Diverse Book List

Books are organized by author's last name. The books I've read are in bold, and reviewed books are linked. Some books will show up in more than one category. Any books I missed? Send me your suggestions! Be aware that I can't vouch for books I haven't yet read.

Please note that this list is limited as it is geared toward English-speaking audiences such as those in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. 


Books with BIPOC (Black, American Indian, and People of Color) and Racial Minority Characters and/or Authors

Books with American Indian, Inuit, and/or Indigenous characters and/or Authors

- Arctic and Subartic Native Nation and/or Inuit Characters and/or Authors

• Wrist by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler (Lac des Mille Lacs/Nizaatikoong author)
• Those That Cause Fear by Neil Christopher and Germaine Arnaktauyok (Inuit author and characters)
• Fall from Grace by Wayne Arthurson (Cree author)
• The Hill by Karen Bass (Cree characters)
• Whispers in the Dark by Joseph Bruchac (Narragansett characters)
• Empire Of Wild by Cherie Dimaline (Métis author and characters, Anishinaabe characters)
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Métis author and characters)
• Bad Cree: A Novel by Jessica Johns (Cree main character and author)
• Those who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston (Inuk author and characters) 
• The Qalupalik by Elisha Kilabuk (Inuit author and characters)
• Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris (L’nu’skw/Mi'kmaw author)
• The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills (Ililiw/Cree author and character)
• In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier (Métis author)
• Strangers the Recokoner by David Alexander Robinson (Norway House Cree author)
• Moon of Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (Anishinaabe author and characters)
• The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor (Curve Lake First Nations author)
• The Shadows that Rush Past by Rachel A. Qitsualik (Inuit author and characters)

-Northeast Native Nations Characters and/or Authors

• Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac (Mohawk characters, Abenaki author)
• Whispers in the Dark by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki author)
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Black/Iowa(Báxoǰe) author)
• The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk author and main character) 
• Chancers by Gerald Vizenor (Chippewa character and author)
• Ghost in the Rainbow by Joan Leslie Woodruff (Shawnee characters)

-Plains Native Nations Characters and/or Authors

• Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess (Oglala Lakota character)
• Anoka by Shane Hawk (Dakota characters, Cheyenne author)
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot/Niitsitapi characters and author)
• The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot/Niitsitapi characters and author)
• Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot/Niitsitapi characters and author)
• Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot/Niitsitapi characters and author)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot/Niitsitapi characters and author)
• The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Sioux/Dakota characters and author)

-Southeast Native Nations Characters and/or Authors

• Tribal Screams by Owl Goingback (Choctaw and Cherokee author)
• Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina (Tunica-Biloxi author)
• Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina (Tunica-Biloxi characters and author)
• The Hatak Witches by Devon A. Mihesuah (Choctaw author)
• Dark River by Louis Owens (Choctaw author)
• Bone Games by Louis Owens (Choctaw author)
• Billy Buckhorn: Abnormal by Gary Robinson (Cherokee author and characters)
• Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers (Cherokee author) 
• The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan by William Sanders (Cherokee author and characters)
• How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle (Choctaw characters and author)
• Bad Medicine by Ron Querry (Choctaw author)
• White Horse by Erika T. Wurth (Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee author)

-Southwest Native Nations Characters and/or Authors

• When Spirits Walk by Christine Gentry (Navajo characters)
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache author and main character)
• Grandfather's Story of Navajo Monsters by Richard Red Hawk (Navajo/Diné characters and author)
• Ghost Singer by Anna Lee Walters (Navajo/Diné author)
• After Obsession by Carrie Jones and Steven E. Wedel (Navajo character)

Books with Asian Characters and/or Authors

- Chinese Characters and/or Authors

• Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown (Biracial Chinese American protagonist)
• The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson (Chinese American characters)
• Cacy & Kiara and the Curse of the Ki'i by Roy Chang (Chinese American characters and author)
• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (Chinese characters and Malaysian Chinese author)
• A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales by Ying Chang Compestine (Chinese characters and author)
• The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (Chinese Filipino author)
• The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco (Japanese-American characters and Chinese Filipino author)
• Devil's Call by J. Danielle Dorn (Chinese-American main character)
• Dance Among the Flames by Tori Eldridge (Multiracial Chinese author)
• Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine (Chinese characters)
• Natural Beauty: A Novel by Ling Ling Huang (Chinese American characters and author)
• Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge by Yun Ji (Chinese characters and author)
• Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healy (Chinese New Zealand character)
• Valley of Terror by Zhou Haohui (Chinese characters and author)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Chinese American characters)
• Hell's Game by Teresa Lo (Chinese American character and author)
• Severance by Lin Ma (Chinese American author and main character)
• The Evolutionist by Rena Mason (Author is of Chinese and Thai descent)
• Possess by Gretchen McNiel (Chinese American character)
• Asian Ghost Short Stories edited by Lee Murray  (Biracial Chinese New Zealander)
• IInto the Mist by Lee Murray (Biracial Chinese New Zealander)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women edited by by Lee Murray (Biracial Chinese New Zealander) and Geneve Flynn (Malaysian-Chinese Australian)
• Shockadelica by Jon O'Bergh (Chinese-Canadian main character)
• Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan (Chinese characters and Taiwanese American author)
• Chlorine by Jade Song (Chinese American main character and author)
• The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan (Chinese characters)
• The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (Chinese-American character)
• In the Dark We Forget by Sandra S.G. Wong (Chinese-Canadian author and main character)
• Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee (Chinese-Candian author and Chinese characters)
• Direwood by Catherine Yu (Chinese American author)
• Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu (Chinese American author and characters)
• The Shadow Book of Ji Yun by Ji Yun (Chinese American author)

- Hong Konger Characters and/or Authors

• The Plague by Kevin Chong (Hong Konger author)
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Hong Konger-English author)
• Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee (Hong Konger characters)

