12 Best lesbian books like Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist

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Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• gothic
• fiction
• contemporary
• thriller
• horror
• adult

"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• adult

"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• contemporary
• adult

Similar categories in Emily M. Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• adult
• queer

"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

Similar categories in Alexis Henderson's House of Hunger book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• queer

"To love is to devour"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve staked my time on it, and when you’re as busy as I am there’s no gamble so big as that."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• queer

"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• queer

"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• horror
• mystery
• queer

Similar categories in C.E. McGill's Our Hideous Progeny book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• queer

"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's Just Like Home book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• gothic
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• adult

"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• queer

"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

Similar categories in Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• gothic
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Tara Isabella Burton's The World Cannot Give book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Amanda Linsmeier's Six of Sorrow book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• lgbt
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• queer

Similar categories in Megan Bontrager's Eye of the Ouroboros book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1) book and Kit Mayquist's Tripping Arcadia

• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• adult
• queer