Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
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1. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
2. Feed Them Silence
By: Lee Mandelo
3.52
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
3. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- lesbian
- gothic
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
4. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
5. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
3.89
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
6. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
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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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- 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
8. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- lesbian
- gothic
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
9. Light from Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
4.06
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Lindsey Stirling?"-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
10. Ring Shout
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.99
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
11. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
12. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
13. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
14. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
15. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
16. The Seep
By: Chana Porter
3.66
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Grief is happy memories."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"-Chana Porter, The Seep
17. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
18. 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
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- queer
"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
19. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
