6 best-selling queer books like To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

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Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• dystopia
• fiction
• contemporary
• science fiction
• audiobook

"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Similar categories in Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• historical
• dystopia
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• science fiction
• queer

"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

Similar categories in Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"But such was death - it had nothing to say."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Similar categories in Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• queer

"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• queer

"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

Similar categories in Ian McEwan's Lessons book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

Similar categories in Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• science fiction
• audiobook

"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

Similar categories in Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction
• science fiction
• audiobook

"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Similar categories in Leila Mottley's Nightcrawling book and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling