17 Top lgbt books like The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

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The Thick and the Lean

By: Chana Porter

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s highly anticipated new novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthie…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

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

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

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

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • 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

Cover of Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

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

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

4. 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 Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

5. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

6. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. Pluralities

By: Avi Silver

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

"Wait—rewind. I was still a girl back then, before the universes converged." Guided by premoniti… read more

Similar categories in Avi Silver's Pluralities book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I touched my chest, feeling the compression of the binder Theseus had lent me, trying to determine if it made me feel nonbinary or like a dog in a thundervest."

-Avi Silver, Pluralities

"Once more I caught a glimpse of the mark on his cheek, where his she stamp would have been if he were a woman. But men didn’t wear stamps— they were just allowed to Be."

-Avi Silver, Pluralities

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8. 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 Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • 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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9. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

Similar categories in Tlotlo Tsamaase's Womb City book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

11. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. 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 Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

Cover of Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

13. 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 Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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14. 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

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • 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

Cover of The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

15. The Thick and the Lean

By: Chana Porter

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s highly anticipated new novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthie… read more

Similar categories in Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • food
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

16. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet

17. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

18. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) by Cadwell Turnbull

19. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

Similar categories in Cadwell Turnbull's We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum

20. The Unraveling

By: Benjamin Rosenbaum

3.95

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the distant future somewhere in the galaxy, a society has emerged where everyone has multiple bo… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Rosenbaum's The Unraveling book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey  Wood

21. Bang Bang Bodhisattva

By: Aubrey Wood

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Someone wants trans girl hacker-for-hire Kiera Umehara in prison or dead—but for what? Failing to f… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Wood's Bang Bang Bodhisattva book and Chana Porter's The Thick and the Lean

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

21 Best fiction books like The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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21 Top fiction books like The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

Ann Leckie

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

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