17 Top lgbt books like On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain…

"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."
-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."
-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

If you liked the lgbt plot in On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. The Prince and the Dressmaker

By: Jen Wang

4.35

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his par… read more

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romance
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
queer

"I'm a prince who likes dresses."
-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
"This job won't love you back, you know."
-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
"You're a secret, which means I'm a secret!"
-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
"Don't work too hard. This job won't love you back, you know."
-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

2. This One Summer

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more

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fiction
graphic novels
comics
young adult

"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."
-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

3. Nimona

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more

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lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

4. The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.35

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charm… read more

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lgbt
graphic novels
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

"when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow."
-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)
"los recuerdos no sólo viven en tu interior minette. Residen en toda la gente y objetos con los que compartes tu vida"
-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)
"Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value. You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift."
-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)
"everything that happens is part of your wholeness. the sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship -- it is all part of your tapestry .... remember that you are whole."
-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

5. Taproot

By: Keezy Young

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more

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6. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"
-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"
-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

7. Snapdragon

By: Kat Leyh

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’… read more

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lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

8. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

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romance
lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
queer

"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."
-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."
-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"
-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."
-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

9. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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graphic novels
comics
queer
lgbt

"I don't"
-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"
-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"
-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"
-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

10. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
fiction
queer

11. In Limbo

By: Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more

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graphic novels
comics

12. Mooncakes

By: Suzanne Walker

3.83

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your a… read more

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romance
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

13. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

By: Deya Muniz

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more

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romance
lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

14. Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 (Cosmoknights, #1)

By: Hannah Templer

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. Pan's… read more

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lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
science fiction
fantasy
queer

15. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

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romance
lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
science fiction
fantasy
queer

"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."
-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."
-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

16. The Girl from the Sea

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first lov… read more

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romance
lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

"Sometimes plans must change, my love."
-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"*creepy ghost whispers* morgan... THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD"
-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts"
-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

17. Bloom

By: Kevin Panetta

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and… read more

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romance
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
queer

"Jeez! Why is my family manhandling me at this wedding?"
-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
"Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love."
-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
"...what does he think is going to happen? An angel will just fall from the sky?"
-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
"Got 'em! Comfortable shoes! Oh my God. They're like pillows. I hate high heels."
-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

18. Mamo

By: Sas Milledge

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Family matters aren’t just hocus-pocus for this young witch!Cartoonist Sas Milledge makes her aston… read more

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lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy
queer

19. Squire

By: Nadia Shammas

4.06

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more

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graphic novels
young adult
comics
fiction
fantasy

20. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

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lesbian
lgbt
graphic novels
comics
fiction
queer

21. The Deep Dark