14 Top queer books like Major Detours by Zachary Sergi

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Major Detours

By: Zachary Sergi

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Choose your path forward in this mystical interactive YA about the powers of friendship, self-disco…

"Luck is only the surface awareness of a person meeting their purpose."

-Zachary Sergi, Major Detours

"Luck is only the surface awareness of a person meeting their purpose."

-Zachary Sergi, Major Detours

If you liked the queer plot in Major Detours by Zachary Sergi , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3) by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan

1. The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3)

By: Catherynne M. Valente , Ana Juan

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to le… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3) book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, None

2. Le Grand Meaulnes

By: Alain-Fournier , None

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more

Similar categories in Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • fiction
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3. Damsel

By: Elana K. Arnold

3.31

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: when the prince-who-will-be-king comes of … read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's Damsel book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Without you," Ama said, "I would be free."

-Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

"Secrets, like memories, do not disappear just because they are buried by snow or time or distance."

-Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

"And that is the way it has always been," the queen mother said again. "And if something is the way it has always been, who are we to wish it otherwise? Who are we to want anything at all? Who are we …"

-Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

Cover of Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

4. 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 Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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5. At the End of Everything

By: Marieke Nijkamp

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenager… read more

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's At the End of Everything book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • queer
"Lockdown might be great if we all lived in a future with replicators and emergency medical holograms and shit, but we're not there yet."

-Marieke Nijkamp, At the End of Everything

"He spends way too much time in his own head, but he seems to like it there, so who are we to tell him otherwise? It's not like the real world is necessarily a better place to be."

-Marieke Nijkamp, At the End of Everything

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6. In Deeper Waters

By: F.T. Lukens

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his comin… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's In Deeper Waters book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world isn't kind" Tal said as Garrett held him at arm's length, the flames of the torch flickering from the ground, casting both in eerie shadows. "But that doesn't mean I cant be."

-F.T. Lukens, In Deeper Waters

"Heart aching, he decided then he wouldn't allow his magic to become a weapon, even for his own family. He'd rather be locked in a tower or exiled off the known map than become the monster his heritag…"

-F.T. Lukens, In Deeper Waters

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7. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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8. Dragonfruit

By: Makiia Lucier

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more

Similar categories in Makiia Lucier's Dragonfruit book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

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9. Hotel Magnifique

By: Emily J. Taylor

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Caraval and The Night Circus, this decadent and darkly enchanting YA fantasy, set again… read more

Similar categories in Emily J. Taylor's Hotel Magnifique book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"You're not nothing to me," he said, almost to himself. "That's precisely the problem."

-Emily J. Taylor, Hotel Magnifique

"Produce an invitation and I'll eat that ruffled atrocity of a hat." "Then get a fork and give me five minutes."

-Emily J. Taylor, Hotel Magnifique

Cover of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

10. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

By: Lex Croucher

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

Cover of What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

11. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. The Boyfriend Subscription

By: Steven Salvatore

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Equal parts sizzling, sweet and irresistibly fresh, Steven Salvatore’s The Boyfriend Subscription i… read more

Similar categories in Steven Salvatore's The Boyfriend Subscription book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Different for Boys book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

Cover of The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) by Rochelle Hassan

14. The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

By: Rochelle Hassan

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It was like every emotion he'd had to suppress in order to survive the last year and a half was now crashing into him all at once. Every vulnerability he'd locked away so that he could command the ho…"

-Rochelle Hassan, The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

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15. Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood

By: Trixie Mattel

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Drag superstars Trixie Mattel and Katya have long captivated fans with their stunning looks, onscre… read more

Similar categories in Trixie Mattel's Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Sixteen Souls

By: Rosie Talbot

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have gli… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Talbot's Sixteen Souls book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2) by T.L. Huchu

17. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

“Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but i… read more

Similar categories in T.L. Huchu's Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2) book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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18. Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt … read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's Whiteout book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Reverie

By: Ryan La Sala

3.45

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Inception meets The Magicians in the most imaginative YA debut of the year! All Kane Montgomery … read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's Reverie book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What’s scarier to the world of man than a woman limited only by her imagination?"

-Ryan La Sala, Reverie

"You think just because you've faced trauma you're excused from treating people with compassion?"

-Ryan La Sala, Reverie

"We must tell our stories ourselves, you know, or else they will destroy us in their own violent making."

-Ryan La Sala, Reverie

"Just because something is imagined doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us. That's why people build entire worlds in their minds. Be…"

-Ryan La Sala, Reverie

Cover of Major Detours by Zachary Sergi

20. Major Detours

By: Zachary Sergi

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Choose your path forward in this mystical interactive YA about the powers of friendship, self-disco… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Sergi's Major Detours book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • choose your own adventure
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • tarot
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Luck is only the surface awareness of a person meeting their purpose."

-Zachary Sergi, Major Detours

Cover of Skin Deep by Flo Woolley

21. Skin Deep

By: Flo Woolley

4.01

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A queer horror romance comic set amongst the dim lights and graceful bodies of a nocturnal dance ho… read more

Similar categories in Flo Woolley's Skin Deep book and Zachary Sergi's Major Detours

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

18 must-read fiction books like Major Detours by Zachary Sergi

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The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Fairyland, #3)

Catherynne M. Valente , Ana Juan

4.00

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Alain-Fournier , None

4.00

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Damsel

Elana K. Arnold

3.31

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.13

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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When I Arrived at the Castle

Emily Carroll

3.69

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Carmilla: The First Vampire

Amy Chu

3.40

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Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

Patrick Horvath

4.21

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