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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson reads as raw, defiant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Dry
Augusten Burroughs · 2003
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Bandit
Molly Brodak · 2016
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Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018
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The Only Girl in the Car
Kathy Dobie · 2002
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This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire
Nick Flynn · 2020
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
JT LeRoy · 2001
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House Rules
Rachel Sontag · 2008
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74% genome match
Hunger
Roxane Gay · 2016
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Bad blood
Lorna Sage · 2000
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Tweak
Nic Sheff · 2007
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A boy's own story
Edmund White · 1982
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Drinking
Caroline Knapp · 1996
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