Other Words for Smoke
By: Sarah Maria Griffin
3.80
Format: 352 pages, ebook
When the house at the end of the lane burned down, none of the townspeople knew what happened. A tr…
Want to Read $ 8.99"A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat."-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke
"A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat."-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke
"When we talk about summer, we are not talking about time. A summer is a bright wound that splits the year open like a hinge and leaves you exposed for who you really are, in the heat and pause and stretch of it. A summer is an agreement whereby something happens between people, between us."-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke
"When we talk about summer, we are not talking about time. A summer is a bright wound that splits the year open like a hinge and leaves you exposed for who you really are, in the heat and pause and stretch of it. A summer is an agreement whereby something happens between people, between us."-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke
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1. Wicked Like a Wildfire (Hibiscus Daughter, #1)
By: Lana Popović
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
All the women in Iris and Malina's family have the unique magical ability or "gleam" to manipulate … read more
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2. The Queens of Innis Lear
By: Tessa Gratton
3.69
Format: None pages, ebook
A kingdom at risk, a crown divided, a family drenched in blood. The erratic decisions of a prophecy… read more
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3. Sawkill Girls
By: Claire Legrand
3.67
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
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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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- 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. Star Eater
By: Kerstin Hall
3.52
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
All martyrdoms are difficult. Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way o… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
6. The Haunting of Velkwood
By: Gwendolyn Kiste
3.64
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- paranormal
- queer
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
7. Howl
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
8. A Treason of Thorns
By: Laura E. Weymouth
3.44
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One o… read more
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- fiction
- fantasy
- young adult
9. All the Dead Lie Down
By: Kyrie McCauley
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fantasy
- horror
- paranormal
- queer
10. 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
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- queer
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
11. Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2)
By: Deirdre Sullivan
3.98
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
The utterly compelling and darkly magical sequel to award-winning author Deirdre Sullivan's PERFECT… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- witches
- fantasy
- paranormal
"It will probably leave a scar. But so does everything."-Deirdre Sullivan, Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2)
"There's an honesty and simplicity to Santa. He'd go down your chimney, but only with enthusiastic consent."-Deirdre Sullivan, Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2)
12. Perfectly Preventable Deaths
By: Deirdre Sullivan
3.60
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Everyone in Ballyfran has a secret, and that is what binds them together… Fifteen-year-old twins… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- witches
- fantasy
- paranormal
13. The Diablo's Curse
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
14. Every Exquisite Thing
By: Laura Steven
3.83
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"You deserve to be loved."-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
"I think I was just born hungry."-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing
15. Savage Her Reply
By: Deirdre Sullivan
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of… read more
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- fiction
- fantasy
- young adult
"Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember."-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply
"Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my a…"-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply
16. The Dark Beneath the Ice
By: Amelinda Bérubé
3.43
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Black Swan meets Paranormal Activity in this compelling ghost story about a former dancer whose gri… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"I’m invisible. You can’t harass a ghost."-Amelinda Bérubé, The Dark Beneath the Ice
17. Blanca & Roja
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
3.76
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and grace… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"The way you look at me, do you mean it?"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja
"The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja
"In the dark, my sister glowed, but in the dark, I was the dark itself. Blanca, bright and fair Blanca, was the moon and all its stars. I was just her background to shimmer against."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja
"That I was a boy, but it was not as simple as me wanting to be called he. That I liked being called he and him. But that I would've liked being called she and her sometimes, too, if it didn't let eve…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja
18. Every Gift a Curse (All Our Hidden Gifts, #3)
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.29
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
A spellbinding supernatural teen drama and final book in the Gifts series from a New York Times bes… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- witches
- paranormal
- queer
19. Now Entering Addamsville
By: Francesca Zappia
3.50
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Zora Novak has been framed. When someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies i… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- paranormal
- horror
- fantasy
"I'm too asexual for this."-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville
"You can have people who call themselves your friends and you can still be alone."-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville
"How could you convince people of the truth when they had already decided what version of the story they wanted to believe?"-Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville
20. Extasia
By: Claire Legrand
3.53
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- witches
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
21. My Name is Monster
By: Katie Hale
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, M… read more
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- fiction
- fantasy
- young adult
"…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"I found that thinking was easier when there was someone to talk at."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"I say my story starts here because endings are always a kind of beginning."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
22. A Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more
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- witches
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
23. Other Words for Smoke
By: Sarah Maria Griffin
3.80
Format: 352 pages, ebook
When the house at the end of the lane burned down, none of the townspeople knew what happened. A tr… read more
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- lesbian
- magical realism
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- witches
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat."-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke
"When we talk about summer, we are not talking about time. A summer is a bright wound that splits the year open like a hinge and leaves you exposed for who you really are, in the heat and pause and st…"-Sarah Maria Griffin, Other Words for Smoke
24. Trouble the Saints
By: Alaya Dawn Johnson
3.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Undergroun… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
25. Dangerous Remedy (Battalion of the Dead, #1)
By: Kat Dunn
3.49
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aris… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
26. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades, #1)
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.85
Format: 122 pages, ebook
Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhe… read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- lgbt
27. Here There Are Monsters
By: Amelinda Bérubé
3.33
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of codependent sisterhood, the struggle… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- paranormal
- horror
- fantasy
28. Last Seen Online (Gottie Writes, #1)
By: Lauren James
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A contemporary YA murder mystery set in sun-drenched LA, for fans of Malibu Rising, We Were Liars a… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- young adult
- lgbt
29. Lucy Undying
By: Kiersten White
3.67
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fantasy
- horror
- paranormal
30. Through the Midnight Door
By: Katrina Monroe
3.61
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
As emotional as it is haunting, Through the Midnight Door explores the sometimes-fragile bonds of s… read more
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- fantasy
- paranormal
- fiction
- horror
31. Beauty and Cruelty
By: Meredith Katz
3.81
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Cruelty, once an evil fairy and now working in fast food, comes home one day to find the lazy, droo… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
