The Absinthe Underground
By: Jamie Pacton
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy! For Sybil Cla…
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1. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)
By: Emma R. Alban
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- historical
- historical fiction
- queer
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
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- 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)
3. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
4. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
By: Hafsah Faizal
3.57
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more
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- romance
- historical
- young adult
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
5. 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
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- historical
- young adult
- historical 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
6. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
- fantasy
- fae
7. Escaping Mr. Rochester
By: L.L. McKinney
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- young adult
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- queer
8. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- 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
9. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
10. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- 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
11. 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
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
12. The Absinthe Underground
By: Jamie Pacton
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy! For Sybil Cla… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- historical
- fae
- young adult
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- queer
13. The Cursed Rose
By: Leslie Vedder
4.15
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
The fate of a cursed kingdom rests on ancient secrets, broken promises, and fierce friendships in t… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
14. 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
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- lgbt
- young adult
- 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
15. 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
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
16. The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray
By: Christine Calella
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Storms and pirates are nothing compared to the evil within men’s hearts. After a lifetime of abu… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- historical
- young adult
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- queer
17. Wish You Weren't Here
By: Erin Baldwin
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
18. This Fatal Kiss
By: Alicia Jasinska
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Spirit away with a whimsical fantasy filled with dark magic and flirty, polyamorous romance. Cur… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
19. A Dark and Drowning Tide
By: Allison Saft
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fantasy
- queer
20. The Second Son (Betrayal Prophecies, #2)
By: Adrienne Tooley
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An epic clash of deities explores the two facets of pain—rage versus sadness—in this rousing conclu… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
21. Chrysalis and Requiem
By: Quinton Li
2.77
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
At Adraredon Academy, fervent passion, contemporary companionship, and forbidden desires intertwine… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- queer
