8 must-read queer books like Liminal by Jordan Tannahill

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Liminal

By: Jordan Tannahill

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother’s bedroom. As his eyes adj…

If you liked the queer plot in Liminal by Jordan Tannahill , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

By: John G. Miller , None

3.80

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, victim … read more

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"If we have not changed, we have not learned"

-John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

"Remember: The answers are in the questions."

-John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

"Let's take care of the little things while they're still little."

-John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

"Careful. The easiest thing to spot is gaps of integrity in others."

-John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

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2. Aya de Yopougon, Tome 5 (Aya, #5)

By: Clément Oubrerie , Marguerite Abouet

4.27

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Il y a autant d'embrouilles autour d'Aya que de moustiques à Abidjan. Mamadou fait le génito pour l… read more

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  • fiction

3. La femme qui fuit

By: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

4.00

Format: None pages,

Anais Barbeau-Lavalette n'a pas connu la mere de sa mere. De sa vie, elle ne savait que tres peu de… read more

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4. Aya de Yopougon, Tome 6 (Aya, #6)

By: Clément Oubrerie , Marguerite Abouet

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Yopougon, comme a Paris, les histoires se denouent, les verites eclatent et chacun va devoir fair… read more

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5. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • contemporary
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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6. This Woman's Work

By: Julie Delporte

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A profound and personal exploration of the intersections of womanhood, femininity, and creativityTh… read more

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"Do men envy the women they fall in love with too?"

-Julie Delporte, This Woman's Work

"Il n’y a pas de vraie liberté si l’on ne peut pas faire face à la solitude."

-Julie Delporte, This Woman's Work

"Je me demande ce que c'est que d'avoir grandi sans trauma. C'est la lecture qui me sauve (comme quand j'étais enfant)."

-Julie Delporte, This Woman's Work

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7. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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9. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

Similar categories in Anuja Varghese's Chrysalis book and Jordan Tannahill's Liminal

  • fiction
  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
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10. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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11. La version qui n'intéresse personne

By: Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Elle croyait qu’ici, à l’autre bout du monde, au confluent de la rivière Klondike et du fleuve Yuko… read more

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  • fiction
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12. De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit

By: Sofie Lakmaker

3.77

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

'De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit luidt: dat ik altijd op zoek ben geweest naar iemand die de … read more

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  • contemporary
  • queer
  • lgbt
"fucking hetero's, gotta teach them everything."

-Sofie Lakmaker, De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit

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13. The Mars Room

By: Rachel Kushner

3.44

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Corr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We loved life more than the future."

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

"Where people are gone the night falls upward, black and unmanned."

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

"I was assigned a public defender. We were all hopeful things would go differently. They did not go differently. They went this way."

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

"You would not have gone. I understand that. You would not have gone up to his room. You would not have asked him for help. You would not have been wandering lost at midnight at age eleven. You would …"

-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

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14. Good Girl

By: Anna Fitzpatrick

3.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Secretary meets Fleabag in Anna Fitzpatrick's hot and hilarious comic-erotic debut. Lucy tries s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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15. Les pénitences

By: Alex Viens

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Jules rend visite à son père, Denis, un vieux punk imprévisible, afin de lui remettre une énigmatiq… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Que notre joie demeure

By: Kevin Lambert

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Un spectre hante le roman de Kevin Lambert : le spectre du capitalisme. L’éblouissante Céline Wacho… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Frappabord

By: Mireille Gagné

3.80

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Province du Québec, 1942. Sur Grosse-Île, dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent qu’arpentent les sous-marins… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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20. 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

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  • fiction
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21. La banalité d'un tir

By: Mali Navia

4.48

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ana López, née d’une mère canadienne et d’un père colombien, grandit au Québec entre deux cultures,… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Peuple de verre

By: Catherine Leroux

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Se loger est devenu un luxe. Des travailleurs et des familles vivent dans des camps de fortune. Des… read more

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  • contemporary
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23. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

Similar categories in Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga book and Jordan Tannahill's Liminal

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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24. Tout me revient maintenant

By: Jean-Michel Fortier

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Colin Bourque, bientôt 17 ans, et sa best, Eugénie Bujold, font comme tous les adolescents de Saint… read more

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25. Tout brûler

By: Lucile de Pesloüan

4.79

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Stella, protagoniste et narratrice, retrace les abus subis dans sa famille. Trente ans après les fa… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Liminal

By: Jordan Tannahill

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother’s bedroom. As his eyes adj… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Tannahill's Liminal book and Jordan Tannahill's Liminal

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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27. Le Straight park

By: Gabriel Cholette

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

« Naît en moi le projet d’écrire sur le skate, naît le désir de retourner les peurs superposées, la… read more

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28. Presque vierge

By: Josée Blanchette

3.81

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Âgée de seulement 15 ans, Josée entre au cégep, lit Dostoïevski et Duras, fume des joints, se fait … read more

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29. L'ostie d'chat, tome 3

By: Iris

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Quotidien mouvementé pour les deux potes à l'amitié fragilisée : alors que Jean-Seb voit toujours e… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Comparution

By: Angelina Guo

4.45

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Depuis l’enfance, on me perçoit comme une étrangère. Partout où je vais, on me reproche de ne pas p… read more

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31. Rituels de rien

By: Virginie Savard

3.94

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dans ce livre, Virginie Savard invente des rituels inutiles, dont la bienveillance suffit à nous so… read more

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3.77

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3.96

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3.37

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