17 must-read lgbt books like The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) by Hadeer Elsbai

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The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

By: Hadeer Elsbai

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

<From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wh…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) by Hadeer Elsbai , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • 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)

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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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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3. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • 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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5. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • 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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6. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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7. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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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9. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.34

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

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10. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

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12. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.36

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire's past. And the truth they fin… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Parker-Chan's He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

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15. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

By: Hadeer Elsbai

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

<From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wh… read more

Similar categories in Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

18. The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.22

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control. Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, o… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1) book and Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. 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 Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. 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

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ending Fire (The Ending Fire Trilogy, #3) by Saara El-Arifi

21. The Ending Fire (The Ending Fire Trilogy, #3)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.35

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Rebellions are like fires—something needs to burn to make a flame. Return to the Wardens’ Empire in… read more

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

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