10 Top lgbt books like Frighten the Horses: A Memoir by Oliver Radclyffe

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Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

By: Oliver Radclyffe

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embra…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Frighten the Horses: A Memoir by Oliver Radclyffe , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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2. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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3. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

Similar categories in Anna Marie Tendler's Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. With or Without You

By: Caroline Leavitt

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free.” — P… read more

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5. 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 Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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6. Some Strange Music Draws Me In

By: Griffin Hansbury

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Hansbury's Some Strange Music Draws Me In book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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7. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

Similar categories in Sara Glass's Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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9. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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10. A Great Marriage

By: Frances Mayes

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their … read more

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11. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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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

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
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13. The Book of George

By: Kate Greathead

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. f… read more

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14. Still Life

By: Katherine Packert Burke

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and to what is left behind in tra… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Packert Burke's Still Life book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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15. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

By: Rachel Clarke

4.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Clarke's The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

By: Thomas Fuller

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to u… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Fuller's The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
Cover of A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole by Marian Schembari

18. A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

By: Marian Schembari

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neur… read more

Similar categories in Marian Schembari's A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell

19. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

By: Sonia Purnell

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, a re-exam… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Purnell's Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Two-Step Devil

By: Jamie Quatro

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times Notable "writer of great originality" comes a bold novel about love, faith an… read more

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21. Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

By: Oliver Radclyffe

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embra… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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22. Women's Hotel

By: Daniel M. Lavery

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Daniel M. Lavery's Women's Hotel book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

23. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

By: Ina Garten

4.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more

Similar categories in Ina Garten's Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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25. 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 Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
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26. A Reason to See You Again

By: Jami Attenberg

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more

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27. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

Similar categories in Russ Buettner's Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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28. Lifeform

By: Jenny Slate

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Litt… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Slate's Lifeform book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story by Abi Maxwell

29. One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story

By: Abi Maxwell

4.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over three years, uns… read more

Similar categories in Abi Maxwell's One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir by Youngmi Mayer

30. I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir

By: Youngmi Mayer

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Do you know what happens if you laugh while crying? Hair grows out of your butthole.” It was a con… read more

Similar categories in Youngmi Mayer's I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir book and Oliver Radclyffe's Frighten the Horses: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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