8 best-selling mystery books like The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

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The King of Infinite Space

By: Lyndsay Faye

3.96

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atyp…

"You're a line of music....I could transpose your melody into any key, hum at any tempo, and still know you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"You're a line of music....I could transpose your melody into any key, hum at any tempo, and still know you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"I'm not expressing myself well. What I mean is, you're my geodetic North." "And that means?" "I'd be lost without you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"I'm not expressing myself well. What I mean is, you're my geodetic North." "And that means?" "I'd be lost without you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

If you liked the mystery plot in The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Five by Fitzgerald: Classic Stories of the Jazz Age

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Bronson Pinchot , Stephen R. Thorne

3.67

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Five brilliant stories from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Includes the … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating n… read more

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  • fiction

3. In Other Lands

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

4.20

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

"What's your name?" "Serene." "Serena?" Elliot asked. "Serene," said Serene. "My full name is Seren… read more

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4. Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots, #1)

By: Cat Sebastian

3.97

Format: 102 pages, ebook

Massachusetts, 1959: Some people might accuse mathematician Everett Sloane of being stuffy, but … read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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5. Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5)

By: Cat Sebastian

4.20

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

North Carolina, 1953 Billy Reardon’s spent the past five years trying and failing to keep his te… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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6. 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

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  • lgbt
  • 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)

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7. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

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8. 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

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  • 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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9. Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

By: Eric Schlich

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Eric Schlich’s Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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11. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

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  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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

12. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 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)

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13. Escaping Mr. Rochester

By: L.L. McKinney

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save… read more

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  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

3.26

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still ho… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The dark comfort of mortality, she thinks, the reminder that other people before them dreamed and suffered, created strange architecture, and disappeared for reasons incomprehensible to those coming …"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"Non ti conosco e non so cosa è successo nella tua vita. Ma quello che voglio dirti è che vale la pena raccontare alcuni segreti. Altrimenti ti avvelenano come la chemioterapia... ti scavano dall'inte…"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

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15. I Want to be a Wall, Vol. 1

By: Honami Shirono

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Any love story aficionado will say that the key to a successful couple is intense desire for one an… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

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  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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17. The Genesis of Misery

By: Neon Yang

3.44

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full … read more

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  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. The Half Life of Valery K

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."

-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

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19. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

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  • audiobook
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Phantom and Rook: When An Immortal Falls In Love With A Witch (Adventures in Levena #1)

By: Aelina Isaacs

4.13

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Arlo Rook has decided it’s time to move out of Garren Castle, home for orphans of all races, magica… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. Boys, Beasts & Men

By: Sam J. Miller

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featurin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Stupid of me to think that just because her empathy extended to monsters like Kong, it would reach all the way to monsters like me."

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

"We walk. Two bodies, two wild separate beings. Sex tingles all through me: the hunger for it, for the joy that is more than just the pleasure of it, or the pride of being desired Of connecting to som…"

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

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22. The Shabti

By: Megaera C. Lorenz

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Can you flimflam a ghost? It’s 1934. Former medium Dashiel Quicke travels the country debunking spi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • queer
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23. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

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24. Don't Let the Forest In

By: C.G. Drews

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thoma… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

25. The King of Infinite Space

By: Lyndsay Faye

3.96

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atyp… read more

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  • audiobook
  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're a line of music....I could transpose your melody into any key, hum at any tempo, and still know you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"I'm not expressing myself well. What I mean is, you're my geodetic North." "And that means?" "I'd be lost without you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"While you were gone I...I wore you in my heart. Every day. ...I wore you then, I wear you now. I wear you in my heart of hearts."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"I don't actually know who's ending. But someone is. Lia said so. And I would crack every unsolved equation left in the world to make sure that it isn't you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

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26. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

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27. Providence Girls

By: Morgan Dante

3.98

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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28. Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

By: T.J. Klune

4.46

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean S… read more

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  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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29. A Tale of Whispers and Rogues (Shadowborn #1)

By: Jordan Lee

4.07

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

Owen Greene must die. Being Shadowborn, the Essence of a fallen god runs through Owen’s veins. I… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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30. Antique Roman

By: Syd Neben

3.71

Format: 197 pages, ebook

In the tale of Hamlet, Horatio is recorded as a loyal friend, but what if he were more? What if he … read more

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  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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31. This Pact Is Not Ours

By: Zachary Sergi

3.88

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

The summer before college Luca Piccone returns to Copper Cove, the idyllic campsite he and his clos… read more

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  • mystery
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

28 must-read fiction books like The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

Transform Your Habits

Five by Fitzgerald: Classic Stories of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald , Bronson Pinchot , Stephen R. Thorne

3.67

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The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)

Kim Stanley Robinson

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots, #1)

Cat Sebastian

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5)

Cat Sebastian

4.20

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You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

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Natasha Pulley

4.02

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Death in the Spires

K.J. Charles

4.42

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