12 best-selling queer books like Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle

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Bad Seed: Stories

By: Gabriel Carle

3.64

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young an…

If you liked the queer plot in Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

2. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

Similar categories in Éric Chacour's Ce que je sais de toi book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

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3. Perras de reserva

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia de la Cerda's Perras de reserva book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

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4. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • fiction
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5. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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6. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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7. 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

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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8. Burning Butch

By: R/B Mertz

4.39

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans / non-binary butch on a quest to survive conservat… read more

Similar categories in R/B Mertz's Burning Butch book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had …"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her o…"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

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9. 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 Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • fiction
"...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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10. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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11. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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13. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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14. 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 Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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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15. Isla partida

By: Daniela Tarazona

3.29

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

En los pasillos de esta novela, una mujer se repite y multiplica. Se parte en dos. En este mundo fe… read more

Similar categories in Daniela Tarazona's Isla partida book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • fiction
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16. 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 Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • short stories
  • 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

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17. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

18. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • short stories
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19. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • fiction
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20. Wafers

By: Ha Seong-nan

3.27

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This 2006 collection of short stories is in line with the unsettling, engrossing style of Ha’s othe… read more

Similar categories in Ha Seong-nan's Wafers book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle

21. Bad Seed: Stories

By: Gabriel Carle

3.64

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young an… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories book and Gabriel Carle's Bad Seed: Stories

  • short stories
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

15 best-selling fiction books like Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle

Transform Your Habits

Ce que je sais de toi

Éric Chacour

4.43

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Perras de reserva

Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Transform Your Habits

No es un río

Selva Almada

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

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

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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