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i’m a horror novel fan and it’s like fully impossible to find queer horror novels. my all-time favorite book is house of leaves by mark danielewski, but i also really love the raw shark texts by stephen hall and johnny got his gun by dalton trumbo (which isn’t really horror but MAN is it good). i’d love something with a little bit less of a ya vibe if you have it, and thanks so much! :]

Hi there! I wrote out a SUPER detailed list for you and tumblr blue-screened me 💀 So apologies for the lack of details/descriptions, but here are some queer horror novels:

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

The Luminous Dead by Cailtin Starling

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper

The Bayou by Arden Powell

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology edited by Celine Frohn

Also, if you do feel like checking out a Queer Horror that happens to be YA, I recommend Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

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Hello, it is time to talk about HOW GOOD THIS LOOKS

**This is out June 2023

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This book is CUTE

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Hey! I've sort of gotten a bit lazy with this blog as life happens, sooooo

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HAPPY PRIDE!!!

There are tons of great books coming out this month! Here are just a few of the ones I'm most excited about

As always, check under the cut for more on each~

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White is one of my favorite books of the year! It also happens to be the only book on this list that I've already read! This is a trans-led queer apocalyptic horror novel that I've been screaming about ever since I had the good fortune to get to read it early. If you love monsters, trans rage, and smashing evangelical hate, read this book ASAP.

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler is a sapphic romance between the cheer captain and the new quarterback, whose gender is apparently already causing an uproar. Remember that photo going around of the cheerleader helping the football player put her hair up in a ponytail? Yeah, this book was inspired by that.

Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino is a retelling of The Goblin Market but made into a queer horror piece. I cannot wait for the dark, lush experience of a place so magical and tempting, or the insane pressure of needing to escape it in 3 days.

Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid is another retelling, but this one isn't queer and instead of retelling a poem it's retelling a folktale. A gothic take on The Juniper Tree, this one is full of curses, forbidden love, and danger. I've heard SO many good things about this book and this author!

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson is a scifi locked door mystery! This book stars a middling (alien language) translator with few credentials or prospects who finds herself in the middle of a mysterious, political death. This is also a post-contact story with the very fun addition that those who can understand the aliens' telepathic language feel literally drunk from it.

Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta is the sequel to the sapphic, Gundam-y Gearbreakers! From the cover alone this book promises even more revolution, action, and gigantic government robots.

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Look what surprised me today! I'm too sick-gross to unbox it today 😅 but I'm excited to take a look soon!!

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One more month of Summer! Check out some of these cool August books! 🌞

As always, check under the cut for more on each~

It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano is one of my favorite books of the year, and one I'd recommend to any a-spec person and/or any marching band nerd! This is a marching band centered coming of age with a lot of identity growth and a little romance too.

Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury is the long awaited sequel to the scifi-fantasy, Black-fronted "kill your lover" Blood Like Magic. If you've been looking forward to seeing what Voya does next and how her hard choices play our after the fact, you'll really enjoy this closer to the story!

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall is another I've already read, and I can vouch for the spooky haunted house meets untrustworthy family swarmy enough to rival the Thrombeys from Knives Out. If you like your horror feminist and a bit gothic, you may really love the atmosphere of this one. This is also sapphic, with a witchy side romance.

The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones is a rag tag crew story, a heist story, and a fantasy about revolution. This story is also in the same universe as Lloyd-Jones' folklore zombie story, The Bones Houses. This also has a main character who seems to be bi.

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala is another horror, this one pastoral, trippy, and through a lens of marginalization. This book has a genderfluid protagonist, who wants nothing but to understand his twin sister's shocking death, but finds himself lured into something as dangerous as it is impossible. This book also has some INTENSE body horror by the end, so take that as a pro or a con!

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez is the only book on this list I haven't read! This is a Godpunk fantasy about two warriors setting out to free a captive god, and depose their tyrant rulers. This book looks so COOL and the cover alone makes me so excited.

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Hi! Hope you’re having a great day 😄 Any recommendations for books that involve a main character discovering they are non binary or ftm transgender? Thank you!!

Sure!

Nonbinary:

Under Shifting Stars by Alexandra Latos

Felix Ever After by Kacen Kallender is about someone formerly ID'ing as a trans man realizing they're nonbinary

What We Left Behind by Robin Talley is about both people in a couple slowly questioning their identities

Binary transguys:

Violet Ghosts by Leah Thomas (though this one is really heavily about SA and violence against women!)

Between Perfect and Real by Rae Stoeve

And if you're interested at all, Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee features a love interest who has recently realized they're nonbinary and are experimenting with pronouns And Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman also features a love interest exploring their gender (and a transman MC). This is the only adult title on the list.

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Also posted on my TikTok- I'm looking for book recs! 😄

Preferably diverse and either genre or queer contemporary books. Any age range but picture books.

I've been in a Kaiju, cozy sci-fi, dark fantasy, villain-y, folktale, hear hearting romance vibe ✌️

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Books with gender questioning characters!

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Heartstopper readalikes!

YA novels and some webcomics 🥰

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Let's talk about July & books!

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22 books coming out in 2022 I cannot wait for!

The Ivory Key I've already read, and thought was so fun. It's an Indian inspired heist fantasy featuring 4 siblings, all completely at odds and with their own intentions they're willing to backstab for. It's also the start of a duology that seems like it's going to be great.

