John of John Read-Alikes & More LGBTQ+ Books

Beyond the Book: Books About Family Businesses

Family businesses provide fruitful ground for writers. The interpersonal dynamics at play are uniquely high-stakes, and there's a lot of room for things to go fascinatingly wrong.

Returns and Exchanges by Kayla Rae Whitaker focuses on a family that owns a chain of discount stores. Here are five other books that use fact and fiction to explore what happens when family and business mix.

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Read-Alikes: John of John by Douglas Stuart

BookBrowse handpicked read-alikes help you recommend books when one a patron requests isn't available, or when they’re looking for a similar title. For someone interested in Douglas Stuart’s novel John of John, we suggest:

• All Them Dogs by Djamel White

• When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris

• Change by Édouard Louis

• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

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LGBTQ+ Books

Douglas Stuart’s John of John and Kayla Rae Whitaker’s Returns and Exchanges are just two recommended titles of more than 200 in our LGBTQ+ category, which encompasses books featuring queer and trans people and subjects relevant to their lives.

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Author Interview: Stephanie Sy-Quia

Our author interviews page shows you recent Q&As with writers of books we review and recommend. Here’s an interview with Stephanie Sy-Quia, whose debut novel A Private Man is featured in our 5/20 e-zine.

What is the real-life inspiration behind A Private Man?

“My grandfather was a Catholic priest. In the early 1960s, he met and fell in love with my grandmother, a feminist theologian.”

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Book Club Discussions

Find inspiration for your book club(s) among our more than 200 past discussions.

We’re currently talking about When No One Else Will by Amanda Skenandore, among other books. Starting June 4, we feature A Pair of Aces by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

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Ask the Author Interviews

BookBrowse regularly hosts Ask the Author sessions in our community forum. You and your patrons are welcome to follow along and post questions in any future interviews that interest you. In the meantime, see our recent conversation with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man, a BookBrowse First Impressions pick.

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New & Notable Books in June

We've carefully selected 100+ of the most noteworthy books publishing in June—check them out!

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