- Japanese Characters and/or Authors

• Queen of K'n-Yan by Ken Asamatsu (Japanese characters and authors)
• Another by Yukito Ayatsuji (Japanese characters and author)
• The Decagon by Yukito Ayatsuji (Japanese characters and author)
• The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco (Japanese-American characters)
• Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Rampo Edogawa  (Japanese characters and author)
• REEK by Bradley Freeman (Japanese main character)
• Obake: Ghost Stories in Hawai'i by Glen Grant (Japanese and Japanese-American characters)
• 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad (Japanese main character)
• The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa (Japanese American author)
• The Deep by Alma Katsu (Biracial Japanese-American woman)
• The Hunger by Alma Katsu (Biracial Japanese-American woman)
• The Frevor by Alma Katsu (Biracial Japanese-American woman)
• Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda (Biracial Japanese author and main character)
• Out by Natsuo Kirino (Japanese characters and author)
• The Crimson Labyrinth by Yusuke Kishi  (Japanese characters and author)
• Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kohara (Japanese author)
• The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike (Japanese characters and author)
• The Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku  (Japanese characters and author)
• Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (Japanese American main character)
• Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Japense author)
• In the Miso Soup by Ryu Maurakami (Japanese characters and author)
• Audition by Ryu Maurakami (Japanese characters and author)
• Confessions by Kanae Minato (Japanese author and characters)
• Bødy by Asa Nonami (Japanese characters and author)
• Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami  (Japanese characters and author)
• Revenge by Yoko Ogawa (Japanese author and characters)
• Goth by Otsuichi (Japanese characters and author)
• Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena (Japanese characters and author)
• Dark Water by Kōji Suzuki (Japanese characters and author)
• Ring by Koji Suzuki (Japanese characters and author)
• MM9 by Hiroshi Yamamoto (Japanese author and characters)
• Bitter Suites by Angela Yuriko Smith (Shimanchu-American)
• The Braid by Angela Yuriko Smith (Shimanchu-American) 
• End of Mae by Angela Yuriko Smith (Shimanchu-American)

- Korean Characters and/or Authors

• Skin Food by Type A (Korean characters and author)
• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (Korean-American author) 
• Cacy & Kiara and the Curse of the Ki'i by Roy Chang (Korean American characters)
• Behind the Mask by Yangsook Choi (Korean-American author and characters)
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (Korean author and characters)
• Under My Skin by Juno Dawson (Korean-British character)
• The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong (Korean characters and author)
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Korean characters and author)
• The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim (Korean American author)
• Fairest Flesh by K.P. Kulski (Korean-American author)
• House of Pungsu by K.P. Kulski (Korean-American author and Korean characters)
• The Underground Village: Short Stories by Kang Kyeong-ae (Korean characters and author)
• Infinity House by Shane McKenzie (Korean American author)
• Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh (Korean American characters and author)
• The Hole by Pyun Hye Young (Korean characters and author)
• The Haunting of Pico by Patrick Kampman (Korean-American main character)

- Taiwanese Characters and/or Authors

• The Butcher's Wife by Li Ang (Taiwanese author and characters)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Filipino-Taiwanese author)
• Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan (Taiwanese American author)
• Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu (Taiwanese American author)

- Southeast Asian Characters and/or Authors

• Horror: Philippine Fiction for Young Adults by Dean Francis Alfar (Filipino characters and author)
• The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf (Malaysian character and author)
• Ghost Moon Night by Jewel Allen (Filipino characters and author)
• The Final Women by Pardeep Aujla (Vietnamese-American main character)
• She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin (Indonesian author)
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Malaysian-English main character and author)
• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (Malaysian Chinese author)
• The Blood Prince of Langkasuka by Tutu Dutta (Malaysian author and characters)
• Glass Slipper Dreams, Shattered by Doungjai Gam (mixed race Thai and Laotian)
• Horror Stories by Tunku Halim (Malaysian characters and author)
• Dark Demon Rising by Tunku Halim (Malaysian characters and author)
• The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier (Filipino major character and Filipino author)
• Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier (Filipino author)
• The Disallowed: The Tale of a Contemporary Vampire Family by Owen Jones (Thai characters)
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (Malaysian author)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Malaysian main character and author)
• The Judgment by Chart Korbjitti (Thai characters and author)
• The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith (Vietnamese characters and Vietnamese author)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Filipino-Taiwanese author)
• Raising Hell by Aurelio Rico Lopez II (Filipino)
• The Evolutionist by Rena Mason (Author is of Chinese and Thai descent)
• Sleep alone by J.A.W. McCarthy (Thai American author)
• Sometimes We're Cruel and Other Stories by J.A.W. McCarthy (Thai American author)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women edited by by Lee Murray (Biracial Chinese New Zealander) and Geneve Flynn (Malaysian-Chinese Australian)
• Age of Blight Kristine Ong Muslim (Filipino author)
• Taiping Tales of Terror by Julya Ou (Malaysian author)
• Cradle and Grave by Anya Ow (Singaporean-Austrailan)
• Filipino Ghost Stories: Spine-Tingling Tales of Supernatural Encounters and Hauntings by Alex G. Paman (Filipino characters and author)
• Heir by P.K Reeves (Biracial Filipino author)
• Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan (Taiwanese American author)
• The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan (Malay author and characters)
• Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories by Yvette Tan (Filipino author and characters)
• Waking the Dead and Other Horror Stories by Yvette Tan (Filipino author and characters)
• She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Vietnamese American author)
• Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap (Filipino author)

- Indian Characters and/or Authors

• Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal (Indian characters and author)
• Avenue of Death by Akash Bansal (Indian author)
• The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (Indo-Tobagonian characters)
• Hell’s Children by Andrew Boland (Indian characters and author)
• Dark Tales by Venita Coelho (Indian author and characters)
• Whisper In The Wind and Dark Tales by Venita Coelho (Indian author and characters)
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (Indian-American side character)
• The Devourers by Indra Das (Indian author and characters)
• The Evil Trance by Mark Dysan (Indian author and characters)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Igbo and Tamil author)
• Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa by Jessica Faleiro (Indian characters and author)
• The other side: Dare to visit alone by Faraaz Kazi (Indian characters and author)
• Dead: A Ghost Story by Mina Khan (Indian author and characters)
• Indigo Awakening by Hanika Kumar (Indian author and characters)
• The Frequent Visitor by Hari Kumar (Indian author and characters)
• White Tears by Hari Kunzru (Kashmiri English author)
• The Green Room by Nag Mani (Indian author and characters)
• The Face At the Window by Kiran Manral (Indian author and characters)
• All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma (Indian English author)
• Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma (Indian English author)
• Frankly Spooking by Sriramana Muliya (Indian author and characters)
• The Woods are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins (Indian-American main character)
• The Mine by Arnab Ray (Indian characters and author)
• The Grimmer by Naben Ruthnum (Indian Canadian main character and author)
• Come Tomorrow: And Other Tales of Bangalore Terror by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy (Indian characters and author)
• Let The Game Begin by Sandeep Sharma (Indian characters and author)
• The Haunting of Cabin Green by April A. Taylor (Indian America character)
• Babu and Bina at the Ghost Party by P. Tomar and Giulia Iacopini (Indian characters and author)

- Non-Indian South Asian Characters and/or Authors

• The Mother-in-Law Cure by Farha Z. Hasan (Pakistani characters)
• The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi  (Bangladeshi characters)

