16 must-read queer books like Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett

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Proud Pink Sky

By: Redfern Jon Barrett

4.13

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Berlin: a megacity of 24 million people, is the world’s first gay state. Its distant radio broadcas…

"As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart."

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

"As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart."

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

"What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance."

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

"What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance."

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

If you liked the queer plot in Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Perfect Rhythm

By: Jae

4.60

Format: None pages, ebook

Pop star Leontyne Blake might sing about love, but she stopped believing in it a long time ago. Wha… read more

Similar categories in Jae's Perfect Rhythm book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

2. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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3. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • fiction
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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4. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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7. 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 Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • 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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8. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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9. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

Similar categories in Chana Porter's The Seep book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

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10. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • fiction
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11. The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more

Similar categories in Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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12. Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb again…"

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

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13. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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14. Himlabrand

By: Moa Backe Åstot

3.86

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Ántes liv har präglats av de samiska traditionerna. För honom är det självklart att han, som familj… read more

Similar categories in Moa Backe Åstot's Himlabrand book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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15. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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16. The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

By: Hadeer Elsbai

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

<From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wh… read more

Similar categories in Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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17. Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more

Similar categories in David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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18. High-Risk Homosexual

By: Edgar Gomez

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
Cover of Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett

19. Proud Pink Sky

By: Redfern Jon Barrett

4.13

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Berlin: a megacity of 24 million people, is the world’s first gay state. Its distant radio broadcas… read more

Similar categories in Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • dystopia
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart."

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

"What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circums…"

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

"Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himsel…"

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

"...and this smoke is ours too. We savvy better than anyone how hallow it rings when they cackle about love and freedom. We savvy their obsession with dividing everyone into homie and palonie. We savv…"

-Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky

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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Redfern Jon Barrett's Proud Pink Sky

  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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