16 must-read queer books like In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

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In the Watchful City

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the Watchful City explores borders, power, diaspora, and transformation in an Asian-inspired mos…

If you liked the queer plot in In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. The Red Threads of Fortune (Tensorate #2)

By: J.Y. Yang

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensor… read more

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2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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3. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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4. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. Emergent Properties

By: Aimee Ogden

3.57

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brew… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Ogden's Emergent Properties book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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9. In the Watchful City

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the Watchful City explores borders, power, diaspora, and transformation in an Asian-inspired mos… read more

Similar categories in S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2)

By: Lina Rather

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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11. Phoenix Extravagant

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Phoenix Extravagant book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ll go up first,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

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12. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Cover of The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

13. The Genesis of Misery

By: Neon Yang

3.44

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full … read more

Similar categories in Neon Yang's The Genesis of Misery book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Lost Ark Dreaming

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.69

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high… read more

Similar categories in Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Lost Ark Dreaming book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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15. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Liberty's Daughter book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) by Hana  Lee

16. Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1)

By: Hana Lee

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-s… read more

Similar categories in Hana Lee's Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

17. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) by Premee Mohamed

18. We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.98

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling al… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

19. Rakesfall

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."

-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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20. The West Passage

By: Jared Pechaček

3.96

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to s… read more

Similar categories in Jared Pechaček's The West Passage book and S. Qiouyi Lu's In the Watchful City

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

20 must-read fiction books like In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

Nghi Vo

4.24

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Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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