15 must-read fantasy books like How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

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How to Get Over the End of the World

By: Hal Schrieve

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Boldly weird, cool, and confident, this YA novel of LGBTQ+ teen artists, activists, and telepathic …

If you liked the fantasy plot in How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. 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 Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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3. Snapdragon

By: Kat Leyh

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’… read more

Similar categories in Kat Leyh's Snapdragon book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. Ghost Book

By: Remy Lai

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Spirited Away, Coco, and Ghosts comes a contemporary fantasy graphic novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Remy Lai's Ghost Book book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • graphic novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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6. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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7. If I See You Again Tomorrow

By: Robbie Couch

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Sky Blues and Blaine for the Win comes a spe… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's If I See You Again Tomorrow book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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9. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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11. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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13. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) by Lewis Hancox

14. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more

Similar categories in Lewis Hancox's Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • graphic novels
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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15. The Chromatic Fantasy

By: H.A .

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling … read more

Similar categories in H.A .'s The Chromatic Fantasy book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Jules] No!! No! No! No! I want to be happy!! I want to love and be loved!! I want to feel safe!! I want to be someone who doesn't deserve it!! I want my life and my body and my soul!!"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

"[guard] 'Before we torture you, please sign the release.' [legal form] 'I shall not say "ah, my back really needed that!" when being drawn over the rack. (we've all heard it before. you're not origin…"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

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16. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

Similar categories in Kate Leth's Mall Goth book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

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17. 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 Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • fantasy
  • 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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18. Okay, Cupid

By: Mason Deaver

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know e… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's Okay, Cupid book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb again…"

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

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20. Homebodies

By: Tembe Denton-Hurst

3.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more

Similar categories in Tembe Denton-Hurst's Homebodies book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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21. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. Cold

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.46

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A boy, a murder, a girl, a secret. A YA novel about a shocking crime, told by a boy who died—and a … read more

Similar categories in Mariko Tamaki's Cold book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

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  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

Cover of Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) by Erin M. Evans

24. Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1)

By: Erin M. Evans

3.99

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Magic, mystery, and revolution collide in this fantasy epic where an unlikely team of mages, scribe… read more

Similar categories in Erin M. Evans's Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #7) by Rick Riordan

25. Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #7)

By: Rick Riordan

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in … read more

Similar categories in Rick Riordan's Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #7) book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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26. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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27. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
Cover of Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda

28. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster

By: Andrea Mosqueda

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this voice-driven young adult debut by Andrea Mosqueda, Maggie Gonzalez needs a date to her sist… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mosqueda's Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

30. How to Get Over the End of the World

By: Hal Schrieve

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Boldly weird, cool, and confident, this YA novel of LGBTQ+ teen artists, activists, and telepathic … read more

Similar categories in Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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31. Sluts: Anthology

By: Michelle Tea

3.87

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

What it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture, edited by cult-favorite … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Sluts: Anthology book and Hal Schrieve's How to Get Over the End of the World

  • queer
  • lgbt

29 Top fiction books like How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

Transform Your Habits

The Luis Ortega Survival Club

Sonora Reyes

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Snapdragon

Kat Leyh

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Book

Remy Lai

4.09

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19 must-read fiction books like Icarus by K. Ancrum

Transform Your Habits

The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

Nora Sakavic

4.59

Transform Your Habits

Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

Transform Your Habits

You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

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