Recs if you like How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love...

vampires who try to ethically source blood, to varying degrees of success

queer smut with monsters, with breeding sometimes, darkness sometimes, but mostly the point is: queer humans, monsters, smut 😋 no shame no blame

Fiction and non-fiction in which a main character, prominent supporting character, or narrator is canonically/confirmed to be on the asexual (ace) spectrum.

📓Canon: Confirmed by either the text or original creator. (Subtextual/implied and circumstantial characters can be found on my other ace list)

❕Disclaimer: I have not read all these books. Please feel free to correct me in the comments if I have made a mistake in my research. Or if you have any new titles to recommend.

Unhinged and chaotic queer stories that are beyond entertaining (and in some ways, very disturbing as the best are haha!)

Getting a bit fed up of the amount of gay men written by straight women. Please recommend me more books!

Middle grade, YA and Adult fictional books with canon autistic main characters

The first full week after Valentine's Day every year is Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Here are our recs for books staring aromantic characters! (This list is presented by Duck Prints Press, the indie publisher focused on publishing queer art and stories by queer creators! A group of us collaborate to make these recommendations.)

fun/casual lgbt books. predominantly contemporary romance, trying to avoid lit fic. more for when i am looking for a palette cleanse.

canon and coded autistic characters

Pushing against ableism.

At least one of the main characters has a disability. The disability may or may not be a central plot point.

Stories about Queer and Trans vampires. Mostly romance with a some exceptions . Fanged and Flirty (and very gay)

vampires, ghosts, werewolves, etc. all being gay af

SFF books from small presses and self-published authors that feature important aromantic characters

Demisexual and Demiromantic rep in romance stories. Lots of queer stories because, let's be real, the community does a better job of creating stories that represent different types of characters and giving them their HEA. Plus, I think demisexual is part of the asexual bucket and thus part of the LGBTQ+ conglomerate.

Long live the "I need to know you as a person before I can feel sexual attraction to you" without purity, religious ethics, or pearl clutching being the backbone of that situation.

Love our Ace Kings and Queens.

Books included where asexuality is explicitly named and identified AND books where asexual traits are displayed and heavily implied.

Slowly adding to this over time because there are A LOT of ace books given that it's a spectrum.

Feel free to add a comment dropping your suggested additions.

Idk how they (birds) found me, but everywhere I've gone since i found Mail Order Wings in an elementary school classroom library I've been followed by human-avian hybrid body horror themes in books ¯_(ツ)_/¯

books that have ace spectrum representation (either outright or as determined by me and my fellow demis/aces)

From Angels and Demons to Ghouls and Dullahans

Romance books featuring characters with disabilities, chronic illnesses or neurodivergence