16 must-read audiobook books like Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages by Dan Jones

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Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

By: Dan Jones

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a cele…

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1. Doctor Who: The Novel of the Film

By: Gary Russell

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

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2. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

By: Hannah McElhinney

4.54

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

As seen on Tiktok,  Rainbow History Class  is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and tr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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4. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

By: Erik J. Brown

4.24

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"

-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

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5. Herc

By: Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more

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  • historical
  • lgbt
  • mythology
  • queer
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6. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

By: Margaret Atwood

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more

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  • historical
  • feminism
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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7. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

By: Ryan Love

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
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8. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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9. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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10. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

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  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

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11. Girl, Goddess, Queen

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more

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  • mythology
"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"

-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen

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12. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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13. Midnight (Skulduggery Pleasant, #11)

By: Derek Landy

4.23

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midni… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. A Short History of Queer Women

By: Kirsty Loehr

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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16. Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2)

By: Josh Silver

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Boyfriends. Volume Two (Boyfriends, #2)

By: refrainbow

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Boy meets boy . . . meets boy . . . meets boy! It’s the start of senior year in college, and Joc… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

By: Dan Jones

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a cele… read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages book and Dan Jones's Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

  • audiobook
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • queer
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20. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

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21. All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths

By: Jean Menzies

3.94

Format: 88 pages, None

For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancien… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • queer
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22. Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)

By: Tess Carletta

4.41

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Immortality is a dangerous affair when it isn’t done right. Basie Yeats knows he’s doing imm… read more

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  • lgbt
  • gay
  • queer
"But who do I have if you're not my person?"

-Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)

"He wanted memories that were so good, he could only replace them with even better memories, until his mind was just a stockpile of evidence that proved a simple fact: no place in the world could be b…"

-Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)

"Something in Basie shifted. He took the key to his grief and unlocked the shackles. He was done with it. Done being pulled in a thousand different directions until his bones ached. Done wading throug…"

-Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)

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23. Not for the Faint of Heart

By: Lex Croucher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Beloved author Lex Croucher's second queer historical YA romance, with all the swoons, laughs, and … read more

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  • historical
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds

24. Comeuppance Served Cold

By: Marion Deeds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Seattle, 1929—a bitterly divided city overflowing with wealth, violence, and magic. A respected … read more

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  • historical
Cover of The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho yeeun

25. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

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"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

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26. Bear Season

By: Gemma Fairclough

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Jade Hunter goes missing in the Alaskan wilderness, everyone is shocked. She was scheduled to … read more

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Cover of The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

27. The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories

By: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

3.66

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative are shattered in this remarka… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology

By: Ellie Mackin Roberts

3.81

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine – whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresisti… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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29. Noah Frye Gets Crushed

By: Maggie Horne

4.22

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In this cute and queer contemporary middle grade comedy about friendship, first crushes, and first … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages by Dan Jones

30. Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws Through the Ages

By: Dan Jones

3.48

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, ofte… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
  • queer
Cover of Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch by Emily C. Hughes

31. Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

By: Emily C. Hughes

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A smart, funny crash course in the horror movie canon, from Psycho to Hereditary, for people who lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

9 best-selling history books like Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages by Dan Jones

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

Hannah McElhinney

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

Amy Jeffs

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Short History of Queer Women

Kirsty Loehr

3.61

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16 Top fiction books like Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2) by Josh Silver

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Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

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Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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Boy Like Me

Simon James Green

4.55

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How to Die Famous

Benjamin Dean

3.65

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