15 best-selling lgbt books like Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife by Eric Schlich

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Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

By: Eric Schlich

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Eric Schlich’s Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big…

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1. Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

By: Eric Schlich

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Eric Schlich’s Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • humor
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • queer
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2. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"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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3. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. Dead in Long Beach, California

By: Venita Blackburn

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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5. Ours

By: Phillip B. Williams

3.84

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that dem… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"In Ours, the grass that grows is sharp. It gleams at its edges, such that when the buttery light of spring falls into it, the light cries out and yellow pours slowly over the earth."

-Phillip B. Williams, Ours

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6. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. The Curse of Pietro Houdini

By: Derek B. Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."

-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

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8. Last Acts

By: Alexander Sammartino

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"when god died he died whimpering"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"

-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

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10. Honey

By: Victor Lodato

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • queer
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11. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

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  • religion
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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12. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. Teenage Dirtbags

By: James Acker

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Long Run comes another unflinchingly raw and boldly hilarious novel about an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set between the United States and México, Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel is a tender and lyrical … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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15. Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

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  • humor
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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17. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Melancholy of Untold History

By: Minsoo Kang

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold Hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Misrecognition

By: Madison Newbound

3.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

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

21 Best fiction books like Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife by Eric Schlich

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