14 Best queer books like Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling

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Yellow Jessamine

By: Caitlin Starling

3.52

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Powerful shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu lives a tight, contained life, holding herself at a distan…

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Cover of Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

1. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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2. A Theory of Haunting

By: Sarah Monette

3.95

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Monette's A Theory of Haunting book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • gothic
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

3. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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4. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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5. Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

3.38

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

6. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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7. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.18

Format: 146 pages, ebook

When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Eac… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's also not fair at all that stupidity has gotten you this far. That's another creature you've killed simply by having no brains, which makes anyone with brains feel as if it isn't worth the headac…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

"If one does nothing but think of someone, it takes up all the time you could use to do something about them. I wish nobody thought of me, but did a lot for me instead. It's just like someone else goi…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

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9. The Splendor of Fear

By: Ambrose Ibsen

3.67

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Something stirs in the town of Newsom's Landing... Penny hates the outdoors, but when her boyfriend… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Ibsen's The Splendor of Fear book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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11. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Cover of Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) by Emily Tesh

12. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

13. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Dawnhounds (The Endsong, #1) by Sascha Stronach

14. The Dawnhounds (The Endsong, #1)

By: Sascha Stronach

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A police officer is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with pro… read more

Similar categories in Sascha Stronach's The Dawnhounds (The Endsong, #1) book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. The Monster of Elendhaven

By: Jennifer Giesbrecht

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Giesbrecht's The Monster of Elendhaven book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?"

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Monster was the best, his favorite word. The first half was a kiss, the second a hiss."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"Unwise to dream of death in a world where someone has the power to make those dreams come true."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

"If Johann was going to be a Thing with a name, then from now on he would be a Thing with power, too."

-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

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16. In the Shadow of Spindrift House

By: Mira Grant

3.67

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Nature abhors a straight line. The natural world is a place of curves and softened edges, of gentle… read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's In the Shadow of Spindrift House book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Everything that’s loved lives."

-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House

"Spindrift House has had a great deal of time to decide what it wants to be, and what it wants to be is unforgiving."

-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House

"Spindrift House was waiting, door gaping wide, to swallow us don and begin to the long, terrible process of digestion."

-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House

"That isn't the mystery that gets us paid," said Addison. "No, but it's the mystery that's going to make me wish I'd brought a lot more pot."

-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House

Cover of Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin  Starling

17. Yellow Jessamine

By: Caitlin Starling

3.52

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Powerful shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu lives a tight, contained life, holding herself at a distan… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger

18. A Long Time Dead

By: Samara Breger

3.79

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead is a lush, Victorian romance, drenched in blood and drama, about t… read more

Similar categories in Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills

19. The Wings Upon Her Back

By: Samantha Mills

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A loyal warrior in a crisis of faith must fight to regain her place and begin her life again while … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Mills's The Wings Upon Her Back book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Barrow Will Send What it May (Danielle Cain, #2) by Margaret Killjoy

20. The Barrow Will Send What it May (Danielle Cain, #2)

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits t… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's The Barrow Will Send What it May (Danielle Cain, #2) book and Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Cory Doctorow

3.82

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Charles Stross

3.80

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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