24 best-selling lgbt books like A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1) by Marissa J. Gramoll

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A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

By: Marissa J. Gramoll

4.35

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

A Game Like Ours is a New Adult, Queer, College Literary Fiction with strong romantic themes about …

If you liked the lgbt plot in A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1) by Marissa J. Gramoll , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

4.22

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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2. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

By: Kenji Yoshino

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal … read more

Similar categories in Kenji Yoshino's Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt

3. The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales From Verania, #1)

By: T.J. Klune

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely bo… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales From Verania, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

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4. Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)

By: Nyla K.

3.99

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Alabaster Penitentiary… Where they send you when the world thinks you’re dead. And trust … read more

Similar categories in Nyla K.'s Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
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5. Unsteady

By: Peyton Corinne

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Rhys Koteskiy is back — at least, he's supposed to be. During last year’s Frozen Four, the Water… read more

Similar categories in Peyton Corinne's Unsteady book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • sports romance
Cover of Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

6. 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 Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"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

"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

"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

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7. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

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8. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

Similar categories in James Ijames's Fat Ham book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
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9. Confidence

By: Rafael Frumkin

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two lifelong friends, occasional lovers, and constant conmen find themselves on top of the world af… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Frumkin's Confidence book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
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10. Burning Butch

By: R/B Mertz

4.39

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans / non-binary butch on a quest to survive conservat… read more

Similar categories in R/B Mertz's Burning Butch book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had …"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her o…"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

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11. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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12. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

By: Bryan Burrough

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Burrough's Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

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13. The Ghosts of Rose Hill

By: R.M. Romero

3.98

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Magic will burn you up. Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an a… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's The Ghosts of Rose Hill book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
"PS I know I can always count on your silence. It's my own I'm not used to."

-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill

"The kiss lasts for his lifetime and my unfolding one. It reaches lives we haven't lived yet, and all the ones we've forgotten."

-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill

"In a house full of children, there are always bangs, clatters, shrieks of delight and dismay. Just because the kids here are dead doesn't make them an exception."

-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill

"I lay a dress on the white sheets, and see the monster nod his approval. A girl who intends to run doesn't bring a wardrobe with her. (But a girl who intends to fight does.)"

-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill

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14. The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

By: Steven Rowley

4.14

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Gra… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
Cover of Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1) by Chloe Liese

15. Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)

By: Chloe Liese

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Now with new exclusive content! Meet the Bergmans in this enemies-to-lovers new adult romance th… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Liese's Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • sports romance
" I want to close my eyes and feel the memory of the moment only when it’s us became only us, forever. "

-Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)

"Wearing a flannel shirt is like wearing a socially accepted security blanket. Sue me. I like to be comfortable, and comforted."

-Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)

"I want Ryder who brought me whiskey and peanut butter cups and was the first man to ever slow down and hold me and help me feel safe enough to fall apart."

-Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)

"Whatever it is, whatever it means, I don't want it to ever end. I never want to stop feeling this kind of love for you. I want us to love each other this deeply, this powerfully, always."

-Chloe Liese, Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)

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16. Meet Me Halfway (Meet Me Halfway, #1)

By: Lilian T. James

3.91

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Madison gave her heart to a boy at the age of sixteen, but all she got in return was a broken heart… read more

Similar categories in Lilian T. James's Meet Me Halfway (Meet Me Halfway, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
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17. Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight

By: Shelly Page

3.84

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Night of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible… read more

Similar categories in Shelly Page's Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
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18. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

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19. Between Hello and Goodbye

By: Emma Scott

4.26

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

She’s a city girl in Seattle. He’s a firefighter in a rainforest. This is never going to work… … read more

Similar categories in Emma Scott's Between Hello and Goodbye book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
Cover of Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3) by Nyla K.

20. Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)

By: Nyla K.

4.27

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

Monster. That's what they call me. Lock your doors, hold your loved ones tight. The Carver is on… read more

Similar categories in Nyla K.'s Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
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21. Double-Edged

By: Nyla K.

4.02

Format: 606 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of PUSH and To Burn In Brutal Rapture comes an all-new tale of unexpected [extremel… read more

Similar categories in Nyla K.'s Double-Edged book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
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22. How It All Blew Up

By: Arvin Ahmadi

3.84

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity … read more

Similar categories in Arvin Ahmadi's How It All Blew Up book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
"I rolled my eyes. " What, are you my dad now?" "Maybe your daddy..." "Just kidding," Neil said. "You probably don't even know what that means." "Hey, just because I came out like five seconds ago doe…"

-Arvin Ahmadi, How It All Blew Up

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23. Ziggy, Stardust and Me

By: James Brandon

4.15

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And ho… read more

Similar categories in James Brandon's Ziggy, Stardust and Me book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
"How was a feeling be so bad if it makes me feel so good?"

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

"He looks at me. And smiles. "Just us remember?To the moon," he whispers."

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

"Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs."

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

"Your imagination is your safe space, an escape pod to another dimension where you're free to be."

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

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24. The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp o… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Lambert's The Boy in the Red Dress book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
"I'd never known freedom could feel so hollow"

-Kristin Lambert, The Boy in the Red Dress

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25. Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

By: Jo Ivester

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as w… read more

Similar categories in Jo Ivester's Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
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26. The Great Believers

By: Rebecca Makkai

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chic… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?"

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin"

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world."

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

"And when you came here from Heaven, you left the door open so he could go out."

-Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

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27. This Is How It Always Is

By: Laurie Frankel

4.28

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secr… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

Cover of ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

28. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

By: John Paul Brammer

4.05

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming me… read more

Similar categories in John Paul Brammer's ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"I thought of myself more as "a person with unique difficulty accessing heterosexuality."

-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

"All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also sufferi…"

-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

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29. Pomegranate

By: Helen Elaine Lee

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, following a queer Black woman who w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Elaine Lee's Pomegranate book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
Cover of A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1) by Marissa J. Gramoll

30. A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

By: Marissa J. Gramoll

4.35

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

A Game Like Ours is a New Adult, Queer, College Literary Fiction with strong romantic themes about … read more

Similar categories in Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1) book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • romance
  • sports romance
  • bisexual
  • lgbt
Cover of I Have Something to Tell You―For Young Adults: A Memoir by Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

31. I Have Something to Tell You―For Young Adults: A Memoir

By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! “A perfect juxtaposition of ordinary and extraordinary, told … read more

Similar categories in Chasten Glezman Buttigieg's I Have Something to Tell You―For Young Adults: A Memoir book and Marissa J. Gramoll's A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1)

  • lgbt
"A candidate´s identity shouldn´t obscure his politics. It´s policy that shapes the realities of people´s everyday lives."

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You―For Young Adults: A Memoir

15 best-selling romance books like A Game Like Ours (Suncastle College #1) by Marissa J. Gramoll

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)

Nyla K.

3.99

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Unsteady

Peyton Corinne

3.94

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Confidence

Rafael Frumkin

3.60

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Hurricane Song

Paul Volponi

3.75

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Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

Lex Croucher

4.01

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Fractured Tide

Leslie Lutz

3.71

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The Boy in the Red Dress

Kristin Lambert

3.81

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