-Pacific Islander/Indigenous Polynesian characters

• Hawai'i's Best Spooky Tales Series by Rick Carroll (Hawaiian characters)
• Cacy & Kiara and the Curse of the Ki'i by Roy Chang (Native Hawaiian characters)
• Dance Among the Flames by Tori Eldridge (Mixed race Hawaiian author)
• REEK by Bradley Freeman (Maori character)
• Glen Grant's Chicken Skin Tales by Glen Grant (Hawaiian characters)
• Obake: Ghost Stories in Hawai'i by Glen Grant (Hawaiian characters)
• The Bone Tiki by David Hair (Maori characters)
• Butcherbird by Cassie Hart (Maori author)
• Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healy (Maori character)
• Haunted Hawaiian Nights by Lopaka Kapanui (Hawaiian characters and author)
• The Legend of Morgan's Corner and Other Ghost Stories of Hawai'i by Lopaka Kapanui  (Hawaiian characters and author)
• Fairest Flesh by K.P. Kulski (Hapa author)
• Bedding the Lamia: Tropical Horrors by David Kuraria (Maori author)
• Flight of the Fantail by Steph Matuku (Maori author)
• Drive, She Said and Other Stories by Tracie McBride (Maori author)
• Ghosts Can Bleed by Tracie McBride (Maori author)
• There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins (Hawaiian character)
• Hounds of the Underworld by Dan Rabarts (Maori author) and Lee Murray

Books with Black characters and/or Authors

- Afro-Caribbean Characters and/or Authors

• The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (Afro-Tobagonian characters and author)
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (Trinidadian author)
• The Good House by Tananarive Due (Caribbean character)
• Creatures Of The Night: Tales Of Caribbean Folklore, Mystery & Superstition by Aurora Gayle (Caribbean characters and author)
• Mojo: Conjure Stories by Nalo Hopkinson (Caribbean characters and Jamaican-Canadian author)
• Skin Folk: Stores by Nalo Hopkinson (Caribbean characters and Jamaican-Canadian author)
• Tales of the Caribbean: Witches and Duppies by Evan Jones (Caribbean characters)
• The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories by Martin Munro (Various Caribbean authors and characters)
• Everything I Know About Zombies I Learned in Kindergarten by Kevin Wayne Williams (Trinidad and Jamaican-American characters) 

- Afro-Haitian Characters and/or Authors

• Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre

- Black American and European Characters and/or Authors

• Hell At the Way Station by Marc L. Abbott and Steven Van Patten (Black authors and characters) 
• Jackal by Erin E. Adams  (Black author and characters)
• How To Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda D. Addison (Black characters and author)
• The Seer's Table by Linda Addison (Black author)
• Graveyard Love by Scott Adlerberg (Black author)
• Str8 Laced by Pheare Alexander  (Black author)
• The Skeleton Flute by Damara Allen (Black author and characters)
• One Blood by Qwantu Amaru (Black characters and author)
• Agatha by Anonymous (Black character)
• We are Hear to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Black characters and author)
• The Final Women by Pardeep Aujla (Black Main Character)
• Doll by Miracle Austin (Black author)
• Right Bites by Miracle Austin (Black author)
• Mimic: African Horror by Angel Berry (Black characters and author)
• Doll by Miracle Austin  (Black author)
• Right Bites by Miracle Austin  (Black author)
• Minion by L.A. Banks (Black characters and author)
• Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (Black, queer main character and author)
• You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (Black, queer main character and author)
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (Black characters)
• Necromancy by Darlene Black (Black author)
• The Revenant Road by Michael Boatman (Black author)
• Who Wants to be The Prince of Darkness? by Michael Boatman (Black author)
• The Elementals by Michael McDowell Boatman (Black characters)
• Dia of the Dead by Brit Brinson (Afro-Latina main character and Black author)
• Devil's Marionette by Maurice Broaddus (Black characters and author)
• Knights of Breton Court by Maurice Broaddus (Black author)
• Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown (Biracial Black protagonist)
• The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown (Black character and author)
• In The Footsteps of a Killer by Denise J. Bryson (Black author)
• Let’s Play White by Chesya Burke (Black characters and author)
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Black characters and author)
• Kindred by Octavia Butler (Black characters and author)
• Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection by Tara Campbell (Black author)
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (Black author)
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (Black main characters and Author)
• The Brave and the Wicked by Brandon Clarke (Black author)
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (Black main character and author)
• The Spite House by Johnny Compton (Black author)
• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (Black author)
• Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman (Black author and characters)
• Rootwork by Tracy Cross (Black main charaters and author)
• Tuesday Apocalypse by Vicy Cross (Black author)
• Deadly Magnolia by Arielle Crowell (Black main charaters and author)
• When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead, ed. Lauren T. Davila (Black authors)
• The Black Heart: A Dark Disturbing Cannibalistic Murder Thriller by Allen Dark (Black author)
• Pretty Evil Paperback by Lexi Davis (Black author)
• Loving Among the Dead by Dahlia DeWinters (Black main characters and authors)
• The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass (Black main characters and authors)
• Panic by Sharon Draper (Black characters and author)
• The Between by Tananarive Due (Black characters and author)
• The Good House by Tananarive Due  (Black characters and author)
• My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due  (Black characters and author)
• Carnivàle by WC Dunlap (Black author)
• Daymares by Kenya Moss-Dyme (Black characters and author)
• Good Ghost Gone Bad by Janiera Alexandria Eldridge (Black author)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Black main character and author)
• Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis (Black author and characters)
• Conquer by Edward M. Erdelac (Black characters)
• The Black Girl Survives in This One, edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell
• Fuller's Curse Paperback by Ann Fields (Black characters and author)
• Madame Lilly, Voodoo Priestess by Dormaine G (Black main characters and authors)
• Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill (Black characters)
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Black characters and Black/Native author)
• Camp Mosquito by Mellissa Green (Black author)
• Terror Text by Robin Green (Black author)
• Demented Dimension: An Erotic Psycho-Horror Anthology by Dicey Grenor  (Black author)
• Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess (Black main character and author)
• The Other Black Girl By Zakiya Dalila Harris (Black author)
• The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (Black author)
• 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad (Black main character)
• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (Black biracial main character and author)
• The Other Child Kindle by Chanel Harry (Black author)
• Heebie Jeebies: Tales of Terror by Chanel Harry (Black author)
• The Girl in Red by Christina Henry (Black biracial main character)
• Bacchanal by Veronica G. Henry (Black author)
• Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon (Black main character and author)
• Splinter by Jasper Hyde (Black main character and author)
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Black characters and author) 
• Tales From Cabin 23 by Justina Ireland (Black author and main character)
• Scream Site by Justina Ireland (Black Author)
• White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson (Black author and characters)
• Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel by A. W. Jantha (Two black main characters)
• Mixtape for the Apocalypse by Jemiah Jefferson (Black author)
• Voice Of The Blood by Jemiah Jefferson (Black author)
• Moonshine by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Black characters and author) 
• Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted by RJ Joseph (Black author)
• Monstrous Domesticity by R. J. Joseph (Black author)
• The House of Erzulie by Kirsten Imani Kasai (Biracial Black characters and author)
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (Black characters)
• The World Wasn't Ready For You by Justin C. Key (Black author)
• There's Something Wrong in Morrington County by Ryan Kinney (Black main characters and author)
• The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy (Black major character)
• The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy (Black major character
• Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn (Black author)
• Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire by Nicole Givens Kurtz (Black characters and authors)
• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (Black main character)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Black main character and author)
• The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle  (Black author)
• ParaMourn by John Edward Lawson (Black author)
• Monstrous by Jessica Lewis (Black author and main character)
• Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko (Black major character)
• Thunderland by Brandon Massey (Black author)
• Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr (Black main character and author)
• The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Black characters and author)
• Ten by Gretchen McNeil (Black major character)
• When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen (Black main character and author)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Black characters and author)
• Daymares by Kenya Moss-Dyme (Black author and characters)
• Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow 
• All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology edited by Circe Moskowitz
• The Black Exorcist by Joseph Nazel (Black characters and author) 
• All the Dead Men by Errick Nunnally (Black main character and author)
• Blood for the Sun by Errick Nunnally (Black main character and author)
• Shadow Shapers by Daniel Jose Older (Afro-Latina character)
• The Sleepless by Nuzo Onoh (Nigerian British author)
• Unhallowed Graves by Nuzo Onoh (Nigerian British author)
• The Dark World by S.C. Parris (Black author)
• The Everlasting by Rasheedah Prioleau (Gullah author)
• Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves (Biracial Black main character and black author)
• Voodoo Season by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Black characters and author)
• Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (Black author and Black main character of unknown area)
• White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig (Black major character)
• In the House of Transcendence by Amanda Ross (Black authors and characters)
• Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce (Black author and characters)
• Root Magic by Eden Royce (Black author and characters)
• Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror by Eden Royce (Black characters and author)
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Black characters)
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Black main characters and author)
• Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury (Black author and main character)
• Portrait of Lysbeth by Rama Santa Mansa (Black author and main character)
• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Black characters)
• Silverfish by Rone Shavers (Black characters and author)
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea (Black main character and author)
• Hoo Doo by Ronald L. Smith (Black characters and author)
• There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer (Black author and main character)
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Black, biracial main character)
• Black Magic Women: Terrifying Tales by Scary Sisters edited by Sumiko Saulson 
• The Haunting of Cabin Green by April A. Taylor (Black character) 
• Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas (Black author and characters)
• Unshod, Cackling, and Naked by Tamika Thompson (Black author and characters)
• Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (Black main character and Afrolatine author)
• Killer Genius: She Kills Because She Cares by Steven Van Patten (Black author)
• Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers by various (Black characters and authors)
• No One's Going to Take her Soul Away by Amanda B. Weaver (Black main character and author)
• The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington (Black author and characters)
• Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington (Black main character and author)
• The Book Of A Thousand Sins by Wrath James White (Black author)
• Like Porno for Psychos by Wrath James White (Black author)
• Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White (Black author)
• Population Zero by Wrath James White (Black author)
• The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White (Black author)
• Succulent Prey by Wrath James White (Black author)
• Everything I Know About Zombies I Learned in Kindergarten by Kevin Wayne Williams (Black characters)
• Crescendo by L. Marie Wood (Black author)
• The Promise Keeper by L. Marie Wood (Black author)

