12 Best queer books like Flux by Jinwoo Chong

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Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp…

If you liked the queer plot in Flux by Jinwoo Chong , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. The Bushwhacked Piano

By: Thomas McGuane

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Imagine: (1) A bona-fide American freak tooling across country in a green Hudson Hornet hotly pursu… read more

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2. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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3. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mieko Candon's The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
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4. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

5. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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6. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

Similar categories in Esther Yi's Y/N book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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7. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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8. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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10. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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11. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • lgbt
  • queer
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

Similar categories in Ed Park's Same Bed Different Dreams book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

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14. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

Similar categories in C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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15. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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16. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's The Death I Gave Him book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
  • queer
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17. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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18. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • time travel
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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19. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

Similar categories in Djuna's Counterweight book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Endless Vessel

By: Charles Soule

3.79

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Soule's The Endless Vessel book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • time travel
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Uranians: Stories

By: Theodore McCombs

3.90

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “… read more

Similar categories in Theodore McCombs's Uranians: Stories book and Jinwoo Chong's Flux

  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer

20 Best fiction books like Flux by Jinwoo Chong

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Nick Harkaway

4.03

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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