18 best-selling queer books like The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard

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The Red Scholar's Wake

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just …

If you liked the queer plot in The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1) by S. Jae-Jones

1. Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1)

By: S. Jae-Jones

3.51

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy s… read more

Similar categories in S. Jae-Jones's Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

3. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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5. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1) by Gabriela Romero Lacruz

7. The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz

3.33

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

In a lush world inspired by the history and folklore of South America, a sweeping epic fantasy of c… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Romero Lacruz's The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I thought tinieblas were nothing but a story—just a word for shadows. Tales to scare children into obedience. Horror tales are inspired by reality."

-Gabriela Romero Lacruz, The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods #1)

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8. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1) by Susan Dennard

9. The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

By: Susan Dennard

3.68

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and t… read more

Similar categories in Susan Dennard's The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You either trust the forest or you don't, Winnie."

-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

"But our minds are pretty good at hiding what we don’t want to see, Winnebago."

-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

"That’s why we’re called the Luminaries, Winnie: we are lanterns the forest can never snuff out."

-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)

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10. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The Water Outlaws book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

11. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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12. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) by Eliza Chan

13. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

By: Eliza Chan

3.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Chan's Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1) by Elizabeth        May

14. To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1)

By: Elizabeth May

3.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone, this Imperial Russia-inspired romantasy launch… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth May's To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) by A.Y. Chao

15. Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

By: A.Y. Chao

3.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-s… read more

Similar categories in A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Try no to die, okay? I've become rather fond of you. "I'm very hard to kill," I murmur."

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"You named two of the' – he clears his throat – 'fiercest creatures of legend, Cutie and Puffy?"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"The next morning I am rudely awakened by cocks crowing. A lot of cocks crowing. I yank the quilt over my head and try to smother the hoarse, braying sounds. It sounds like a whole flock of cocks has …"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

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16. Cruel Illusions

By: Margie Fuston

3.54

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“The perfect sinisterly magical escape…full of longing, desperation, and betrayal.” —Stephanie Garb… read more

Similar categories in Margie Fuston's Cruel Illusions book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The world still needs a little bit of wonder, I think. I’d like to give it that."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

"Fairy tales weren’t made for me. But I can handle real and messy, and I want this."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

"Being immortal doesn't let you grow. All it does it let you lose pieces of yourself."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

"Being immortal doesn’t let you grow. All it does is let you lose pieces of yourself."

-Margie Fuston, Cruel Illusions

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17. Voyage of the Damned

By: Frances White

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The TikTok sensation from the UK has come to North America! This special first edition hardcover w… read more

Similar categories in Frances White's Voyage of the Damned book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"As if the restrictive shell of a body is more important than the infinite possibilities of a mind."

-Frances White, Voyage of the Damned

Cover of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao

18. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

By: Amélie Wen Zhao

3.80

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past—and u… read more

Similar categories in Amélie Wen Zhao's Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A sword's purpose may be determined by its wielder, but take the weapon away entirely, and neither the merciful nor the cruel may draw blood with it."

-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

"What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel th…"

-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

"What use are tears? Ying had murmured to her once, back when they had just crossed their twelfth cycle of life and the wounds of Lan’s losses still cut deep every night. The dead will neither feel th…"

-Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

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19. City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

By: Rebecca Schaeffer

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who fi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • fantasy
"Ma'am," I tell her. "Your husband was trying to eat you." "A misundertanding !" she insists, still waving the only arm she has left. I press my fingers to the bridge of my nose. "He ripped off your a…"

-Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares (City of Nightmares, #1)

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20. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. Frontier

By: Grace Curtis

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Saints and preachers, librarians and horse thieves, lawmakers and lawbreakers, and a crash-survivin… read more

Similar categories in Grace Curtis's Frontier book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard

22. The Red Scholar's Wake

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just … read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

23. The Whispering Dark

By: Kelly Andrew

3.59

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 -- a dark, atmospheric fantasy … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's The Whispering Dark book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The question tore through him. Lane was his. She'd always been his. And he was hers. They were painted the same shades. Threaded with the same lines. He'd spent his whole life drawn to her, and she t…"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

"What will he do to Lane?" The question tore through him. Lane was his. She'd always been his. And he was hers. They were painted the same shades. Threaded with the same lines. He'd spent his whole li…"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

"They say she's a girl like a garden, it said. "All roses and lavender and spider mums. Too bright, too bright to be there. One foot among the dead, one foot among the living, like a little breathing …"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

"Wednesday?" Colton's voice was tacky with sleep. "I want to tell you everything." "I wish vou would." "I can't," he said. "It hurts too much." "Tell me what happened to you, at least." A beat of quie…"

-Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark

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24. After the Forest

By: Kell Woods

3.81

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more

Similar categories in Kell Woods's After the Forest book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"

-Kell Woods, After the Forest

Cover of The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) by C.L. Clark

25. The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2)

By: C.L. Clark

4.30

Format: 512 pages, None

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Clark's The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah  Underwood

26. Lies We Sing to the Sea

By: Sarah Underwood

3.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon deman… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Underwood's Lies We Sing to the Sea book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel

27. Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more

Similar categories in Vaishnavi Patel's Goddess of the River book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of We All Fall Down (The River City Duology, #1) by Rose Szabo

28. We All Fall Down (The River City Duology, #1)

By: Rose Szabo

2.52

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a dark fantasy YA duology by the author of What Big Teeth, about the power and da… read more

Similar categories in Rose Szabo's We All Fall Down (The River City Duology, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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29. The Coral Bones

By: E.J. Swift

4.11

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

This is what it looks like when coral dies. Present day. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racin… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Swift's The Coral Bones book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Principle of Moments (Order of Legends, #1) by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

30. The Principle of Moments (Order of Legends, #1)

By: Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

3.61

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Unmissable for fans of the spacefaring found family of Becky Chambers, the alternate London of V. E… read more

Similar categories in Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson's The Principle of Moments (Order of Legends, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Phoenix Keeper by S.A.  MacLean

31. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake

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

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S. Jae-Jones

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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