Beholder
By: Ryan La Sala
3.92
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An…
Want to Read $ 11.99"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A design. A sequence that can be maneuvered within, but never escaped."-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
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1. Otherworldly
By: F.T. Lukens
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
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
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- 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
3. 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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- 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
5. Howl
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- mystery
- fantasy
- queer
6. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
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"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
7. What Stalks Among Us
By: Sarah Hollowell
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
8. Emmett
By: Lev A.C. Rosen
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A modern-day gay YA Emma, with the spikey social critique of Austen plus the lush over-the-top roma… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
9. The Forest Demands Its Due
By: Kosoko Jackson
3.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
10. Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)
By: H.E. Edgmon
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb again…"-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)
11. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
12. The Bad Ones
By: Melissa Albert
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones
13. 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
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
14. Beholder
By: Ryan La Sala
3.92
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more
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- urban fantasy
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"-Ryan La Sala, Beholder
15. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)
By: Linda Cheng
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced t… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- queer
16. Charming Young Man
By: Eliot Schrefer
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-ag… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
17. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
By: Jamison Shea
3.72
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- fantasy
- queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
18. The Blood Years
By: Elana K. Arnold
4.32
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke T… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
19. Compound Fracture
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture
20. Your Lonely Nights Are Over
By: Adam Sass
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friend… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- queer
21. Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2)
By: H.E. Edgmon
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Mari… read more
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