8 must-read queer books like Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

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Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates…

"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

If you liked the queer plot in Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) by Kamilah Cole

1. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

Similar categories in Kamilah Cole's So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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2. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

4. Their Vicious Games

By: Joelle Wellington

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to disc… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's Their Vicious Games book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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5. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

Cover of Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

6. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
Cover of The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) by Vanessa Le

7. The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1)

By: Vanessa Le

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Las… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Le's The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1)

By: Analeigh Sbrana

3.35

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings t… read more

Similar categories in Analeigh Sbrana's Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) by Kalynn  Bayron

9. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind hi… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1) by Brittany N. Williams

10. That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

By: Brittany N. Williams

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black gir… read more

Similar categories in Brittany N. Williams's That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep," [Joan] said. Keep him playing the scene until she worked out a plan. "Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep / And kill me too." Auberon smiled. "All…"

-Brittany N. Williams, That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

"His hand slipped around the back of her neck and pulled her in close. their eyes met. He stopped; his brows knitted. He was waiting for her permission because he couldn't be sure if Hermia's refusal …"

-Brittany N. Williams, That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

Cover of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

11. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Cover of Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

12. Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller fo… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Delicious Monsters book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3) by Namina Forna

13. The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3)

By: Namina Forna

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl … read more

Similar categories in Namina Forna's The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

14. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

15. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Captured Secrets

By: Octavia Grant

4.39

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

Andrea Riley prides herself on being a loving mother and devoted wife. Her life is simple and perfe… read more

Similar categories in Octavia Grant's Captured Secrets book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

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17. Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1)

By: Gabi Burton

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this dark and seductive YA fantasy debut, a siren must choose between protecting her family and … read more

Similar categories in Gabi Burton's Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) by Tomi Adeyemi

18. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

Similar categories in Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

Cover of Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1) by Ehigbor Okosun

19. Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

By: Ehigbor Okosun

3.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new voice brings a brilliant new debut author Ehigbor Okosun’s first book in an action-… read more

Similar categories in Ehigbor Okosun's Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1) book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Fear is a strange master. It makes monsters from the simplest of men."

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

"Revenge is a poison, Dèmi. Drink it and you can destroy your enemies, but you will die long before you see them take their last breaths."

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

"My father once told me that truth has many faces, mouths that help us see more clearly. But justice has only one face—a sword for those who warrant it, whether they be the victims of yesterday or the…"

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

"The first queen spared the life of her brother, reasoning that a good ruler must be willing to die for the people and show mercy when needed. It’s a beautiful story . . . but this is an ugly day. The…"

-Ehigbor Okosun, Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1)

Cover of Do What Godmother Says by L.S. Stratton

20. Do What Godmother Says

By: L.S. Stratton

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secre… read more

Similar categories in L.S. Stratton's Do What Godmother Says book and Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sleep Like Death by Kalynn  Bayron

21. Sleep Like Death

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron returns to fairytales with a l… read more

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  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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3.90

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3.75

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Kellye Garrett

3.53

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Leslye Penelope

4.01

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