- Indigenous Australian Characters and/or Authors

• Shutter by Courtney Alameda (Major character is part Indigenous Australian)

(For North African characters and authors see MENA/Arab)

- East-African Characters and/or Authors

• Dhegdheer, A Scary Somali Folktale by Marian A Hassan (Somalis characters and author)

- West-African Characters and/or Authors

• Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle (Nigerian characters and author)
• Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda (Nigerian author and characters)
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Nigerian characters and author)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Igbo and Tamil author)
• Shockadelica by Jon O'Bergh (Nigerian/Irish biracial main character)
• The Sleepless by Nuzo Onoh (African characters and Nigerian British author)
• Unhallowed Graves by Nuzo Onoh (African characters and Nigerian British author)
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (Nigerian British author and Nigerian characters)
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (Afro European minor characters and Nigerian British author)
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola (Nigerian author and characters)

Books with Latino/e/x Characters and/or Authors

• Shutter by Courtney Alameda (Latina author)
• Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda (Latina main character and author)
• The Final Women by Pardeep Aujla (Latina Main character)
• Dia of the Dead by Brit Brinson (Afro-Latina main character)
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (Hispanic character and author)
• Shadow Shapers by Daniel Jose Older (Afro-Latina character and Latino author) 
• A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories edited by Richard A. Santos (Various Latine/x authors)
• Hooker by M. Lopes Da Silva (Latinx/e author)
• Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (Afrolatine author)
• Everything I Know About Zombies I Learned in Kindergarten by Kevin Wayne Williams (Hispanic and Latino/x/e characters)
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- Dominican Republic

• Malicia by Steven dos Santos (Dominican author and characters)

- Mexican and Xicane/x (Chicane/x) Characters and/or Authors

• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo (Mexican American author and characters)
• Children of the River Ghost by Alexandra Aceves (Mexican American character and author) 
• Mexican Ghost Tales of the Southwest by Alfred Avila  (Mexican and Mexican American characters)
• The Deading by Nicholas Belardes (Mexican American author)
• Chupacabra Vengeance by David Bowles (Mexican American author)
• Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley by David Bowles (Mexican American author)
• The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (Mexican main characters and author)
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas (Mexican American author)
• Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral (Mexican American author)
• The Monsters of Chavez Ravine by Debra Castaneda (Mexican-American author and characters)
• The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro  (Chicana author and characters)
• Goddess of Filth by V. Castro (Chicana author and characters)
• Mestiza Blood by V. Castro (Chicana author and characters)
• Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro (Chicana author and characters)
• Hell Chose Me by Angel Luis Colón (Mexican-American author)
• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (Mexican author)
• Letters to the Damned by Austin Crawley (Mexican British Main character)
• The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Davila (Mexican author and characters)
• The Illiac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexican author)
• Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys by Xavier Garza (Mexican-American characters and author)
• Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill (Mexican Americans characters)
• Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez (Mexican American author)
• The Visitor by Sergio Gomez (Mexican American author)
• The Beloved by J.F. Gonzalez (Mexican American author)
• Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez (Mexican American author)
• Through Dry Places by D.H. Gutierrez (Mexican American author)
• Piñata: A Novel by Leopoldo Gout (Mexican main characters)
• La Llorona, the Weeping Woman by Joe Hayes (Mexican characters and authors)
• Stargazers by L.P. Hernandez (Mexican American author)
• No Gods, Only Chaos by L.P. Hernandez (Mexican American author)
• Dreadful: Tales of the Dead and Dying by L.P. Hernandez (Mexican American author)
• Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias (Mexican characters)
• Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias (Mexican characters)
• The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude (Biracial Mexican American character)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Mexican-American main character and author)
• Itzá by Rios de la Luz (Xicana characters and author)
• Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry (Mexican American characters and Biracial Mexican American author)
• The Keeper by Guadalupe Garcia McCall 
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore (Mexican American character and author)
• Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Mexican American author)
• Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Mexican-American characters and author)
• This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno (Mexican American author)
• Certain Dark Things by Siliva Moreno-Garcia (Mexican and Indigenous Mexican characters and Mexican Canadian author)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican-Candian author and Mexican characters)
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican-Candian author and Mexican characters)
• This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic by Siliva Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Canadian author)
• Testament by Jose Nateras (Mexican-American main character and author)
• Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel A. Olivas (Mexican American author)
• Sundown in San Ojuela by M. M. Olivas (Chicana author)
• Out On a Limb by Luis Paredes (Mexican-American author and main character)
• Santa Muerte by Cynthia Pelayo (Mexican characters)
• Flowers For The Dead by Mary Rajotte (Mexican characters and biracial Mexican-Canadian author)
• The House on Moon Creek Ave by E. Reyes (Mexican-American author)
• Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo (Mexican characters)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Mexican American author)
• Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (Mexican American author)
• Cenote City by Monique Quintana (Chicana author)
• Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic by various (Mexican characters and authors)
• The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate (Mexican author)

