12 must-read audiobook books like Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

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Black Water Sister

By: Zen Cho

3.86

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Ma…

"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

If you liked the audiobook plot in Black Water Sister by Zen Cho , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Scale-Bright

By: Benjanun Sriduangkaew

3.79

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Julienne’s aunts are the archer who shot down the suns and the woman who lives on the moon. They te… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What is it that you long for best, that clenches teeth and claws over the ventricles of your heart?"

-Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Scale-Bright

"What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious."

-Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Scale-Bright

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2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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3. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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7. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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8. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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10. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

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12. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • queer
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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13. Upright Women Wanted

By: Sarah Gailey

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

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14. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

By: Tasha Suri

4.13

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
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  • queer
"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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15. Black Water Sister

By: Zen Cho

3.86

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Ma… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • queer
"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."

-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister

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16. Noches de Navidad

By: Patricia García-Rojo

3.98

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Cuentos de Navidad repletos de encanto y brujería, narrados por la poderosa pluma de nuestras autor… read more

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17. La quinta bruja

By: Angela Slatter

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las calles de Whitechapel destilan secretos, brujería y muerte. Kit Caswell es una joven policía… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan

18. She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time British Fantasy Award WinnerAstounding Award WinnerLambda Literary Award FinalistHugo Awar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I can do this. I can learn. I can survive."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"What I want has nothing to do with who wins." -Ouyang"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"With sufficient competence, there's no need of flattery"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

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19. Intermnemosis

By: Celia Corral-Vázquez

4.09

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Ya no hay vuelta atrás. Han secuestrado una nave, a una doctora y al último espécimen que queda de … read more

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20. Si un árbol cae en el bosque

By: Marina Tena Tena

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Una fría noche de septiembre de 1986, un grito rompe el silencio de la oscuridad. Con las primer… read more

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21. Lamusa

By: May López Fuentes

3.78

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Villamarea de la Sal ha olvidado la leyenda sobre la criatura anclada a las salinas. No la recuerda… read more

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Tamsyn Muir

4.35

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4.00

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Martha Wells

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