8 must-read fantasy books like Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks

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Slug and Other Stories

By: Megan Milks

3.95

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls i…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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2. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • gender
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer

3. Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Unspeakable acts are committed on women's bodies under capitalism everyday. In Body Horror, Anne El… read more

Similar categories in Anne Elizabeth Moore's Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

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4. Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

By: Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award ® winners Vince A. Liaguno and … read more

Similar categories in Vince A. Liaguno's Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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5. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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6. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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7. A Natural History of Transition

By: Callum Angus

4.22

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more

Similar categories in Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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9. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • horror
  • short stories
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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10. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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12. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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13. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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14. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Organ Meats book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • horror
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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17. Sarahland

By: Sam Cohen

3.95

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story coll… read more

Similar categories in Sam Cohen's Sarahland book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
"That's how it is with nations," we hear Mother Nature croak from her deathbed. "Nations war."

-Sam Cohen, Sarahland

"It seemed like everyone was wrapping themselves in chrysali and having late-in-life emergences as different kinds of creatures, and what this made clear was that we weren't becoming anything. We felt…"

-Sam Cohen, Sarahland

"Being a tree, affirmation would feel different. Love would feel different. We would be happiest if our soil was full of microbes chatting. We would be happiest if the soil was rich enough to contain …"

-Sam Cohen, Sarahland

Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

18. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • queer lit
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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19. Manywhere: Stories

By: Morgan Thomas

3.81

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks

20. Slug and Other Stories

By: Megan Milks

3.95

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls i… read more

Similar categories in Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer

19 must-read fiction books like Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks

Transform Your Habits

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Transform Your Habits

A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

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5 Top science fiction books like Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

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