6 best-selling queer books like The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

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The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping…

If you liked the queer plot in The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Parasite by Darcy Coates

1. Parasite

By: Darcy Coates

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

They're closer than you think... A guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost. … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Parasite book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
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2. Ship of Fools

By: Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy fo… read more

Similar categories in Richard Paul Russo's Ship of Fools book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • mystery
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror

3. Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1)

By: Mira Grant

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" b… read more

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4. The Twisted Ones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

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5. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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

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7. The Hollow Places

By: T. Kingfisher

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Hollow Places book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

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8. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

Similar categories in Hiron Ennes's Leech book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

9. 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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • 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)

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10. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
  • queer
Cover of Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

12. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

Cover of Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

13. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
Cover of The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

14. 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 Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's From Below book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

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16. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

17. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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18. Paradise-1

By: David Wellington

3.83

Format: 681 pages, Paperback

When Special Agent Petrov and Dr. Lei Zhang are woken up from cryogenic sleep, dragged freezing and… read more

Similar categories in David Wellington's Paradise-1 book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
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19. Dead Space

By: Kali Wallace

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Dead Space book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
  • queer
"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"

-Kali Wallace, Dead Space

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20. Salvation Day

By: Kali Wallace

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic th… read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Salvation Day book and Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer

20 best-selling fiction books like The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Transform Your Habits

Parasite

Darcy Coates

3.84

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Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

4.18

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The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher

3.64

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Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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21 Top fiction books like The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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