7 best-selling queer books like I Hope You're Listening by Tom Ryan

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I Hope You're Listening

By: Tom Ryan

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Te…

"It's our story. We should tell it together"

-Tom Ryan, I Hope You're Listening

If you liked the queer plot in I Hope You're Listening by Tom Ryan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. I Hope You're Listening

By: Tom Ryan

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Te… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • queer
"It's our story. We should tell it together"

-Tom Ryan, I Hope You're Listening

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2. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • queer
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3. The Good Girls

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in … read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Good Girls book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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4. Nine Liars (Truly Devious, #5)

By: Maureen Johnson

3.81

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studyin… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Nine Liars (Truly Devious, #5) book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

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6. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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8. Have You Seen My Sister?

By: Kirsty McKay

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Gaia Gill is the last person in the world anyone would expect to go missing. Beautiful, athletic, a… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty McKay's Have You Seen My Sister? book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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10. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Girl Forgotten

By: April Henry

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case.  Seventeen … read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Girl Forgotten book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. The Night in Question (The Agathas #2)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find th… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. Tell Me What Really Happened

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

There are stories about the woods around Salvation Creek, about the people who have gone missing. N… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's Tell Me What Really Happened book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

14. The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se… read more

Similar categories in Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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15. We'll Never Tell

By: Wendy Heard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A whodunit doused in Hollywood lore. No one at Hollywood High knows who’s behind We'll Never Tel… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's We'll Never Tell book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. The Last Girls Standing

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do, perfect for fans of One o… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's The Last Girls Standing book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) by Jessie Weaver

17. Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You)

By: Jessie Weaver

3.53

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds hide the darkest—and bloodiest—secrets.Social media influen… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Weaver's Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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18. If You're Out There

By: Katy Loutzenhiser

3.70

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

After Zan’s best friend moves to California, she is baffled and crushed when Priya suddenly ghosts.… read more

Similar categories in Katy Loutzenhiser's If You're Out There book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"...It's like nothing makes sense anymore. Like I've lost all control." Logan nods. "And therein lies the danger in loving people."

-Katy Loutzenhiser, If You're Out There

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19. The Killing Code

By: Ellie Marney

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for f… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Marney's The Killing Code book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I am the code you never broke, and I don't play by the rules."

-Ellie Marney, The Killing Code

Cover of Nobody Knows But You by Anica Mrose Rissi

20. Nobody Knows But You

By: Anica Mrose Rissi

3.31

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Maybe a killer only looks like a killer in the moment just before, during, or after. Maybe a lia… read more

Similar categories in Anica Mrose Rissi's Nobody Knows But You book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points…"

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

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21. The Girls from Hush Cabin

By: Marie Hoy-Kenny

3.46

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful YA thriller from debut author Marie Hoy-Kenny, four former friends--each with t… read more

Similar categories in Marie Hoy-Kenny's The Girls from Hush Cabin book and Tom Ryan's I Hope You're Listening

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer

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I Hope You're Listening

Tom Ryan

3.84

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How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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The Good Girls

Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.71

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Nine Liars (Truly Devious, #5)

Maureen Johnson

3.81

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Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.81

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Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.37

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Jessica Goodman

3.57

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