Out of Salem
By: Hal Schrieve
3.74
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth wakes from death after a car crash that killed their…
Want to Read $ 11.99"It’s about loving someone and seeing them as a part of your family. I think some people have the capacity to see different people as part of their family and some don’t."-Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
"It’s about loving someone and seeing them as a part of your family. I think some people have the capacity to see different people as part of their family and some don’t."-Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
"I am your mother, and I'm not going to let you act as if you have nobody in the world and have to fend for yourself. And I'm not going to let your friends grow up thinking that there are no people in the world willing to help them when it comes to a matter of crisis."-Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
"I am your mother, and I'm not going to let you act as if you have nobody in the world and have to fend for yourself. And I'm not going to let your friends grow up thinking that there are no people in the world willing to help them when it comes to a matter of crisis."-Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
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1. The Edge of the Abyss (The Abyss Surrounds Us, #2)
By: Emily Skrutskie
3.74
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Three weeks have passed since Cassandra Leung pledged her allegiance to the ruthless pirate-queen S… read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- young adult
- lgbt
2. Symptoms of Being Human
By: Jeff Garvin
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl? Riley Cavanau… read more
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3. I Hope You're Listening
By: Tom Ryan
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Te… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- young adult
- lgbt
"It's our story. We should tell it together"-Tom Ryan, I Hope You're Listening
4. Hell Followed With Us
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
5. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
6. The Honeys
By: Ryan La Sala
3.81
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"I will be a ruin to consume."-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys
"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys
"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys
"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys
7. Stay Gold
By: Tobly McSmith
3.84
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who’s g… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"When you’re seen as different, it’s best to go with the flow, pick your battles, and plan the right times to push back."-Tobly McSmith, Stay Gold
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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- young adult
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"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
9. 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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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"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
10. Dead Collections
By: Isaac Fellman
3.63
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections
11. All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
By: Saundra Mitchell
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"Askim,"-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
"Ugh. Feelings are gross,"-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
"Let go of which cannot be held."-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
"Wilhelm's hands trembled. “I'll bring you only misery."-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
12. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- queer
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Every day I am making a choice, thought Indi as she set the sample wheel onto its shelf in the freezer. Every day I decide I matter more than the people outside this place."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
13. Angels Before Man
By: Rafael Nicolás
4.14
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man
14. The Deep Dark
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.42
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
15. The Passing Playbook
By: Isaac Fitzsimons
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just …"-Isaac Fitzsimons, The Passing Playbook
16. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.31
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
17. Thirteen Storeys
By: Jonathan Sims
3.86
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
You're cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. … read more
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- fantasy
- paranormal
- fiction
- horror
"The ghosts were never the problem"-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys
"At a certain point, beyond all extremity, the only freedom you have left is the freedom to say ‘No’ and let them do as they will"-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys
"He considered himself a good man, and always did his best to avoid passing judgement on others, but deep down he had an unshakeable conviction that all rich people were deeply, deeply stupid."-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys
"The beautiful woman in blood-stained jewels looked away, searching for a seat. She should hate her for the trophies she wore of slavery and death, but somewhere beneath her new callouses, she found t…"-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys
18. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- queer
19. Out of Salem
By: Hal Schrieve
3.74
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth wakes from death after a car crash that killed their… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- werewolves
- fiction
- horror
- zombies
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"It’s about loving someone and seeing them as a part of your family. I think some people have the capacity to see different people as part of their family and some don’t."-Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
"I am your mother, and I'm not going to let you act as if you have nobody in the world and have to fend for yourself. And I'm not going to let your friends grow up thinking that there are no people in…"-Hal Schrieve, Out of Salem
20. Welcome to Dorley Hall (The Sisters of Dorley, #1)
By: Alyson Greaves
4.52
Format: 511 pages, Kindle Edition
Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan Riley never had, until one day he disappears, and Stefa… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- queer
21. Old Wounds
By: Logan-Ashley Kisner
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Erin and Max are two trans kids who are just trying to get to California. Max is desperate to final… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
