16 Top lgbt books like Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy

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Indestructible Object

By: Mary McCoy

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Beautifully messy and real.” —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of We Used to Be Friends Perfect f…

"Maybe humans aren't made to expereince love, I think. We never evolved the kind of telepathy it seems to require."

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"Maybe humans aren't made to expereince love, I think. We never evolved the kind of telepathy it seems to require."

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"But when you've loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you've loved along with you, not just in your memories, but in the person you are."

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"But when you've loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you've loved along with you, not just in your memories, but in the person you are."

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

If you liked the lgbt plot in Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Ramona Blue

By: Julie Murphy

3.91

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then, it’s… read more

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's Ramona Blue book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I will survive, because I have survived."

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

"The idea that I'm someone's best friend fills my rib cage with summer."

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

"At what point does another person's extraordinary become your ordinary?"

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

"I choose guys. I choose girls. I choose people. But most of all: I choose."

-Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

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2. It's Not Like It's a Secret

By: Misa Sugiura

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when h… read more

Similar categories in Misa Sugiura's It's Not Like It's a Secret book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

3. The Scorpion

By: Gerri Hill

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick is foolish. Marty Edwards is about to be very foolish. In… read more

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4. You Know Me Well

By: David Levithan , Nina LaCour

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy … read more

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5. The Seafarer's Kiss

By: Julia Ember

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having long-wondered what lives beyond the ice shelf, nineteen-year-old mermaid Ersel learns of the… read more

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6. The Severed Thread (The Bone Spindle, #2)

By: Leslie Vedder

4.01

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Which threads of fate will hold—and which will break? Clever, bookish Fi and her brash, ax-wiel… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Vedder's The Severed Thread (The Bone Spindle, #2) book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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7. The Infinity Particle

By: Wendy Xu

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inve… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Xu's The Infinity Particle book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. She's Too Pretty to Burn

By: Wendy Heard

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in She's Too P… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's She's Too Pretty to Burn book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The photo already had its hooks in me."

-Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

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9. The Chandler Legacies

By: Abdi Nazemian

3.65

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enc… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's The Chandler Legacies book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"My legacy isn't about living up to my past by trying to be perfect. It's about the future I'll help create by being myself. We make our own legacy."

-Abdi Nazemian, The Chandler Legacies

"There is no right or wrong way to be creative. Creativity is the only true purpose we have. It's our power, and we have a duty to use that power responsibly."

-Abdi Nazemian, The Chandler Legacies

"But I'll tell you what we will never be deficient of. LOVE. We love art and beauty. We love new ideas and pushing boundaries. We love fighting against corruption. We love redefining archaic rules. We…"

-Abdi Nazemian, The Chandler Legacies

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10. The Restless Dark

By: Erica Waters

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The Restless Dark book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to …"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commi…"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

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11. Sometime in Summer

By: Katrina Leno

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From critically acclaimed author Katrina Leno comes a tender love letter to books and summertime, w… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Sometime in Summer book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. The Greatest Thing

By: Sarah Winifred Searle

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist A 2023 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens A 2023 Children… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Winifred Searle's The Greatest Thing book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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14. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

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15. The Immeasurable Depth of You

By: Maria Ingrande Mora

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do you face your fears when everything is terrifying? Fifteen-year-old Brynn can’t stop thin… read more

Similar categories in Maria Ingrande Mora's The Immeasurable Depth of You book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The water rippled around her. I hated it. It didn't make sense. Dead girls shouldn't displace water. Or cry."

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

"It's not my fault you didn't think any of it was weird. Who lives in the mangroves? In a bathing suit?" "Why would I think you were dead?" I shouted. "Ghosts aren't real!"

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

"We are all made of liquid and slippery organs. Life was improbable. Fragile. It was only a matter of time before something ripped us up and ruined us and we died. It didn't take anything for me to ki…"

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

"That's what I hated thinking about the most. Oblivion. Nothing. Forever. As unfathomable as the universe around us stretching endlessly, impossibly big, horrible, terrifying... Being alive scared the…"

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

Cover of Indestructible Object by Mary  McCoy

16. Indestructible Object

By: Mary McCoy

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Beautifully messy and real.” —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of We Used to Be Friends Perfect f… read more

Similar categories in Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • polyamory
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Maybe humans aren't made to expereince love, I think. We never evolved the kind of telepathy it seems to require."

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"But when you've loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you've loved along with you, not just in your m…"

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

"It's a love story about confessional poets and thwarted playwrights, about sad rock stars and tattoo artists who are fighting with their kids, about messy bisexuals and untidy queers and evangelical …"

-Mary McCoy, Indestructible Object

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17. The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James navigates heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, first ki… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Then Sunny St. James will take over the world. Or at least my little corner of it."

-Ashley Herring Blake, The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James

"I like this kind of quiet, the BFF kind where you're not alone but can think and you know your best friend is thinking too and it's all okay because you know that all the things you're thinking are s…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James

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18. You Don't Have a Shot

By: Racquel Marie

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Dr… read more

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's You Don't Have a Shot book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. Miss Meteor

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.99

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Qu… read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Because I am a girl worth the space I take up. I am a girl this world, this town, and most of all, the people who love me, won't let go of. Because I am a star they won't let the sky take back"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, Miss Meteor

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20. Playing for Keeps

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance—starring a baseball pit… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Playing for Keeps book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe

By: Hannah Moskowitz

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Ivy K. Harlowe is a lot of things. She’s my best friend. She’s the center of attention. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Moskowitz's The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe book and Mary McCoy's Indestructible Object

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

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