15 must-read queer books like Human Enough by E.S. Yu

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Human Enough

By: E.S. Yu

3.97

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

When Noah Lau joined the Vampire Hunters Association, seeking justice for his parents’ deaths, he d…

If you liked the queer plot in Human Enough by E.S. Yu , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of A List of Cages by Robin Roe

1. A List of Cages

By: Robin Roe

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school p… read more

Similar categories in Robin Roe's A List of Cages book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • fiction

2. Superhero

By: Eli Easton

3.83

Format: 496 pages, ebook

It's not easy for a young gay artist like Jordan Carson to grow up in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where a… read more

Similar categories in Eli Easton's Superhero book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
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3. The Cybernetic Tea Shop

By: Meredith Katz

3.90

Format: 205 pages, ebook

Clara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. H… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Katz's The Cybernetic Tea Shop book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

4. When the Angels Left the Old Country

By: Sacha Lamb

4.27

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more

Similar categories in Sacha Lamb's When the Angels Left the Old Country book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

5. Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Only This Beautiful Moment book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) by Rebecca  Thorne

6. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

By: Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Format: 388 pages, ebook

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Thorne's Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Mortal Skin (Folk, #1) by Lily Mayne

7. Mortal Skin (Folk, #1)

By: Lily Mayne

4.38

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

I first saw the Folk when I was a little boy. When they started appearing in my garden, with their … read more

Similar categories in Lily Mayne's Mortal Skin (Folk, #1) book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
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8. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

Similar categories in Claribel A. Ortega's Frizzy book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • fiction
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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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 E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters

10. The Summer of Everything

By: Julian Winters

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Comic book geek Wesley Hudson excels at two things: slacking off at his job and pining after his be… read more

Similar categories in Julian Winters's The Summer of Everything book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Don't carry today into tomorrow."

-Julian Winters, The Summer of Everything

"If the worst thing you do in this lifetime is fall in love with your best friend, then I'd say you're doing pretty damn good."

-Julian Winters, The Summer of Everything

Cover of Like Real People Do (Breakaway, #1) by E.L. Massey

11. Like Real People Do (Breakaway, #1)

By: E.L. Massey

4.33

Format: 423 pages, ebook

Nineteen-year-old hockey phenom Alexander Price is the youngest-ever captain in the NHL. With a pol… read more

Similar categories in E.L. Massey's Like Real People Do (Breakaway, #1) book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • queer
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
"Apparently, Alex doesn't know how to handle emotions, and he's a dumpster fire of a human being."

-E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do (Breakaway, #1)

"The problem is he thinks he and Eli could be good for each other. Really good. Under different circumstances. In a different life. Or maybe, if he was just a little braver, in this one."

-E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do (Breakaway, #1)

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12. Skater Boy

By: Anthony Nerada

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this YA pop-punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to wr… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Nerada's Skater Boy book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"If we can convince our own minds we aren't good enough, we can't really be disappointed when we don't get what we truly want."

-Anthony Nerada, Skater Boy

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13. The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester

By: Maya MacGregor

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary teen with autism realizes they must not only sol… read more

Similar categories in Maya MacGregor's The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • fiction
  • disability
  • queer
Cover of A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

14. A Thousand Steps into Night

By: Traci Chee

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, Traci Chee, comes a Japane… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's A Thousand Steps into Night book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He was meandering along one of the paths, watching the fire crackle around him as if it were an opera—stirring, magnificent—and he, its only patron."

-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

"To anyone else, the appearance of the village might have been cause for alarm, but to Miuko, who had only ever known such deterioration, it was beautiful in its ordinariness."

-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

"She could not help but think of her mother and how much she would have loved it, how she would have devoured every sight, every souund, every phantasmagoric scent wafting up from the volcanic fissure…"

-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

"Once, at Ogawa Castle, Miuko had thought him lonely; but now, seeing him encircled by such unrepentant destruction, she understood that he could never be lonely, because he did not desire company. No…"

-Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

Cover of Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

15. Sixteen Souls

By: Rosie Talbot

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have gli… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Talbot's Sixteen Souls book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
Cover of My Fair Brady by Brian D. Kennedy

16. My Fair Brady

By: Brian D. Kennedy

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com fro… read more

Similar categories in Brian D. Kennedy's My Fair Brady book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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17. Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Lakelore book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

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18. Splinter : A Diverse Sleepy Hollow Retelling

By: Jasper Hyde

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

This Is The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Reborn… In a small town hidden behind the hills of New York,… read more

Similar categories in Jasper Hyde's Splinter : A Diverse Sleepy Hollow Retelling book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Human Enough by E.S. Yu

19. Human Enough

By: E.S. Yu

3.97

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

When Noah Lau joined the Vampire Hunters Association, seeking justice for his parents’ deaths, he d… read more

Similar categories in E.S. Yu's Human Enough book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • disability
  • queer
Cover of Iron & Fire (Silk and Steel, #2) by Ariana Nash

20. Iron & Fire (Silk and Steel, #2)

By: Ariana Nash

4.15

Format: None pages, None

Alliances are forged and broken, friendships shattered, and despite the odds stacked against them, … read more

Similar categories in Ariana Nash's Iron & Fire (Silk and Steel, #2) book and E.S. Yu's Human Enough

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • fantasy
  • lgbt

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Robin Roe

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Meredith Katz

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20 Best fiction books like A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

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June Hur

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Axie Oh

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