30 Top lgbt books like Confidence by Rafael Frumkin

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Confidence

By: Rafael Frumkin

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two lifelong friends, occasional lovers, and constant conmen find themselves on top of the world af…

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1. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's You Only Call When You're in Trouble book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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2. 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

Similar categories in Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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3. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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4. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Confidence

By: Rafael Frumkin

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two lifelong friends, occasional lovers, and constant conmen find themselves on top of the world af… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Frumkin's Confidence book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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6. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

Similar categories in Priya Guns's Your Driver Is Waiting book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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8. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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9. Ellipses

By: Vanessa Lawrence

2.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glossy world of New York City media, this sharp and witty debut novel follows a young wo… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Lawrence's Ellipses book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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

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11. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more

Similar categories in Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

4.17

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks―once you have finally foun… read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2) book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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13. The Humble Lover

By: Edmund White

2.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about… read more

Similar categories in Edmund White's The Humble Lover book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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14. 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

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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15. Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

By: Paul Rudnick

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed writer Paul Rudnick, a riotously funny, perceptive, and life-affirming novel fol… read more

Similar categories in Paul Rudnick's Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"If all the world's a stage, gay people are often expected to understudy themselves, reinterpreting the truth of their performances, depending on who's out front, and who's paying their salary."

-Paul Rudnick, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

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16. Big Gay Wedding

By: Byron Lane

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big … read more

Similar categories in Byron Lane's Big Gay Wedding book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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17. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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18. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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19. The Lookback Window

By: Kyle Dillon Hertz

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice. Growing… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Dillon Hertz's The Lookback Window book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"The great shame of your life is that you weren't raised Catholic," James said to me. "You've got suffering, but you don't have the aesthetic."

-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window

"Some people talk about their PTSD as if it's a badge of honor, and I roll my fucking eyes. I'm not trying to be the PDST-esy of them all. I ignored it for a really long time. I overdosed at seventeen…"

-Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window

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20. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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21. 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

Similar categories in James Acker's Teenage Dirtbags book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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22. 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 Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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23. Providence

By: Craig Willse

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more

Similar categories in Craig Willse's Providence book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."

-Craig Willse, Providence

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24. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Jha's The Laughter book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. The People Who Report More Stress

By: Alejandro Varela

3.87

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The People Who Report More Stress book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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26. Up With the Sun

By: Thomas Mallon

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York C… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mallon's Up With the Sun book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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27. All the Right Notes

By: Dominic Lim

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

​ In this hilarious and joyous rom com, sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob a… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Lim's All the Right Notes book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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28. Another First Chance

By: Robbie Couch

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult n… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's Another First Chance book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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29. Solomon's Crown

By: Natasha Siegel

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two destined rivals fall desperately in love—but the fate of medieval Europe hangs in the balance. … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Siegel's Solomon's Crown book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"If he managed to kill me now, if he could really bring himself to do it--then at least I would die in his arms. There were worse endings."

-Natasha Siegel, Solomon's Crown

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30. Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts

By: Adam Sass

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A swoony contemporary romance from Adam Sass following a boy who is cursed to doom any romantic rel… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sass's Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez

31. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

Similar categories in Santiago Jose Sanchez's Hombrecito book and Rafael Frumkin's Confidence

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

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