29 must-read lgbt books like Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

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Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b…

"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

If you liked the lgbt plot in Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman , here is a list of 29 books like this:

1. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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2. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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3. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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5. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

6. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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7. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

Similar categories in Archie Bongiovanni's Mimosa: A Graphic Novel book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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8. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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10. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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11. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

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  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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13. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • queer
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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14. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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15. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Every day I am making a choice, thought Indi as she set the sample wheel onto its shelf in the freezer. Every day I decide I matter more than the people outside this place."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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16. The Chromatic Fantasy

By: H.A .

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling … read more

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  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Jules] No!! No! No! No! I want to be happy!! I want to love and be loved!! I want to feel safe!! I want to be someone who doesn't deserve it!! I want my life and my body and my soul!!"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

"[guard] 'Before we torture you, please sign the release.' [legal form] 'I shall not say "ah, my back really needed that!" when being drawn over the rack. (we've all heard it before. you're not origin…"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

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17. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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18. A Lady for a Duke

By: Alexis Hall

4.07

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

A lush, sweeping queer historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material—perfect… read more

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  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I will never forget him. But"

-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

"Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people."

-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

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19. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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20. Confessions of the Fox

By: Jordy Rosenberg

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2) by T.J.   Alexander

21. Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2)

By: T.J. Alexander

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“Urgent and intimate.” — The New York Times Book Review A fake dating arrangement turns to real … read more

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  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

22. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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23. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

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  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

Cover of DeadEndia: The Broken Halo (DeadEndia, #2) by Hamish Steele

24. DeadEndia: The Broken Halo (DeadEndia, #2)

By: Hamish Steele

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of this quirky, heartfelt, LGBTQ adventure comic, war is brewing across t… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman

25. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

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  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

Cover of Exodus 20:3 by Freydís Moon

26. Exodus 20:3

By: Freydís Moon

3.79

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Religious eroticism and queer emancipation meet in a claustrophobic monster-romance about divinity,… read more

Similar categories in Freydís Moon's Exodus 20:3 book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • queer
"It was a frightening thing, being in the middle of nowhere with someone who paid attention."

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

"Homes left and remade, countries carried from one place to another, rituals remembered in tangled languages."

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

"Turn the other cheek. Yeah I get it -" "Allow God to act on your behalf," Ariel said sternly... "Make room for divine intervention."

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

"Aren't you... aren't you, like, a pastor or something?" "No, I'm someone with an idea. That's all." "Uh-huh. And rebuilding this church is your idea? Restoring faith?" "Yes, and providing access." Di…"

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

Cover of The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

27. The Companion

By: E.E. Ottoman

3.67

Format: 168 pages, ebook

New York, 1949 After years of trying to break into New York City's literary scene, Madeline Slau… read more

Similar categories in E.E. Ottoman's The Companion book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"He was silent for a moment, then said more quietly. 'But I know what you are talking about. I've felt like that before too. To be intimate with someone and feel not right afterward, too vulnerable an…"

-E.E. Ottoman, The Companion

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28. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • queer
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29. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

30. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer

28 must-read fiction books like Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

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Fern Haught

3.62

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Unfamiliar, Vol. 2 (Unfamiliar, #2)

Haley Newsome

4.09

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.00

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Remy Lai

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