9 must-read queer books like The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson

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The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

By: Kip Wilson

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World W…

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1. Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Only This Beautiful Moment book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
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2. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

By: Isaac Blum

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friend… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Blum's The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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3. Burn Down, Rise Up

By: Vincent Tirado

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vince… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's Burn Down, Rise Up book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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4. Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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5. Spin

By: Rebecca Caprara

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Song of Achilles and Circe get a sapphic, young adult twist in this gorgeously lush, feminist r… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Caprara's Spin book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. 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 Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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7. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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8. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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9. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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11. And We Rise

By: Erica Martin

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s… read more

Similar categories in Erica Martin's And We Rise book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"history has become a beautiful American lie Overseers rewrite it and always deny people the right to know the ugly truth only tell part of it especially to the youth peace peace peace they always ins…"

-Erica Martin, And We Rise

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12. Salt the Water

By: Candice Iloh

3.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging auth… read more

Similar categories in Candice Iloh's Salt the Water book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

13. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's We Are All So Good at Smiling book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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14. Nothing Burns as Bright as You

By: Ashley Woodfolk

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Five starred reviews! From New York Times  bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk,  Nothing Burns as Br… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Woodfolk's Nothing Burns as Bright as You book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"You flew through books, reading more in a week than some people did in a year."

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

"I get it, she says. And I go from feeling invisible to feeling like I fill the whole room, the whole building, the whole sky."

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

"Parents think they control us with their authority. But really the only reason we listen is because we're desperate for them to love us. And we're terrified that if we do too many bad things, they'll…"

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

"A Lie: You’re not my girlfriend The truth: we both know exactly who we are to each other If you want to get technical.. if you counted up the hours i spent thinking of you and the days we spent in yo…"

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

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15. The Name She Gave Me

By: Betty Culley

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emot… read more

Similar categories in Betty Culley's The Name She Gave Me book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t m…"

-Betty Culley, The Name She Gave Me

Cover of The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson

16. The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

By: Kip Wilson

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World W… read more

Similar categories in Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
Cover of I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C.F. Rogers

17. I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By: Shannon C.F. Rogers

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Packed with voice, this is a powerful coming-of-age YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tri… read more

Similar categories in Shannon C.F. Rogers's I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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18. Four for the Road

By: K.J. Reilly

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The End of the F***ing World in this dark young adult comedy … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Reilly's Four for the Road book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
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19. A Little Like Waking

By: Adam Rex

3.57

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

You’ve Reached Sam meets The Good Place in this deeply-felt, surreal and fully illustrated love sto… read more

Similar categories in Adam Rex's A Little Like Waking book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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20. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • poetry
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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21. 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

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's The Blood Years book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Lawless Spaces

By: Corey Ann Haydu

4.12

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

This coming-of-age novel in verse follows a teen girl who connects with the women of her maternal l… read more

Similar categories in Corey Ann Haydu's Lawless Spaces book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • young adult
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23. Forever Is Now

By: Mariama J. Lockington

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and lyrical young adult novel-in-verse about a Black teen coming of age in an anxiety-in… read more

Similar categories in Mariama J. Lockington's Forever Is Now book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi

24. An Impossible Thing to Say

By: Arya Shahi

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, … read more

Similar categories in Arya Shahi's An Impossible Thing to Say book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • poetry
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila

25. The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

By: Lorraine Avila

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She’s starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her sch… read more

Similar categories in Lorraine Avila's The Making of Yolanda la Bruja book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Mamá Teté has a saying: “Al que no le gusta el caldo, que le den dos tazas."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

"I wish I would’ve never internalized the need to put the needs of others over my own."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

"Mamá Teté comes to my mind: “Our powers exist so we can preserve our power and take back and protect what is ours."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

"Right above the mirror is the Julia De Burgos quote I’ve learned to love: “Don’t let the hand you hold, hold you down."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

Cover of A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow

26. A Million Quiet Revolutions

By: Robin Gow

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town w… read more

Similar categories in Robin Gow's A Million Quiet Revolutions book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • romance
  • poetry
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"I feel like the only way to exist as a queer person is to hide."

-Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

"It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are."

-Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

Cover of What's Coming to Me by Francesca  Padilla

27. What's Coming to Me

By: Francesca Padilla

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans revenge on her predatory boss in this equally poignant a… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Padilla's What's Coming to Me book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork

28. I Am Not Alone

By: Francisco X. Stork

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork revisits some of the themes and ideas that made Marcelo in … read more

Similar categories in Francisco X. Stork's I Am Not Alone book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
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29. All You Have to Do

By: Autumn Allen

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a grippin… read more

Similar categories in Autumn Allen's All You Have to Do book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Pretending that race isn't a thing anymore is actually another way of being racist."

-Autumn Allen, All You Have to Do

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30. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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31. We Light Up the Sky

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a haunting, genre-bending YA, award-winning author Lilliam Rivera explores the social and racial… read more

Similar categories in Lilliam Rivera's We Light Up the Sky book and Kip Wilson's The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

28 must-read fiction books like The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson

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Only This Beautiful Moment

Abdi Nazemian

4.46

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The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

Isaac Blum

4.01

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Spin

Rebecca Caprara

4.25

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The Infinity Particle

Wendy Xu

4.03

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Ibi Zoboi

3.96

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Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

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Spin

Rebecca Caprara

4.25

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Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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