13 Best queer books like A Small Apocalypse: Stories by Laura Chow Reeve

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A Small Apocalypse: Stories

By: Laura Chow Reeve

4.32

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between.In her debut short-sto…

If you liked the queer plot in A Small Apocalypse: Stories by Laura Chow Reeve , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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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 Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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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 Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. 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 Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • 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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5. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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6. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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7. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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8. 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 Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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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 Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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12. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
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13. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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14. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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15. 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 Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun

17. One Hundred Shadows

By: Hwang Jungeun

3.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Jungeun's One Hundred Shadows book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

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18. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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19. We Could Be Rats

By: Emily R. Austin

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and th… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's We Could Be Rats book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Small Apocalypse: Stories by Laura Chow Reeve

20. A Small Apocalypse: Stories

By: Laura Chow Reeve

4.32

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between.In her debut short-sto… read more

Similar categories in Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Model Home by Rivers Solomon

21. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Laura Chow Reeve's A Small Apocalypse: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

21 Best fiction books like A Small Apocalypse: Stories by Laura Chow Reeve

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

All-Night Pharmacy

Ruth Madievsky

3.52

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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