14 must-read lgbt books like The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

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The Route of Ice and Salt

By: José Luis Zárate

3.62

Format: 143 pages, ebook

A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s …

"But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite. What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them."

-José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Ciudad Fantasma II: Relato fantástico de la Ciudad de México by Bernardo Esquinca, Vicente Quirarte

1. Ciudad Fantasma II: Relato fantástico de la Ciudad de México

By: Bernardo Esquinca , Vicente Quirarte

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

La segunda entrega de Ciudad Fantasma continua el ciclo de historias alucinantes y terribles que ab… read more

Similar categories in Bernardo Esquinca's Ciudad Fantasma II: Relato fantástico de la Ciudad de México book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • horror
Cover of Ciudad Fantasma; relato fantástico de la ciudad de México (XIX-XXI) Tomo I by Bernardo Esquinca, Vicente Quirarte

2. Ciudad Fantasma; relato fantástico de la ciudad de México (XIX-XXI) Tomo I

By: Bernardo Esquinca , Vicente Quirarte

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Unos dicen que proviene de tiempos prehispanicos, otros, que su aparicion anuncio el termino del im… read more

Similar categories in Bernardo Esquinca's Ciudad Fantasma; relato fantástico de la ciudad de México (XIX-XXI) Tomo I book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • fantasy
  • horror

3. Brood of the Witch-Queen

By: Sax Rohmer

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The strange deeds of Antony Ferrara, as herein related, are intended to illustrate certain phases o… read more

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4. Fadren ; Fröken Julie

By: August Strindberg

4.23

Format: None pages,

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Cover of The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate

5. The Route of Ice and Salt

By: José Luis Zárate

3.62

Format: 143 pages, ebook

A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s … read more

Similar categories in José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • novella
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite. What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them."

-José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt

Cover of Heart of Stone by Johannes T. Evans

6. Heart of Stone

By: Johannes T. Evans

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 1764, and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer, Henry Coffey, vamp… read more

Similar categories in Johannes T. Evans's Heart of Stone book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We see the same colours, Mr Essex,"

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"Henry, you could not pressure a page to fold."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"One drunken night does not a madness make, Essex."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"I am not by nature a dishonest man," Henry said softly, "but there are such times that the truth will not do."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

7. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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8. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

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9. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • novella
  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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11. Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

By: Jane Yolen

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never b… read more

Similar categories in Jane Yolen's Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You think you know this story. You do not."

-Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

"Words shouldn’t be dirty or clean But definitely sweet, On the tongue, in the mind."

-Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

"I learned to write poetry, telling the truth through metaphor, simile, straight-forward lies."

-Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

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12. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • horror
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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13. The Bayou

By: Arden Powell

4.03

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

"Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own ac… read more

Similar categories in Arden Powell's The Bayou book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • novella
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country: The Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh

14. Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country: The Greenhollow Duology

By: Emily Tesh

3.97

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

5 hours, 51 minutes Silver in the Wood There is a wild man who lives in the deep quiet of Gre… read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country: The Greenhollow Duology book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • horror
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. Queen of Teeth

By: Hailey Piper

3.83

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discoveri… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's Queen of Teeth book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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17. Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more

Similar categories in David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

By: Aaiún Nin

3.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a… read more

Similar categories in Aaiún Nin's Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1) by Kara Jorgensen

19. The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)

By: Kara Jorgensen

3.97

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A reluctant necromancer, a man killed before his time, and the crime that brings them together. … read more

Similar categories in Kara Jorgensen's The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1) book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're dead! I can't let you wander all over the place decomposing."

-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)

"if you haven't noticed, I don't exactly have a lively social life. I talk to the dead more than the living"

-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)

"Is this a normal day for you?" "Not really. Why?" "Because you said it so casually, 'Oh, he was eaten by his tiger', like it's completely normal for that to happen"

-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)

"Felipe, we hace been put on leave. That means, we leave the case and my laboratory alone." "And to think, yesterday you were beginning your life of rule breaking and you've already reformed"

-Kara Jorgensen, The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1)

Cover of Polaris - The Art of Meyoco - (Japanese Edition) by Meyoco

20. Polaris - The Art of Meyoco - (Japanese Edition)

By: Meyoco

4.64

Format: 192 pages, Tankobon Softcover

Welcome to the dreamlike pastel-colored world created by Meyoco. Discover all with Polaris, her fir… read more

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21. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and José Luis Zárate's The Route of Ice and Salt

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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