9 Best lgbt books like Mother of Invention by Rivqa Rafael

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Mother of Invention

By: Rivqa Rafael

4.02

Format: 396 pages, ebook

An ambitious anthology from award-winning Australian publishing house Twelfth Planet Press, Mother …

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1. Final Girls

By: Mira Grant

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears? Dr. Jennifer Web… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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2. Rise: A Newsflesh Collection

By: Mira Grant

4.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Collected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York TimesBestseller Mir… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories by Jim C. Hines, William Alexander, Ken Liu, Garth Nix, Amal El-Mohtar, Sean Williams, John Chu, Gabriela Lee, Vylar Kaftan, Tim Susman, Dirk Flinthart, Alisa Krasnostein, Sofia Samatar, E.C. Myers, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Faith Mudge, Sean Eads, Karen Healey, Shveta Thakrar, Julia Rios, Holly Kench, None

3. Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories

By: Jim C. Hines , William Alexander , Ken Liu , Garth Nix , Amal El-Mohtar , Sean Williams , John Chu , Gabriela Lee , Vylar Kaftan , Tim Susman , Dirk Flinthart , Alisa Krasnostein , Sofia Samatar , E.C. Myers , Tansy Rayner Roberts , Faith Mudge , Sean Eads , Karen Healey , Shveta Thakrar , Julia Rios , Holly Kench , None

4.30

Format: 224 pages, ebook

What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgendered … read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

4. The Library at Mount Char

By: Scott Hawkins

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart sl… read more

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5. Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

By: Hugh Howey

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Tim… read more

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6. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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7. A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark

By: Harry Connolly

3.80

Format: None pages, ebook

A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put… read more

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8. City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.09

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutali… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Death is for the weak."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

"There is no crueler hells then committee work...."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

"Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

"I am lost among the seas of fate and time But at least I have love."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

9. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Ele… read more

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10. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

11. Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy, #1)

By: Mira Grant

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created s… read more

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12. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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13. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.80

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

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14. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.05

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Names have power. Names define things"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I'm not your door, but I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

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15. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciou… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"You're not tall, but you walk like you are."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"New things are the best kind of magic there is."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"I have a reservoir filled with lightning under my heart."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

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16. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

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17. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20) by Patricia Briggs

18. Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Saddest thin in the world is listening to a nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherood politely. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about that."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

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19. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Coup of Tea (Tea Princess Chronicles, #1) by Casey  Blair

20. A Coup of Tea (Tea Princess Chronicles, #1)

By: Casey Blair

4.28

Format: 402 pages, ebook

When the fourth princess of Istalam is due to dedicate herself to a path serving the crown, she mak… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Membranes

By: Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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22. When Things Get Dark

By: Ellen Datlow

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

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23. The Twice-Drowned Saint

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.10

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

24. Phoenix Extravagant

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I’ll go up first,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

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25. What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

3.63

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman posing as a medium who can channel the spirit world comes face to face with the truth in th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"She tried to lie back down, but her heart took a while to slow, and when it did, she found herself lying awake. She was exhausted, but her body was restless, humming like the wires that webbed the sk…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

"He looked disheveled, still in his clothes, and there was a packet of papers in his hands. She moved to the side of the hall, giving him ample room to pass to the earth closet, but he was still watch…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

26. And Sweep Up The Wood…

By: Seanan McGuire

4.15

Format: 60 pages, None

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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27. The Gamer Chronicles

By: Samuel Peralta

4.06

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Roll the dice, choose your avatar, strap on your virtual reality goggles, and… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. Mother of Invention

By: Rivqa Rafael

4.02

Format: 396 pages, ebook

An ambitious anthology from award-winning Australian publishing house Twelfth Planet Press, Mother … read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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29. Apocalyptic

By: S.C. Butler

3.89

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Who doesn’t love a good apocalyptic story? They come in all kinds, from the nightmare terrors of su… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Unidentified Funny Objects 7 (UFO, #7) by Alex Shvartsman

30. Unidentified Funny Objects 7 (UFO, #7)

By: Alex Shvartsman

3.94

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of fu… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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31. Submerged

By: S.C. Butler

3.74

Format: 283 pages, ebook

Everyone has their eyes set on the black depths of space … but what about the deep abysses of the o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies

23 Top fiction books like Mother of Invention by Rivqa Rafael

Transform Your Habits

Final Girls

Mira Grant

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Rise: A Newsflesh Collection

Mira Grant

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories

Jim C. Hines , William Alexander , Ken Liu , Garth Nix , Amal El-Mohtar , Sean Williams , John Chu , Gabriela Lee , Vylar Kaftan , Tim Susman , Dirk Flinthart , Alisa Krasnostein , Sofia Samatar , E.C. Myers , Tansy Rayner Roberts , Faith Mudge , Sean Eads , Karen Healey , Shveta Thakrar , Julia Rios , Holly Kench , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

Robert Jackson Bennett

4.09

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21 Top fiction books like Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5) by Seanan McGuire

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The Three Witches and The Master

Max Nowaz

4.30

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Seanan McGuire

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