- Cuban Characters and/or Authors

• A Festival of Ghosts by William Alexander (Latinx character, Cuban American author)
• Storm Orphans by Matt Handle (Cuban main character)
• Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado (Cuban-American author)
• Island of Bones by Gaby Triana (Cuban-American author and characters)
• Moon Child by Gaby Triana (Cuban-American author and characters)

- Puerto Rican Characters and/or Authors

• Category Five by Ann Dávila Cardinal (Puerto Rican author and characters)
• Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal (Puerto Rican characters and author)
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (Puerto Rican characters)
• Tales from the Invisible Continent by Tony Báez Milán (Puerto Rican author)
• Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes (Puerto Rican author)
• Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo (Puerto Rican author and main character)
• Loteria by Cynthia Pelayo (Puerto Rican characters and author)
• Proof of Lies by Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Biracial Puerto Rican author)
• Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez (Biracial Puerto Rican author)
• Small Town Monsters by by Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Half Puerto Rican author)

- Central American Characters and/or Authors

• Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya (Salvadoran author)

- South American Characters and/or Authors

• Ghosts by César Aira (Argentinean characters and author)
• The Sanctuary by Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya (Argentinian author) 
• Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (Argentinian author and characters)
• 2666 by Roberto Bolano (Chilean author and characters)
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (Ecuadorian American author)
• Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar (Argentinian author)
• End of the Game and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar (Argentinian author)
• Dance Among the Flames by Tori Eldridge (Brazilian main characters)
• Our Share of Night by Marina Enriquez (Argentinean author and characters)
• The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring (Argentine-American author, Argentinian characters)
• Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda (Ecuadorian author)
• Nefando by Monica Ojeda (Ecuadorian author)
• Those Who Remain by Priscila Santa Rosa (Brazilian American author)
• The Children by Carolina Sanin (Colombian characters and author)
• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Argentinean characters and author)
• Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (Argentinian author and characters)
• The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga (Uruguayan author)

Books with MENA (Middle Eastern, North African) and/or Arab characters and/or authors

• The Dark Pond by Joseph Bruchac (Armenian character)
• Abduction by Anouar Benmalek (Algerian characters, Moroccan authors)
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (Egyptian characters)
• The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Persian characters and author)
• Beware The Stranger by Ahmed Khalifa (Egyptian author)
• Egyptian Gothic: Stories From The Land of Pharaohs and Revolutions by Ahmed Khalifa (Egyptian characters and author) 
• Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi (MENA/Iranian-American author)
• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik
• From the Belly Emmett Nahil (Lebanese American author)
• Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani (Iranian author)
• The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi (Middle Eastern characters)
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Iraqi author)
• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Turkish protagonist)

Books with Characters and/or Authors with a Disability

All Books with Characters and/or Authors with Addiction

• Devil's Call by J. Danielle Dorn (Supporting character has alcohol dependence)
• On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (Character has addiction)

All Books with Autistic Characters and/or Authors 

• This Plague of Days Season One by Robert Chazz Chute (Autistic main character)
• Brutal Hearts by Cassie Daley (Autistic author)
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Autistic author)
• On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (Autistic main character and author)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Autistic main characters and authors)
• The End Games by T. Michael Martin (Character implied to have autism)
• The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan (Autistic Author)
• Snakes Eyes by Hillary Monahan (Autistic Author)
• Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (Autistic Author)
• Even if we Break by Marieke Nijkamp (Autistic author)
• The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan  (Autistic author)
• MARY: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan  (Autistic author)
• Snakes Eyes by Hillary Monahan  (Autistic author)
• Basement Beauty by Carmilla Voiez (Autistic author)
• Broken Mirror and Other Morbid Tales by Carmilla Voiez (Autistic author)
• Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (autistic main character and author)
• The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (autistic main character and author)

All Books with Chronically Ill Characters and/or Authors 

• My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews (Multiple characters have chronic illnesses)
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray  (Character with epilepsy)
• Good Ghost Gone Bad by Janiera Alexandria Eldridge (Author has fibromyalgia) 
• The Dark Between by Sonia Gensler (Character with epilepsy)
• Dead Girls Society by Michelle Krys (Cystic fibrosis)
• The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (Main character has type I diabetes)
• What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard (Main character Xeroderma Pigmentosum)
• The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell (Character with Heart Condition)
• Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt (Character with autoimmune disease)
• Dark Muse by David Simms (Character has brittle bone disease)
• Demon King by Erik Henry Vick (Author has autoimmune disease)
• Errant Gods by Erik Henry Vick (Protagonist and author have autoimmune disease)

All Books with Characters and/or Authors with a Cognitive/Learning Disability

• The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (major character has unspecified learning disability)
• Dark Muse by David Simms (Character has dyslexia)

All Books with Deaf and Hearing Impaired Characters and/or Authors 

• Static! by Michael R. Collings (Hearing impaired author)
• Deaf House by Alexandra Connor (Deaf characters)
• A Place for Sinners by Aaron Dries (Deaf main character)
• The Legend of Five Great Deaf Ghost Stories by James (Casey) Gillies (Deaf author and characters)
• Camp Mosquito by Mellissa Green (Author is hard of hearing)
• Shrine by James Herbert (Major character is Deaf/mute)
• InSight by Polly Iyer (Deaf main character)
• Soul Catcher by Colin Kersey (Deaf character)
• The Unfinished by Jay B. Laws (Deaf main character)
• The Silence by Tim Lebbon (Deaf main character)
• Silent Fear by Lance Morcan (Deaf characters)
• Apparitions by Adam Pottle (Deaf author and main character)
  

