21 Top lgbt books like The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan

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The Foghorn Echoes

By: Danny Ramadan

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha…

"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."

-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of O amor dos homens avulsos by Victor Heringer

1. O amor dos homens avulsos

By: Victor Heringer

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more

Similar categories in Victor Heringer's O amor dos homens avulsos book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. In the Absence of Men

By: Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

Format: 384 pages,

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Similar categories in Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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3. Guapa

By: Saleem Haddad

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set ov… read more

Similar categories in Saleem Haddad's Guapa book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

Cover of The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan

5. The Foghorn Echoes

By: Danny Ramadan

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more

Similar categories in Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."

-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes

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6. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. Radical Love

By: Neil Blackmore

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more

Similar categories in Neil Blackmore's Radical Love book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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8. 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

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani

9. I Will Greet the Sun Again

By: Khashayar J. Khabushani

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more

Similar categories in Khashayar J. Khabushani's I Will Greet the Sun Again book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

10. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

Similar categories in Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

11. The World and All That It Holds

By: Aleksandar Hemon

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more

Similar categories in Aleksandar Hemon's The World and All That It Holds book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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12. Small Joys

By: Elvin James Mensah

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more

Similar categories in Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"

-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys

Cover of Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

13. 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

Similar categories in August Thompson's Anyone's Ghost book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of All the World Beside by Garrard Conley

14. 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

Similar categories in Garrard Conley's All the World Beside book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts

15. Ways and Means

By: Daniel Lefferts

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Daniel Lefferts’s searing debut novel Ways and Means, a striving finance student confronts the l… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Lefferts's Ways and Means book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

16. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica

17. 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

Similar categories in Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan

18. This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

By: Elias Jahshan

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Ara… read more

Similar categories in Elias Jahshan's This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • queer lit
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Those of us who suffer from severe anxiety and PTSD, in my case due to inferiority complexes and repeated emotional, physical and religious trauma from a young age, know that the fear of being found …"

-Elias Jahshan, This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

Cover of The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt

19. 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 Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

20. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Selamlik by Khaled Alesmael

21. Selamlik

By: Khaled Alesmael

3.85

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism Furat, a Syrian in his early 20s, vis… read more

Similar categories in Khaled Alesmael's Selamlik book and Danny Ramadan's The Foghorn Echoes

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

19 Best fiction books like The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan

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O amor dos homens avulsos

Victor Heringer

4.00

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In the Absence of Men

Philippe Besson , Frank Wynne

4.19

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4.30

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Tom Crewe

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Oisín McKenna

3.96

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August Thompson

4.11

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In Tongues

Thomas Grattan

4.04

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Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

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