11 Best queer books like My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman

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My Lesbian Novel

By: Renee Gladman

4.27

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In both her writing and her visual art, Renee Gladman is a brilliant investigator of life, always p…

If you liked the queer plot in My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Mamut by Eva Baltasar

1. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Mamut book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
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2. 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 Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

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

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

Cover of Parade by Rachel Cusk

3. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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4. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

5. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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6. 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 Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton

7. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

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8. The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

By: Samantha Hunt

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that … read more

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Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

9. 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 Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • fiction
"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 The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

10. 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 Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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 Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

11. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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12. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Yr Dead by Sam Sax

13. Yr Dead

By: Sam Sax

4.28

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this… read more

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  • novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of She's Always Hungry: Stories by Eliza  Clark

14. She's Always Hungry: Stories

By: Eliza Clark

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry: Stories book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • fiction
Cover of My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman

15. My Lesbian Novel

By: Renee Gladman

4.27

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In both her writing and her visual art, Renee Gladman is a brilliant investigator of life, always p… read more

Similar categories in Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • novels
  • queer
Cover of Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

16. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

By: Isabella Hammad

4.74

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more

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17. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Cover of If Only by Vigdis Hjorth

18. If Only

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking but timeless early work from one of the world's most heralded novelists A relat… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Feast While You Can by Mikaella  Clements

19. Feast While You Can

By: Mikaella Clements

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a s… read more

Similar categories in Mikaella Clements's Feast While You Can book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Limbic by Peter Scalpello

20. Limbic

By: Peter Scalpello

4.02

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Limbic is Peter Scalpello’s glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slip… read more

Similar categories in Peter Scalpello's Limbic book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Ripcord by Nate Lippens

21. Ripcord

By: Nate Lippens

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Ripcord, Lippens continues his meditations on escape and connection, class, sex and intimacy. St… read more

Similar categories in Nate Lippens's Ripcord book and Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

16 Best fiction books like My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman

Transform Your Habits

Mamut

Eva Baltasar

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Parade

Rachel Cusk

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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20 must-read fiction books like Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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