10 must-read queer books like The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave

Cover of The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave

The Airless Year

By: Adam P. Knave

3.41

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

For Kacee, a queer Black girl in middle school, everything feels like a struggle. Her parents take …

If you liked the queer plot in The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max by None, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Maarta Laiho, Brooke A. Allen, N.D. Stevenson

1. Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max

By: None , Shannon Watters , Grace Ellis , Maarta Laiho , Brooke A. Allen , N.D. Stevenson

4.15

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

What a mystery! Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are not your average campers and Miss Qiunzell… read more

Similar categories in None's Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Lumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time by None, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Maarta Laiho, Brooke A. Allen, None

2. Lumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time

By: None , Shannon Watters , Grace Ellis , Maarta Laiho , Brooke A. Allen , None

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

The mystery of history! Jen just wants a normal lesson with her cabin, teaching Jo, April, Mal, Mol… read more

Similar categories in None's Lumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • young adult
  • lgbt

3. Taproot

By: Keezy Young

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more

Similar categories in Keezy Young's Taproot book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

Cover of The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

4. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

Similar categories in Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

Cover of The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

5. The Worst Ronin

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an unlikely pair of female samurai join forces, what begins as your run-of-the-mill quest for … read more

Similar categories in Maggie Tokuda-Hall's The Worst Ronin book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • young adult
Cover of Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo

6. Blackwater

By: Jeannette Arroyo

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Riverdale meets Stranger Things in this debut queer YA graphic novel, developed from a hit webcomic… read more

Similar categories in Jeannette Arroyo's Blackwater book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin by Emilie Plateau

7. Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin

By: Emilie Plateau

4.12

Format: 136 pages, ebook

Based on the book "Noire" by Tania de Montagne A few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up… read more

Similar categories in Emilie Plateau's Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Four Gathered on Christmas Eve by Eric Powell

8. Four Gathered on Christmas Eve

By: Eric Powell

3.53

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Four of the top creators in comics, Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Becky Cloonan and James Harren, gath… read more

Similar categories in Eric Powell's Four Gathered on Christmas Eve book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

9. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

Similar categories in Vera Brosgol's Plain Jane and the Mermaid book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Click (Click #1) by Kayla Miller

10. Click (Click #1)

By: Kayla Miller

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Olive wants to get in on the act . . . . . . Any act! Olive “clicks” with everyone in the fifth… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Miller's Click (Click #1) book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
Cover of Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo

11. Miss Quinces

By: Kat Fajardo

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Rising star Kat Fajardo's debut middle-grade graphic novel about a girl who would rather do anythin… read more

Similar categories in Kat Fajardo's Miss Quinces book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

12. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee

13. Séance Tea Party

By: Reimena Yee

4.25

Format: 272 pages, None

After watching her circle of friends seemingly fade away, Lora is determined to still have fun on h… read more

Similar categories in Reimena Yee's Séance Tea Party book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
"To childhood, and growing up, and growing old, and magic – whatever age we are."

-Reimena Yee, Séance Tea Party

Cover of Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis

14. Bad Dreams in the Night

By: Adam Ellis

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like a graphic novel version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , this collection of original hor… read more

Similar categories in Adam Ellis's Bad Dreams in the Night book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • young adult
Cover of Scurry by Mac Smith

15. Scurry

By: Mac Smith

4.26

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

LOOK OUT, LITTLE MOUSE... The humans are gone, the sun is rarely seen, and a cold, dark rain bef… read more

Similar categories in Mac Smith's Scurry book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
Cover of The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2) by Molly Knox Ostertag

16. The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.29

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2) book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Bone Parish Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn

17. Bone Parish Vol. 1

By: Cullen Bunn

3.74

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A necromantic horror series about an upstart crime family trafficking in a new designer drug that’s… read more

Similar categories in Cullen Bunn's Bone Parish Vol. 1 book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga by Sam Maggs

18. Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga

By: Sam Maggs

4.40

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Cath just wants to hang out with her twin sister and write fanfiction. But now that they’re at coll… read more

Similar categories in Sam Maggs's Fangirl, Vol. 2: The Manga book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • young adult
Cover of Pixels of You: A Graphic Novel by Ananth Hirsh

19. Pixels of You: A Graphic Novel

By: Ananth Hirsh

3.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends—and maybe more—in this moving YA graphic nove… read more

Similar categories in Ananth Hirsh's Pixels of You: A Graphic Novel book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of The Midwinter Witch (The Witch Boy, #3) by Molly Knox Ostertag

20. The Midwinter Witch (The Witch Boy, #3)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.27

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed graphic novel world of The Witch Boy and The Hidden Witch comes to a thrilling conclu… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Midwinter Witch (The Witch Boy, #3) book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

21. 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

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Bone Parish, Vol. 3 by Cullen Bunn

22. Bone Parish, Vol. 3

By: Cullen Bunn

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed necromantic horror series reaches its final chapter as the gang war blows wide open o… read more

Similar categories in Cullen Bunn's Bone Parish, Vol. 3 book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration by Wayde Compton

23. The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration

By: Wayde Compton

3.73

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She li… read more

Similar categories in Wayde Compton's The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of All Together Now (Eagle Rock, #2) by Hope Larson

24. All Together Now (Eagle Rock, #2)

By: Hope Larson

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

All Together Now is New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Hope Larson's pitch-perfect g… read more

Similar categories in Hope Larson's All Together Now (Eagle Rock, #2) book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Incredible Doom: Volume 2 (Incredible Doom, 2) by Matthew Bogart

25. Incredible Doom: Volume 2 (Incredible Doom, 2)

By: Matthew Bogart

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“A thrilling tale of found family discovered between lines of code.”—Sara Alfageeh, co-creator of S… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Bogart's Incredible Doom: Volume 2 (Incredible Doom, 2) book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • young adult
  • queer
Cover of Bone Parish, Vol. 2 by Cullen Bunn

26. Bone Parish, Vol. 2

By: Cullen Bunn

3.85

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

War breaks out in New Orleans as multiple crime families fight over a new designer drug made from t… read more

Similar categories in Cullen Bunn's Bone Parish, Vol. 2 book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Skip by Molly Mendoza

27. Skip

By: Molly Mendoza

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A colorful, unpredictable postapocalyptic world comes alive in Skip, when two unlikely friends, Blo… read more

Similar categories in Molly Mendoza's Skip book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
Cover of The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave

28. The Airless Year

By: Adam P. Knave

3.41

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

For Kacee, a queer Black girl in middle school, everything feels like a struggle. Her parents take … read more

Similar categories in Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • comic book
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Steeple by John Allison

29. Steeple

By: John Allison

3.69

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas. Two women with wildly differen… read more

Similar categories in John Allison's Steeple book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection by Reza Farazmand

30. Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection

By: Reza Farazmand

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The absurd antics, good-natured sarcasm, and misguided optimism of Mouse, Bird, Turtle, and Snail a… read more

Similar categories in Reza Farazmand's Hope It All Works Out!: A Poorly Drawn Lines Collection book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Luminous Beings: A Graphic Novel by David  Arnold

31. Luminous Beings: A Graphic Novel

By: David Arnold

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A wholly original graphic novel from New York Times bestseller David Arnold and comic artist Jose P… read more

Similar categories in David Arnold's Luminous Beings: A Graphic Novel book and Adam P. Knave's The Airless Year

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • queer

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