10 must-read lgbt books like Grow Where They Fall by Michael Donkor

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Grow Where They Fall

By: Michael Donkor

3.78

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

'Michael Donkor is a real talent' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Hugely enjoyable and very mo…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Grow Where They Fall by Michael Donkor , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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2. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • contemporary
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3. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • contemporary
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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4. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

  • gay
  • lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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5. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • contemporary
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6. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Margolyes's Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life book and Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

  • lgbt
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7. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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8. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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9. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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10. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Gale's Mother's Boy book and Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

  • gay
  • lgbt
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11. 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 Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

  • contemporary
  • gay
  • lgbt
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12. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia  Shaw

13. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

Similar categories in Julia Shaw's Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality book and Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

  • lgbt
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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14. We Are All Birds of Uganda

By: Hafsa Zayyan

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...' 1960s UGANDA. Hasan… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye

15. Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain

By: Jason Okundaye

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures … read more

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  • lgbt
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16. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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17. Queer As Folklore

By: Sacha Coward

4.13

Format: None pages, None

Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and… read more

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  • lgbt
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18. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

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  • contemporary
  • gay
  • lgbt
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19. No Funeral for Nazia

By: Taha Kehar

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In he… read more

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  • contemporary
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20. Grow Where They Fall

By: Michael Donkor

3.78

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

'Michael Donkor is a real talent' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Hugely enjoyable and very mo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall book and Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

  • contemporary
  • gay
  • lgbt
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21. Killing Time

By: Alan Bennett

3.63

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Killing Time is a wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett - a brand … read more

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11 must-read contemporary books like Grow Where They Fall by Michael Donkor

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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Pet

Catherine Chidgey

4.06

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

4.55

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