All Books with Intellectually Disabled Characters and/or Authors

• My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews (Minor character has unspecified intellectual disability)

All Books with Characters and/or Authors with Mental Illness

• Devil's Call by J. Danielle Dorn (Author has mental illness)
• The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison (Main character has OCD)
• The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee (Character with bipolar disorder)
• The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (Mentally ill main character)
• The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Main character has bipolar disorder)
• Horrid by Katrina Leno (Main character with mental illness)
• The Hobgoblins of Little Minds by Mark Matthews  (Character with bipolar disorder)
• All The Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley (Main character with anxiety disorder)
• A Madness so Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (Main character with mental illness)
• Cryer’s Cross by Lisa McMann (Main character has OCD)
• Ten by Gretchen McNei (Major character with Bipolar disorder)
• Carousel by Sarah McKnight (Main character has anxiety disorder)
• Asian Ghost Short Stories edited by Lee Murray (Author has anxiety and depression)
• Into the Mist by Lee Murray (Author has anxiety and depression)
• The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle (Characters with mental illness)
• The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing (character with unknown disorder)
• Into the Mist by Lee Murray (author has anxiety and depression)
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (Main character has Pica)
• Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves (Main character has bipolar disorder)
• This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (Main character has depression)
• Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana (character with eating disorder)
• The Last House on Needless Street by Catorina Ward (Character with dissociative identity disorder)

All Books with Physically Disabled and/or Mobility Impaired Characters and/or Authors

• My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews (Author and multiple characters have physical disabilities)
• The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver (Main character is quadriplegic)
• The Girl in Red by Christina Henry (Main character has a prosthetic leg)
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off by by Stephen Graham Jones (Paraplegic character)
• Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King (Main character uses a wheelchair)
• Midnight by Dean Koontz (Side character uses a wheelchair)
• Another Elizabeth by Elle Mitchell (Main character and author have hEDS)
• The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes (Main character is an amputee)
• Errant Gods by Erik Henry Vick (Main character has a physical disability)
• Odd & Tru by Cat Winters (Character with Polio)

All Books with Characters and/or Authors with PTSD

• Shutter by Courtney Alameda (Main character has PTSD)
• Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon (Main character has PTSD and anxiety)
• The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (Main character has PTSD)
• The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes (Main character has PTSD)

All Books with Characters and/or Authors with a Speech Disorder

• Skull Session by Daniel Hecht (Main character with Tourette's syndrome)
• The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (major character is mute)

All Books with Blind and/or Low Vision Characters and/or Authors

• Murder in Bastille by Cara Black (Blind main character)
• Annerton Pit by Peter Dickinson (Blind main character)
• Camp Mosquito by Mellissa Green (Blind author)
• Girl, Stolen by April Henry (Blind main character)
• InSight by Polly Iyer (Blind main character)
• Blindness by Jose Saramago (Blind characters)
• Dark Muse by David Simms (Blind character)
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (Blind characters)

Books With LGBTQIA Characters and/or Authors

All Books with Asexual Characters and/or Authors

• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (asexual minor character)
• Dreams of Shreds and Tatters by Amanda Downum (Asexual main character)
• Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys (Asexual main character)
• Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healy (Asexual major character)
• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (Asexual main character)
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (asexual author and main character)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Asexual main characters and author)
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore (Demisexual author)
• Bittersweet Symphony by Rebecca McNutt (Asexual character and author)
• The Crows by C. M Rosen (Asexual, aromantic main character)
• Beyond the Black Door by AdriAnne Strickland (Asexual main character and author)
• Now Entering Adamsville by Francesca Zappia (Asexual character and author)

All Books with Bisexual, Polysexual, and/or Pansexual Characters and/or Authors

• Crescentville Haunting by M.N. Bennet (Bisexual main character, queer author)
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (Bisexual side character)
• We are Wormwood by Autumn Christian (Bisexual author)
• The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro (Bisexual main character and author)
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (Bisexual main character and side character)
• Brutal Hearts by Cassie Daley (Bisexual main character and author)
• The Devourers by Indra Das (Bisexual characters)
• Malicia by Steven dos Santos (Bisexual character)
• On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (Author is Bisexual)
• All the Bad Apples, by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (Bisexual characters)
• A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson (Bisexual characters)
• F4 by Larissa Glasser (Bisexual main character)
• The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman (Bisexual protagonist)
• The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl (Bisexual main character)
• The Girl in Red by Christina Henry (Bisexual main character)
• The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (Bisexual main character)
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (Bisexual author)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Bisexual main character and author)
• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (Bisexual main characters)
• Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic by Catherine Lundoff (Bisexual author)
• Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado (Bisexual characters and author)
• This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau (Bisexual author)
• A Blackness Absolute by Caitlin Marceau (Bisexual author)
• Magnum Opus by Caitlin Marceau (Bisexual author)
• The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (Bisexual main character and author)
• Another Elizabeth by Elle Mitchell (Main character is bisexual)
• Lunatic Fringe by Allison Moon (Bisexual characters)
• The Lights by Carrie Pack (Bisexual author)
• Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo (Bisexual main character and author)
• Heir by P.K Reeves (Bisexual author)
• The Man Who Died Twice by Patrick Scattergood (Pansexual author)
• Mother Dearest by Patrick Scattergood (pansexual author)
• I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea (Bisexual main character)
• Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine (Bisexual main character)
• What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo (Bisexual Main character)
• Dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas (Bisexual main character)
• The Ballerina and the Revolutionary by Carmilla Voiez  (Bisexual author)
• Basement Beauty by Carmilla Voiez (Bisexual author)
• Broken Mirror and Other Morbid Tales by Carmilla Voiez  (Bisexual author)
• Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters (Bisexual main character)
• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (Bisexual characters)

