20 Best fiction books like Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia

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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…

"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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1. The Luis Ortega Survival Club

By: Sonora Reyes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Luis Ortega Survival Club book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. Dark and Deepest Red

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until … read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"I had learned, from a girl with rage-lit eyes and a blue dress, to grasp the blade the world held to me, and hold it myself."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to w…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

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3. Venom & Vow

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Va… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Venom & Vow book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

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5. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. The No-Girlfriend Rule

By: Christen Randall

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose fora… read more

Similar categories in Christen Randall's The No-Girlfriend Rule book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. Ophelia After All

By: Racquel Marie

4.06

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Op… read more

Similar categories in Racquel Marie's Ophelia After All book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"HAMLET MAY HAVE BEEN A TRAGEDY. BUT OPHELIA DESERVED A COMEDY"

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"It's been hard and messy and scary. I want you guys to care about it and what it changes for me, but without it changing us."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"But I don’t think the truest love is deemed so because it’s the most painful. Waiting for someone to love you back seems beautiful in a miserable way when you’re young. No offense."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

"I may doubt the truths of the world, but never again will I doubt whether or not the person that I am, or may be, is loved or worthy of love. I know myself, and I don't. Both can be true."

-Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

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8. The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre

By: Robin Talley

3.73

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this romantic comedy from New York Times best… read more

Similar categories in Robin Talley's The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. Going Bicoastal

By: Dahlia Adler

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (an… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. 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 Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • 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

Cover of You Don't Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

11. 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 Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia

12. 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 Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • 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

Cover of Off the Record by Camryn Garrett

13. Off the Record

By: Camryn Garrett

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes access of Almost Famous meets the searing revelations of #metoo in this story… read more

Similar categories in Camryn Garrett's Off the Record book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I always thought of sex as the thing straight cis people do to make babies, but Marius leaving kisses on my thighs feels like sex, too."

-Camryn Garrett, Off the Record

Cover of Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

14. Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Lakelore book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

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15. The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1

By: Carly Usdin

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O’Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles … read more

Similar categories in Carly Usdin's The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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16. Now That I've Found You

By: Kristina Forest

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Now That I've Found You is a YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Forest's Now That I've Found You book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

By: Tanya Boteju

3.78

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Boteju's Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"But I told myself if I could just get past my house and hammock without being sucked in by the guaranteed comfort, something else might be waiting for me on the other side, something that might color…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"With each passing moment, I’d get that feeling you sometimes have the moment you’re about to flip the final page of a really good book, when your anticipation for what happens next overwhelms you, bu…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"As I said it, I immediately felt a twinge of desire for something else poking between my ribs, jabbing at the familiar emptiness. Like maybe, if I could change thing up somehow, I might be able to fi…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

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18. The Wild Ones

By: Nafiza Azad

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From William C. Morris Finalist Nafiza Azad comes a thrilling, feminist fantasy about a group of te… read more

Similar categories in Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Aren't you angry, sister? At being treated the we are? At having to pick up the pieces of what remains after the world is through with us? At being silenced and abused? At being denied our dignity, o…"

-Nafiza Azad, The Wild Ones

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19. A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache

By: Jenni L. Walsh

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Walsh (Becoming Bonnie) hits the jackpot with an impressive fictionalization of the life of Eleano… read more

Similar categories in Jenni L. Walsh's A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole

20. How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1)

By: Alyssa Cole

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of New York Times and USA Today … read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Cole's How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked."

-Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1)

"We don't stop needing to hear what's good in ourselves, ever. Other people just stop telling us as we get older. But I'm not other people. I'm your wife."

-Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1)

Cover of Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy

21. Spells to Forget Us

By: Aislinn Brophy

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A witch and a non-magical girl get stuck in a cycle of meet-cutes and breakups in this dazzling, ro… read more

Similar categories in Aislinn Brophy's Spells to Forget Us book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor

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

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