22 Best queer books like The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

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The Monster of Elendhaven

By: Jennifer Giesbrecht

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, s…

"Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?"

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?"

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Monster was the best, his favorite word. The first half was a kiss, the second a hiss."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Monster was the best, his favorite word. The first half was a kiss, the second a hiss."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

If you liked the queer plot in The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

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2. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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3. 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 Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • 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

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4. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

Similar categories in Naben Ruthnum's Helpmeet book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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5. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

Similar categories in Hiron Ennes's Leech book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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6. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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)

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7. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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8. Summer Sons

By: Lee Mandelo

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Summer Sons book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

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9. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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10. 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 Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • 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

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11. 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 Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • 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

Cover of A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) by S.T. Gibson

12. A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

4.00

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

S.T. Gibson's sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. … read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Water your mother's flowers with their blood."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"You must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?"

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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13. The Test

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.83

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f… read more

Similar categories in Sylvain Neuvel's The Test book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

Similar categories in Lucy A. Snyder's Sister, Maiden, Monster book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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16. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. Angels Before Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.14

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with … read more

Similar categories in Rafael Nicolás's Angels Before Man book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"

-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man

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18. 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 Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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19. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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21. The Bayou

By: Arden Powell

4.03

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

"Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own ac… read more

Similar categories in Arden Powell's The Bayou book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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23. Angels & Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.59

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

A Queer Retelling of the Watcher's Flood The angel Azazel is miserable in Heaven. In the afterma… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Nicolás's Angels & Man book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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24. The Monster of Elendhaven

By: Jennifer Giesbrecht

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?"

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Monster was the best, his favorite word. The first half was a kiss, the second a hiss."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Unwise to dream of death in a world where someone has the power to make those dreams come true."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"If Johann was going to be a Thing with a name, then from now on he would be a Thing with power, too."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

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25. Exodus 20:3

By: Freydís Moon

3.79

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Religious eroticism and queer emancipation meet in a claustrophobic monster-romance about divinity,… read more

Similar categories in Freydís Moon's Exodus 20:3 book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It was a frightening thing, being in the middle of nowhere with someone who paid attention."

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

"Homes left and remade, countries carried from one place to another, rituals remembered in tangled languages."

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

"Turn the other cheek. Yeah I get it -" "Allow God to act on your behalf," Ariel said sternly... "Make room for divine intervention."

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

"Aren't you... aren't you, like, a pastor or something?" "No, I'm someone with an idea. That's all." "Uh-huh. And rebuilding this church is your idea? Restoring faith?" "Yes, and providing access." Di…"

-Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

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26. Yellow Jessamine

By: Caitlin Starling

3.52

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Powerful shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu lives a tight, contained life, holding herself at a distan… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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27. The Faerie Hounds of York

By: Arden Powell

3.92

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1810. The north is governed by a single rule. Faerie will take as it pleases. William L… read more

Similar categories in Arden Powell's The Faerie Hounds of York book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And until then, we'll stay side by side, and if we forget the world, we'll forget it together. And if we turn into trees, we'll grow so near to one another that our roots will tangle under the ground…"

-Arden Powell, The Faerie Hounds of York

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28. Metal from Heaven

By: August Clarke

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  The Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth: a bloody  lesbian revenge tale and political … read more

Similar categories in August Clarke's Metal from Heaven book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Hell and Its Pleasures (Prince of Lust, #2) by Lucien Burr

29. Hell and Its Pleasures (Prince of Lust, #2)

By: Lucien Burr

3.54

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

SEQUEL TO THE BEST SELLING PRINCE OF LUST What had God’s love given you except shame? What had G… read more

Similar categories in Lucien Burr's Hell and Its Pleasures (Prince of Lust, #2) book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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30. Sacrilege

By: T.N. Vitus

4.35

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Emelie has always known to stay away from the woods—the elders in her village won’t let her forget … read more

Similar categories in T.N. Vitus's Sacrilege book and Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven

  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt

28 best-selling fiction books like The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

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Sour Candy

Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Helpmeet

Naben Ruthnum

3.41

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The Fox and the Dryad

Kellen Graves

4.30

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