20 Best queer books like Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) by Nina Varela

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Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

By: Nina Varela

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For too long, Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing its human citizens. But the …

"You are newbuilt,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Cruelty was wasted on the kind."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"I told you once I’m not a book to be read,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Strength isn’t measured by the ability to cause harm."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

If you liked the queer plot in Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) by Nina Varela , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

By: Audrey Coulthurst

3.76

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her fu… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Coulthurst's Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And if time was kind, I’d find something to live for besides the memory of her."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

"Rock was slow to change, but it would in time. Even the most difficult things become easier to bear."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

"Worse, I knew that given the chance to do everything over again, I would willingly make the same mistakes twenty times over."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

"For the love of the Six, don't call me that. Just Mare. Yes, like a horse. Stupid, I know, but I can't stand Amaranthine. What a ridiculously overlong and pretentious collections of syllables."

-Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)

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2. Girls of Paper and Fire

By: Natasha Ngan

3.64

Format: None pages,

"Inspired by Asian mythology, it follows Lei, a girl who is taken from her remote village to serve … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Paper and Fire book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

3. Breaking Legacies

By: Zoe Reed

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In a land impoverished by a war that started before she was born, Kiena has provided for her mother… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Reed's Breaking Legacies book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

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4. Those Who Wait

By: Haley Cass

4.45

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition Sutton Spencer’s ideas for her life were fairly simple: fini… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's Those Who Wait book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Welcome, my beautiful, bright ray of redheaded sunshine!"

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

"I’m in love with you, Sutton. Terrifyingly, irreversibly, life-alteringly in love with you."

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

"Charlotte swallowed hard, forcing her spine up straight and clasping her hands together tighter to make them stop shaking. “That I’m a lesbian."

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

"I’ve learned that love is about finding someone who pulls you to them even when reason might tell you otherwise. Someone who pushes you out of your comfort zone, not because of them doing or saying a…"

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

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5. Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

By: Natasha Ngan

3.77

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"But there is one thing that is infinite: greed. The ability of humans and demons to want. To desire. To hunger after things that don't belong to them."

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"You might be human, but you're a woman, and that gives you far more strength than he'll ever be capable of. Not to mention perspective. Only women truly understand the cruelties of the world, the dep…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"Being vulnerable isn't a flaw. It is the most beautiful thing in the world. If you were invincible, being brave would be easy. It's the fact that it isn't easy, that we have to constantly work and wo…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

"Girl. Such a simple title. One I've been labeled all my life. But nowhere was I called it more than at the Hidden Palace: spat from the beaked mouth of Madam Himura, hissed with contemp by Naja, thro…"

-Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire, #2)

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6. Hearing Red

By: Nicole Maser

4.56

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

New Recommended for ages 18+ In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women f… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Maser's Hearing Red book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its comp… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

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8. Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

By: Heather Walter

3.95

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of “S… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's Malice (Malice Duology, #1) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's nothing for me here. I'm tired of being a villain." "Magic is everywhere...even humans carry a spark of it in their fragile, fickle souls. All you need to do is reach out and find it."

-Heather Walter, Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

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9. Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire, #3)

By: Natasha Ngan

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The epic romance of Lei and Wren comes to a breathtaking conclusion in the explosive finale to the … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire, #3) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.34

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

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11. 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

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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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12. The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

By: Samantha Shannon

4.19

Format: 848 pages, Kindle Edition

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ru… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Margret,"

-Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

"I am not your queen, but I am yours."

-Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

"In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves"

-Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

"My heart knows your song, as yours knows mine."

-Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

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13. She Gets the Girl

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 N… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Money's not as important as doing what you love."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there'…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me. This isn’t love. The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m wa…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

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14. Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

By: Nina Varela

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For too long, Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing its human citizens. But the … read more

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You are newbuilt,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Cruelty was wasted on the kind."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"I told you once I’m not a book to be read,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Strength isn’t measured by the ability to cause harm."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

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15. The Dark Tide

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, dark enemies-to-lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Betrayal cut so much deeper when you loved the hand that held the knife."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"Do you have to stare at me like that?" "Like what?" Like you're planning to eat me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"The Witch Queen comes on wings of night. The Witch Queen has your heart's delight. Hold him, hold him, hold on tight. Hide him, hide him, out of sight."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"People claimed witches were nightmares, dreams, but Eva felt they were closer to plants; wild magic grew inside of each of them, waiting to be harvested in the strands of their hair, their salt tears…"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

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16. Misrule (Malice Duology, #2)

By: Heather Walter

3.77

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her sto… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's Misrule (Malice Duology, #2) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Tragedy teaches us things about ourselves and about others. Sometimes we do not like what we see, but we have to look anyway. We have to know."

-Heather Walter, Misrule (Malice Duology, #2)

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17. Sweet & Bitter Magic

By: Adrienne Tooley

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this debut fantasy, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, an… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's Sweet & Bitter Magic book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was enchanted by the witch's lips."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Now Tamsin was nothing but bitter and dark and cold—always so impossibly cold."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Never learn to love someone untouchable. They'll only disappoint you in the end."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Tamsin had quite preferred the child when he was quiet, but the mother seemed pleased."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

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18. Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2)

By: Audrey Coulthurst

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Princesses Denna and Mare are in love and together at last--only to face a new set of dangers. M… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Coulthurst's Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. She Drives Me Crazy

By: Kelly Quindlen

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

High school nemeses fall in love in this queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume,…"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative …"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

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20. Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.88

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose--and falling fo… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because I am miserable and so viciously in love with her, I eat the soup."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"I could hate you, but it would kill me, and that is not how I am dying for you."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"The whole world can rot.' Eris whispers. 'Let's just sit here and watch it happen."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"It's not who I want to be. I want to be soft, and I don't want to take shit from any-one."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

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21. Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Godslayers--Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane sequel to Gearbreakers--is perfect for fans of Pacific Ri… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2) book and Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Me...what? Ha. I'm good. I'm all good. It's just I want to punch something, and the impulse never really passes."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

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Audrey Coulthurst

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Natasha Ngan

3.64

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3.77

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