6 must-read queer books like War and Speech by Don Zolidis

If you liked the queer plot in War and Speech by Don Zolidis , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Similar categories in James Patterson's Gunslinger Girl book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2) book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• queer
• young adult
• lgbt

"But there is one thing that is infinite: greed. The ability of humans and demons to want. To desire. To hunger after things that don't belong to them."

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"You might be human, but you're a woman, and that gives you far more strength than he'll ever be capable of. Not to mention perspective. Only women truly understand the cruelties of the world, the dep…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"Being vulnerable isn't a flaw. It is the most beautiful thing in the world. If you were invincible, being brave would be easy. It's the fact that it isn't easy, that we have to constantly work and wo…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"Girl. Such a simple title. One I've been labeled all my life. But nowhere was I called it more than at the Hidden Palace: spat from the beaked mouth of Madam Himura, hissed with contemp by Naja, thro…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

Similar categories in Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1) book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

"He's crying as he kills me"

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

"No matter my origins, there is worth in what I am."

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

"It's the ritual that gives legitimacy to the murder."

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

"Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later."

-Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)

Similar categories in Mike Curato's Flamer book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• teen
• lgbt
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• queer

Similar categories in Kaiu Shirai's The Promised Neverland, Vol. 2 book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

Similar categories in Kaiu Shirai's 約束のネバーランド 3 [Yakusoku no Neverland 3] book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

Similar categories in Kiku Hughes's Displacement book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult
• lgbt

"A memory is too powerful a weapon."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Similar categories in H.G. Parry's The Magician’s Daughter book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

Similar categories in Lauren Muñoz's Suddenly a Murder book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult
• contemporary

"He’s a Darcy in the streets but a Wickham in the sheets."

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• contemporary

Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1) book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• young adult

"Ma'am," I tell her. "Your husband was trying to eat you." "A misundertanding !" she insists, still waving the only arm she has left. I press my fingers to the bridge of my nose. "He ripped off your a…"

-Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

Similar categories in Laura Zimmermann's Just Do This One Thing for Me book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• humor
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Kelly McWilliams's Mirror Girls book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• teen
• young adult

Similar categories in Kaiu Shirai's 約束のネバーランド 4 [Yakusoku no Neverland 4] book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

"She’s reckless and unreasonable. She’s naive and immature. But… she is amazingly true to herself."

-Kaiu Shirai, 約束のネバーランド 4 [Yakusoku no Neverland 4]

Similar categories in Kaiu Shirai's 約束のネバーランド 9 [Yakusoku no Neverland 9] book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

Similar categories in Kaiu Shirai's 約束のネバーランド 5 [Yakusoku no Neverland 5] book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• young adult

Similar categories in Gabby Noone's Live, Laugh, Kidnap book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• lgbt
• humor
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• lgbt
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

Similar categories in Katie Heaney's The Year I Stopped Trying book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• teen
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I did not even want to know myself."

-Katie Heaney, The Year I Stopped Trying

"I do want to be told exactly what to do, I just don't want them to act like I don't know what I'm doing"

-Katie Heaney, The Year I Stopped Trying

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• fiction
• queer
• young adult
• lgbt

Similar categories in Don Zolidis's War and Speech book and Don Zolidis's War and Speech

• young adult contemporary
• teen
• school
• lgbt
• humor
• realistic fiction
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"God, what an asshole. Sixteen heads swiveled towards me. Oh, had those words come out of my mouth? Why yes. Yes they had. See, there was a way to make the class hate me more."

-Don Zolidis, War and Speech

"I took another blank cookie and got my icing ready. KISS - no reaction - ME - he trembled - YOU - he stopped, curious - FOOL. And then he was kissing me. His lips were soft and full and warm, and I f…"

-Don Zolidis, War and Speech