14 must-read queer books like Far From You by Tess Sharpe

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Far From You

By: Tess Sharpe

4.05

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Nine months. Two weeks. Six days. That's how long recovering addict Sophie's been drug-free. Fou…

"She was in love with you,"

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"She was in love with you,"

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"She died scared and in pain, and I felt it."

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"She died scared and in pain, and I felt it."

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

If you liked the queer plot in Far From You by Tess Sharpe , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

1. Dangerous Girls

By: Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Haas's Dangerous Girls book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I win."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"The night is still just getting started."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"Do you love me? You know I do. How much? Miles and miles."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle. We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart. We're wrong."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

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2. Black Iris

By: Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake

3.72

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Unteachable… read more

Similar categories in Leah Raeder's Black Iris book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • queer
"The whole summer was inside of us."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Call me more things. Call me yours."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Let the sheep bleat. Their own noises soothe them."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release."

-Leah Raeder, Black Iris

Cover of Cam Girl by Leah Raeder, Elliot Wake

3. Cam Girl

By: Leah Raeder , Elliot Wake

3.66

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Vada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for… read more

Similar categories in Leah Raeder's Cam Girl book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • queer
"I dream of you in colors that don't exist."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

"Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

"Not a boy or a girl, not any binary, rigid definition of a person. Just my everything."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

"If I die, that's what they'll find in me. This face, inked in the surface of every cell."

-Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

Cover of Foolish Hearts by Emma   Mills

4. Foolish Hearts

By: Emma Mills

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her sc… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mills's Foolish Hearts book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Look at those legs,"

-Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

"You're thinking really loudly."

-Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

"His eyes light up upon seeing the cookies. “Did you make them?"

-Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

"I know that she hates change. She gets anxious about the future."

-Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

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5. These Things I've Done

By: Rebecca Phillips

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Before: Dara and Aubrey have been inseparable since they became best friends in sixth grade. Dara i… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Phillips's These Things I've Done book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. Her Name in the Sky

By: Kelly Quindlen

4.27

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's Her Name in the Sky book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Hannah,"

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

"Your heart will never ask your permission to love."

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

"Hannah stomps, buries, suffocates, wishes for death. "Yeah," she says. "I'm good."

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

"Hate like that—when it's disguised as love, or righteousness or pity—I'm not going to subject you to hate like that."

-Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

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7. Taking Flight

By: Siera Maley

3.17

Format: None pages,

Seventeen-year-old Lauren Lennox is a city girl at heart. Being born and raised in Los Angeles, Cal… read more

Similar categories in Siera Maley's Taking Flight book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Colorblind by Siera Maley

8. Colorblind

By: Siera Maley

4.11

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Harper has a secret... and it’s not that she likes girls. She has a rare and special gift: she can … read more

Similar categories in Siera Maley's Colorblind book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Far From You by Tess Sharpe

9. Far From You

By: Tess Sharpe

4.05

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Nine months. Two weeks. Six days. That's how long recovering addict Sophie's been drug-free. Fou… read more

Similar categories in Tess Sharpe's Far From You book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"She was in love with you,"

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"She died scared and in pain, and I felt it."

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started."

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

"It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?" I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of …"

-Tess Sharpe, Far From You

10. The Space Between

By: None

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Everything's great for Harper Isabelle, the most popular girl in grade nine. That is, until she mee… read more

Similar categories in None's The Space Between book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

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11. The Good Girls

By: Teresa Mummert

3.74

Format: None pages, ebook

My life was meticulously planned, and I refused to deviate from that path. While my peers were part… read more

Similar categories in Teresa Mummert's The Good Girls book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of She and I by Hannah   King

12. She and I

By: Hannah King

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Best friends share everything. But murder is different. Isn’t it? Keeley and Jude are closer tha… read more

Similar categories in Hannah King's She and I book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria  Lee

13. A Lesson in Vengeance

By: Victoria Lee

3.55

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Just so,"

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

"For coffee-stained girls in libraries."

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

"The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it."

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

"The poems circle the same question: how one’s soul could possibly endure when life’s beauty vanishes from reach."

-Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

Cover of The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

14. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

Cover of The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu

15. The Best Lies

By: Sarah Lyu

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lyu's The Best Lies book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"There’s already so much awful shit out there, why add more?"

-Sarah Lyu, The Best Lies

Cover of Loathing You by Amina  Khan

16. Loathing You

By: Amina Khan

4.15

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

Hate. Detest. Despise. These words were the only way that Adaline and Juliette could possibly descr… read more

Similar categories in Amina Khan's Loathing You book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I think we're all monsters deep down, if we're pushed to that extent. Maybe if I felt like he was my father I could hate him. How could I hate a man that was just a stranger to me?"

-Amina Khan, Loathing You

"Being with girls is the same—it’s shameless and gritty, it’s not as soft as people make it out to be. It’s soft with men too. Even unknowingly, we diminish ourselves little by little to feel more lov…"

-Amina Khan, Loathing You

Cover of Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

17. Tryst Six Venom

By: Penelope Douglas

3.90

Format: 589 pages, Kindle Edition

(Alternate cover edition of ASIN B09418JQMK.) 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓… read more

Similar categories in Penelope Douglas's Tryst Six Venom book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Life is small when you’re a kid. We get attached to what we can control and resist what we can’t."

-Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

"I won't look like anyone else, and while I'm not yet happy, I'm no longer trying to be something I never was."

-Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

"But the more I look around at the world, Clay, the more I realize that villains are a lot more complicated than we want them to be. Sometimes, they’re just people who are really afraid."

-Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

Cover of Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen

18. Late to the Party

By: Kelly Quindlen

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out to… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's Late to the Party book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I think saying what you're afraid of makes you brave."

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

"And I think being friends with someone should be like the concept of infinity—like you truly believe that person has no limits, and you just want to keep counting upward with them to see where they g…"

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

Cover of That Night by Amy Giles

19. That Night

By: Amy Giles

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

An emotional sophomore YA novel from acclaimed author Amy Giles, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen a… read more

Similar categories in Amy Giles's That Night book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

20. Forget Me Not

By: Alyson Derrick

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obsta… read more

Similar categories in Alyson Derrick's Forget Me Not book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Ominous: Book I (Ecstasy, #2) by K.V. Rose

21. Ominous: Book I (Ecstasy, #2)

By: K.V. Rose

4.27

Format: 813 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the true cost of obsession? The consequences of lust driven bone-deep? Eli and Eden are… read more

Similar categories in K.V. Rose's Ominous: Book I (Ecstasy, #2) book and Tess Sharpe's Far From You

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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