14 Top fiction books like Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

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Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild…

"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

If you liked the fiction plot in Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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 Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

2. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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3. A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

4.00

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

S.T. Gibson's sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. … read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Water your mother's flowers with their blood."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"You must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing."

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

"Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?"

-S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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4. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Cover of Her Spell That Binds Me by Luna Oblonsky

5. Her Spell That Binds Me

By: Luna Oblonsky

4.32

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding rivalry unraveled by fate...A sapphic romance born from the ashes of prejudice…A Reg… read more

Similar categories in Luna Oblonsky's Her Spell That Binds Me book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
"How pitiful,"

-Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

"My speckled beauty,"

-Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

"I have caught a nymph,"

-Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

"Whatever is to thank for our affinity, I will never let you go. Not now,"

-Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

Cover of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

6. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

By: Lex Croucher

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

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7. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Faebound (Faebound, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

8. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. A Game of Hearts and Heists (Girl Games #1)

By: Ruby Roe

3.97

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Two enemies, one goal: steal each other's hearts. Scarlett Grey, disgraced assassin, is determin… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Roe's A Game of Hearts and Heists (Girl Games #1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Lady Venom Takes a Mistress by Kat Blackthorne

10. Lady Venom Takes a Mistress

By: Kat Blackthorne

3.82

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

From international bestselling author Kat Blackthorne comes a haunted and spooky twist on Medusa an… read more

Similar categories in Kat Blackthorne's Lady Venom Takes a Mistress book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1) by Adrienne Tooley

11. The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1)

By: Adrienne Tooley

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping YA fantasy about legacy, betrayal, sisterhood, and politicizing emotion in the quest for… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

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

Similar categories in Sydney J. Shields's The Honey Witch book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • witches
  • 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

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13. Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

Cover of An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

14. 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

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of House of Crimson Hearts (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #1) by Ruby Roe

15. House of Crimson Hearts (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #1)

By: Ruby Roe

4.22

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Once upon a time, a vampire corrupted a hunter. Octavia Beaumont, one of the original three vamp… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Roe's House of Crimson Hearts (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • romantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Contract Bound (Blood Bound Book 1) by Elle Mae

16. Contract Bound (Blood Bound Book 1)

By: Elle Mae

3.97

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

Silvia If there is one thing you needed to know about me it is this: I hate vampires. They… read more

Similar categories in Elle Mae's Contract Bound (Blood Bound Book 1) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. Every Exquisite Thing

By: Laura Steven

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati… read more

Similar categories in Laura Steven's Every Exquisite Thing book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You deserve to be loved."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"I think I was just born hungry."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

Cover of Kiss of Seduction (Court of Chains, #2) by Rawnie Sabor

18. Kiss of Seduction (Court of Chains, #2)

By: Rawnie Sabor

4.53

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

A succubus's kiss is deadly... to everyone but her. Evie is trapped. Held captive by the vampiri… read more

Similar categories in Rawnie Sabor's Kiss of Seduction (Court of Chains, #2) book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. The Shattered Lands

By: Brenna Nation

3.45

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

18 years after her disappearance, the princess has returned. But what is left of her kingdom? Sa… read more

Similar categories in Brenna Nation's The Shattered Lands book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Bad Graces

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical Y… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's Bad Graces book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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21. The Phoenix Keeper

By: S.A. MacLean

4.01

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens,… read more

Similar categories in S.A. MacLean's The Phoenix Keeper book and Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Nicole Maser

4.56

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Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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S.T. Gibson

4.00

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Luna Oblonsky

4.32

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Emily Wright

4.01

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Kira Adler

4.07

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