13 must-read lgbt books like Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space by Zoraida Córdova

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Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.83

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen fantasy and science fiction short stories from leading voices in the Latin American diasp…

"I was the thing the monster from my dreams had warned about, the thing that crept on its clawed feet in the darkest night."

-Zoraida Córdova, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

"This continued for many weeks. Sometimes, la sirena would join Suma in her singing, and together, their voices would bring dreams of the sea to the people of the plantation. It was in these moments that Suma could taste freedom. It was then that she began to know love."

-Zoraida Córdova, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

If you liked the lgbt plot in Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space by Zoraida Córdova , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

By: Melissa de la Cruz , Aliette de Bodard , Renée Ahdieh , Cindy Pon , Alyssa Wong , Roshani Chokshi , Julie Kagawa , Rahul Kanakia , Ellen Oh , Aisha Saeed , E.C. Myers , Sona Charaipotra , Elsie Chapman , Lori M. Lee , Shveta Thakrar , Preeti Chhibber

4.07

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings. Th… read more

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2. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Zoraida Córdova's Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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3. A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.73

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes a young a… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The Khawla historian says the people of this planet were like a virus—multiplying endlessly, consuming every resource they could wrench from land and sky, acting as if all they could survey was their…"

-Dhonielle Clayton, A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology

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4. Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.83

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen fantasy and science fiction short stories from leading voices in the Latin American diasp… read more

Similar categories in Zoraida Córdova's Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space book and Zoraida Córdova's Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I was the thing the monster from my dreams had warned about, the thing that crept on its clawed feet in the darkest night."

-Zoraida Córdova, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

"This continued for many weeks. Sometimes, la sirena would join Suma in her singing, and together, their voices would bring dreams of the sea to the people of the plantation. It was in these moments t…"

-Zoraida Córdova, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

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5. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

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6. All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Askim,"

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Ugh. Feelings are gross,"

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Let go of which cannot be held."

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

"Wilhelm's hands trembled. “I'll bring you only misery."

-Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

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7. Lost Ark Dreaming

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more

Similar categories in Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Lost Ark Dreaming book and Zoraida Córdova's Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

By: Saraciea J. Fennell

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Starlings

By: Amanda Linsmeier

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Small Favors. In the wake of her fa… read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"...why would you hurt me so much?" "Because you still have fight in you. I want you broken."

-Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

"We are two blackbirds, connected by the wings. She's the only one I have left, the only one who can light up the dark and chase my nightmares away."

-Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

"I push away the questions. I don't look for frightening things anymore. Except somewhere, in the deepest recesses of my bones, I feel like they still look for me."

-Amanda Linsmeier, Starlings

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11. 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

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

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12. Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more

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  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

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13. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

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14. The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

By: Lorraine Avila

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She’s starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her sch… read more

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  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mamá Teté has a saying: “Al que no le gusta el caldo, que le den dos tazas."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

"I wish I would’ve never internalized the need to put the needs of others over my own."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

"Mamá Teté comes to my mind: “Our powers exist so we can preserve our power and take back and protect what is ours."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

"Right above the mirror is the Julia De Burgos quote I’ve learned to love: “Don’t let the hand you hold, hold you down."

-Lorraine Avila, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

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15. Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories

By: Sandra Proudman

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

These sixteen stories by award-winning and bestselling YA authors center a Latinx point of view in … read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. High Spirits

By: Camille Gomera-Tavarez

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, fr… read more

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  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. All Signs Point to Yes

By: g. haron davis

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

a YA anthology of love stories for each of the star signs that will showcase multicultural characte… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. The Lost Dreamer (The Lost Dreamer Duology, 1)

By: Lizz Huerta

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Indir is a Dreamer, descended from a long line of seers; able to see beyond reality, she carries th… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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19. Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

You can go to hell and back with the help of this one-of-a-kind illustrated travel guide to real-li… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (New Oeste)

By: Daniel A. Olivas

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture bu… read more

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  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy

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