26 Top queer books like The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

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The Weight of the Stars

By: K. Ancrum

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl w…

"Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

"She knew what she lookd like, and she looked like trouble."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

"Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

"All that I am is a terribly brave small thing, with a terribly brave small life, and a terribly brave love that spans eons."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

If you liked the queer plot in The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. Queens of Geek

By: Jen Wilde

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Wilde's Queens of Geek book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

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

2. Noteworthy

By: Riley Redgate

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A cappella just got a makeover. Jordan Sun is embarking on her junior year at the Kensington-Blaine… read more

Similar categories in Riley Redgate's Noteworthy book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

3. Level 2 (The Memory Chronicles, #1)

By: Lenore Appelhans

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beg… read more

Similar categories in Lenore Appelhans's Level 2 (The Memory Chronicles, #1) book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

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4. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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5. Late to the Party

By: Kelly Quindlen

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out to… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's Late to the Party book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I think saying what you're afraid of makes you brave."

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

"And I think being friends with someone should be like the concept of infinity—like you truly believe that person has no limits, and you just want to keep counting upward with them to see where they g…"

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

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6. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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7. Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Cerilli delivers a stunning debut in this gripping paranormal horror novel about queer teens growi… read more

Similar categories in Matteo L. Cerilli's Lockjaw book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape… read more

Similar categories in Saundra Mitchell's All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Askim,"

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Ugh. Feelings are gross,"

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Let go of which cannot be held."

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Wilhelm's hands trembled. “I'll bring you only misery."

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

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9. We Got the Beat

By: Jenna Miller

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jordan Elliot is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor-in-chief of the scho… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Miller's We Got the Beat book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

10. The Weight of the Stars

By: K. Ancrum

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl w… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

"She knew what she lookd like, and she looked like trouble."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

"Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

"All that I am is a terribly brave small thing, with a terribly brave small life, and a terribly brave love that spans eons."

-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

Cover of Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

11. Tell Me How You Really Feel

By: Aminah Mae Safi

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. She's the classic (somewhat obnoxious) overach… read more

Similar categories in Aminah Mae Safi's Tell Me How You Really Feel book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I hope we can all figure out how to live a good story."

-Aminah Mae Safi, Tell Me How You Really Feel

"It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up on somebody else's. It's better to have something you now is yours rather than what everyone tells you that you should want."

-Aminah Mae Safi, Tell Me How You Really Feel

"The nice thing about life, and not the movies, is that there's no curtains, no The End . You can always write your own story. You can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense …"

-Aminah Mae Safi, Tell Me How You Really Feel

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12. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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13. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's Death's Country book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Flawless Girls

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.17

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionabl… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Flawless Girls book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more

Similar categories in Chencia C. Higgins's A Little Kissing Between Friends book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"

-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends

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16. 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 K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • 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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17. Ravensong

By: Cayla Fay

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A demi-god who refuses to cohabitate with humans accidentally falls in love with one in the first b… read more

Similar categories in Cayla Fay's Ravensong book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. A Dark and Drowning Tide

By: Allison Saft

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Dark and Drowning Tide book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3) by Jess Everlee

19. A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3)

By: Jess Everlee

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love can make even the most buttoned-up bluestocking come undone… London, 1885 A lesbian in a… read more

Similar categories in Jess Everlee's A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3) book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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20. Something Kindred

By: Ciera Burch

3.78

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about t… read more

Similar categories in Ciera Burch's Something Kindred book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck (Guides For Dating Vampires Book 3) by D.N. Bryn

21. How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck (Guides For Dating Vampires Book 3)

By: D.N. Bryn

4.20

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

“I only take what’s owed me, and you, my little swan, owe me blood.”A single kiss from a masked vam… read more

Similar categories in D.N. Bryn's How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck (Guides For Dating Vampires Book 3) book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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22. Carmilla

By: Kim Turrisi

3.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An adaptation of Shaftesbury's award-winning, groundbreaking queer vampire web series of the same n… read more

Similar categories in Kim Turrisi's Carmilla book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Fence Challengers: Long Shot #1 by C.S. Pacat

23. Fence Challengers: Long Shot #1

By: C.S. Pacat

4.24

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

The Kings Row fencers are fresh off of Halverton Training Camp and ready for the State Championship… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Fence Challengers: Long Shot #1 book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

24. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

25. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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26. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Ajram's Coup de Grâce book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

27. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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28. Gentlest of Wild Things

By: Sarah Underwood

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On the island of Zakynthos, nothing is more powerful than Desire―love itself, bottled and sold to t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Underwood's Gentlest of Wild Things book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of ラブ・バレット 1 (LOVE-BULLET #1) by INEE

29. ラブ・バレット 1 (LOVE-BULLET #1)

By: INEE

4.77

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

JKキューピッドたちが繰り広げるロマンティック・ガンアクション! 三角関係の解決法をめぐってキューピッドたちが言い争い...からの撃ち合いに!? 個性豊かなJKキューピッドたちが繰り広げる、… read more

Similar categories in INEE's ラブ・バレット 1 (LOVE-BULLET #1) book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
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30. Prize Money

By: Celeste Castro

3.89

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Eva is saved from impending disaster by a tall, dark, and handsome bullfighter—a woman. Toma Rozene… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Castro's Prize Money book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Breathing is supposed to be easy, right?" Toma eked out. "Sometimes it's the hardest thing in the world."

-Celeste Castro, Prize Money

"Isn't it funny how we can go through life thinking we're on top of the world only to realize that we've had our zipper down the entire time?"

-Celeste Castro, Prize Money

"Eva's kisses were reckless, unwavering, exhilarating. Making love with her was like free falling without a chute, a dangerous stunt without ropes."

-Celeste Castro, Prize Money

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31. All the Hearts You Eat

By: Hailey Piper

4.05

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

A visceral and heartbreaking work of gothic horror about small town mysteries, local folklore and t… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's All the Hearts You Eat book and K. Ancrum's The Weight of the Stars

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

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