21 best-selling queer books like The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

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The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

Format: 368 pages, None

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen …

If you liked the queer plot in The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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2. The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

Format: 368 pages, None

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • pirates
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore

3. Venom & Vow

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Va… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Venom & Vow book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • 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

Cover of Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt

5. Wren Martin Ruins It All

By: Amanda DeWitt

4.25

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Now that Wren Martin is student council president (on a technicality, but hey, it counts) he’s goin… read more

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Wren Martin Ruins It All book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I think I might have a crush. Shit ."

-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

"Halloween would be . . . okay," she says, with all the deliberation of a somewhat uncertain judge delivering a verdict. "But no sexy catgirls. Or boys. No catpeople."

-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

"You might have saved the Dance," I say loftily, "but I saved this school from Cats ." "Not all heroes wear capes," Ryan says, pushing open the classroom door. "You know, I kind of like Cats ." "You l…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All

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6. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1) book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

Cover of Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens

7. Spell Bound

By: F.T. Lukens

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in t… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Spell Bound book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Sometimes a family was a mischievous magical boss, her magical rival turned friend, a magical girl who used to be a babysitter and now was like an older sister, and the person you didn't understand i…"

-F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

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8. The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

By: Rochelle Hassan

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
"It was like every emotion he'd had to suppress in order to survive the last year and a half was now crashing into him all at once. Every vulnerability he'd locked away so that he could command the ho…"

-Rochelle Hassan, The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

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9. Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb again…"

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

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10. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) by Kacen Callender

11. Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

By: Kacen Callender

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward u… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig

12. Teach the Torches to Burn

By: Caleb Roehrig

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Teach the Torches to Burn, a breathlessly romantic remix of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and sev… read more

Similar categories in Caleb Roehrig's Teach the Torches to Burn book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"- have you never considered that perhaps you are meant to have this happiness?"

-Caleb Roehrig, Teach the Torches to Burn

"When someone has decided who you are, and they won't let you change their mind, what are you meant to do? Where is left to go?"

-Caleb Roehrig, Teach the Torches to Burn

"From Author's Note: "...quite a few queer tragedies have already been written, including ones based on 'Romeo and Juliet,' and i was hesitant to tread that particular ground. I wanted to bring someth…"

-Caleb Roehrig, Teach the Torches to Burn

Cover of My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) by Kalynn  Bayron

13. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind hi… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

Cover of The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman

15. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hoffman's The Prospects book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

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16. Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

By: g. haron davis

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy… read more

Similar categories in g. haron davis's Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There is no shortage of people who want to hide the truth, dear Ari, and not a single one of them is of any consequence to me. In a decade, there will be another witch or wizard or magician or mundan…"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

"She smiled at him a little sadly. 'What do you want, Ronan? Do you want them to suffer? Or do you want them to change? The truth was, he hadn't thought that far ahead 'It's easy to hurt people,' she …"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

Cover of The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

17. The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

By: Page Powars

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who join… read more

Similar categories in Page Powars's The Borrow a Boyfriend Club book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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18. Your Lonely Nights Are Over

By: Adam Sass

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friend… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sass's Your Lonely Nights Are Over book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

19. Ander & Santi Were Here

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Ander & Santi Were Here book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
Cover of Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

20. Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

By: Justine Pucella Winans

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen bi… read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

21. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

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F.T. Lukens

3.99

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Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

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3.73

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Andrew Joseph White

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Nora Sakavic

4.59

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F.T. Lukens

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Cat Sebastian

4.39

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