28 must-read fiction books like All Things Seen and Unseen by R.J. McDaniel

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All Things Seen and Unseen

By: R.J. McDaniel

3.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

An incisive reflection on identity and wealth, and a refreshing racial queer story of survival A…

If you liked the fiction plot in All Things Seen and Unseen by R.J. McDaniel , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. Idaho

By: Emily Ruskovich

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother,… read more

Similar categories in Emily Ruskovich's Idaho book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Here

By: Richard McGuire

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more

Similar categories in Richard McGuire's Here book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • adult
  • fiction
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3. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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4. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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5. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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6. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • contemporary
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7. 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 R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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8. The Summer Love Strategy

By: Ray Stoeve

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A sweet and swoony YA rom-com about two friends making a pact to find summer romance like they’ve s… read more

Similar categories in Ray Stoeve's The Summer Love Strategy book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. Outdrawn

By: Deanna Grey

4.23

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

It isn’t always lonely at the top. Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing h… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Grey's Outdrawn book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"She could be a siren; I painted her on the water in my mind, her hair splayed across the surface, eyes daring the viewer to jump in. Would she save them? Save me? Did I want her to?"

-Deanna Grey, Outdrawn

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10. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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11. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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12. Fresh: A Novel

By: Margot Wood

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Margot Wood’s novel Fresh is a “delightfully modern take on a classic story is both fun and funny, … read more

Similar categories in Margot Wood's Fresh: A Novel book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"What can I say? I'm a girl with a healthy footnote fetish."

-Margot Wood, Fresh: A Novel

"If you insist on labeling me, my sexual orientation is horny."

-Margot Wood, Fresh: A Novel

"So here I am, snuggling a toilet in a shared college bathroom, purging all of this semester's mistakes in a sweaty, tearful, pathetic display of human indecency."

-Margot Wood, Fresh: A Novel

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13. Forever and a Day - A Those Who Wait story (Those Who Wait, #1.5)

By: Haley Cass

4.43

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN B08FTF1C4W moved to the more recent edition Good things come to those who wait and now Sutt… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's Forever and a Day - A Those Who Wait story (Those Who Wait, #1.5) book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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14. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hoffman's The Prospects book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

Cover of The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham

17. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

Similar categories in Yeji Y. Ham's The Invisible Hotel book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
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18. Six of Sorrow

By: Amanda Linsmeier

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen years ago, six girls were born on the same day—and now, on their birthday, one of them is m… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Linsmeier's Six of Sorrow book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • horror
  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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20. Playing for Keeps

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance—starring a baseball pit… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Playing for Keeps book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. The Stars Too Fondly

By: Emily Hamilton

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of g… read more

Similar categories in Emily Hamilton's The Stars Too Fondly book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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22. Negative Space

By: Gillian Linden

3.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more

Similar categories in Gillian Linden's Negative Space book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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24. What’s Not Mine

By: Nora Decter

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The s… read more

Similar categories in Nora Decter's What’s Not Mine book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. A Dark and Drowning Tide

By: Allison Saft

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Dark and Drowning Tide book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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26. The Jinn Daughter

By: Rania Hanna

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut novel and an impressive feat of storytelling that pulls together mythology, magic,… read more

Similar categories in Rania Hanna's The Jinn Daughter book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • adult
  • fiction
"I have wishes, too,"

-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter

"The dead have been dropping all night."

-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter

"Youth and foolishness share the same bed."

-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter

"I hate lying to my daughter’s face, but her questions have plagued me for years."

-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter

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27. Withered

By: A.G.A. Wilmot

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

A queer paranormal psychological horror novel, in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing t… read more

Similar categories in A.G.A. Wilmot's Withered book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Misrecognition by Madison Newbound

28. Misrecognition

By: Madison Newbound

3.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about t… read more

Similar categories in Madison Newbound's Misrecognition book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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29. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of All Things Seen and Unseen by R.J. McDaniel

30. All Things Seen and Unseen

By: R.J. McDaniel

3.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

An incisive reflection on identity and wealth, and a refreshing racial queer story of survival A… read more

Similar categories in R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen book and R.J. McDaniel's All Things Seen and Unseen

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer

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