19 Top fantasy books like The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett

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The Winter Duke

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An enchanted tale of intrigue where a duke's daughter is the only survivor of a magical curse. W…

"Sometimes you must be brutal and unforgiving even to people you once considered friends"

-Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett , here is a list of 19 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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • 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. Untitled

By: Marie Rutkoski

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

New YA fantasy project planned for 2018. read more

Similar categories in Marie Rutkoski's Untitled book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • 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

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4. Ice Massacre (Mermaids of Eriana Kwai, #1)

By: Tiana Warner

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

A mermaid's supernatural beauty serves one purpose: to lure a sailor to his death. The Massacre is … read more

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5. Sofi and the Bone Song

By: Adrienne Tooley

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous standalone fantasy with a “sweet sapphic romance” ( Booklist ), a young musician s… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's Sofi and the Bone Song book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. This Gilded Abyss

By: Rebecca Thorne

4.23

Format: None pages, ebook

Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She’s also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in th… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Thorne's This Gilded Abyss book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. Crier's War (Crier's War, #1)

By: Nina Varela

4.12

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution. … read more

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Crier's War (Crier's War, #1) book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • 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. Girl, Serpent, Thorn

By: Melissa Bashardoust

3.65

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Bashardoust's Girl, Serpent, Thorn book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I have nothing else to lose now—except for you."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"What if there was a loneliness even deeper than the one she felt now?"

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"You’re my favourite story. I feel like I’ve known you for a long time."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"To anyone who has ever felt poisonous or monstrous or bristling with thorns."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

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10. A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

By: Ashley Shuttleworth

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Choose your player. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family. A tempestuous Fury… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shuttleworth's A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1) book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
" Psst."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

"Hang on a little tighter than that, Spider Monkey."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

"You’re… you’re something else, Arlo Jarsdel. But you’re also weird as fuck."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

"She had her morals, the whole one or two of them that stubbornly clung to existence"

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

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11. 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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • 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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12. 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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • 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

Cover of The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett

13. The Winter Duke

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An enchanted tale of intrigue where a duke's daughter is the only survivor of a magical curse. W… read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Sometimes you must be brutal and unforgiving even to people you once considered friends"

-Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke

Cover of The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

14. The Midnight Girls

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.79

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

The Wicked Deep meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this new standalone YA fantasy set in a snow-clo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's The Midnight Girls book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You don’t notice the bars of the cage,"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"Where would you even go if you were free?"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"I’ve tasted freedom. I’ve tasted hearts and it’s changed me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"It is not a fairy tale. And monsters like us don’t get happy endings."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

Cover of Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2) by Audrey Coulthurst

15. 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 Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1) by Helen Corcoran

16. Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1)

By: Helen Corcoran

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

‘She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a bloodied blade.’ When teenage queen Lia inherits her c… read more

Similar categories in Helen Corcoran's Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1) book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a bloodied blade."

-Helen Corcoran, Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1)

Cover of These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) by Alexandra Overy

17. These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1)

By: Alexandra Overy

3.78

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

When twin heirs are born in Tourin, their fates are decided at a young age. While Izaveta remained … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Overy's These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel

By: Lianyu Tan

3.79

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

When the monster gets the girl, everyone will bleed. 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ+ S… read more

Similar categories in Lianyu Tan's The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You think you love her. You think, if this is love, you don’t know anything."

-Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel

"If you’d just let me have you... Hold you. Taste you. I can show you the depths where pain becomes pleasure."

-Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel

"If I could only save one person… if I could save you, maybe my life would mean something. Why won’t you let me save you?"

-Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel

"I want you. All of you. I adore seeing you writhe beneath me. Feeling you come undone in my arms. I’ll never tire of that."

-Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel

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19. In the Vanishers’ Palace

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.67

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's In the Vanishers’ Palace book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil, #1) by Mara Fitzgerald

20. Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil, #1)

By: Mara Fitzgerald

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark, queer YA fantasy that's perfect for fans of the Three Dark Crowns series. After Emanuela Ra… read more

Similar categories in Mara Fitzgerald's Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil, #1) book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames, #2) by Alexandra Overy

21. This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames, #2)

By: Alexandra Overy

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Awakening to find herself trapped in a strange tower, Izaveta knows she must find her way back to t… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Overy's This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames, #2) book and Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke

  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer

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4.23

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