19 must-read queer books like The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

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The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn’t mind spendin…

"Of course my battery dies. Fucking figures the only thing dead in this coffin is the one thing that shouldn’t be."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"Of course my battery dies. Fucking figures the only thing dead in this coffin is the one thing that shouldn’t be."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

If you liked the queer plot in The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Wonders of the Invisible World

By: Christopher Barzak

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Aidan Lockwood feels like he's been sleepwalking through life, each day as hazy and unremarkable as… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Barzak's Wonders of the Invisible World book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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2. Honestly Ben (Openly Straight, #2)

By: Bill Konigsberg

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Ben Carver is back to normal. He's getting all As in his classes at the Natick School. He was just … read more

Similar categories in Bill Konigsberg's Honestly Ben (Openly Straight, #2) book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

3. Hero

By: Perry Moore

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. L… read more

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4. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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5. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

By: Erik J. Brown

4.24

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more

Similar categories in Erik J. Brown's The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2) book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"

-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

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6. Deposing Nathan

By: Zack Smedley

4.23

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Nate never imagined that he would be attacked by his best friend, Cam. Now, Nate is being called… read more

Similar categories in Zack Smedley's Deposing Nathan book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"If you think you need to earn enough points on someone’s rubric for them to accept you, then either you’re wrong to assume they won’t love you for who you are, or they never loved you in the first pl…"

-Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan

"I’ve spent every minute of these past months trying to figure out why I feel the things I feel, and if there’s a way to put that into words, I won’t find it. I am who I am. I’ve never acted on less t…"

-Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan

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7. Fun Home

By: Lisa Kron

4.45

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the sto… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kron's Fun Home book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • lgbt
  • queer
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8. Milo and Marcos at the End of the World

By: Kevin Christopher Snipes

3.91

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

When Marcos moves to town, Milo is forced to acknowledge the feelings he's kept hidden, especially … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Christopher Snipes's Milo and Marcos at the End of the World book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There are two things I can definitely taste: salt and hope."

-Kevin Christopher Snipes, Milo and Marcos at the End of the World

"Maybe a God that roots for love is the only God worth believing in."

-Kevin Christopher Snipes, Milo and Marcos at the End of the World

"I really do have to make a choice between you and my parents, or you and God, or you and the whole stupid planet, then I choose you. From now until the end of time. I choose you."

-Kevin Christopher Snipes, Milo and Marcos at the End of the World

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9. Salt the Water

By: Candice Iloh

3.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging auth… read more

Similar categories in Candice Iloh's Salt the Water book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. I Hope You Get This Message

By: Farah Naz Rishi

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days. When news stations start reporting th… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's I Hope You Get This Message book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Being gay is not a fruit-borne disease, you idiot."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Only five seconds of thought stand between you and a crap-ton of regret."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Just because you’ve lost all hope doesn’t mean you get to throw out hope for all of us."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"The thing about the end of the world was this: either everything mattered, or nothing did."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

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12. The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn’t mind spendin… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"Of course my battery dies. Fucking figures the only thing dead in this coffin is the one thing that shouldn’t be."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"Fine. He dumped me for a girl with perfectly normal hips who’s probably one of those people who believes the earth is as flat as your ass."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"I’ve never understood how doctors can smoke. It’s like a firefighter deliberately disabling the smoke detectors in her house and then setting fire to her couch."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

Cover of The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver

13. The Feeling of Falling in Love

By: Mason Deaver

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the b… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's The Feeling of Falling in Love book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"But in my experience, I've learned that the things worth doing are what scare us the most."

-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

"I don’t deserve anything but loneliness because all I do is hurt people. It’s what I’m good at. I learned from the best."

-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

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14. The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp o… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Lambert's The Boy in the Red Dress book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I'd never known freedom could feel so hollow"

-Kristin Lambert, The Boy in the Red Dress

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15. The Fascinators

By: Andrew Eliopulos

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A magic-infused YA novel about friendship, first love, and feeling out of place that will bewitch f… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Eliopulos's The Fascinators book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"...meant he resented his own life too much to make safer decisions, starting with the drinks that night but only snow-balling from there. Because it never occurred to James that there were people who…"

-Andrew Eliopulos, The Fascinators

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16. Caught in a Bad Fauxmance

By: Elle Gonzalez Rose

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, fun contemporary rom-com from debut author Elle Gonzalez Rose, about an aspiring artist wh… read more

Similar categories in Elle Gonzalez Rose's Caught in a Bad Fauxmance book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. We Are Lost and Found

By: Helene Dunbar

3.74

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting story in the tradition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower … read more

Similar categories in Helene Dunbar's We Are Lost and Found book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. Destination Unknown

By: Bill Konigsberg

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two … read more

Similar categories in Bill Konigsberg's Destination Unknown book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. The Fell of Dark

By: Caleb Roehrig

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. Located at a ne… read more

Similar categories in Caleb Roehrig's The Fell of Dark book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Goosebumps: Horrors of the Witch House

By: Denton J. Tipton

3.38

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

The kid-friendly horror series returns with all-new stories for a new generation bringing the terri… read more

Similar categories in Denton J. Tipton's Goosebumps: Horrors of the Witch House book and Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

  • fantasy
Cover of I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 3 (I Want to Be a Wall, #3) by Honami Shirono

21. I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 3 (I Want to Be a Wall, #3)

By: Honami Shirono

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Gaku and Yuriko prepare to face the final hurdle of their newlywed life―meeting Gaku’s grandmother!… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

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