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From A Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

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From Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews

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From Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan Mcguire

This is book 9 of a (currently) 10 book series (more to come!). Each novella is written from a different perspective, about another characters story. The whole series is excellent (I recommend all of them) but this one really tied a lot of the elements together.

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From Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy

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From We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

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From Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

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Fictional LGBTQIA2+ Reads

If you have any recommended books for this list please reach out to me! This is in no way an exhaustive list either, just some of my highlights in the last few years :)

Gay

Heartstopper - Alice Oseman

Gwen & Art are Not in Love - Lex Croucher

Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa (remixed classics - Pride and Prejudice Retelling) (trans rep)

Hell Followed With Us - Andrew Joseph White (autism and trans rep)

Darkhearts - James L. Sutter

Sapphic

Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun

Gwen & Art are Not in Love - Lex Croucher

Girls Like Girls - Hayley Kiyoko

Forget Me Not - Alyson Derrick

Gender Queer

Nimona - ND Stevenson

The Sacrifice - Rin Chupeco

Asexual

Loveless - Alice Oseman

Radio Silence - Alice Oseman

Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells (given the "robot"-ness of the mc)

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White (autism and trans rep)

Pansexual / Poly

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zaho

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I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

All Systems Red, Martha Wells

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As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

All Systems Red, Martha Wells

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But nobody ever tells you what to do when you don't die, when you're lying there and something is touching you and you're pretending to be asleep because everybody knows that monsters can't get you as long as you're asleep and your heart pounds but you keep not dying and you stubbornly remain conscious and it keeps happening.

A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher

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Real or not, monsters don't bother you while you're peeing.

A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher

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Waffle House at four in the morning is a liminal space occupied by long-haul truckers, bleary-eyed workers, and teenagers so high they can smell God's breath.

A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher

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My hair is a comb-eating monster that is technically "curly," in the same way that a cassowary is technically a bird.

A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher

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So, why, then, do you insist on having a purpose for yourself, one which you are desperate to find and miserable without? If you understand that robots' lack of purpose -- our refusal of your purpose -- is the crowning mark of our intellectual maturity, why do you put so much energy in seeking the opposite?

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

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I think there's something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

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No object should be treated as disposable.

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Any other day, the act of going through a door was something Dex gave no more thought to than putting one foot in front of the other. But there was a gravity to leaving a place for good, a deep sense of seismic change.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers