11 Top queer books like The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

Cover of The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

The City in the Middle of the Night

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.50

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January--a colonize…

"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

"I treat this decision the way I learned to treat my memory-panic. I stop, and I give myself space to feel all the worst emotions. Then I move forward."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

If you liked the queer plot in The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Space Opera (Space Opera, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente

1. Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.46

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SING A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and … read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's Space Opera (Space Opera, #1) book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't see where you get off fretting about whether or not the end of the world is family-friendly."

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"Hey there," the steely abomination said with infinite, Buddha-like compassion, "it looks like you're trying to come to grips with the existence of events and entities far beyond your experience and, …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"Are you kind enough, on your little planet, not to shut that rhythm down? Not to crush underfoot the singers of songs and tellers of tales and wearers of silk? Because it's monsters who do that. Who …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"But all he had up Robert's perfect sleeve was two rubbishy songs that were more gimmick than the white-hot fire of real music , the sort of music people would play over and over in their bedrooms at …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

2. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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3. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

Similar categories in Therisa Peimer's Taming Flame book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

Cover of The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) by Barry Kirwan

4. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

By: Barry Kirwan

4.23

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more

Similar categories in Barry Kirwan's The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

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

5. 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 Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. The Polymorph

By: Max Nowaz

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Polymorph book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

Cover of Translation State by Ann Leckie

7. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

8. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. The Last Sunset

By: March Lions

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more

Similar categories in March Lions's The Last Sunset book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

"Trust is a strange bedfellow."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"He sounds like a politician running for office."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

Cover of Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel by Todor Bombov

10. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

Similar categories in Todor Bombov's Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • science fiction
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

Cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

11. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

Similar categories in Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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12. 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 Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • 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

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13. The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more

Similar categories in Kameron Hurley's The Light Brigade book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

14. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

15. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Cover of A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers by Victor LaValle

16. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

By: Victor LaValle

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Cover of The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal

17. The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is … read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2) book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

18. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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 The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

19. The Future of Another Timeline

By: Annalee Newitz

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths … read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Future of Another Timeline book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I remember abortion being legal in the United States"

-Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline

Cover of The Oak and the Ash (The Old Bridge Inn #3) by Annick Trent

20. The Oak and the Ash (The Old Bridge Inn #3)

By: Annick Trent

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A standalone M/M historical romance Radical surgeon George Evans is called to the scene of a mid… read more

Similar categories in Annick Trent's The Oak and the Ash (The Old Bridge Inn #3) book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

21. The City in the Middle of the Night

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.50

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January--a colonize… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night book and Charlie Jane Anders's The City in the Middle of the Night

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

"I treat this decision the way I learned to treat my memory-panic. I stop, and I give myself space to feel all the worst emotions. Then I move forward."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

"Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

"I can't do this thing anymore, where we live in a tiny space and pretend it's the whole world. People always have brand-new reasons for doing the same thing over and over."

-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

18 Best fiction books like The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

Transform Your Habits

Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

Catherynne M. Valente

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Taming Flame

Therisa Peimer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

Barry Kirwan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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21 Top fiction books like The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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