17 must-read lgbt books like The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

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The Grief Keeper

By: Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Putnam has acquired Alex Villasante's The Grief Keeper, about sisters Marisol and Gabriella Morales…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, Raymond Biesinger

1. She of the Mountains

By: Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make u… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's She of the Mountains book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

2. Bang

By: Barry Lyga

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One shot ruined his life. Another one could end it. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, somethin… read more

Similar categories in Barry Lyga's Bang book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. The Grief Keeper

By: Alexandra Villasante

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Putnam has acquired Alex Villasante's The Grief Keeper, about sisters Marisol and Gabriella Morales… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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4. The Luis Ortega Survival Club

By: Sonora Reyes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Luis Ortega Survival Club book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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5. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

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6. 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 Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. Hearts Still Beating

By: Brooke Archer

4.00

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Gripping, romantic, and impossible to put down, this dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut YA n… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Archer's Hearts Still Beating book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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8. If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

By: Jen St. Jude

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental healt… read more

Similar categories in Jen St. Jude's If Tomorrow Doesn't Come book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's nothing to know." Except I'm in love with you, I can never tell you that, and I know you'll be happier without me."

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

"We were never just friends, were we?’ I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t fee…"

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

"If I was drowning on land, in oxygen, maybe the floor of the river was the only place I’d be able to breathe. [...] I thought, again, I’m so tired. I’m such a disappointment. I don’t want to do this …"

-Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

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9. Ziggy, Stardust and Me

By: James Brandon

4.15

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And ho… read more

Similar categories in James Brandon's Ziggy, Stardust and Me book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"How was a feeling be so bad if it makes me feel so good?"

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

"Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs."

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

"He looks at me. And smiles. "Just us remember?To the moon," he whispers."

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

"Your imagination is your safe space, an escape pod to another dimension where you're free to be."

-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

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10. Each of Us a Desert

By: Mark Oshiro

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories… read more

Similar categories in Mark Oshiro's Each of Us a Desert book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The sound of sunlight is the gentle scurrying of lizards and mice, desperate to find shade and comfort. It's the earth, groaning and creaking as it wakes up, as the moisture within it is pulled away,…"

-Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert

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11. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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12. Hope Ablaze

By: Sarah Mughal Rana

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She lost her words but found her voice. All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut tha… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Mughal Rana's Hope Ablaze book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

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14. Speaking of Summer

By: Kalisha Buckhanon

3.25

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the author of Upstate, one of five books selected by the National Book Foundatio… read more

Similar categories in Kalisha Buckhanon's Speaking of Summer book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. 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 Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"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

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16. And Don't Look Back

By: Rebecca Barrow

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

After her mother’s death, a teen pieces together the truth of her family’s past and what her mom wa… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Barrow's And Don't Look Back book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Lakelore book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

Cover of Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly deVos

18. Eat Your Heart Out

By: Kelly deVos

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A YA thriller about a kickass group of teens battling a ravenous group of zombies. In the next f… read more

Similar categories in Kelly deVos's Eat Your Heart Out book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • fiction
  • young adult
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19. Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is a word Mateo Garcia and his younger sister Sophie have been taught to fear for as long as … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Aleman's Indivisible book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia

20. Lucha of the Night Forest

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister--even if it me… read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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21. Muted

By: Tami Charles

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Eliza… read more

Similar categories in Tami Charles's Muted book and Alexandra Villasante's The Grief Keeper

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

19 Best fiction books like The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

Transform Your Habits

She of the Mountains

Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger

3.91

Bang

Barry Lyga

3.40

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The Grief Keeper

Alexandra Villasante

3.39

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The Luis Ortega Survival Club

Sonora Reyes

4.24

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21 Top fiction books like The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

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Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

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The Dos and Donuts of Love

Adiba Jaigirdar

3.88

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