8 must-read lgbt books like The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner

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The Secret Skin

By: Wendy N. Wagner

3.89

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel’s return to Stor…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1) by Margaret Killjoy

1. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1) book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"Always afraid, never a coward"

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

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2. 四月は君の嘘 1 (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, #1)

By: None , Naoshi Arakawa

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

A los 11 anos, Kosei es un virtuoso del piano. Pero cuando su madre muere tras una larga enfermedad… read more

Similar categories in None's 四月は君の嘘 1 (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, #1) book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • fiction

3. The Murders of Molly Southbourne

By: Tade Thompson

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

Every time she bleeds a murderer is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of M… read more

Similar categories in Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

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4. Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Little Eve book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

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5. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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6. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

7. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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8. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

Similar categories in Erika Engelhaupt's Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • adult
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

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9. Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

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10. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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11. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

12. 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

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • horror
  • adult
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

13. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's And What Can We Offer You Tonight book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Nesting

By: C.J. Cooke

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Nesting book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee

15. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more

Similar categories in Kristen R. Ghodsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."

-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."

-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."

-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

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16. Conjuring the Witch

By: Jessica Leonard

3.81

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

There are witches in the woods. These are the words the reverend of the Lilin Assembly of Our L… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Leonard's Conjuring the Witch book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Shabti

By: Megaera C. Lorenz

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Can you flimflam a ghost? It’s 1934. Former medium Dashiel Quicke travels the country debunking spi… read more

Similar categories in Megaera C. Lorenz's The Shabti book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rio's Graveyard Shift book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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19. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner

20. The Secret Skin

By: Wendy N. Wagner

3.89

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel’s return to Stor… read more

Similar categories in Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin book and Wendy N. Wagner's The Secret Skin

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • novella
  • gothic horror
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult

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4.12

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Catriona Ward

3.75

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4.39

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Natasha Pulley

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K.J. Charles

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