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  • Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas

    Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsidian gods have been released from their prison, and now chaos and destruction are wreaking havoc on Reino del Sol. All because Teo refused to sacrifice a fellow semidiose during the Sunbearer Trials...
  • The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

    The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Return to the enchanting world of the Montague siblings in the finale to the New York Times bestselling and Stonewall Honor-winning series, featuring a teenage Adrian Montague as he desperately seeks the now adult Monty and Felicity—the older siblings he never knew he had.Adrian Montague has a bright future...
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  • I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

    I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 113 ratings
    At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways..
  • Left Undone by Tess Barnett

    Left Undone by Tess Barnett

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Scott Mason lives alone—but he never feels alone. Everywhere he goes, the spirits of the dead call to him for help. The threat of unwanted touch and the flood of memory and emotion that always comes with it forces him to hide behind long sleeves and gloves. He exists in fearful seclusion compounded by his schizophrenia, which keeps him separate and untrusted in his small-town community...
  • Charlie and the Panther by Vinni George

    Charlie and the Panther by Vinni George

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when fate intertwines shifters from land and sea?Matteo Garras wants to be left alone. Most people take the hint. Apparently, Charlie Marsh isn’t most people. From the moment the alpha—who smells like sunshine—sits down next to Matteo at the local shifter bar, Matteo’s world tilts on its axis, making him want a future he didn’t think he could have, one he doesn’t think he deserves...
  • Silver Diamond, Volume 1: Silver Seed by Shiho Sugiura

    Silver Diamond, Volume 1: Silver Seed by Shiho Sugiura

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From Storm in Heaven:Rakan lives alone, and the plants in his garden grow so thick and fast that it seems like a jungle. One day a man, holding a gun made of wood, falls right down into his garden. He seems to come from another world, and he's searching for someone who can bring back the green into his own dark and inhospitable world...
  • You to Me by Sophie O'Dare, Lyn Forester

    You to Me by Sophie O'Dare, Lyn Forester

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Tails or horns. Fate decides.Childhood friends Sota and Masa have always been together. But when they turn eighteen, all of their expectations shatter. Attention from a persistent bully escalates and childhood visions of a perfect future begin to unravel. Sota quickly realizes that the transition into adulthood is not as fun as he envisioned...
  • The Looking-Glass Curse: The Complete Series by Eva Chase

    The Looking-Glass Curse: The Complete Series by Eva Chase

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Dive through the looking-glass into a land that’s lush, exhilarating… and deadly.When I tumbled into Wonderland, I only wanted to escape the epic mess my life had become. I'm not sure I can trust anything in this bizarre, intoxicating place. But the three enticing men I’ve just met might need me even more than anyone back home ever has—and somehow I feel like I belong in this strange world...
  • Lion's Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Lion's Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo’s life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex’s new relationship and make nice...
  • Dominic and the Dolphin by Vinni George

    Dominic and the Dolphin by Vinni George

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when fate intertwines shifters from land and sea?Dante Perez knows what it’s like to be an omega in an alpha’s world. He’s fought to make his company one of the best, and when he gets the opportunity to sponsor the summer’s air and water show circuit, he’s not going to let anything stand in his way, especially not alpha flyboy Dominic Pavone...
  • Into You by Jay Northcote

    Into You by Jay Northcote

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    What do you do when the body you wake up in isn’t yours? Olly and Scott promised to be best friends forever. They grew up on the same street, went to the same school, and did everything together. But one hot summer night, teenage experimentation caused hurt feelings and confusion, and their friendship was destroyed...
  • This is Not a Horror Movie by Sara Dobie Bauer

    This is Not a Horror Movie by Sara Dobie Bauer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Emory Jones loves two things: horror movies and Connor Nichols.For the past four years, Emory, Connor, and their families have vacationed side by side on Longboat Key, Florida. Eighteen-year-old Emory has pined for his neighbor from behind the covers of Stephen King books, but college boy Connor has never noticed him. Probably because Emory looks like Jack Skellington with good hair...
  • Recipe for Magic by Agatha Bird

