A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha…
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
3. The Familiar
By: Leigh Bardugo
3.84
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
4. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
5. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)
By: S.T. Gibson
3.66
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)
"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)
6. My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
7. A Short Walk Through a Wide World
By: Douglas Westerbeke
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
8. Ghost Station
By: S.A. Barnes
3.57
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
9. A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- retellings
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
10. Someone You Can Build a Nest In
By: John Wiswell
4.07
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
11. Late Bloomer
By: Mazey Eddings
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer
12. The Honey Witch
By: Sydney J. Shields
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets…"-Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch
13. An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
14. Hearts Still Beating
By: Brooke Archer
4.00
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Gripping, romantic, and impossible to put down, this dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut YA n… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fantasy
- queer
15. The Stardust Grail
By: Yume Kitasei
3.78
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
16. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
17. When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
3.73
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
18. Spitting Gold
By: Carmella Lowkis
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- queer
19. The Eyes Are the Best Part
By: Monika Kim
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more
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- adult
- fiction
20. A Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more
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- retellings
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
21. Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more
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- romance
- retellings
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth
