12 best-selling asexual books like Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer

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Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

By: Madeline Dyer

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary storiesFrom a…

If you liked the asexual plot in Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Love Letters for Joy

By: Melissa See

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A new LGBTQIA+ romance story by the author of You, Me, and Our Heartstrings. Less than a year away… read more

Similar categories in Melissa See's Love Letters for Joy book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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2. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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3. Is Love the Answer?

By: Uta Isaki

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identit… read more

Similar categories in Uta Isaki's Is Love the Answer? book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Like that club from earlier. Some people appreciate that vibe and some don't. If they force people to join when they don't want to, that's harassment. It's the same with romance."

-Uta Isaki, Is Love the Answer?

"Romance is supposed to be great, and not being able to like anyone isn't normal, because any regular person would definitely-" "But you feel like you don't get it. Then why should you have to do it? …"

-Uta Isaki, Is Love the Answer?

Cover of Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer

4. Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

By: Madeline Dyer

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary storiesFrom a… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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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 Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"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. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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7. Aces Wild: A Heist

By: Amanda DeWitt

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What happens in Vegas when an all-asexual online friend group attempts to break into a high-stakes … read more

Similar categories in Amanda DeWitt's Aces Wild: A Heist book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Just because you didn't experience sexual attraction didn't mean you didn't you didn't experience romantic feelings. But those romantic feelings didn't look like they did in the movies because, well,…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

"It felt like a puzzle, mostly put together but with a piece missing, waiting to be filled. There were plenty of pieces to fill it- gay, straight, bisexual- but none fit quite right. Sometimes I thoug…"

-Amanda DeWitt, Aces Wild: A Heist

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8. Paper Planes

By: Jennie Wood

3.66

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Ca… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Wood's Paper Planes book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. I Want to be a Wall, Vol. 1

By: Honami Shirono

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Any love story aficionado will say that the key to a successful couple is intense desire for one an… read more

Similar categories in Honami Shirono's I Want to be a Wall, Vol. 1 book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

By: Sherronda J. Brown

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an … read more

Similar categories in Sherronda J. Brown's Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • queer
  • lgbt
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11. The No-Girlfriend Rule

By: Christen Randall

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose fora… read more

Similar categories in Christen Randall's The No-Girlfriend Rule book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. Okay, Cupid

By: Mason Deaver

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know e… read more

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's Okay, Cupid book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality

By: Molly Muldoon

4.11

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to vali… read more

Similar categories in Molly Muldoon's A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 2 by Honami Shirono

14. I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 2

By: Honami Shirono

4.40

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Yuriko and Gakurouta recount their first meeting and proposal to a curious Sousuke. Their first imp… read more

Similar categories in Honami Shirono's I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 2 book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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15. The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Diablo's Curse book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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16. Just Lizzie

By: Karen Wilfrid

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this beautifully written contemporary middle grade debut, an eighth grader's study of asexuality… read more

Similar categories in Karen Wilfrid's Just Lizzie book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"How do you “start"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

"I thought having a name for myself, asexual, would be the answer. It isn’t, though. I don’t just want to know myself. I want other people to know me, understand me, believe me. So that I can actually…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

"Sarah Nan takes me by the wrist and pulls me away. 'Lizzie, you were talking to a boy !' 'It's no big deal,' I tell her. Maybe it was--because it didn't feel like talking to a boy. It felt like talki…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

" Asexual . The prefix 'a-' means 'not.' Hasn't my life always been about what I'm not? Not pretty, not athletic, not interested, not ready--but now here's this word that tells me that what I am not i…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

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17. Sounds Fake But Okay

By: Sarah Costello

3.65

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by hum… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Costello's Sounds Fake But Okay book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

Cover of I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life by Cody Daigle-Orians

19. I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

By: Cody Daigle-Orians

4.47

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do I know if I'm actually sexual? How do I come out as asexual? What kinds of relationship ca… read more

Similar categories in Cody Daigle-Orians's I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Our culture weaponizes wanting or not wanting sex across many different identities and experiences as a way to marginalize them. It's not exclusive to asexuality."

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

"When confronted with someone who breaks the norm, some people find it easier to call that person's experience a fiction instead of altering their understanding of the world to include something new."

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

"Anyone who asserts they're owed your disclosure is also working from the assumption that they're also owed your sexuality. And you owe no one either of those things. They're yours to share with someo…"

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

"Unlike allosexual people who make the assumption that everyone should want and enjoy sex as much as they do, sex-averse and sex-repulsed ace folks are making choices about their own bodies and their …"

-Cody Daigle-Orians, I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life

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20. Common Bonds

By: Claudie Arseneault

3.81

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

An Aromantic Speculative Anthology Common Bonds is an anthology of speculative short stories and… read more

Similar categories in Claudie Arseneault's Common Bonds book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 3 (I Want to Be a Wall, #3) by Honami Shirono

21. I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 3 (I Want to Be a Wall, #3)

By: Honami Shirono

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Gaku and Yuriko prepare to face the final hurdle of their newlywed life―meeting Gaku’s grandmother!… read more

Similar categories in Honami Shirono's I Want to Be a Wall, Vol. 3 (I Want to Be a Wall, #3) book and Madeline Dyer's Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

16 best-selling fiction books like Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer

Transform Your Habits

Love Letters for Joy

Melissa See

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Is Love the Answer?

Uta Isaki

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

Madeline Dyer

3.98

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消えた初恋 6 [Kieta Hatsukoi 6]

Wataru Hinekure

4.41

Transform Your Habits

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 1 (She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, #1)

Sakaomi Yuzaki

4.41

Transform Your Habits

消えた初恋 7 [Kieta Hatsukoi 7]

Wataru Hinekure

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Is Love the Answer?

Uta Isaki

4.25

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