelle Gallen

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."

-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

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28. If All the World and Love Were Young

By: Stephen Sexton

4.04

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of Rebel Sisters: The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom by Marita Conlon-McKenna

29. Rebel Sisters: The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna

4.02

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

The No.1 bestselling novel from one of Ireland's most loved writers!With the threat of the First Wo… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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30. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

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31. Lost, Found, Remembered

By: Lyra McKee

4.55

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Determined, tenacious, intelligent, and honest in her approach.' - Anna Burns When the Northern… read more

Similar categories in Lyra McKee's Lost, Found, Remembered book and Lyra McKee's Lost, Found, Remembered

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • queer

7 Best nonfiction books like Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

Pamela Des Barres , Dave Navarro

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Troubles with Us

Alix O’Neill

4.10

Transform Your Habits

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

4.34

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Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

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