15 must-read queer books like A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

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Similar categories in Leah Raeder's Black Iris book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• 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

Similar categories in Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• mystery
• thriller
• horror
• fantasy
• 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

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• 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

Similar categories in Laura Steven's The Society For Soulless Girls book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• queer

"Also I was nineteen, and therefore immortal."

-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

"Time heals all wounds, but not the ones you leave infected."

-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

"How thoroughly unreasonable for my actions to have consequences."

-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

"She was almost insultingly beautiful, albeit in a satanic sort of way."

-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

Similar categories in Emily M. Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• queer

"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy

"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

Similar categories in Laura Pohl's The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1) book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• queer

"sometimes people are evil or French and can't be redeemed"

-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

"yuki laughed, because it was the natural response. everyone assumed it was easier, that she wouldn't have to navigate the difficulties of love. even her friends thought that, but it only came back to…"

-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

Similar categories in Alexis Henderson's House of Hunger book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

"To love is to devour"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve staked my time on it, and when you’re as busy as I am there’s no gamble so big as that."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

"Water your mother's flowers with their blood."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"You must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?"

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• mystery
• fiction
• fantasy
• young adult

"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• fiction
• fantasy
• young adult

"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• 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

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

Similar categories in Elisabeth Thomas's Catherine House book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• contemporary
• fantasy

"I couldn't be here anymore. I couldn't be in me. But I couldn't be anywhere else, either. I had nowhere else to go."

-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House

"Tonight, we celebrate the precious quiet of wintertime,' she said. 'And how lovely is this time of silence and work and anticipation and decay?' She looked up. 'Here at Catherine, we know not to fear…"

-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House

"You are in the house and the house in the woods. The woods are in the house. The stairs are in the house. Down the stairs is the hallway, and at the end of the hallway is the ballroom. You are in the…"

-Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's House of Hollow book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy

"What if we were the monsters?"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She would bewitch everyone to make her lie the truth"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She moved through the world like no other woman I knew."

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"What you don't understand is that I am the thing in the dark"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's The Whispering Dark book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• fantasy

"The question tore through him. Lane was his. She'd always been his. And he was hers. They were painted the same shades. Threaded with the same lines. He'd spent his whole life drawn to her, and she t…"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

"What will he do to Lane?" The question tore through him. Lane was his. She'd always been his. And he was hers. They were painted the same shades. Threaded with the same lines. He'd spent his whole li…"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

"They say she's a girl like a garden, it said. "All roses and lavender and spider mums. Too bright, too bright to be there. One foot among the dead, one foot among the living, like a little breathing …"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

"Wednesday?" Colton's voice was tacky with sleep. "I want to tell you everything." "I wish vou would." "I can't," he said. "It hurts too much." "Tell me what happened to you, at least." A beat of quie…"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

Similar categories in Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• queer

"You deserve to be loved."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"I think I was just born hungry."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

Similar categories in Kayla Cottingham's My Dearest Darkest book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• fiction
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Victoria Lee's A Lesson in Vengeance

• lesbian
• lgbt
• young adult
• horror
• mystery
• thriller
• fantasy
• queer

"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