8 must-read lgbt books like Not Pounded By Anything: Six Platonic Tales Of Non-Sexual Encounters by Chuck Tingle

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Not Pounded By Anything: Six Platonic Tales Of Non-Sexual Encounters

By: Chuck Tingle

4.17

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Across the wide world of the Tingleverse, one thing is love is real. But, for many buckaroos, thei…

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1. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

By: Ingri d'Aulaire , Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

4.42

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Here are the gods, goddesses, and legendary figures of ancient Greece--mighty Zeus, with his fistfu… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. This One Summer

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more

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  • fiction
"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."

-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

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3. The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

By: David Wong

3.88

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When a man plans, a woman laughs."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"John, let me make one thing clear,"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

5. Zen in the Art of Writing

By: Ray Bradbury

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion,… read more

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6. Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

By: Garth Nix

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with … read more

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7. The Lesser Dead

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most tr… read more

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8. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 64 pages,

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more

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9. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Ele… read more

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10. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • fiction
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

Cover of Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells

12. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

By: Martha Wells

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more

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  • fiction
"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

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13. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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14. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

By: Xiran Jay Zhao

4.09

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was b… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Если хочешь обрести истинную власть над своей жизнью, тебе нужно перестать так сильно беспокоиться о том, что подумают другие"

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

"«Если хочешь обрести истинную власть над своей жизнью, тебе нужно перестать так сильно беспокоиться о том, что подумают другие»."

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

"He died taking mercury pills that he thought would make him immortal," Tang Taizong said. "So did you!" Qin Sho Haung yelped without looking at him. "Allegedly! Sources differ!" "You know what you di…"

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

"You cling so hard to morality out of a desperation for others to like you. You think they'd stop treating you like an outsider if you were a good boy who did everything they wanted. This is your grea…"

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

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16. 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

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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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17. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

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  • fiction
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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18. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

By: Martha Wells

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more

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  • fiction
"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

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19. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • lgbt
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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21. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells

22. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

By: Martha Wells

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more

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  • fiction
"Ugh, emotions."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"So, you have a relationship with this transport."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

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23. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

By: Deya Muniz

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more

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  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research by Dorsey Armstrong

24. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.08

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more

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Cover of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela  Chen

25. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

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  • lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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26. The Angel of the Crows

By: Katherine Addison

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Is your oath still binding?"

-Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows

"I can see why James likes you."

-Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows

"You cannot have him. He is mine."

-Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows

"He is mine and you cannot have him."

-Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows

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27. Angels Before Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.14

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with … read more

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  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"

-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man

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28. The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian Stories

By: Kel McDonald

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Do you hear them? Never go outside when you hear THAT sound.” Ghostly warriors, angry gods, and… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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29. The Girl Who Married a Skull: and Other African Stories

By: Kel McDonald

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a complete hu… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. Not Pounded By Anything: Six Platonic Tales Of Non-Sexual Encounters

By: Chuck Tingle

4.17

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Across the wide world of the Tingleverse, one thing is love is real. But, for many buckaroos, thei… read more

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  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of One More Step, Come Stand by My Side by Tōryūmon Takeda

31. One More Step, Come Stand by My Side

By: Tōryūmon Takeda

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The wordless time a kidnapped princess and her fingerless caretaker spend together. The ten minutes… read more

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  • romance
  • fantasy

22 must-read fiction books like Not Pounded By Anything: Six Platonic Tales Of Non-Sexual Encounters by Chuck Tingle

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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

Ingri d'Aulaire , Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

4.42

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This One Summer

Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

David Wong

3.88

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Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith , Kurt Lustgarten , Naomi Franquiz

3.76

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The Nameless City (The Nameless City, #1)

Faith Erin Hicks

3.59

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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Fern Haught

3.62

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