    Recipe for Magic by Agatha Bird

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    Connor Roth is a fire mage who’s going places. He's powerful, popular, and he has a plan. But his plan for fame and glory is disrupted when the Oracle sticks him with Landyn Glendower for Senior Trial. This is an act unprecedented in their school's history. Landyn is a water mage, and everyone knows mages with opposing elements can’t work magic together...
  • Glow by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

    Glow by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All three books in the Zellie Wells trilogy, Glimpse, Glimmer and Glow, in one volume...
  • Someone Is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona by Mark A. Roeder

    Someone Is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona by Mark A. Roeder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Someone is killing the gay boys of Verona, Indiana, and only one gay youth stands in the way. He finds himself pitted against powerful foes, but finds allies in places he did not expect. Sixteen-year-old Sean sets out on a quest that takes him into the supernatural and beyond...
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    queer  m-m  young adult  mystery  horror  suspense  paranormal  death
  • Ghosting You by Alexander C. Eberhart

    Ghosting You by Alexander C. Eberhart

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tommy hears dead people. Okay, one dead person. His best friend, Chase. Since his death, Tommy can’t stop hearing his voice. They talk every day and Tommy even sends him texts, but it always ends the same. Message failed to send. Until one day, a stranger texts back...
  • Glimmer by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

    Glimmer by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Zellie Wells' life is changing. Her relationship with Avery is growing stronger every day, but their parents are still giving them ultimatums and trying to keep them apart. Her newly discovered powers have all but disappeared. Benjamin, another young Retroact, is back and has brought with him a painful shared vision and a troubled past...
  • Loveblood by M.J. O'Shea

    Loveblood by M.J. O'Shea

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    A Harmony Ink Press Young Adult TitleMax Appleton and his mother Celia are are on the run, hiding from an abusive father and husband who’s also a notoriously bad pack leader. When Max hit puberty and it became obvious he’d never make an alpha wolf, his father turned the brunt of his anger toward his inferior son and his beta wolf wife for producing him...
  • A Question of Manhood by Robin Reardon

    A Question of Manhood by Robin Reardon

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    November 1972. The Vietnam War is rumored to be drawing to a close, and for sixteen-year-old Paul Landon, the end can't come soon enough. The end will mean his older brother Chris, the family's golden child, returning home from the Army for good. But while home on leave, Chris entrusts Paul with a secret: He's gay...
  • How We Began by Edie Danford, Alexis Hall

    How We Began by Edie Danford, Alexis Hall

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How does love begin? A glance, a gesture, an unexpected offer of help from a stranger…or from a good friend. A smile across a counter at a coffee shop or video store. A secret revealed in a song from another place and time. Or in a love ballad crooned at a high school dance...
  • Coin Tricks by Willow Scarlett

    Coin Tricks by Willow Scarlett

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Wire's too huge and intimidating to find love… but that doesn't stop him dreaming.His size has defined his whole life, from his jobs as a bouncer and store security to his brief and unsatisfying relationships. But beneath his scary appearance, Wire's kind and loving. He cares for his family and his dog and imagines a future with a caring man at his side.Then he catches Sid stealing soap...
  • Colder Than Fiction by Amanda Meuwissen

    Colder Than Fiction by Amanda Meuwissen

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    An author is often haunted by their muse, but this one promises a kiss. Ezra wakes with the worst hangover of his life after a Christmas party he never wanted to attend. It’s the holidays, he was just dumped by his boyfriend, and his next manuscript is due to his publisher by the end of the year, but all Ezra wants is escape...
  • A Boy Worth Knowing by Jennifer Cosgrove

    A Boy Worth Knowing by Jennifer Cosgrove

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ghosts can’t seem to keep their opinions to themselves. Seventeen-year-old Nate Shaw should know; he’s been talking to them since he was twelve. But they aren’t the only ones making his high school years a living hell. All Nate wants is to keep his secret and keep his head down until he can graduate. That is, until the new boy, James Powell, takes a seat next to him in homeroom...
  • The Binding by Bridget Collins

