21 Best queer books like Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) by H.E. Edgmon

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Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin…

"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb against the tattoos on her chin--'that must mean you couldn't just be colonizing a native body. And if it really matters that we've fallen in love over and over again across lifetimes, that must mean those lifetimes mattered."

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb against the tattoos on her chin--'that must mean you couldn't just be colonizing a native body. And if it really matters that we've fallen in love over and over again across lifetimes, that must mean those lifetimes mattered."

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

If you liked the queer plot in Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) by H.E. Edgmon , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) by Kamilah Cole

2. 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 H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • 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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3. The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

Format: 368 pages, None

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

4. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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5. Venom & Vow

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Va… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Venom & Vow book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. 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 H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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8. 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 H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • 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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9. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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10. Daughter of the Bone Forest (Witch Hall, #1)

By: Jasmine Skye

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ev… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Skye's Daughter of the Bone Forest (Witch Hall, #1) book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) by H.E. Edgmon

11. Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb again…"

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

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12. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
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13. Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

By: Kacen Callender

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward u… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Diablo's Curse book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. This Day Changes Everything

By: Edward Underhill

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Edward Underhill's new whirlwind rom-com about two qu… read more

Similar categories in Edward Underhill's This Day Changes Everything book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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16. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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17. The Spells We Cast (The Spells We Cast #1)

By: Jason June

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Nigel Barrett has spent his whole life preparing for the Culling, a spell-casting competition that … read more

Similar categories in Jason June's The Spells We Cast (The Spells We Cast #1) book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's Death's Country book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Evergreen

By: Devin Greenlee

3.62

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously dreamy urban fairytale about a dryad who risks immortality for love, from debut autho… read more

Similar categories in Devin Greenlee's Evergreen book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Take All of Us

By: Natalie Leif

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A YA unbury-your-gays horror in which an undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Leif's Take All of Us book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

21. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer

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