6 Best queer books like No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben

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No One Dies Yet

By: Kobby Ben Ben

3.67

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you begin a murder story starring a curious foreigner and an opportunistic local without giv…

If you liked the queer plot in No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of One Part Woman by பெருமாள் முருகன், Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Perumal Murugan, Deepa Samuel

1. One Part Woman

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages… read more

Similar categories in பெருமாள் முருகன்'s One Part Woman book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together."

-பெருமாள் முருகன், One Part Woman

Cover of O amor dos homens avulsos by Victor Heringer

2. O amor dos homens avulsos

By: Victor Heringer

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more

Similar categories in Victor Heringer's O amor dos homens avulsos book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

3. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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4. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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5. Nightbloom

By: Peace Adzo Medie

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Peace Adzo Medie's Nightbloom book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • ghana
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

Similar categories in Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

8. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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9. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Standing Heavy

By: Gauz

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more

Similar categories in Gauz's Standing Heavy book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. A Market of Dreams and Destiny

By: Trip Galey

3.90

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Nominated for the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! Enter the bazaar of the bi… read more

Similar categories in Trip Galey's A Market of Dreams and Destiny book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage."

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customer…"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, …"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

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13. River Spirit

By: Leila Aboulela

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more

Similar categories in Leila Aboulela's River Spirit book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."

-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit

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14. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

Similar categories in Linnea Axelsson's Ædnan book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) by Femi  Kayode

15. Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2)

By: Femi Kayode

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to Kayode's "action-packed and spirited debut" Philip Taiwo returns to solve a mi… read more

Similar categories in Femi Kayode's Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
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16. Things They Lost

By: Okwiri Oduor

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture “Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,” this … read more

Similar categories in Okwiri Oduor's Things They Lost book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
"She said that true love was just like this - sweet in some parts, sour in others. She said that deep love was vast and pure, but that it also got hateful in some of its corners where the sunlight did…"

-Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost

Cover of Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida

17. Goodnight Tokyo

By: Atsuhiro Yoshida

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metrop… read more

Similar categories in Atsuhiro Yoshida's Goodnight Tokyo book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

18. 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 Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • 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

Cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

19. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

20. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben

21. No One Dies Yet

By: Kobby Ben Ben

3.67

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you begin a murder story starring a curious foreigner and an opportunistic local without giv… read more

Similar categories in Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet book and Kobby Ben Ben's No One Dies Yet

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • ghana
  • adult
  • queer

21 best-selling fiction books like No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben

Transform Your Habits

One Part Woman

பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel

3.81

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O amor dos homens avulsos

Victor Heringer

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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Cahokia Jazz

Francis Spufford

4.03

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Chimeka Garricks

3.87

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Jahmal Mayfield

3.98

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Danielle Arceneaux

3.81

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Michael Bennett

3.94

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