22 must-read lgbt books like Dreadnought by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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Dreadnought

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.66

Format: 142 pages, ebook

At the end of the world, three broken girls entrusted with the piloting of biomechanical monstrosit…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Dreadnought by Gretchen Felker-Martin , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Fevre Dream

By: George R.R. Martin

3.89

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

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2. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

By: Torrey Peters

4.12

Format: None pages,

In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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3. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more

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4. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

5. Tampa

By: Alissa Nutting

3.59

Format: 83 pages, ebook

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. Sh… read more

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6. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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7. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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8. Piercing

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more

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9. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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10. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

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11. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer stru… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
"Bones are mediocre."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I remember being eighteen."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"Your only settings were power-vomit and murder"

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

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12. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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13. 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 Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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14. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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15. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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17. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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18. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
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19. The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

By: Seth Dickinson

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A breathtaking geopolitical fantasy as fraught as Game of Thrones, The Monster Baru Cormorant is th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"No,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

"Baru,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

"There are families here, Baru."

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

"I need someone to take up strangling me during sex,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

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20. Orange World and Other Stories

By: Karen Russell

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swampl… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

"March 1. DEAR BABY: I like the way you turn in half circles on the mattress, like a senile clock."

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

"How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it."

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

"I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them."

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

Cover of Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) by Micaiah Johnson

21. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

By: Micaiah Johnson

4.15

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more

Similar categories in Micaiah Johnson's Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2) book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."

-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

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22. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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23. 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

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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24. Serious Weakness

By: Porpentine Charity Heartscape

4.47

Format: None pages, None

its going to get really dark now read more

Similar categories in Porpentine Charity Heartscape's Serious Weakness book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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25. Low Kill Shelter

By: Porpentine Charity Heartscape

4.42

Format: 83 pages, ebook

*when your best friend gets infected and wants to eat your face off *and you work at a medical lab… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
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26. Redsight

By: Meredith Mooring

3.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An imaginative new space opera filled with sapphic romance, space pirates, a blind witch and powerf… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Mooring's Redsight book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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27. Metal from Heaven

By: August Clarke

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  The Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth: a bloody  lesbian revenge tale and political … read more

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  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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28. Dreadnought

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.66

Format: 142 pages, ebook

At the end of the world, three broken girls entrusted with the piloting of biomechanical monstrosit… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • dark
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of The Hades Calculus (Gunmetal Olympus, #1) by Maria Ying

29. The Hades Calculus (Gunmetal Olympus, #1)

By: Maria Ying

4.47

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Decadent cyberpunk cities. Greek mythology and giant mechs. Hades and Persephone as never seen befo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5) by Tamsyn Muir

30. The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.63

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Tridentarius match wits on a dreamlike battlefield. read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5) book and Gretchen Felker-Martin's Dreadnought

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer

21 Best fiction books like Dreadnought by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Transform Your Habits

Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

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11 must-read adult books like The Hades Calculus (Gunmetal Olympus, #1) by Maria Ying

Transform Your Habits

Alone

E.J. Noyes

4.33

Transform Your Habits

This Gilded Abyss

Rebecca Thorne

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Catnip

Vyria Durav

4.29

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