Hopepunk is another I've already read- it's the aggressively positive book we need right now. This book has music, radical love and acceptance, and some lesbian scifi.

Into the Midnight Void is the sequel to Beyond the Ruby Veil, a book where you just sit and watch the world be burned by a feral lesbian. I've read this one and it is even BETTER than the first book somehow.

Lakelore looks fantastic- it's led by two nonbinary teens, and involves a secret world under a lake. It feels very queer Twilight Zone to me, and I cannot wait.

She Gets the Girl is a sapphic romcom that feels like a quintessential 90s romcom movie somehow. If you love wingman-to-lovers the way I do this book is going to make you ecstatic.

Seasonal Fears is the sequel to Middlegame! No idea what this is going to be about, but SEQUEL TO MIDDLEGAME!!

I Kissed Shara Wheeler is Casey McQuiston's (RWRB, One Last Stop) YA debut! It's sapphic and involves a girl going missing. Sounds lit!

Milo and Marcos at the End of the World is another I've already read. This is an emotional story of internalized homophobia and the intersectionality of religion and queer identity. This will make you feel. Also the romance is very cute!

Wrath Goddess Sing is a trans retelling of greek mythos, with a transwoman Achilles!

We All Fall Down sees queer teens recast as archetypes in a war/game they don't even know they're playing with magic they don't even know is real!

Hell Followed With Us is a fantastic piece of queer horror! I have read this one already, and it was SO GOOD. This is about a transguy running from the evangelical cult that both ended the world and turned him into a literal monster.

Silk Fire is a queer scifi about dragons and necromancers and politcal scandal, and it sounds super interesting!

It Sounds Like This is a Snow White inspired marching band book with an ace love interest! I love this author already, and am so excited to see how she does this one!

Blood Like Fate is the sequel to Blood Like Magic. If you read the first one you know why I'm jumping up an down in anticipation for this book!

The Drowned Woods takes place in the same world as the wonderful The Bone Houses, and is about a ramshackle crew (always a love of mine) trying to destroy all magic to screw over a corrupt government.

Monsters Born and Made is about a family of sea monster trainers! The MC has to infiltrate the chariot races her monsters are used for, and which she and her people have never been allowed to be involved in themselves.

The One That Got Away hits so many marks for me- the MC is thrown into the spotlight, when it turns out her sibling is marrying a prince, she's forced into a dating show, pitted against the girl her ex cheated on her with, and is fueled by revenge! And bisexuality, of course.

The Grimoire of Grave Fates is a magical murder mystery told chapter by chapter by different authors! Including the fabulous Margaret Owen.

Monster is about a girl meant to be sacrificed to a monster, who instead allies herself with it. I'M PUMPED!

Unnamed Iron Widow Sequel is, of course, the sequel to Iron Widow. Not only was that one of my favorite books of the year, but the ending SHOOK me. So excited for the next part of the story!

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Gah I think Tumblr ate my ask! If you're seeing this a second time I'm really sorry lol. I'm one of those burned out former gifted kids who used to be passionate about reading before the burned out part came into play. Recently I've decided to get back into reading. I'm immensely pleased to see that there's a lot more options for queer book lovers these days, but I'm kind of daunted by the fact that most books seem to be trilogies or longer. Do you have any standalone recs? If it helps, I like fantasy, angst, and time travel. Some whump too is nice. If it's queer that's a hundred times better (especially if it's transmasc and/or polyam). Extra extra wow factor if the characters are Chinese or Southeast Asian. Thank you for your time and all the good work you do!

Ah thanks for letting me help with this! I hope I can find a book you like 😊

Some queer stand alone scifi:

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone is a time travel novella of sapphic robots(?) falling in love against enemy lines. Definitely a bit abstract and poetic, so maybe not the simplest read, but if you're in the mood for something atmospheric and dramatic, you might like this book.

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson is sapphic and doesn't involve time travel, but it is about hopping to other realities for a corporation.

The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis is another one to do with alternate realities, though it blends genres a bit too. The main character is questioning, and most likely bi (like her alternate selves).

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer is a scifi mystery in space. Definitely some whump in this! And not time travel, but a bit of a time.... element.

A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson is about three kids who wake up on a space ship god knows where. There's a big meta element and time loop element as well.

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey is an adult scifi, and not queer. It's about cloning and murder, and is very short. This is hands down one of my favorite books, so if you have any interest in either of those things, I definitely recommend.

The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold is also not queer, but has a big time element to it, and is a very layered, twisty end of the world story. If you can currently take things that involve plagues, then you might like this story.

Some queer fantasy:

Burn by Patrick Ness is an alternate universe story where dragons live alongside(ish) humans, and it's also a prophecy story. Of the three main characters, one is gay.

Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson is also an alternate universe story, this one queer friendly historical. There's some whump in this, and magical powers being used to help a magician-con man.

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth is a great stand alone if you like chosen one stories, and their deconstruction. This one isn't queer.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern is a portal fantasy stand alone with a queer MC and is very layered and atmospheric. I wouldn't call this angsty, but it's definitely bittersweet.

Unfortunately, all the Asian-led SFF I would love to rec is part of a series :( But if you do find yourself wanting duologies in the future, Iron Widow,

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Queer book recs for your favorite character in the Gay Pirate Show!

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