9 Top lgbt books like The Fake by Zoe Whittall

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The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But …

"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Fake by Zoe Whittall , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Adult

By: Bronwyn Fischer

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.  In the wet grass… read more

Similar categories in Bronwyn Fischer's The Adult book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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2. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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3. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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4. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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5. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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6. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

Similar categories in Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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7. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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8. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of The Fake by Zoe Whittall

9. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's The Fake book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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10. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. On the Ravine

By: Vincent Lam

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Lam's On the Ravine book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • canada
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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13. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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15. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. We Meant Well

By: Erum Shazia Hasan

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more

Similar categories in Erum Shazia Hasan's We Meant Well book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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18. The Whispers

By: Ashley Audrain

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Audrain's The Whispers book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

Similar categories in Elyse Friedman's The Opportunist book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

Similar categories in Haley Jakobson's Old Enough book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Back in the Land of the Living

By: Eva Crocker

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize lo… read more

Similar categories in Eva Crocker's Back in the Land of the Living book and Zoe Whittall's The Fake

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

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