23 best-selling queer books like Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón

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Màgòdiz

By: Gabe Calderón

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Màgòdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises…

If you liked the queer plot in Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón , here is a list of 23 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 Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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)

2. Under the Udala Trees

By: Chinelo Okparanta

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more

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3. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice  Wong

4. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Cover of The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

5. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

6. 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 Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves

7. This Is Why They Hate Us

By: Aaron H. Aceves

4.06

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his … read more

Similar categories in Aaron H. Aceves's This Is Why They Hate Us book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"What a horrible weight it is to be silent when you want to shout, to hold back when you want to reach out, to freeze when you want to melt."

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"I guess it's true that us queers are starved for stories that mirror our lives. I can't remember a time when I saw a queer person in a movie or TV show or book that I didn't have to actively seek out…"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

"Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive becaus…"

-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us

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8. Ready When You Are

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.20

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more

Similar categories in Gary Lonesborough's Ready When You Are book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • queer
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."

-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are

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9. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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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 Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

11. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

12. 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 Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • 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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13. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

Similar categories in Zaina Arafat's You Exist Too Much book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

Cover of Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) by Kacen Callender

14. Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

By: Kacen Callender

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward u… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1) by Natalia  Hernandez

15. The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1)

By: Natalia Hernandez

4.02

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

For her entire life, the Name-Bearer’s sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of th… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Hernandez's The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1) book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. The Sky on Fire

By: Jenn Lyons

3.75

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Enter a world ruled by dragons… Anahrod lives only for survival, preferring to thrive in the ju… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Lyons's The Sky on Fire book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. Dog Flowers: A Memoir

By: Danielle Geller

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family's troubled history and ret… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Geller's Dog Flowers: A Memoir book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • indigenous
"The argument shifted, and she told me I was stupid to marry a man I had just met. It wasn't possible for me to know him. And when I tried to tell her what I loved about him—our shared worldview, the …"

-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir

"After my mother's pastor left her room, I stood there berating myself for agreeing to let him pray. If I were more like Eileen, I could channel my rage and do some real damage. I would be better equi…"

-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir

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18. The Skin and Its Girl

By: Sarah Cypher

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Cypher's The Skin and Its Girl book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

Cover of Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) by K.M.  Enright

19. Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1)

By: K.M. Enright

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

FATE IS A CRUEL MISTRESS The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire ha… read more

Similar categories in K.M. Enright's Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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21. Just Another Epic Love Poem

By: Parisa Akhbari

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. … read more

Similar categories in Parisa Akhbari's Just Another Epic Love Poem book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

22. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Removal Acts by Erin Marie Lynch

23. Removal Acts

By: Erin Marie Lynch

4.42

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, t… read more

Similar categories in Erin Marie Lynch's Removal Acts book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

Cover of My Body Is Distant: A Memoir by Paige Maylott

24. My Body Is Distant: A Memoir

By: Paige Maylott

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our … read more

Similar categories in Paige Maylott's My Body Is Distant: A Memoir book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • adult
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay  Shore

25. Rules for Ghosting

By: Shelly Jay Shore

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Rule #1: They can't speak. Rule #2: They can't move. Rule #3: They can't hurt you. Ezra Fri… read more

Similar categories in Shelly Jay Shore's Rules for Ghosting book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney

26. A House Unsettled

By: Trynne Delaney

3.23

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

“Who built this house? Whose money? Whose blood?” Ghosts aren’t the only thing that can haunt a… read more

Similar categories in Trynne Delaney's A House Unsettled book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

27. The Truth According to Ember

By: Danica Nava

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much mor… read more

Similar categories in Danica Nava's The Truth According to Ember book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) by Hayley Dennings

28. This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1)

By: Hayley Dennings

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at night the dance halls… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Dennings's This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis

29. The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her temp… read more

Similar categories in Caro De Robertis's The Palace of Eros book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

30. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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31. Màgòdiz

By: Gabe Calderón

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Màgòdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz book and Gabe Calderón's Màgòdiz

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

26 Best fiction books like Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón

Transform Your Habits

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

Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Bruising of Qilwa

Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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