21 Top queer books like Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories by Michael Earp

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Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

By: Michael Earp

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #OwnVoices collectio…

If you liked the queer plot in Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories by Michael Earp , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Release

By: Patrick Ness

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Inspired by Mrs Dallowayand Judy Blume's Forever, Release is one day in the life of Adam Thorn, 17.… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Release book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. Two Boys Kissing

By: David Levithan

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and C… read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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3. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt

4. Amelia Westlake

By: Erin Gough

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through the halls … read more

Similar categories in Erin Gough's Amelia Westlake book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

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5. The Luis Ortega Survival Club

By: Sonora Reyes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Luis Ortega Survival Club book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. Afterlove

By: Tanya Byrne

3.99

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

THE LESBIAN LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN DYING TO READ. Ash Persaud is about to become a reaper in th… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Byrne's Afterlove book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Same. I'm strictly clitly." - p. 81"

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"She throws her head back and laughs and it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"But that's the trouble with best friends, isn't it? They know everything and forget nothing, no matter how much you want them to."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

"Everyone is friends. Everyone is in love. Nothing else matters but midnight because next year will be different. We will be different. It's our year."

-Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

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7. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Contos's Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

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8. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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9. I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

By: Mason Deaver

4.16

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here. When Ben De Backer comes out to … read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1) book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Whatever happens"

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"The world’s too loud sometimes."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"This kid, Nathan, laughs like it's his favourite thing in the world to do."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

"Bodies are fucking weird, especially when it feels like you don't belong in your own."

-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)

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10. Are You Listening?

By: Tillie Walden

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's Are You Listening? book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

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11. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's One Hundred Days book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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12. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Gadsby's Ten Steps to Nanette book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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13. How We Love: Notes on a Life

By: Clementine Ford

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's How We Love: Notes on a Life book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

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14. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

Similar categories in Grace Tame's The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • disability
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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15. Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan

4.32

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from t… read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Answers in the Pages book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us."

-David Levithan, Answers in the Pages

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16. Nothing but My Body

By: Tilly Lawless

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking, discomforting and beautiful novel about love, obsession, community and friends… read more

Similar categories in Tilly Lawless's Nothing but My Body book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Let me hold your hand so I know you're not a hallucination or a figment of my imagination."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Respect has a sameness, a conformity to it, but disrespect is varied and alien in its individual manifestation."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"This is a love letter to friendship, I want you to write it on me in ink and then press me against the pages, your personal printing press."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

"Just as my writing is brought more meaning by the tears cried by those who read it, so we are making something all together, in our bodies and the spaces between us and the moments in which we touch."

-Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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17. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's I Don't: The Case Against Marriage book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

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18. The Mother Wound

By: Amani Haydar

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more

Similar categories in Amani Haydar's The Mother Wound book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

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19. Ready When You Are

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.20

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more

Similar categories in Gary Lonesborough's Ready When You Are book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."

-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are

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20. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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21. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • disability
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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22. Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The team of award-winning superstars James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas present the first graphic… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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23. Henry Hamlet's Heart

By: Rhiannon Wilde

4.15

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sparkling queer YA romance set in Brisbane, Henry Hamlet’s Heart follows one guy and his sometime… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Wilde's Henry Hamlet's Heart book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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24. Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

By: Timothy Janovsky

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't … read more

Similar categories in Timothy Janovsky's Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1) book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"With only the stars as my witness, I kiss him again, deeper, and to my surprise, it doesn’t feel like scratching an act off a list or completing a quest: it feels like coming home."

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

"Because I know for certain the cardboard version of himself he’s been asked for years to display in the storefront of his family life has been incinerated for good. He’s flesh and blood right now, fl…"

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

"It’s nice to hear him so self-aware. To know that the seismic waves of coming out are still rippling through him too. I thought I was alone in that. Everyone makes it seem like coming out is crossing…"

-Timothy Janovsky, Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy, #1)

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25. The Fancies

By: Kim Lock

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Abigail Fancy returns to the tiny town that the Fancys have ruled for decades, fresh from her secon… read more

Similar categories in Kim Lock's The Fancies book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

By: Tobias Madden

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There Are No Cheat Codes for Showmance Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell only has one frie… read more

Similar categories in Tobias Madden's Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"But still, despite all of this . . . I’m in love. It’s irrational. It’s irresponsible. But it’s irrevocable."

-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

"Because my curiosity is killing me? Because I’m reckless and ridiculous? Because I’m suddenly one step closer to meeting the love of my life?"

-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

"I place my hands in his, my stupid heart skipping a beat when our palms make contact. ‘You good?’ he asks. I bite my lip to keep from grinning like a fool. ‘Yep."

-Tobias Madden, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

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27. I Like Me Better

By: Robby Weber

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This is not how soccer-star Zack Martin thought his summer would go. When the captain's prank means… read more

Similar categories in Robby Weber's I Like Me Better book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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28. Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

By: Michael Earp

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #OwnVoices collectio… read more

Similar categories in Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
  • queer
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29. Wrong Answers Only

By: Tobias Madden

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only.Marco should be at un… read more

Similar categories in Tobias Madden's Wrong Answers Only book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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30. Straight Expectations

By: Calum McSwiggan

3.85

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The brilliant debut novel from author, presenter and LGBTQ+ advocate Calum McSwiggan!Seventeen-year… read more

Similar categories in Calum McSwiggan's Straight Expectations book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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31. An Unexpected Party

By: Seth Malacari

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Co-published by Get YA Words Out and edited by Seth Malacari, An Unexpected Party brings together t… read more

Similar categories in Seth Malacari's An Unexpected Party book and Michael Earp's Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer

21 Best fiction books like Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories by Michael Earp

Transform Your Habits

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Patrick Ness

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Two Boys Kissing

David Levithan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Luis Ortega Survival Club

Sonora Reyes

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Afterlove

Tanya Byrne

3.99

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The Dos and Donuts of Love

Adiba Jaigirdar

3.88

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How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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Jack Heath

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