22 must-read queer books like Darling by K. Ancrum

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Darling

By: K. Ancrum

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl finds herself lost on a dangerous adventure in this YA thriller by the acclaimed author…

If you liked the queer plot in Darling by K. Ancrum , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Unhooked

By: Lisa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

For as long as she can remember, Gwendolyn Allister has never had a place to call home—all because … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Maxwell's Unhooked book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Welcome to Neverland, Gwendolyn"

-Lisa Maxwell, Unhooked

"Aye, they do. Let me be the first to welcome you to Neverland"

-Lisa Maxwell, Unhooked

"The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero"

-Lisa Maxwell, Unhooked

"You said we're in Neverland! As in the story? As in Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys and Peter Pan?"

-Lisa Maxwell, Unhooked

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2. Con Academy

By: Joe Schreiber

4.49

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Meet Will Shea, a con artist who has bluffed his way into one of the nation's most exclusive privat… read more

Similar categories in Joe Schreiber's Con Academy book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Untitled (Timekeeper, #3)

By: Tara Sim

3.90

Format: 144 pages,

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Similar categories in Tara Sim's Untitled (Timekeeper, #3) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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4. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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5. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

By: Erik J. Brown

4.24

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more

Similar categories in Erik J. Brown's The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"

-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

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6. 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 K. Ancrum's Darling

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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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7. The Sound of Stars

By: Alechia Dow

3.73

Format: 400 pages, None

Don’t miss this spectacular debut novel… Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who l… read more

Similar categories in Alechia Dow's The Sound of Stars book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A book can change someone’s world."

-Alechia Dow, The Sound of Stars

"But freedom might be better than survival."

-Alechia Dow, The Sound of Stars

"Fear makes folks restless enough to risk their lives."

-Alechia Dow, The Sound of Stars

"Until I became a librarian, I didn't know I was a rebel."

-Alechia Dow, The Sound of Stars

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8. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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9. Keep My Heart in San Francisco

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

“An absolute charmer of a book…Delightful!” —Jenn Bennett, author of Alex, Approximately and Starry… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Diane Coombs's Keep My Heart in San Francisco book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Damn olfactory system. Swirling up all these old and bruising memories."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Keep My Heart in San Francisco

"Silly considering we barely have a fraction of what we need, but that's what hope does. It lifts you up when everything else is dragging you down, down, down."

-Amelia Diane Coombs, Keep My Heart in San Francisco

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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

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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

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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 K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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. Darling

By: K. Ancrum

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl finds herself lost on a dangerous adventure in this YA thriller by the acclaimed author… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Darling book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

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14. Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller fo… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Delicious Monsters book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms

By: Sarah Wallace

4.14

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Roger not only had to prove himself to the Council, he also had to prove himself to Wyndham Wrenwhi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Wallace's Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Lakelore book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

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18. Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Mari… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Tink and Wendy

By: Kelly Ann Jacobson

3.47

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

What happens when Tinker Bell is in love with both Peter Pan and Wendy? In this sparkling re-imagin… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Ann Jacobson's Tink and Wendy book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border

By: Stephen Briseño

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Based on true events, this inspiring story follows a mama and her daughter who are denied entry at … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Briseño's The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • fiction
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21. Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3)

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Promises Stronger Than Darkness marks the final installment of the international bestselling author… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Some heartache can only be cured by justice."

-Charlie Jane Anders, Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3)

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22. Miranda in Milan

By: Katharine Duckett

3.51

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s … read more

Similar categories in Katharine Duckett's Miranda in Milan book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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23. Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds (In Other Lands, #1.5)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

4.21

Format: 31 pages, ebook

Set in the world of In Other Lands, Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds is about the magical diplomatic cr… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rees Brennan's Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds (In Other Lands, #1.5) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"Mark lifted his head. “You stormed a fortress for my men. But I thought you said when you’re an adult, you must learn how to compromise?"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds (In Other Lands, #1.5)

"Behind him, Mr. Schafer and the Sunborn Champion continued to bicker on a battlefield. “After I see justice done, we’re going to have a talk,"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds (In Other Lands, #1.5)

"The Sunborn Champion landed on the bloodied battlefield, wings curved above his head in a great arch like the carved ceiling in the grand hall of home. When he lifted his face, it was cold as gold be…"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Tears Waiting to Be Diamonds (In Other Lands, #1.5)

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24. Breathing Underwater

By: Abbey Nash

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this slice-of-life, sensitively written novel, a teen girl grapples with a sudden epilepsy diagn… read more

Similar categories in Abbey Nash's Breathing Underwater book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. 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

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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26. In an Orchard Grown from Ash (Argyrosi, #2)

By: Rory Power

3.15

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Twisted political games and heart-rending relationship drama abound in this stunning conclusion of … read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's In an Orchard Grown from Ash (Argyrosi, #2) book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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27. Regina Is NOT a Little Dinosaur

By: Andrea Zuill

4.03

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Meet a young dinosaur seeking her independence in this hilarious picture book from the author of WO… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Zuill's Regina Is NOT a Little Dinosaur book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • fiction
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28. 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 K. Ancrum's Darling

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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29. The Jump

By: Brittney Morris

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of SLAY and The Cost of Knowing comes an action-driven, high-octane “thri… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Morris's The Jump book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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30. Fence Challengers: Long Shot #1

By: C.S. Pacat

4.24

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

The Kings Row fencers are fresh off of Halverton Training Camp and ready for the State Championship… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Fence Challengers: Long Shot #1 book and K. Ancrum's Darling

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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31. 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 K. Ancrum's Darling

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Lisa Maxwell

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4.09

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