14 Top queer books like The Body Myth by Rheea Mukherjee

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Similar categories in Nagabe's The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Volume 1 (The Girl from the Other Side, #1) book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Vivek Shanbhag's Ghachar Ghochar book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

Similar categories in Zoey Leigh Peterson's Next Year, for Sure book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

Similar categories in Nagabe's The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 2 book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1) book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance

"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Similar categories in Jamila Rowser's Wash Day Diaries book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2) book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction

"Detective you have to arrest her. You have to arrest her and put her to death. Not just the regular death penalty - that's not good enough for her. I want her to hang by her heels, rip her to shreds,…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2)

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction
• lgbt

"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Similar categories in Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• psychology
• mental health

"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• mental health
• queer
• psychology
• lgbt

"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary

"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

Similar categories in Nagabe's The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3) book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction

"I suppose it's not so easy to change fate."

-Nagabe, The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3)

Similar categories in Nagabe's とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4] book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• contemporary
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Recitatif book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction

"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Dantiel W. Moniz's Milk Blood Heat book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• fiction
• contemporary

"She vomited casually into the toilet…"

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."

-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"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

Similar categories in Angela Chen's Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• queer
• psychology
• lgbt

"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Similar categories in Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• indian literature
• india

"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

Similar categories in Megan Milks's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• lgbt
• mental health
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Trifonia Melibea Obono's La bastarda book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• contemporary
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

Similar categories in Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Maybe humans aren't made to expereince love, I think. We never evolved the kind of telepathy it seems to require."

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"But when you've loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you've loved along with you, not just in your m…"

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"It's a love story about confessional poets and thwarted playwrights, about sad rock stars and tattoo artists who are fighting with their kids, about messy bisexuals and untidy queers and evangelical …"

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• contemporary
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"Every woman a universe."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Hey, Coffee Girl." "Hey, Subway Girl."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

Similar categories in Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• asia
• indian literature
• india
• fiction
• contemporary

"I suspect the truth was that, like so many who cloak themselves in mistrust and call it independence, I was merely a coward."

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

"I had yet to understand just how many shapes a person’s desire could take, and how few of them, in the end, took the shape of the body."

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

"...cynical and hardened as I believed myself to be at twenty-four, I had never that pity might, in fact, be just another facet of love."

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

"This country, already ancient when I was born in 1982, has changed every instant I’ve been alive. Titanic events have ripped it apart year after year, each time rearranging it along slightly differen…"

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

Similar categories in Pankaj Kapur's Dopehri book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• indian literature
• india
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth book and Rheea Mukherjee's The Body Myth

• romance
• lgbt
• asia
• psychology
• mental health
• indian literature
• india
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer