8 Top lgbt books like Monarch by Candice Wuehle

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Monarch

By: Candice Wuehle

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The cryptic worlds of Hanna and Stranger Things mingle with the dark humor of Dare Me in this debut…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Monarch by Candice Wuehle , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. My Education

By: Susan Choi

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person o… read more

Similar categories in Susan Choi's My Education book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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2. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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3. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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4. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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5. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • audiobook
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6. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Cash's Earth Angel book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
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8. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

Similar categories in Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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9. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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10. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Lacey's Biography of X book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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11. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Tell Me I'm An Artist

By: Chelsea Martin

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a work-in-progress (Sharma Shields), this hilarious and incisive coming… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Martin's Tell Me I'm An Artist book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
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14. A Touch of Jen

By: Beth Morgan

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together--but the… read more

Similar categories in Beth Morgan's A Touch of Jen book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s amazing how people live day to day without hurting each other."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"What rehearsal? He doesn’t know why this phrase appeared in his head, except that lately he has difficulty believing that this is his life now and not some prank that will be called off soon."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

"He’s always enjoyed plotlines mediated by on-screen experts, since when things go horribly wrong, eventually there’s an explanation. There’s no ambiguity or confusion when science is involved."

-Beth Morgan, A Touch of Jen

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15. Aesthetica

By: Allie Rowbottom

3.36

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inve… read more

Similar categories in Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Post-Traumatic

By: Chantal V. Johnson

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more

Similar categories in Chantal V. Johnson's Post-Traumatic book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
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17. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Barnet's Mood Swings book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Exalted

By: Anna Dorn

3.73

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Emily Forrest runs the hottest astrology account on Instagram, @Exalted, but astrology is on the ou… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Exalted book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. My Nemesis

By: Charmaine Craig

3.38

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Pri… read more

Similar categories in Charmaine Craig's My Nemesis book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Monarch

By: Candice Wuehle

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The cryptic worlds of Hanna and Stranger Things mingle with the dark humor of Dare Me in this debut… read more

Similar categories in Candice Wuehle's Monarch book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
  • queer
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21. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Candice Wuehle's Monarch

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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Miranda July

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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