Helen House
By: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
4.11
Format: None pages, None
Right before meeting her girlfriend Amber’s parents for the first time, the unnamed narrator of Hel…
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
3. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
4. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
5. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- horror
- adult
- queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
6. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
7. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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8. With Teeth
By: Kristen Arnett
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things a surprising and mov… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"She wasn't sure if ghosts were real, but she believed in magic. Wasn't motherhood a sleight of hand?"-Kristen Arnett, With Teeth
9. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
10. Bloom
By: Delilah S. Dawson
3.90
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
11. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
12. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
13. The Low, Low Woods
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.95
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more
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- horror
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
14. We Ate the Dark
By: Mallory Pearson
2.77
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
Four women investigating the haunting murder of their friend discover more than they ever imagined … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
15. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
By: Lisa Kröger
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Fr… read more
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- horror
"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
16. Mostly Dead Things
By: Kristen Arnett
3.38
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
17. One's Company
By: Ashley Hutson
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"-Ashley Hutson, One's Company
18. 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
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
19. The Black Girl Survives in This One
By: Desiree S. Evans
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more
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- horror
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
20. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
21. Helen House
By: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
4.11
Format: None pages, None
Right before meeting her girlfriend Amber’s parents for the first time, the unnamed narrator of Hel… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- ghosts
- lgbt
- queer lit
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
