19 must-read queer books like Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Cover of Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-…

If you liked the queer plot in Stone Fruit by Lee Lai , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Spinning by Tillie Walden

1. Spinning

By: Tillie Walden

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir, Spinning, ca… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's Spinning book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
"I never ignored the fact that I was attracted to them. I had known I was gay since I was 5. Now I was almost 12. A teacher's aide had shown me how to hold your sleeve when you put your jacket on. I s…"

-Tillie Walden, Spinning

Cover of Skim by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

2. Skim

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensit… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Skim book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with …"

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

Cover of The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

3. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

Similar categories in Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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4. Are You Listening?

By: Tillie Walden

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's Are You Listening? book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

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5. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

Similar categories in Benji Nate's Girl Juice book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

7. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Cover of In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee

8. In Limbo

By: Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more

Similar categories in Deb J.J. Lee's In Limbo book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • contemporary
Cover of Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

9. 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 Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Firebugs by Nino Bulling

10. Firebugs

By: Nino Bulling

3.97

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Actually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with … read more

Similar categories in Nino Bulling's Firebugs book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

11. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's On a Sunbeam book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

Cover of The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes

12. The Times I Knew I Was Gay

By: Eleanor Crewes

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsesse… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Crewes's The Times I Knew I Was Gay book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Mamo by Sas Milledge

13. Mamo

By: Sas Milledge

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Family matters aren’t just hocus-pocus for this young witch!Cartoonist Sas Milledge makes her aston… read more

Similar categories in Sas Milledge's Mamo book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis

14. The Hard Tomorrow

By: Eleanor Davis

3.64

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

The gorgeous and empathetic story of one couple’s search for hope and a peaceful future Hannah i… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Davis's The Hard Tomorrow book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"This is my favorite part of you, your eyelashes when the light hits them like that. This is my favorite part of you, right where your ear meets your jawline. No, this is my favorite part, the little …"

-Eleanor Davis, The Hard Tomorrow

Cover of Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

15. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

Similar categories in Lee Lai's Stone Fruit book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish

16. Men I Trust

By: Tommi Parrish

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for… read more

Similar categories in Tommi Parrish's Men I Trust book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Lie And How We Told It by Tommi Parrish

17. The Lie And How We Told It

By: Tommi Parrish

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Hardcover

Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the ser… read more

Similar categories in Tommi Parrish's The Lie And How We Told It book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Fruiting Bodies by Ashley Robin Franklin

18. Fruiting Bodies

By: Ashley Robin Franklin

3.41

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A new spine-chilling horror comic from cartoonist Ashley Robin Franklin, author of One Million Tiny… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Robin Franklin's Fruiting Bodies book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

19. Shadow Life

By: Hiromi Goto

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

2022 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Winner for Adult Fiction 2022 L.A Times Book Prize Fi… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Goto's Shadow Life book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
"It's the living who struggle to accept death."

-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life

"There's a special place kept for the person who first breaks your heart."

-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life

"It's a relief to leave unnecessary things. But do the necessary things have to be so heavy?"

-Hiromi Goto, Shadow Life

Cover of Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten

20. Cannonball

By: Kelsey Wroten

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Kelsey Wroten’s Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspir… read more

Similar categories in Kelsey Wroten's Cannonball book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Lunar Boy by Jacinta Wibowo

21. Lunar Boy

By: Jacinta Wibowo

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more

Similar categories in Jacinta Wibowo's Lunar Boy book and Lee Lai's Stone Fruit

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer

19 Top lgbt books like Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Transform Your Habits

Spinning

Tillie Walden

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Skim

Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Magic Fish

Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Are You Listening?

Tillie Walden

3.83

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15 best-selling fiction books like Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

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