Hi there! I am looking for a really specific set of traits in a book to scratch the itch I have 😀
I love love books that focus on queer romance, body horror, and morality grey/ straight up bad characters!
Some books that have scratched this itch (and that I highly recommend) are
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In , by John Wiswell
- Hell followed with us , by Andrew Joseph White
- Godly Heathens, by H.E. Edgmon
- The salt grows Heavy , by Cassandra Khaw
Anything like this I’d be so happy to read! And it would be a huge bonus if I could find a longer series :).
by ValuableSpirit5897
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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado— short stories
Honeys by Ryan La Sala, I’ll never look at honey again 😬
Found some more recs in r/LGBTBooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/LGBTBooks/s/XLERQ3btXV
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon!
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Sterling
Sci fi psychological horror. Lots of body horror, claustrophobia and… Lesbians?
Here’s some of my favourites:
* The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley. Goes great with the prequel short story Warped Passages, published in Meet Me in the Future by Hurley or Cosmic Powers edited by John Joseph Adams
* Leech by Hiron Ennes. No romance, but it’s one of my all time favourites.
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Be warned, contains some heavy depictions of transphobia, gore, sex, and sexual violence. References the older short story [The Screwfly Solution](https://pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pseudopod-400-the-screwfly-solution/) by lesbian author James Tiptree Jr.
* Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder. Feminist Lovecraftian horror.
* Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Honorable mentions that kind of fit but not exactly:
* The Xenogenesis series by Octavia E. Butler. Though the author specifically calls out homophobia and transphobia as small minded and wrong, there’s absolutely no queer characters here in spite of there being aliens with three sexes and nontraditional relationship structures.
* The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley. I didn’t really understand this book, to be honest. But perhaps you might like this.
* Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase. By a queer author and there are mentions of queerness in the text, but none of the main characters are overtly queer.
Chlorine – jade song (I think that’s the author)