    The Binding by Bridget Collins

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 83 ratings
    Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them...
  • Bodyguard by Dassy Bernhard

    Bodyguard by Dassy Bernhard

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How was he supposed to know that the real-life chairman looked like an actor playing one on TV?When bodyguard Tang Jun-young saves his clients, a world-famous K-pop boyband, from being kidnapped by stopping the getaway van with his own body, he's worried that his secret—well, one of them—will be out in the open...
  • Don’t You Like Me 你是不是喜欢我 by Lu Tianyi, 吕天逸

    Don’t You Like Me 你是不是喜欢我 by Lu Tianyi, 吕天逸

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    (English description is written below the Chinese description...
  • Loveblood by M.J. O'Shea

    Loveblood by M.J. O'Shea

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    A Harmony Ink Press Young Adult Title Max Appleton and his mother Celia are are on the run, hiding from an abusive father and husband who’s also a notoriously bad pack leader. When Max hit puberty and it became obvious he’d never make an alpha wolf, his father turned the brunt of his anger toward his inferior son and his beta wolf wife for producing him...
  • The Other Ones by Fran Hart

    The Other Ones by Fran Hart

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Sal lives in a haunted house.He longs to be ordinary, but when the strangest of strangers arrives on his doorstep – a fellow outcast called Pax – his life grows even more complicated.Sal goes on to develop an unlikely friendship with Pax, whose love for all things spooky drew him to the house and its inhabitants. But as the two grow closer, the true nature of the hauntings is gradually revealed...
  • Nicked by M.T. Anderson

    Nicked by M.T. Anderson

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saintThe year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to action...
    Categorized as:
    queer  magic  fantasy  historical  horror  medieval  humor  mystery
  • Mighty Quill by Emmaline Strange

    Mighty Quill by Emmaline Strange

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    A Steamy MM Paranormal Shifter Romance Cassian Rhodes is just a normal guy going through normal college stuff: Weird roommate? Check. Panic over grades? Check. Hockey Shenanigans? Check. Sexuality Crisis? Uh… Falling for your roommate? Hold on… Finding out your new BF’s family is magic? Wait, WTF!? MIGHTY QUILL is a roommates to idiots to lovers, bi awakening, paranormal shifter romance...
  • Intoxicated by the King Cobra by Jackie Nacht

    Intoxicated by the King Cobra by Jackie Nacht

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When desperation has you seeking help from your worst nightmares. It’s been seventy-five years since the toxins dropped and the world became dark. No one knows this more than Reese and his friends. On the verge of starvation, Reese will do the unthinkable—he’ll steal away into Venom City to get the food they so urgently need...
  • Heaven Can't Wait by Eli Easton

    Heaven Can't Wait by Eli Easton

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When Brian Matheson dies at nineteen, his soul is in limbo. He has one chance to redeem himself before he’s thrown into a nasty pit. All Brian has to do is save the life of Kevin Anderson, a boy he and his friends tormented for being gay. Kevin thought he’d finally escaped bullying. But his college roommate, Chuck, and his homophobic pals, prove him wrong...
  • Crash by Zoe Perdita

    Crash by Zoe Perdita

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Ben Singer, an omega werewolf, has been in love with his former best friend and the alpha scion of their wolf pack, Axel, from the time they were teenagers. Ben thought they were mates, but the rules of their pack kept them apart. Axel Cross is a fuck-up. The sexy tattooed wolf threw away his chances of ever becoming pack alpha at seventeen, and Ben has no idea why...
  • Release by Patrick Ness

    Release by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    It’s Saturday, it’s summer and, although he doesn’t know it yet, everything in Adam Thorn’s life is going to fall apart. Relationships will change, he’ll change, but maybe, just maybe, he’ll find freedom in the release.Time is running out though, because way across town a ghost as risen from the lake...
  • Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson

    Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson

    Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. While his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives in the thick heat. Taken in by the football team, he learns how to catch a spiraling ball, how to point a gun, and how to hide his innermost secrets...
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