The Ballad of Perilous Graves
By: Alex Jennings
3.58
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city’s soul brews be…
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1. 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
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- adult
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
2. Thornhedge
By: T. Kingfisher
4.00
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
3. Spear
By: Nicola Griffith
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more
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- fantasy
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"My lord."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"I never knew my father,"-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Even the dead had names."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
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
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- 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)
5. 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
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- lgbt
- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."-Martha Wells, Witch King
6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
7. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
3.89
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
8. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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- fiction
- paranormal
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
9. The Book Eaters
By: Sunyi Dean
3.64
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more
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- urban fantasy
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"None of us are truly good,"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
10. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- urban fantasy
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
11. 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
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- audiobook
- 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)
12. 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
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
13. Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.48
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels
14. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
By: Samit Basu
3.59
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
15. The Bruising of Qilwa
By: Naseem Jamnia
3.75
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
16. Thistlefoot
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
17. 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
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
18. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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- urban fantasy
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
19. Siren Queen
By: Nghi Vo
3.68
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
20. Nettle & Bone
By: T. Kingfisher
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- paranormal
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
21. The Dragons of Deepwood Fen (The Book of the Holt, #1)
By: Bradley P. Beaulieu
3.66
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
This 1st book in a new fantasy series from the author of the acclaimed Song of the Shattered Sands … read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
22. 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
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
23. Dreadful
By: Caitlin Rozakis
3.72
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful
"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful
24. The Book of Gothel: Memoir of a Witch
By: Mary McMyne
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put h… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
25. The Monsters We Defy
By: Leslye Penelope
4.12
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more
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- urban fantasy
- fiction
- paranormal
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
26. Saint Death's Daughter (Saint Death, #1)
By: C.S.E. Cooney
4.09
Format: 692 pages, Kindle Edition
To be born into a family of royal assassins pretty much guarantees that your life is going to be… r… read more
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- lgbt
- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
27. Ink Blood Sister Scribe
By: Emma Törzs
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's li… read more
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- urban fantasy
- lgbt
- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
28. Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By: Leslye Penelope
4.01
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
29. The Ballad of Perilous Graves
By: Alex Jennings
3.58
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city’s soul brews be… read more
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- urban fantasy
- music
- audiobook
- lgbt
- magic
- fiction
- fantasy
- adult
- paranormal
- queer
30. 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
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
