12 best-selling queer books like Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

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Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9…

If you liked the queer plot in Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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3. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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4. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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8. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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9. 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 Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

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

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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10. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

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

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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

Cover of In Universes by Emet North

12. In Universes

By: Emet North

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more

Similar categories in Emet North's In Universes book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

13. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

14. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet

15. 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 Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

16. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

17. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

Cover of The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller

18. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

19. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

20. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

21. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black

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

21 Best fiction books like Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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A Good Happy Girl

Marissa Higgins

3.01

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Transform Your Habits

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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