24 Top lgbt books like This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

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This Is What It Feels Like

By: Rebecca Barrow

4.02

Format: 400 pages, ebook

It doesn’t matter what the prize for the Sun City Originals contest is this year. Who cares that…

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1. The Grief Keeper

By: Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Putnam has acquired Alex Villasante's The Grief Keeper, about sisters Marisol and Gabriella Morales… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

2. Dress Codes for Small Towns

By: Courtney C. Stevens

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting t… read more

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3. Pulp

By: Robin Talley

4.03

Format: 512 pages,

About a closeted teen in the 1950s finding a way to express herself by writing a lesbian pulp novel… read more

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4. Girl Mans Up

By: M.E. Girard

4.22

Format: 160 pages, ebook

All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with… read more

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5. For Her Consideration (Out in Hollywood, #1)

By: Amy Spalding

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Meryl Wilsner, a funny, heartwarming, and moving novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Amy Spalding's For Her Consideration (Out in Hollywood, #1) book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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6. At Her Service (Out in Hollywood, #2)

By: Amy Spalding

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Fans of Casey McQuiston, Alexis Hall, and Meryl Wilsner will fall for this sweetly sexy, gloriously… read more

Similar categories in Amy Spalding's At Her Service (Out in Hollywood, #2) book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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8. What I Carry

By: Jennifer Longo

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

For readers of Robin Benway's Far From the Tree, a powerful and heartwarming look at a teen girl ab… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Longo's What I Carry book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The entire fucking point of being born is that someone is supposed to take care of you."

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

"Not being perfect is for people who have families; you can screw up and they still keep you."

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

"Memory is a fascinating thing. Months and years can pass, uneventful and lost, but then certain tiny moments, pieces of conversation or feelings within the thousands of blank days stay sharp, clear l…"

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

"It's not like I'm dead inside. It's that I'm allergic to manufactured, insincere emotion. A lifetime of people saying one thing but doing the opposite has inoculated me, and now I understand how to s…"

-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

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9. How to Excavate a Heart

By: Jake Maia Arlow

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more

Similar categories in Jake Maia Arlow's How to Excavate a Heart book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"

-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

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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 Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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11. Fly with Me

By: Andie Burke

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp b… read more

Similar categories in Andie Burke's Fly with Me book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. Not My Problem

By: Ciara Smyth

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix. Her best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's Not My Problem book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

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13. Well, That Was Unexpected

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Well, That Was Unexpected book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3)

By: Anita Kelly

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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15. The Midnight Bargain

By: C.L. Polk

3.76

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be lo… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's The Midnight Bargain book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?"

-C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

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16. This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

By: Kacen Callender

3.38

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy a… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Maybe the way you love changes from person to person."

-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

"Maybe the ending isn't even really the point. Just as long as there was a happy somewhere along the way."

-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

"I’m sick and tired of looking around at everyone else falling in love, and telling myself that I don’t deserve it, too."

-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

"I’m realizing it doesn’t really matter if we have a happy ending or not. We’re happy right now. That’s the important part, right?"

-Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

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17. Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

3.78

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Previously published; newly refreshed by the authorI like my women like I like my whiskey: more tha… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator, #1) book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"That’s the plan then, is it?"

-Alexis Hall, Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator, #1)

"I could stand to hear the adventures of Sister Julian, Pudding Nun."

-Alexis Hall, Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator, #1)

"Here lies Kate Kane, killed in a foreplay accident. Beloved daughter. Sorely missed."

-Alexis Hall, Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator, #1)

"I enjoy power. I enjoy control. As previously established, I’m a motherfucking vampire prince."

-Alexis Hall, Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator, #1)

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18. Broken Things

By: Lauren Oliver

3.57

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oliver's Broken Things book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"We made it up, every last bit of it. We were bored, we were deviant, we were in love, we were out of out fucking minds"

-Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

"Just listen, okay?" He grabs my shoulders before I can move past him, and I know, I know that something huge is happening, the kind of thing that takes worlds apart and remakes them. Hurricanes and t…"

-Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

"In books, secret worlds are accessible by doors or keys or other physical objects. But Lovelorn was not such a world, and appeared at whim and only when it felt like it, with a subtle change like the…"

-Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

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19. Impostors (Impostors, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

3.95

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . but very few people have ever seen them together. This is becau… read more

Similar categories in Scott Westerfeld's Impostors (Impostors, #1) book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Freedom has a way of destroying things."

-Scott Westerfeld, Impostors (Impostors, #1)

"That girl in the painting looks so fierce, so strong. I want her to be the truth of me."

-Scott Westerfeld, Impostors (Impostors, #1)

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20. When We Were Magic

By: Sarah Gailey

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A moving, darkly funny novel about six teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars auth… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's When We Were Magic book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"What you said is what matters. Your impact matters more than your intentions,"

-Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic

"I know I won’t pretend to be any less powerful than I really am. Because now I know for sure: the worst part of me isn’t the strongest part of me. And the strongest part of me is so, so much stronger…"

-Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic

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21. The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre

By: Robin Talley

3.73

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this romantic comedy from New York Times best… read more

Similar categories in Robin Talley's The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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22. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

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23. Liar City

By: Allie Therin

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath—and a notorious empath hunter—to fi… read more

Similar categories in Allie Therin's Liar City book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5) by Becky Albertalli

24. Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5)

By: Becky Albertalli

3.63

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Fall in love all over again with the characters from the bestselling Simonverse novels in this high… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Love, Creekwood (Simonverse, #3.5) book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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25. The Key to You and Me

By: Jaye Robin Brown

3.37

Format: 368 pages, ebook

KEY TO YOU AND ME, THE read more

Similar categories in Jaye Robin Brown's The Key to You and Me book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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26. Triple Sec

By: T.J. Alexander

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Alexander's Triple Sec book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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27. 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 Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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28. Music from Another World

By: Robin Talley

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley … read more

Similar categories in Robin Talley's Music from Another World book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I'm a child. They're the ones hurting me"

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

"We know how the world works, but that doesn't change who we are."

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

"There’s no point worrying so hard you can’t breathe. Life’s short, and you’ve got to make sure there's time to live it."

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

"Then I kissed her. And I finally understand all those songs I didn’t get before. This is what people mean when they write songs about love. This feeling. This perfect, overwhelming knowledge that eve…"

-Robin Talley, Music from Another World

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29. Out of Character

By: Jenna Miller

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to describe herself, she’d happily tell you she’s fat… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Miller's Out of Character book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) by Olivia Waite

30. 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 Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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31. This Is What It Feels Like

By: Rebecca Barrow

4.02

Format: 400 pages, ebook

It doesn’t matter what the prize for the Sun City Originals contest is this year. Who cares that… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like book and Rebecca Barrow's This Is What It Feels Like

  • romance
  • music
  • lesbian
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

27 Top fiction books like This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

Transform Your Habits

The Grief Keeper

Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Transform Your Habits

For Her Consideration (Out in Hollywood, #1)

Amy Spalding

3.76

Transform Your Habits

At Her Service (Out in Hollywood, #2)

Amy Spalding

3.86

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The Deep

Rivers Solomon

3.78

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Sofi and the Bone Song

Adrienne Tooley

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

Kate Scelsa

3.72

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The Dos and Donuts of Love

Adiba Jaigirdar

3.88

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Amy Spalding

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