19 Best queer books like A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) by Freya Marske

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A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

By: Freya Marske

3.96

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes…

" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself back into wilderness."

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself back into wilderness."

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself back into wilderness. "

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself back into wilderness. "

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

If you liked the queer plot in A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) by Freya Marske , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.18

Format: 211 pages, ebook

Magic in the blood. Danger in the streets. Lord Crane has never had a lover quite as elusive as … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • magic
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"I like to make you know your master,"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly. "That comes later."

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for it. What is so particularly exciting about desks?"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Charm's a very dangerous thing. Lucien, tell me," Stephen said thoughtfully. "This respect for shamans, this inviolability..." "Mmm?" "Well, I don't know if you remember, but some three weeks ago, yo…"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

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2. The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.04

Format: 271 pages, ebook

A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, L… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • magic
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Have you seen the mummies at the British Museum?"

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"Someone wanted to choke me to death on my own hair?"

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering."

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

"He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed."

-K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)

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3. Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.56

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

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4. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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5. Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)

By: K.J. Charles

4.45

Format: 290 pages, ebook

Will Darling is all right. His business is doing well, and so is his illicit relationship with Kim … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"But you were always different,"

-K.J. Charles, Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)

"Slippery, vulnerable, starlight Kim"

-K.J. Charles, Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)

"It’s not your fault in the slightest,"

-K.J. Charles, Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)

"Any light on the horizon?... Only that cast by everything on fire."

-K.J. Charles, Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)

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6. Winter’s Orbit

By: Everina Maxwell

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in Everina Maxwell's exciting debut. While the I… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Jainan,"

-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit

"Some things feel the same no matter how much time passes."

-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit

"Bears often hoard rose petals to strew on hiking couples. Little-known romantic fact."

-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit

"His eyes reflected the light from the hall; behind him, beyond the void, the stars burned in the enduring points; far beyond them, a telescope could have seen the maelstrom of the link, and a million…"

-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit

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7. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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8. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.13

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."

-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

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9. We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's We Could Be So Good book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) by K.J. Charles

10. Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.04

Format: 265 pages, ebook

Will Darling came back from the Great War with a few scars, a lot of medals, and no idea what to do… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"Libra smiled. It gave Will the impression he'd sent off a postal order for a booklet on Smiling for Beginners."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

"Britain was full of men like him, trying to find something to do in a country that had managed perfectly well without them."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

"He'd been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

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11. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

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12. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

Similar categories in Everina Maxwell's Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

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13. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.17

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne are the hit of the Season, so attractive and delightful that… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply."

-K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

"... why have we all decided that the most important and to-be-respected quality is the one possessed by the worst people?"

-K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

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14. The Darkness Outside Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.32

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

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15. The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been two months since Will Darling saw Kim Secretan, and he doesn't expect to see him again. W… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"Our will and fates do so contrary run."

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

"Scars are always beautiful. They're proof we lived."

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

"Avarice, envy, pride: three fatal sparks have set the hearts of all on fire."

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

"All his tangles were tugging tighter, and he couldn’t blame anyone but himself"

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

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16. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

By: Foz Meadows

4.02

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planne… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"…rest assured, making a spectacle of myself by kissing strange men at parties is one of my foremost skill sets."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"I didn’t know wether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live or because I hope to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"It was like being haunted: I had no control over what apparently innocent thing would suddenly turn spectre, making me fear his hands, his voice, as though it were happening again; as though, in some…"

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

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18. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

By: Lex Croucher

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love book and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

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19. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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20. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

By: Freya Marske

3.96

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • magic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

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21. 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

3.91

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves―or, okay, likes―his job. Sure, man… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I don't think he'll be able to tell. Memory is peculiar. Worst comes to absolute worst, I'll just arrange to get whacked on the head again and say that's brought everything back." "That's not a thing…"

-Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)

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4.20

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4.45

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