7 Top fantasy books like Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

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Watch Over Me

By: Nina LaCour

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the eagerly anticipated follow-…

"The common man pays for the internet,"

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"It was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"The trick is not to let the line intimidate you. Everyone can wait a few minutes for flowers. There's no rush."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"I was surprised, at first, by her sadness. I had thought she felt only delight—but sadness, of course, was a feeling all of us have always known."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

If you liked the fantasy plot in Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha

By: Anonymous , Bruce M. Metzger

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

The Oxford NRSV Bible offers readers an unbeatable combination of quality construction, affordabili… read more

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Cover of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) by Ashley Herring Blake

2. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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4. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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5. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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6. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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7. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I will be a ruin to consume."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

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8. You Must Not Miss

By: Katrina Leno

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day her family self-destructed. That was th… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's You Must Not Miss book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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10. Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily R. Austin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Interesting Facts about Space book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"

-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

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11. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

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12. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

By: Emily R. Austin

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s per… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Think about it,"

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"My death, and the death of everyone I love, is inevitable. Pine again."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they've morphed into."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"I am inside of an ecosystem I don't belong in... I feel like a foreign object inside a body, waiting to be rejected."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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13. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

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14. Watch Over Me

By: Nina LaCour

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the eagerly anticipated follow-… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"The common man pays for the internet,"

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"It was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"The trick is not to let the line intimidate you. Everyone can wait a few minutes for flowers. There's no rush."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

"I was surprised, at first, by her sadness. I had thought she felt only delight—but sadness, of course, was a feeling all of us have always known."

-Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

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15. Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Horrid book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

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16. Forget Me Not

By: Alyson Derrick

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obsta… read more

Similar categories in Alyson Derrick's Forget Me Not book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Orpheus Girl

By: Brynne Rebele-Henry

3.65

Format: 176 pages, None

In her debut novel, award-winning poet Brynne Rebele-Henry re-imagines the Orpheus myth as a love s… read more

Similar categories in Brynne Rebele-Henry's Orpheus Girl book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You know, the thing about family is that you can choose it. And I choose you."

-Brynne Rebele-Henry, Orpheus Girl

"But I do look back. I do. Because she’s so beautiful and I’m so scared of going somewhere without her because my whole life, even before I knew it, I’ve always had Sarah. And when I look back at her,…"

-Brynne Rebele-Henry, Orpheus Girl

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18. If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

By: Jen St. Jude

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental healt… read more

Similar categories in Jen St. Jude's If Tomorrow Doesn't Come book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's nothing to know." Except I'm in love with you, I can never tell you that, and I know you'll be happier without me."

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

"We were never just friends, were we?’ I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t fee…"

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

"If I was drowning on land, in oxygen, maybe the floor of the river was the only place I’d be able to breathe. [...] I thought, again, I’m so tired. I’m such a disappointment. I don’t want to do this …"

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

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19. I Kissed Shara Wheeler

By: Casey McQuiston

3.88

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a deb… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You were the only one it could be."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

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20. Ghost Mother

By: Kelly Dwyer

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Ghost Mother is a mesmerizing psychological ghost story that blurs the thin line between reality an… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Dwyer's Ghost Mother book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Loudest Silence

By: Sydney Langford

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two disabled, queer teens find belonging in this poignant platonic love story about singing, signin… read more

Similar categories in Sydney Langford's The Loudest Silence book and Nina LaCour's Watch Over Me

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

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