All Books with Gay/Queer Men Characters and/or Authors

• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram (Gay authors and characters)
• Clown In A Cornfield by Adam Cesare (Gay side characters)
• The Books of Blood by Clive Barker (Gay author)
• The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker (Gay author)
• The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (Gay author)
• Practical Devil Worship (For All the Family) by James Bennett (Gay author)
• Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman (Gay character and author)
• Claustrophilia by Ezra Blake (Gay characters and author)
• Spirit Houses by Die Booth (Queer author)
• Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown (Gay main character)
• Pumpkin Teeth by Tom Cardamone (Gay characters and author)
• Fallocaust series by Quil Carter (Gay characters and author)
• The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Gay main character and author)
• My Boyfriend's Back by Elliot Cooper (Gay characters and author)
• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (queer Mexican author)
• The Skull of Truth by Bruce Coville (Side character is gay)
• We Mostly Come Out at Night edited by Rob Costello (queer authors and characters)
• Family Values by Brandon Cracraft (Gay author)
• Saint Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo (Gay author and characters)
• Camp Carnage by Elliot Arthur Cross (Gay characters and author)
• I Was a Gay Teenage Zombie by Alison Cybe (Gay main character)
• Red X by David Demchuk (Gay characters and author)
• The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass (Gay main character and author)
• Malicia by Steven dos Santos (Queer male author and characters)
• The Fallen Boys by Aaron Dries (Gay author)
• The House of Signs by Aaron Dries (Gay author)
• A Place for Sinners by Aaron Dries (Gay main character and author)
• Willy by Robert Dunbar (Gay characters and authors)
• Conquer by Edward M. Erdelac (Gay characters)
• The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge (Gay character)
• The Hexslinger Trilogy by Gemma Files (Gay character)
• The Bright Lands by John Fram (Gay author)
• REEK by Bradley Freeman (Gay main character)
• The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht (Gay main characters)
• Asylum by Mark Allan Gunnells (Gay characters and author)
• 2B by Mark Allan Gunnells (Gay main character and author)
• Where the Dead Go to Die by Aaron Dries and Mark Allan Gunnells (Gay characters and author)
• Welcome to Smileyland by Spencer Hamilton (Gay character)
• Hainted by Jordan L. Hawk (Gay characters)
• Widdershins by Jordan Hawk (Gay main characters)
• Night Shadows: Queer Horror by Greg Herren (Queer characters and authors)
• Blood Divine by Greg Howard (Queer characters and authors)
• The Boys on the Mountain by John Inman (Gay character and author)
• Willowman by John Inman (Gay character and author)
• The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (Gay side characters)
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off by by Stephen Graham Jones (Gay characters)
• There's Something Wrong in Morrington County by Ryan Kinney (Gay main characters and author)
• Convulsive by Joe Koch (Gay author)
• The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch (Gay author)
• The Unfinished by Jay B. Laws (Gay main character and author)
• The Glittering World by Robert Levy (Gay characters and author)
• The Three by Sarah Lotz (Gay main character)
• Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Queer characters and author)
• Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga by Michael McDowell (Gay author)
• Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell (Gay author)
• The Elementals by Michael McDowell (Gay author)
• Bloodbound by Chase McPherson (Gay author)
• Matt Powers Lives! by K.A. Merikan (Gay characters)
• Stung by K.A. Merikan  (Gay characters)
• The Bone Key by Sarah Monette (Gay main character)
• From the Belly Emmett Nahil (Queer author)
• Testament by Jose Nateras (Gay main character and author)
• More Than This by Patrick Ness (Gay character and author)
• Shockadelica by Jon O'Bergh (Gay main character)
• Sundown in Ojuela by Matthew Olivas (Queer author)
• Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen  (Gay character)
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (Gay main character)
• The Bayou Arden Powell (Gay main character)
• Odd Adventures with your Other Father by Norman Prentiss (Gay character)
• A Demon Inside by Rick R Reed (Gay characters and author)
• IM by Rick R. Reed (gay characters and author)
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (Gay author)
• White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig (Gay characters and author)
• Enter, Night by Michael Rowe (Gay character and author)
• October by Michael Rowe (Gay character and author)
• Wild Fell by Michael Rowe (Gay author)
• Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan (Gay characters and author)
• Santa is a Vampire by Damian Serbu (Gay main character and author)
• The Vampire's Angel (Gay main characters and author)
• Worship Me by Craig Stewart (Gay character and author)
• The Absence of Light by J. Daniel Stone (Gay author)
• Blood Kiss by J. Daniel Stone (Gay character and author)
• My Zombie Boyfriend by T. Strange  (Gay characters)
• Cold Fingers by Amy Spector (Gay characters)
• What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo (Gay major character)
• The Haunting of Cabin Green by April A. Taylor (Gay characters)
• Dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas  (Gay characters and author)
• Torn by Lee Thomas (Gay characters and author)
• Kill Creek by Scott Thomas (Gay major character)
• Helleville by Hayden Thorne (Gay main character)
• The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (Gay characters)
• Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing by various (Queer male characters)
• Night Shadows: Queer Horror by various (Gay characters and authors)
• The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark by Warren Wagner (Gay main characters and author)
• (Un) Bury your Gays by Clinton W. Waters (Gay main characters and author)
• Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (queer main character and author)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde (Gay character and author)
• The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning (Gay author)
• The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate (Gay character)

All Books with Intersex Characters and/or Authors

• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (intersex main character)
• Ring by Koji Suzuki (Character with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome)

All Books with Lesbian/Queer Women Characters and/or Authors

• Children of the River Ghost by Alexandra Aceves (Lesbian characters)
• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram (Lesbian authors and characters)
• Breathe. Breathe. by Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi (Lesbian author)
• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (Lesbian main characters)
• Salt Slow Book by Julia Armfield (Queer character)
• The Final Women by Pardeep Aujla (Lesbian Main character)
• Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist (Queer protagonist)
• Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown (Queer protagonist)
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (Lesbian character)
• Burning by Jane Chambers (Lesbian author and characters)
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Queer main character)
• Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos (Lesbian character)
• We Mostly Come Out at Night edited by Rob Costello (queer authors and characters)
• My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham (Lesbian main characters)
• Camp Carnage by Elliot Arthur Cross (Lesbian character)
• The Price of Meat by KJ Charles (Queer protagonist)
• This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham (Lesbian characters)
• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Lesbian main characters and author)
• Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire by Amber Dawn (Lesbian characters and author)
• Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn (Queer main character and author)
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (lesbian main character)
• Devil's Call by J. Danielle Dorn (Lesbian author)
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Lesbian character)
• All the Bad Apples, by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (Lesbian main character, queer characters, queer author)
• Slow River by Nicola Griffith (Lesbian characters and author)
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Lesbian character and author)
• Welcome to Smileyland by Spencer Hamilton (Queer characters)
• Natural Beauty: A Novel by Ling Ling Huang (queer women characters)
• Night Shadows: Queer Horror by Greg Herren (Queer characters and authors)
• Eat your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram (Lesbian characters and author)
• Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel by A. W. Jantha  (Two lesbian main characters)
• The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude (Lesbian character)
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (Lesbian side character)
• The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Lesbian characters and author)
• The Red Tree by by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Lesbian characters and author)
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (Queer protagonists)
• The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion by Margaret Killjoy (Queer characters)
• The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy (Queer characters)
• The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller (Queer characters and author)
• The Cutting Room Floor by Dawn Klehr (Lesbian character)
• Child of Doors by J.S. Little (Lesbian protagonist)
• Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic by Catherine Lundoff (Queer characters)
• Itzá by Rios de la Luz (Queer character and author)
• Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado (Queer characters)
• Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (gay main character)
• Rules For Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall (Queer character)
• Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr (Lesbian main character and author)
• All The Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley (Lesbian main characters)
• Carousel by Sarah McKnight (Lesbian main characters)
• The Gold Persimmon, Lindsay Merbaum (queer author)
• The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan (Queer Author)
• MARY: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan (Queer Author)
• Snakes Eyes by Hillary Monahan (Queer characters and Author)
• Lunatic Fringe by Allison Moon (Lesbian characters and author)
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Lesbian characters)
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (Queer characters
• The Lights by Carrie Pack (Queer characters)
• Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Hailey Piper (queer author and characters)
• The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper (queer author)
• Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper (Lesbian characters)
• Benny Rose, the Cannibal King by Hailey Piper (queer author)
• No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper (queer author)
• Blood Countess by Lana Popović (Queer women characters)
• Wilder Girls by Rory Power (Queer characters)
• MapleCroft by Cherie Priest (Lesbian main character)
• Chlorine by Jade Song (Queer main character)
• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Lesbian characters)
• Winter Smith: London's Burning by J.S. Strange (Queer protagonist)
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Queer protagonists)
• As I Descended by Robin Talley (Lesbian characters and author)
• To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger
• The Haunting of Cabin Green by April A. Taylor (Queer author)
• Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (Queer main character)
• Carmilla by Kim Turrisi (Queer characters)
• Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing by various (Queer characters)
• Night Shadows: Queer Horror by various (Lesbian characters and authors)
• Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward (Queer characters)
• Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters (Lesbian characters)
• Affinity by Sarah Waters (Lesbian characters and authors)
• The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (Lesbian author)
• Crescendo by L. Marie Wood (Lesbian author)
• The Promise Keeper by L. Marie Wood (Lesbian author)

