12 best-selling queer books like The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

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The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment …

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Cover of A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

1. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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2. Safer Places

By: Kit Anderson

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From road trips to doctors’ offices to the mysterious spaces under the house, Kit Anderson’s short … read more

Similar categories in Kit Anderson's Safer Places book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • fiction
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

3. 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 Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"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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4. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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5. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

Similar categories in Briony Cameron's The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) by Hana  Lee

7. Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1)

By: Hana Lee

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-s… read more

Similar categories in Hana Lee's Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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8. 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 Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • fiction
  • japan
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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10. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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11. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Joe Hustle

By: Richard Lange

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more

Similar categories in Richard Lange's Joe Hustle book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • fiction
Cover of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas

13. A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

By: June Thomas

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half … read more

Similar categories in June Thomas's A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

14. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

Similar categories in Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • japan
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

15. Lucy Undying

By: Kiersten White

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Lucy Undying book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • adult
  • lgbt
Cover of I Will Never Leave You by Kara A. Kennedy

16. I Will Never Leave You

By: Kara A. Kennedy

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfr… read more

Similar categories in Kara A. Kennedy's I Will Never Leave You book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • lesbian
  • thriller
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Nicked by M.T. Anderson

17. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen

18. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

Similar categories in Kailee Pedersen's Sacrificial Animals book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

Cover of Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

19. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Ajram's Coup de Grâce book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

20. The Devil Raises His Own

By: Scott Phillips

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bill Ogden, icon of the West, is back in this new crime saga set in the early days of the film indu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Phillips's The Devil Raises His Own book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
Cover of Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

21. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine book and Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

16 must-read fiction books like The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani

Transform Your Habits

A Magical Girl Retires

Park Seolyeon

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Safer Places

Kit Anderson

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

Briony Cameron

3.82

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20 Best fiction books like Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

Transform Your Habits

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Devils Kill Devils

Johnny Compton

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Monika Kim

3.89

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