18 must-read queer books like Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1) by Alina Boyden

Cover of Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1) by Alina Boyden

Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

By: Alina Boyden

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Protecting her identity means life or death in this immersive epic fantasy inspired by the Mughal E…

If you liked the queer plot in Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1) by Alina Boyden , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Lies My Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters

1. Lies My Girlfriend Told Me

By: Julie Anne Peters

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Alix's charismatic girlfriend, Swanee, dies from sudden cardiac arrest, Alix is overcome with … read more

Similar categories in Julie Anne Peters's Lies My Girlfriend Told Me book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

2. If I Was Your Girl

By: Meredith Russo

3.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A new kind of big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are. Amanda Hardy is the new gi… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Russo's If I Was Your Girl book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Backstagers, Vol. 1 (The Backstagers, Volume One) by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh

3. The Backstagers, Vol. 1 (The Backstagers, Volume One)

By: James Tynion IV , Rian Sygh

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic literally! When Jo… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's The Backstagers, Vol. 1 (The Backstagers, Volume One) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Sovereign (Nemesis, #2) by April  Daniels

4. Sovereign (Nemesis, #2)

By: April Daniels

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred vet… read more

Similar categories in April Daniels's Sovereign (Nemesis, #2) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt

5. Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)

By: April Daniels

4.23

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest super… read more

Similar categories in April Daniels's Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

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

6. 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 Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

7. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

8. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

Similar categories in Justinian Huang's The Emperor and the Endless Palace book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

Cover of Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

9. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

10. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

Cover of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1) by Foz Meadows

11. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

By: Foz Meadows

4.02

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planne… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"…rest assured, making a spectacle of myself by kissing strange men at parties is one of my foremost skill sets."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"I didn’t know wether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live or because I hope to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"It was like being haunted: I had no control over what apparently innocent thing would suddenly turn spectre, making me fear his hands, his voice, as though it were happening again; as though, in some…"

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

Cover of Catnip by Vyria Durav

12. Catnip

By: Vyria Durav

4.29

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

For all his life, Sol has believed he's only worthy of affection as long as he's useful--and he int… read more

Similar categories in Vyria Durav's Catnip book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics) by C.B. Lee

13. Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: C.B. Lee

4.01

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the cl… read more

Similar categories in C.B. Lee's Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh, she deserves so many good things, and I want to be one of them"

-C.B. Lee, Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)

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14. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1) by Alina Boyden

15. Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

By: Alina Boyden

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Protecting her identity means life or death in this immersive epic fantasy inspired by the Mughal E… read more

Similar categories in Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • transgender
  • dragons
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1) by H.A. Clarke

16. The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)

By: H.A. Clarke

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An outcast teenage lesbian witch finds her coven hidden amongst the popular girls in her school, an… read more

Similar categories in H.A. Clarke's The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I used to underline passages in my English books, because certain lines crawled off the page, because those lines were magic and they meant something on a cosmic scale."

-H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)

"I guess my point is that teenage girls aren't supposed to be powerful, you know? Everybody hates teenage girls. They hate our bodies and hate us if we want to change them. They hate the things we're …"

-H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)

Cover of The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

17. The Companion

By: E.E. Ottoman

3.67

Format: 168 pages, ebook

New York, 1949 After years of trying to break into New York City's literary scene, Madeline Slau… read more

Similar categories in E.E. Ottoman's The Companion book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"He was silent for a moment, then said more quietly. 'But I know what you are talking about. I've felt like that before too. To be intimate with someone and feel not right afterward, too vulnerable an…"

-E.E. Ottoman, The Companion

Cover of Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy, #1) by Emily Skrutskie

18. Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy, #1)

By: Emily Skrutskie

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love-… read more

Similar categories in Emily Skrutskie's Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy, #1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And when we break apart, my terror triples. Because it's not enough---all of him, the promise of his future, everything I've thrown my soul away for. It's not worth what we're about to do."

-Emily Skrutskie, Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya  Deane

19. Wrath Goddess Sing

By: Maya Deane

3.49

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman's story hidden underneath … read more

Similar categories in Maya Deane's Wrath Goddess Sing book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And it would be death -- the death of her self, the inexorable corrosion of her soul, until even her name was forgotten and nothing was left but the shell of a man she never was."

-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

"She loved Patroklos, she loved Meryapi, and it had nothing to do with desire, only joy—to see them was joy; to breathe with them was joy; to ride with Patroklos on a cattle raid was joy; scanning the…"

-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

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20. Uncomfortable Labels

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.10

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"So while the assumption when I was born was that I was or would grow up to be a neurotypical heter… read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Uncomfortable Labels book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of How to Fly (When You Fell from Heaven Book 1) by Alyson Greaves

21. How to Fly (When You Fell from Heaven Book 1)

By: Alyson Greaves

4.70

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Max is a gymnast who can no longer pursue his passion. Taylor is a cheerleader with passion to spar… read more

Similar categories in Alyson Greaves's How to Fly (When You Fell from Heaven Book 1) book and Alina Boyden's Stealing Thunder (Stealing Thunder, #1)

  • romance
  • queer

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Julie Anne Peters

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Jadzia Axelrod

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