All Books with Non-Binary Characters and/or Authors

• Abnormal Statistics by Max Booth III (non-binary author)
• The Last Haunt by Max Booth III (non-binary author)
• We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III (non-binary author)
• The Mellification by Nat Buchbinder (non-binary author)
• Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender (non-binary author)
• Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri (non-binary author)
• My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham (non-binary author)
• This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham (Non-binary author)
• The Devourers by Indra Das (non-binary character)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (non-binary character and Trans/non-binary author)
• The Fisher of Bones by Sarah Gailey (non-binary author)
• In the Mind of Revenge by Liv Hadden (non-binary protagonist)
• Welcome to Smileyland by Spencer Hamilton (non-binary main character)
• Burn the Dark by S. A. Hunt (non-binary author)
• Convulsive by Joe Koch (non-binary author)
• The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch (non-binary author)
• Splinter by Jasper Hyde (Non-binary author)
• Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist (non-binary character)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Non-binary characters and authors)
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore (nob-binary author)
• Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (non-binary author)
• The Gold Persimmon, Lindsay Merbaum (non-binary character)
• Mary: the Summoning by Hillary Monahan (non-binary author)
• Mary: Unleashed by Hillary Monahan (non-binary author)
• Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (non-binary author)
• Even if we Break by Marieke Nijkamp (non-binary author)
• The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (Non-binary characters)
• The Bayou Arden Powell (non-binary author)
• Shagging the Boss Rebecca Rowland (non-binary main character)
• The Man Who Died Twice by Patrick Scattergood (non-binary author)
• Mother Dearest by Patrick Scattergood (non-binary author)
• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Genderqueer protagonist and author)
• Hooker by M. Lopes Da Silva (Non-binary author)
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (non-binary author)
• Beyond the Black Door by AdriAnne Strickland (non-binary author)
• In the Ravenous Dark by AdriAnne Strickland (non-binary author)
• Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories by Yvette Tan (Non-binary author)
• Waking the Dead and Other Horror Stories by Yvette Tan (Non-binary author)
• Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (non-binary author)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Trans/non-binary author)
• Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (Trans/non-binary author)
• Nefarious Nature by Jonathan W. Thurston (Non-binary author)
• She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Non-binary author)
• The Ballerina and the Revolutionary by Carmilla Voiez (Genderqueer main character)

All Books with Trans Characters and/or Authors

• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram (trans authors and characters)
• I Was a Gay Teenage Zombie by Alison Cybe (Trans woman author)
• Claustrophilia by Ezra Blake (Trans man author) 
• X,Y by Michael Blumlein (Trans main character)
• Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite (Trans man author)
• Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite (Trans man author)
• The Mellification by Nat Buchbinder (trans main character)
• Under My Skin by Juno Dawson (Trans woman author)
• Grave Matter by Juno Dawson (Trans woman author)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Trans main character and trans/non-binary author)
• Demonspawn by Christina Engela (Trans woman author)
• Conquer by Edward M. Erdelac (Trans characters)
• Heart of Stone by Johannes Evans (Trans author)
• Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Trans characters and trans author)
• Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror by Lor Gislason
• Transmuted by Eve Harms (Trans main character and author)
• Hainted by Jordan L. Hawk (Trans author)
• Widdershins by Jordan Hawk (Trans author)
• Psycho Nymph Exile by Porpentine Charity Heartscape (Trans women characters and author)
• F4 by Larissa Glasser (Trans women characters and author)
• The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Trans woman author and minor trans character)
• The Red Tree by by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Trans woman author)
• The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion by Margaret Killjoy (Trans male character and trans woman author)
• The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy (Trans male character and trans woman author)
• The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (Genderfluid main character and author)
• Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology edited by Aquino Loayza (Trans main characters and authors)
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore (trans-man character)
• Lunatic Fringe by Allison Moon (Trans man character)
• The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (Trans man author, gender fluid characters)
• Taiping: Tales of Terror by Julya Oui (Trans author)
• Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Hailey Piper (trans woman author)
• The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper (trans woman author and protagonist)
• Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper (trans woman author)
• Benny Rose, the Cannibal King by Hailey Piper (trans woman author)
• No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper (trans woman author)
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (Trans man author)
• Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfit (trans woman author)
• Tell me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt (Trans main character and author)
• 8:59:29 by Polly Schattel (Trans author)
• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Trans characters)
• For the Sake of: An extreme horror novel by Judith Sonnet (Trans woman author) 
• Repugnant : An Extreme Slasher by Judith Sonnet (Trans woman author)
• Torture the Sinners! by Judith Sonnet (Trans woman author)
• The Silver Path By Caitlin Spice (Trans woman author)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Trans man character and trans/enby author)
• Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (Trans/enby author)
• Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (trans man main character and author)
• The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (trans man main character and author)
• All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes (Trans man main character)
• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White (Trans main character and author) 
• Your Body is Not Your Body edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone (trans characters and author)