18 must-read audiobook books like Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by None

1. Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life s… read more

Similar categories in None's Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

2. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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4. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

Similar categories in Allen Bratton's Henry Henry book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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5. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

Similar categories in Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • new york
  • history
  • true crime
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

6. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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7. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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8. Yes, Daddy

By: Jonathan Parks-Ramage

3.59

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Parks-Ramage's Yes, Daddy book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise by Jack Parlett

9. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

By: Jack Parlett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more

Similar categories in Jack Parlett's Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • new york
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini

10. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

By: Eric Cervini

4.31

Format: 494 pages, Hardcover

The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more

Similar categories in Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"

-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."

-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

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11. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

12. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

Similar categories in Paul Holes's Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession by Sarah Weinman

13. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Liza Rodman

14. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer

By: Liza Rodman

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, whil… read more

Similar categories in Liza Rodman's The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

15. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick

16. Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

By: James Kirchick

4.17

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair 's “Be… read more

Similar categories in James Kirchick's Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Washington, it has been said, is Hollywood for ugly people."

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

"Scratch the surface and what do you get?" asked Way Bandy, the two-thousand-dollars-a-day make up artist who "designed" Nancy's face. "More surface."

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

"The following year, Kramer would put on Just Say No, "a play about a farce" based in the fictional country of New Columbia, wherein everyone call's the president "Daddy", the First Lady is a harridan…"

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

"It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team…"

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

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17. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

By: Becky Cooper

3.73

Format: 501 pages, Hardcover

Dive into a true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard, of obsession and love for … read more

Similar categories in Becky Cooper's We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Back then, I was blind to the idea that an institution could still be destructive even if its members were good people."

-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

"For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. [...] Truth lies in a progressive dilating of the meaning [...] up to…"

-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

"My freshmen seminar professor had warned our class that Harvard was an institution on a scale we could not imagine: "Harvard will change you by the end of your four years, but don't expect to change …"

-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

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18. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Betancourt's The Male Gazed book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Turner Classic Movies) by Alonso Duralde

19. Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Alonso Duralde

4.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be “discreet” about their l… read more

Similar categories in Alonso Duralde's Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Turner Classic Movies) book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Showmance

By: Chad Beguelin

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"Showmance is ready for the big time...Beguelin crafts a story you never want to end.” —Steven Rowl… read more

Similar categories in Chad Beguelin's Showmance book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places by Greggor Mattson

21. Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places

By: Greggor Mattson

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of… read more

Similar categories in Greggor Mattson's Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places book and Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt

14 best-selling history books like Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

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4.00

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

4.09

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green

3.84

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20 must-read fiction books like Henry Henry by Allen Bratton

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Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

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Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson

4.11

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