21 Best fiction books like These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1) by Isabel Sterling

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These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

By: Isabel Sterling

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the p…

"I never want this moment to end"

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

"I never want this moment to end"

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

"But the feeling of victory doesn't last. Every second that's filled with anything other than grief leaves me unbearably guilty."

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

"But the feeling of victory doesn't last. Every second that's filled with anything other than grief leaves me unbearably guilty."

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

If you liked the fiction plot in These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1) by Isabel Sterling , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Cover of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) by Ashley Herring Blake

2. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2) by Ashley Herring Blake

3. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in thi… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2) book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Sexuality is complicated. It’s not static. People change and sexuality can change too."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

"Astrid Parker was loved, no matter what her mother thought of her. No matter what choices she made. And that love gave her the courage to choose herself."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

Cover of Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) by Ashley Herring Blake

4. Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its comp… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

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5. Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

By: Rachael Lippincott

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost h… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Cinderella Is Dead

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.68

Format: 400 pages, ebook

It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now re… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella Is Dead book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"People wear masks so that they can fit in and stay safe. Can you blame them?"

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"it feel like another part of me is being changed to fit someone else's vision of what is pretty."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"I'm lost in the tide of her breathing, the sweet smell of her skin, the push and pull of our bodies against each other..."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

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7. Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2)

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.74

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has b… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's Her Royal Highness (Royals, #2) book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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8. Imogen, Obviously

By: Becky Albertalli

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexua… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Imogen, Obviously book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"1987: the world’s biggest pancake ever (well, at the time). My parents actually got to eat part of it!"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"So which one of us is more queer?" "Well," I pause, "I'd have to see the two of you trying to sit in chairs."

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

"Tessa’s eyes catch mine, and her lips tug up at the corners, just barely. And the noise in my brain falls away. All the times I said I’m straight. All the times everyone’s said I’m straight. There it…"

-Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

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9. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more

Similar categories in Sonora Reyes's The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"

-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

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10. She Gets the Girl

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this swoon-worthy hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from #1 N… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's She Gets the Girl book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Money's not as important as doing what you love."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"That's how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me."

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there'…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

"And… all at once I see the truth. She never wanted to listen to me. Never was really there for me. She just wanted to control me. This isn’t love. The fighting. The lack of trust. Feeling like I’m wa…"

-Rachael Lippincott, She Gets the Girl

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11. Not My Problem

By: Ciara Smyth

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix. Her best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's Not My Problem book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

Cover of She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

12. She Drives Me Crazy

By: Kelly Quindlen

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

High school nemeses fall in love in this queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves."

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume,…"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

"I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative …"

-Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

Cover of Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1) by Alexandria Bellefleur

13. Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.86

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, a charming #ownvoices queer rom-com debut about… read more

Similar categories in Alexandria Bellefleur's Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1) book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"An acquired taste."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"It’s the hard knock life."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"She wanted all of Elle—the good, the bad, the messy."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"Christ on a cracker, couldn't a girl be horny in peace?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

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14. Hurt/Comfort

By: Weronika Łodyga

3.84

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Artur ma osiemnaście lat i nie wie jeszcze wielu rzeczy. Nie wie, jak zacząć rozmowę z własnym ojce… read more

Similar categories in Weronika Łodyga's Hurt/Comfort book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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15. Perfect on Paper

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Perfect on Paper: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's Perfect on Paper book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You'd be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from their spiral if you don't leave them in silence to imagine the worst."

-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

"But she hadn't chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn't matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn't …"

-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

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16. Some Girls Do

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Some Girls Do book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

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17. The Falling in Love Montage

By: Ciara Smyth

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother woul… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's The Falling in Love Montage book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I love you. But I’m not in love with you."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NINE!" I yelled the famous line from Imagine Me & You"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

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18. The Lucky List

By: Rachael Lippincott

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Emily and her mum were always lucky. But Emily’s mum’s luck ran out three years ago when she suc… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Lippincott's The Lucky List book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I need to be willing to play the game. I need to be willing to put myself out there, and be vulnerable, and take chances, even though I might lose."

-Rachael Lippincott, The Lucky List

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19. These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

By: Isabel Sterling

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the p… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1) book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"I never want this moment to end"

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

"But the feeling of victory doesn't last. Every second that's filled with anything other than grief leaves me unbearably guilty."

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

Cover of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

20. I Kissed Shara Wheeler

By: Casey McQuiston

3.88

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a deb… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You were the only one it could be."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Get a clarifying shampoo and suck it up, Kylo Ren."

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"Why is it so bad to want to feel special, or loved, or accpeted?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

"What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?"

-Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Cover of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

21. One Last Stop

By: Casey McQuiston

3.92

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: t… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop book and Isabel Sterling's These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Every woman a universe."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Hey, Coffee Girl." "Hey, Subway Girl."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

"Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album."

-Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

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