18 must-read queer books like The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Cover of The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

By: Emily M. Danforth

4.07

Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Reli…

"Let's rock this shit."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"Let's rock this shit."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

If you liked the queer plot in The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

1. Annie on My Mind

By: Nancy Garden

4.02

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Garden's Annie on My Mind book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Real, but sometimes beautiful."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

"Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

"And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

"It’s terrible, … for us to have been so scared to be seen with books we have every right to read."

-Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

Cover of Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

2. Leah on the Offbeat

By: Becky Albertalli

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Leah Burke--girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier's best friend from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Leah on the Offbeat book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters

3. Keeping You a Secret

By: Julie Anne Peters

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters delivers a moving, modern classic love story with a … read more

Similar categories in Julie Anne Peters's Keeping You a Secret book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen

4. 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 Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • 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

Cover of Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

5. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By: Malinda Lo

4.22

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more

Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Cover of We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

6. We Are Okay

By: Nina LaCour

3.94

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, you… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's We Are Okay book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I'm glad we didn't know better."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

Cover of Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

7. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

8. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

By: Becky Albertalli

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

9. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

By: Jaye Robin Brown

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarr… read more

Similar categories in Jaye Robin Brown's Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Cover of Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

10. Tipping the Velvet

By: Sarah Waters

4.05

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

Cover of The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith, Claire  Morgan

11. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, or Carol book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

12. Everything Leads to You

By: Nina LaCour

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

a novel about the L.A. film scene and unexpected love read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's Everything Leads to You book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Cover of The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

13. The Miseducation of Cameron Post

By: Emily M. Danforth

4.07

Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Reli… read more

Similar categories in Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Let's rock this shit."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Cover of Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

14. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

Cover of Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) by Ashley Herring Blake

15. Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its comp… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

Cover of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

16. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

Cover of She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott

17. She Gets the Girl

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 N… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Money's not as important as doing what you love."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there'…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me. This isn’t love. The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m wa…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

Cover of She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

18. She Drives Me Crazy

By: Kelly Quindlen

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

High school nemeses fall in love in this queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume,…"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative …"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

Cover of The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

19. The Falling in Love Montage

By: Ciara Smyth

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother woul… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's The Falling in Love Montage book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I love you. But I’m not in love with you."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NINE!" I yelled the famous line from Imagine Me & You"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

Cover of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

20. I Kissed Shara Wheeler

By: Casey McQuiston

3.88

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a deb… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You were the only one it could be."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Cover of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

21. One Last Stop

By: Casey McQuiston

3.92

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: t… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop book and Emily M. Danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Every woman a universe."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Hey, Coffee Girl." "Hey, Subway Girl."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

18 best-selling fiction books like The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Transform Your Habits

Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Leah on the Offbeat

Becky Albertalli

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Keeping You a Secret

Julie Anne Peters

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

4.27

View all the books

21 Best fiction books like I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Transform Your Habits

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Emma R. Alban

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.