14 must-read queer books like Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1) by Davinia Evans

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Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

By: Davinia Evans

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the city of Bezim was shaken half into the sea by a magical earthquake, the Inquisitors have …

"Siyon grinned, or at least he bared his teeth. “Sure. I’m the best practitioner you’ve never heard of. I make angels dance and harpies weep. I make the others look staid, boring, uninspired."

-Davinia Evans, Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

If you liked the queer plot in Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1) by Davinia Evans , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) by Foz Meadows

1. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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2. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

Cover of The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

3. The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Mars House book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) by Everina Maxwell

5. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

Similar categories in Everina Maxwell's Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

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6. The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1)

By: James Logan

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and―thanks to a duel that ended badly―the disgraced … read more

Similar categories in James Logan's The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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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 Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. The Warden (The Warden, #1)

By: Daniel M. Ford

3.83

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year for GoodReads and FanfiAddict A Best Science Fiction & Fantasy… read more

Similar categories in Daniel M. Ford's The Warden (The Warden, #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) by Alexandra Rowland

9. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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 Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #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 The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) by Josiah Bancroft

12. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas

13. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Sagas's Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty, #1.5) by Alexandra Rowland

14. Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty, #1.5)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.64

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the critically-acclaimed fantasy novel A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON comes a sequel/s… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty, #1.5) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

15. 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 Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey

16. A Market of Dreams and Destiny

By: Trip Galey

3.90

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Nominated for the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! Enter the bazaar of the bi… read more

Similar categories in Trip Galey's A Market of Dreams and Destiny book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage."

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customer…"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, …"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

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17. The Sky on Fire

By: Jenn Lyons

3.75

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Enter a world ruled by dragons… Anahrod lives only for survival, preferring to thrive in the ju… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Lyons's The Sky on Fire book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1) by Davinia Evans

18. Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

By: Davinia Evans

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the city of Bezim was shaken half into the sea by a magical earthquake, the Inquisitors have … read more

Similar categories in Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Siyon grinned, or at least he bared his teeth. “Sure. I’m the best practitioner you’ve never heard of. I make angels dance and harpies weep. I make the others look staid, boring, uninspired."

-Davinia Evans, Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

19. 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 Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) by Erin M. Evans

20. Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1)

By: Erin M. Evans

3.99

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Magic, mystery, and revolution collide in this fantasy epic where an unlikely team of mages, scribe… read more

Similar categories in Erin M. Evans's Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper, #1) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Relics of Ruin (Books of the Usurper, #2) by Erin M. Evans

21. Relics of Ruin (Books of the Usurper, #2)

By: Erin M. Evans

4.38

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

From a rising star in epic fantasy comes the captivating second novel in a trilogy featuring an unl… read more

Similar categories in Erin M. Evans's Relics of Ruin (Books of the Usurper, #2) book and Davinia Evans's Notorious Sorcerer (The Burnished City #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

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