27 must-read queer books like Panpocalypse by Carley Moore

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Panpocalypse

By: Carley Moore

3.63

Format: 189 pages, Unknown Binding

In COVID pandemic-era New York City, Orpheus manages to buy a bicycle just before they sell out acr…

If you liked the queer plot in Panpocalypse by Carley Moore , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. Hurricane Child

By: Kacen Callender

3.79

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child. Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and 12-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Hurricane Child book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I thought the lights were the ghosts of those slaves coming for me because they were jealous that I'd been born free"

-Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child

"No one would ever say, "Come and join us, Caroline," so I would then spend the rest of the lunch period feeling sorry for myself and trying to remember that the lonely children like me are the ones w…"

-Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child

"The idea of not being alone -- of having someone who sees me, same way I see the things that no one else can see, makes me feel like I'm real. Like I deserve to exist on this planet alongside everyon…"

-Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child

"There’s much more in this life to fear than just spirits, and if I let fear rule my every move, I will become nothing more than a little ghost child myself. I want to be brave. I want to live the lif…"

-Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child

2. Black Wave

By: Michelle Tea

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

"Wild, wickedly funny, and refreshingly relevant."--Elle "Raucous . . . [and] unapologetically raw.… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Black Wave book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

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3. Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

3.38

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The Water Outlaws book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • disability
  • audiobook
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Cover of Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1) by Britney Jackson

6. Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1)

By: Britney Jackson

4.46

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

A 2022 Goldie award-winning sapphic fantasy for anyone who loves dangerous women, magical worlds, a… read more

Similar categories in Britney Jackson's Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1) book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. People Collide

By: Isle McElroy

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more

Similar categories in Isle McElroy's People Collide book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel

By: Gabby Rivera

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bron… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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10. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

By: Amy Schneider

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! —and a… read more

Similar categories in Amy Schneider's In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I deprived myself of a joy in my life, because it was a joy only girls were allowed to feel. Life already seemed to be full of joys that one wasn't allowed to feel, so adding one more to the pile cam…"

-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"

-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"

-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

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11. Back to the Start

By: Monica McCallan

4.10

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

When Remy’s grandmother dies, it means leaving her life in San Francisco and returning to a town sh… read more

Similar categories in Monica McCallan's Back to the Start book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"And I'm so, so sick of not the getting to tell you every day that I love you, to get to wake up next to you in the morning and kiss you."

-Monica McCallan, Back to the Start

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12. Witching Moon

By: Poppy Woods

3.89

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Alandra Michaels is your everyday, run-of-the-mill, ordinary witch. She doesn't have an affinity fo… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Woods's Witching Moon book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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13. 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

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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14. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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15. Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Cravens's Lucky Red book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn  Harlan

18. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Harlan's Fruiting Bodies: Stories book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker

19. And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community

By: Ricky Tucker

3.95

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ… read more

Similar categories in Ricky Tucker's And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. Rainbow Rainbow

By: Lydia Conklin

3.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor, darkness, and depth of emotion of the qu… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Conklin's Rainbow Rainbow book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall

21. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

By: Mariah Stovall

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more

Similar categories in Mariah Stovall's I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) by Nora Dåsnes

22. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

Similar categories in Nora Dåsnes's Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Love Is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann

23. Love Is for Losers

By: Wibke Brueggemann

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wry and hilarious queer romantic comedy, fifteen-year-old Phoebe realizes that falling in l… read more

Similar categories in Wibke Brueggemann's Love Is for Losers book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Boyfriends are temporary, best friends are for life."

-Wibke Brueggemann, Love Is for Losers

"You know that saying about herding cats? You don't fully understand its meaning until you've actually had to do it."

-Wibke Brueggemann, Love Is for Losers

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24. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

By: Julian K. Jarboe

3.93

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more

Similar categories in Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

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25. Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more

Similar categories in David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson

26. In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

By: Dianna E. Anderson

4.11

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through … read more

Similar categories in Dianna E. Anderson's In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) by Olivia Waite

27. The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3)

By: Olivia Waite

3.71

Format: 384 pages, ebook

It’s not a crime to steal a heart... Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. Aft… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Waite's The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

28. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Brown Neon by Raquel  Gutiérrez

29. Brown Neon

By: Raquel Gutiérrez

3.92

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artis… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Gutiérrez's Brown Neon book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"It was losing faith that got easy."

-Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

"Maybe I was too educated and too spoiled, and that meant never having to settle for marriage to strengthen my economic lot the way my mother had to do..."

-Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

Cover of Panpocalypse by Carley Moore

30. Panpocalypse

By: Carley Moore

3.63

Format: 189 pages, Unknown Binding

In COVID pandemic-era New York City, Orpheus manages to buy a bicycle just before they sell out acr… read more

Similar categories in Carley Moore's Panpocalypse book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lesbian
  • new york
  • polyamory
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
  • queer
Cover of Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas

31. Confetti Realms

By: Nadia Shammas

3.45

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A group of teens are transported from a graveyard to another realm where they must collect teeth— a… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Shammas's Confetti Realms book and Carley Moore's Panpocalypse

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

22 Top fiction books like Panpocalypse by Carley Moore

Transform Your Habits

Hurricane Child

Kacen Callender

3.79

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Your Shadow Half Remains

Sunny Moraine

3.38

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The Water Outlaws

S.L. Huang

3.81

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People Collide

Isle McElroy

3.55

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17 must-read fiction books like A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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