World Running Down
By: Al Hess
3.97
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dr…
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1. 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
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
2. 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
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- lgbt
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- science fiction
- adult
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3. The Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
4. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
5. Venom & Vow
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Va… read more
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
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- queer
6. 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
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- 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
7. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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- fiction
- queer
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- lgbt
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
8. Some Desperate Glory
By: Emily Tesh
4.06
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
9. Rose/House
By: Arkady Martine
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
10. Exordia
By: Seth Dickinson
3.78
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more
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- lgbt
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- science fiction
- adult
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11. Emergent Properties
By: Aimee Ogden
3.57
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brew… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- queer
12. If Found, Return to Hell
By: Em X. Liu
3.83
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yell… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
13. Us, Et Cetera
By: Kit Vincent
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
A captivating LGBTQ fantasy that blends the enchantment of Cinderella with the futuristic world of … read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
14. Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)
By: Freydís Moon
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Laced with romance, gothic imagery, Catholic mysticism, diaspora, and horror… When lonely transg… read more
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"Abandonment. Unfinished business. There was always something or someone that caused a house to want, to ache, to make itself known. There was always a reason for anger and lust and becoming lonesome"-Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)
15. Together in a Broken World
By: Paul Michael Winters
4.08
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it’s the secrets they keep that might kill them. Se… read more
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- romance
- post apocalyptic
- lgbt
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- queer
"He didn't hesitate. He just ran to me, and now the warmth of his body radiates as his arms hold me close, pressing me against him. His hands are trembling as he whispers in to my ear, "I'm so glad I …"-Paul Michael Winters, Together in a Broken World
"He didn't hesitate. He just ran to me, and now the warmth of his body radiates as his arms hold me close, pressing me against him. His hands are trembling as he whispers in to my ear, "I'm so glad I …"-Paul Michael Winters, Together in a Broken World
16. The Death I Gave Him
By: Em X. Liu
3.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more
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- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
17. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
By: Micaiah Johnson
4.15
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more
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- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
18. 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
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black
19. Escape Velocity
By: Victor Manibo
3.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged… read more
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- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
20. The Diablo's Curse
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more
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- romance
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
21. Lady Eve's Last Con
By: Rebecca Fraimow
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Hearts will race and anti-grav boots will fly in this scifi rom-com perfect for fans of WINTER'S OR… read more
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- lgbt
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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
22. The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1)
By: Kritika H. Rao
3.59
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
Enter a lush world of cataclysmic storms, planet-wide jungles, floating cities and devastating magi… read more
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- romance
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
23. The Prospects
By: K.T. Hoffman
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
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- adult
- queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects
24. Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1)
By: Hana Lee
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-s… read more
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- romance
- post apocalyptic
- lgbt
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
25. Endpapers
By: Jennifer Savran Kelly
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped … read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
26. The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)
By: Kara Jorgensen
3.97
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
A reluctant necromancer, a man killed before his time, and the crime that brings them together. … read more
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- romance
- queer
- lgbt
"You're dead! I can't let you wander all over the place decomposing."-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)
"if you haven't noticed, I don't exactly have a lively social life. I talk to the dead more than the living"-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)
"Is this a normal day for you?" "Not really. Why?" "Because you said it so casually, 'Oh, he was eaten by his tiger', like it's completely normal for that to happen"-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)
"Felipe, we hace been put on leave. That means, we leave the case and my laboratory alone." "And to think, yesterday you were beginning your life of rule breaking and you've already reformed"-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)
27. World Running Down
By: Al Hess
3.97
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dr… read more
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- transgender
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
28. A Single Bright Candle's Flame (Criminal Intentions, #9)
By: Cole McCade
4.30
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Detective Malcolm Khalaji is at a loss. For the second time in his life, he wa… read more
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- romance
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
29. Lunar Boy
By: Jacinta Wibowo
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
30. Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to a…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
31. Constituent Service: A Third District Story
By: John Scalzi
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The aliens are here . . . and they want municipal services! Ashley Perrin is fresh out of colleg… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
