24 must-read lgbt books like Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel) by Al Hess

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Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

By: Al Hess

4.34

Format: None pages, ebook

A World Running Down prequel story Prominent council member. Omniscient custodian of City Entry.…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel) by Al Hess , here is a list of 24 books like this:

1. Binti (Binti, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more

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2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • science fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.80

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

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4. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • lgbt
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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6. Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms

By: Crystal Frasier

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A sweet, queer teen romance perfect for fans of Fence and Check, Please!Annie is a smart, antisocia… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Frasier's Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Oh? You're held to a different standard because of others' preconceptions?"

-Crystal Frasier, Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms

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7. 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 Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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8. The Darkness Outside Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.32

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Schrefer's The Darkness Outside Us book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

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9. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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10. Hench (Hench, #1)

By: Natalie Zina Walschots

4.02

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Zina Walschots's Hench (Hench, #1) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."

-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)

"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"

-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)

"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"

-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)

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11. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

3.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high s… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Tokuda-Hall's The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Rich people love books."

-Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)

"Love does not work in convenience. Or any kind of sense."

-Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)

"Love does not work in terms of convenience. Or any kind of sense."

-Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)

"He'd never understand why his drinking bothered Flora. To him, it was just something that had to happen, like sunrise, or death."

-Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)

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12. 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 Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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13. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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14. Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds)

By: Alexandra Almeida

4.56

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world grappling with the ethics of advanced technology and the haunting shadows of past genoci… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Almeida's Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
"The ones who claim the universe is a dark forest where you either kill or be killed, using safety and security as excuses to maintain the status quo of archaic brains no longer useful in progressive,…"

-Alexandra Almeida, Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds)

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15. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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16. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's The Death I Gave Him book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Cold Clay (Shady Hollow, #2) by Juneau Black

17. Cold Clay (Shady Hollow, #2)

By: Juneau Black

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The second book in the Shady Hollow series, in which some long-buried secrets come to light, throwi… read more

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18. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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19. Persephone Station

By: Stina Leicht

3.47

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Hugo award-nominated author Stina Leicht has created a take on space opera for fans of The Mandalor… read more

Similar categories in Stina Leicht's Persephone Station book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien by Madeleine Roux

20. Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien

By: Madeleine Roux

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Delve into the mind of Critical Role’s most charming villain in this original novel that chronicles… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Roux's Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • queer
  • lgbt
"The following is not for the faint of heart."

-Madeleine Roux, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien

"He had cast this die: it was already rolling."

-Madeleine Roux, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien

"Intentional, of course, as everything she did was intentional."

-Madeleine Roux, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien

"The crows above cawed after them, and Lucien chose to take it as a rallying cry."

-Madeleine Roux, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien

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21. A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

By: Cat Sebastian

3.84

Format: 288 pages, ebook

When Amelia Allenby escaped a stifling London ballroom for the quiet solitude of the Derbyshire cou… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
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22. One Night in Hartswood

By: Emma Denny

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Oxford 1360 When his sister’s betrothed vanishes the night before her politically arranged marr… read more

Similar categories in Emma Denny's One Night in Hartswood book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I was not rid of you,’ he spoke quietly, trailing his fingertips across the fabric of Penn’s tunic. ‘I have not been rid of you since that first evening in Hartswood Forest. I followed you because I …"

-Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

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23. The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2)

By: C.L. Clark

4.30

Format: 512 pages, None

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Clark's The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
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24. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

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25. Don't Let the Forest In

By: C.G. Drews

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thoma… read more

Similar categories in C.G. Drews's Don't Let the Forest In book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • queer
  • lgbt
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26. By Pain of Death

By: Suzanne Clay

3.44

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

Can the winter in his heart be thawed? Hades has lost track of the passage of time beyond sortin… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Clay's By Pain of Death book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
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27. Tucker vs. the Apocalypse

By: Jay Allan Storey

4.19

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost and alone amid the ashes of a dead civilization Household pet Tucker is thrust into an apo… read more

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28. The Fall Of Denver: A Tribute Story to the Original War Of The Worlds By H.G. Wells' (Dreams Of The Storyteller)

By: Richard Paolinelli

4.17

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

The Fall of Denver takes place simultaneously with the events unfolding in England during Wells’, W… read more

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29. Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

By: Al Hess

4.34

Format: None pages, ebook

A World Running Down prequel story Prominent council member. Omniscient custodian of City Entry.… read more

Similar categories in Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel) book and Al Hess's Neuro Noir (A World Running Down Prequel)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • science fiction
  • queer
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30. Hellf on the Shelf: A Christmas Short Story

By: Rumer Haven

4.23

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

'Tis the season for Santa's elves to deck the shelves, but this one's on Mom's naughty list. No … read more

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