8 Best queer books like The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco

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The Best Bad Things

By: Katrina Carrasco

3.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1887, and Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton…

If you liked the queer plot in The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. By Gaslight

By: Steven Price

4.32

Format: 285 pages, ebook

A magnificent literary historical-suspense novel in the tradition of Eleanor Catton's The Luminarie… read more

Similar categories in Steven Price's By Gaslight book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

2. The Shortest Way to Hades (Hilary Tamar, #2)

By: Sarah Caudwell

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To avoid taxes, a family agrees to change the trust and support heiress, ravishing raven-haired Cam… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Caudwell's The Shortest Way to Hades (Hilary Tamar, #2) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

3. To Dwell in Darkness (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #16)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P. D. James, "New York Times" bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Crombie's To Dwell in Darkness (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #16) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

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4. Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

By: Marcia Muller

3.57

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly sche… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Muller's Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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5. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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6. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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7. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

Similar categories in Graham Moore's The Wealth of Shadows book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Shanghai book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

By: Edgar Cantero

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a brilliantly subversive and comi… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Cantero's This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Ursula ta-daed back before their eyes, her noodle legs looking like Hellboy’s right fist, ending in heavy-armored sneakers."

-Edgar Cantero, This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

"It was the chuckle of ultimate truth, the smile of an actress right after the director says cut, the intimate joy of seeing the other's soul naked and acknowledging yours is naked too."

-Edgar Cantero, This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

"How confused they were when they saw how much I’d grown. Like, ‘Should we scorn her because she’s a kid? Or should we objectify her because she’s a woman? What kind of shit should we make her feel li…"

-Edgar Cantero, This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

"Kimrean sighted purple caged dancers, mud wrestlers, tattooed devils, G-stringed Atlases erected like Pillars of Hercules out of a liquid crowd waving in worship of ancient twerk masters summoning ce…"

-Edgar Cantero, This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

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10. Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)

By: Christoffer Carlsson

3.93

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the sa… read more

Similar categories in Christoffer Carlsson's Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

Similar categories in Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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12. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

13. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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14. The Last Songbird

By: Daniel Weizmann

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gritty, fast-paced neo-noir that explores the consumptive nature of fame, celebrity, and motherho… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Weizmann's The Last Songbird book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. The Stars Too Fondly

By: Emily Hamilton

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of g… read more

Similar categories in Emily Hamilton's The Stars Too Fondly book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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17. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • fiction
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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

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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19. The Best Bad Things

By: Katrina Carrasco

3.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1887, and Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • queer
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20. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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21. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things

  • fiction

20 Best fiction books like The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco

Transform Your Habits

By Gaslight

Steven Price

4.32

The Shortest Way to Hades (Hilary Tamar, #2)

Sarah Caudwell

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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21 Top fiction books like The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Stardust Grail

Yume Kitasei

3.78

Transform Your Habits

When Among Crows

Veronica Roth

3.73

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