21 Best fiction books like Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine

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Summer of the Cicadas

By: Chelsea Catherine

3.39

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Summer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the f…

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1. Annie on My Mind

By: Nancy Garden

4.02

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Garden's Annie on My Mind book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Real, but sometimes beautiful."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

"Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

"And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

"It’s terrible, … for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we have every right to read."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

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2. Here

By: Richard McGuire

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more

Similar categories in Richard McGuire's Here book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • adult
  • fiction

3. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

3.93

Format: None pages,

A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring explor… read more

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4. Tinkers

By: Paul Harding

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildr… read more

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5. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

By: Thomas C. Foster

3.17

Format: 319 pages,

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… read more

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6. The City and the Pillar

By: Gore Vidal

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A literary cause celebrewhen first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic Th… read more

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7. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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8. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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9. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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10. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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11. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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12. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Salt Slow book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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13. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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14. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.51

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

An account of the amazing Thai cave rescue told in a you-are-there style that blends suspense, scie… read more

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15. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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16. Lioness: My Journey to Glory

By: Beth Mead

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With foreword by Ian Wright & afterword by Jermain Defoe Beth Mead is one of the world's most ta… read more

Similar categories in Beth Mead's Lioness: My Journey to Glory book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lgbt
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17. Small Game

By: Blair Braverman

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers s… read more

Similar categories in Blair Braverman's Small Game book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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18. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. How to Excavate a Heart

By: Jake Maia Arlow

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more

Similar categories in Jake Maia Arlow's How to Excavate a Heart book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"

-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

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20. We Do What We Do in the Dark

By: Michelle Hart

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

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21. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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22. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more

Similar categories in Layla F. Saad's Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."

-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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23. Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

By: Margot Douaihy

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to … read more

Similar categories in Margot Douaihy's Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1) book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat,…"

-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

"I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed.…"

-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

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24. Sorry, Bro

By: Taleen Voskuni

3.66

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and… read more

Similar categories in Taleen Voskuni's Sorry, Bro book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"For all my mom knows, I am as straight as Taylor Swift (my mortal enemy)."

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

"There's a moon ring on her index finger, and with her other hand she pinches the moon and twists the ring all the way around and back. I want to be that moon. The I immediately tell myself to dial it…"

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

"I don't need to do a quick self-assessment to know that I read as super-duper straight. And, let's be real, a basic bitch. My hair is long past my shoulders, styled and sleek and very conventional. S…"

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

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25. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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26. Fiona and Jane

By: Jean Chen Ho

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as t… read more

Similar categories in Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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27. Hurricane Girl

By: Marcy Dermansky

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice (“A cupcake that turns out to be nutri… read more

Similar categories in Marcy Dermansky's Hurricane Girl book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Dyke [geology] by Sabrina Imbler

28. Dyke [geology]

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.31

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science wri… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's Dyke [geology] book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
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29. The Companion

By: E.E. Ottoman

3.67

Format: 168 pages, ebook

New York, 1949 After years of trying to break into New York City's literary scene, Madeline Slau… read more

Similar categories in E.E. Ottoman's The Companion book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He was silent for a moment, then said more quietly. 'But I know what you are talking about. I've felt like that before too. To be intimate with someone and feel not right afterward, too vulnerable an…"

-E.E. Ottoman, The Companion

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30. Summer of the Cicadas

By: Chelsea Catherine

3.39

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Summer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the f… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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31. Sugar Land

By: Tammy Lynne Stoner

3.94

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

A southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation that's been called a "ravishing debut… read more

Similar categories in Tammy Lynne Stoner's Sugar Land book and Chelsea Catherine's Summer of the Cicadas

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"This is how it goes in life: sometimes you’re born with a cleft palette or rickets, like my bow-legged Granddaddy, or a touch short on brains, like my Great Aunt Cal who everyone called ‘Stool.’ Me? …"

-Tammy Lynne Stoner, Sugar Land

"The thing my eyes settled on was the line in that letter that said: That this baby came from me has to be kept a secret. A secret. I knew even then that secrets have a way of working themselves out o…"

-Tammy Lynne Stoner, Sugar Land

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3.26

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