28 must-read queer books like Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Cover of Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Lucha of the Night Forest

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister--even if it me…

If you liked the queer plot in Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

1. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin

2. Dauntless

By: Elisa A. Bonnin

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl must bring together two broken worlds in order to save her nation in this lush, Filipin… read more

Similar categories in Elisa A. Bonnin's Dauntless book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) by Kamilah Cole

3. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

Similar categories in Kamilah Cole's So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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4. The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

Format: 368 pages, None

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore

5. Venom & Vow

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Va… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Venom & Vow book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

6. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

7. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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

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8. The Witch and the Vampire

By: Francesca Flores

3.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Francesca Flores's The Witch and the Vampire is a queer Rapunzel retelling where a witch and a vamp… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Flores's The Witch and the Vampire book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

9. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

Cover of Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney

10. 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

Similar categories in L.L. McKinney's Escaping Mr. Rochester book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1) by Adrienne Tooley

11. The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1)

By: Adrienne Tooley

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping YA fantasy about legacy, betrayal, sisterhood, and politicizing emotion in the quest for… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's The Third Daughter (Betrayal Prophecies, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) by Rochelle Hassan

12. The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

By: Rochelle Hassan

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It was like every emotion he'd had to suppress in order to survive the last year and a half was now crashing into him all at once. Every vulnerability he'd locked away so that he could command the ho…"

-Rochelle Hassan, The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

Cover of Unseelie (The Unseelie Duology, #1) by Ivelisse Housman

13. Unseelie (The Unseelie Duology, #1)

By: Ivelisse Housman

3.76

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters, both on the run, but different as day and night. One, a professional rogue, searches … read more

Similar categories in Ivelisse Housman's Unseelie (The Unseelie Duology, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Fairy mischief is just a part of life. Anyone with common sense accepts this and does their best to co-exist, with bribes of milk and shiny things."

-Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie (The Unseelie Duology, #1)

Cover of Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) by H.E. Edgmon

14. Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tin… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We are not just gods walking around steering human bodies. We are also humans housing the souls of gods. Okay? And if it really matters that the Mountain is never a colonizer'--I brush my thumb again…"

-H.E. Edgmon, Godly Heathens (The Ouroboros, #1)

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15. The Marble Queen

By: Anna Kopp

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Marble Queen is a YA Fantasy graphic novel that’s the political drama of Nimona meets the heart… read more

Similar categories in Anna Kopp's The Marble Queen book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’m not the strong, brave queen Iliad deserves."

-Anna Kopp, The Marble Queen

"It seems so natural. Like she’s done it a hundred times. Does she prefer dancing with women? I thought this marriage was only an arrangement. And if I’m right and it is, then why do I feel so strange?"

-Anna Kopp, The Marble Queen

Cover of The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) by Vanessa Le

16. The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1)

By: Vanessa Le

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Las… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Le's The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. The Absinthe Underground

By: Jamie Pacton

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy! For Sybil Cla… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Pacton's The Absinthe Underground book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang

18. My Father, the Panda Killer

By: Jamie Jo Hoang

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing agains… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Jo Hoang's My Father, the Panda Killer book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Weavers of Alamaxa (The Alamaxa Duology, #2) by Hadeer Elsbai

19. The Weavers of Alamaxa (The Alamaxa Duology, #2)

By: Hadeer Elsbai

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Following up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai co… read more

Similar categories in Hadeer Elsbai's The Weavers of Alamaxa (The Alamaxa Duology, #2) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Damned If You Do by Alex   Brown

20. Damned If You Do

By: Alex Brown

3.74

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Queer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school st… read more

Similar categories in Alex Brown's Damned If You Do book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

21. Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

4.33

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice. They took back their family’… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

22. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

Similar categories in Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

Cover of Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia

23. Lucha of the Night Forest

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister--even if it me… read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

24. Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

By: Justine Pucella Winans

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen bi… read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Ravensong by Cayla Fay

25. Ravensong

By: Cayla Fay

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A demi-god who refuses to cohabitate with humans accidentally falls in love with one in the first b… read more

Similar categories in Cayla Fay's Ravensong book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary  Best

26. Stars, Hide Your Fires

By: Jessica Mary Best

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A wanted thief. A murdered emperor. A killer loose on the station. A gripping YA mystery set in spa… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Mary Best's Stars, Hide Your Fires book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

27. Into the Light

By: Mark Oshiro

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When you're like me, you have to lie. It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family … read more

Similar categories in Mark Oshiro's Into the Light book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Valkyrie’s Shadow (Sigrid and The Valkyries, 2) by Tiana Warner

28. The Valkyrie’s Shadow (Sigrid and The Valkyries, 2)

By: Tiana Warner

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling Sapphic fantasy based on unique Norse mythology that ups the stakes of adventure, roman… read more

Similar categories in Tiana Warner's The Valkyrie’s Shadow (Sigrid and The Valkyries, 2) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Ending Fire (The Ending Fire Trilogy, #3) by Saara El-Arifi

29. The Ending Fire (The Ending Fire Trilogy, #3)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.35

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Rebellions are like fires—something needs to burn to make a flame. Return to the Wardens’ Empire in… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's The Ending Fire (The Ending Fire Trilogy, #3) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

30. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

31. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Tehlor Kay Mejia's Lucha of the Night Forest

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

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Dauntless

Elisa A. Bonnin

4.01

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So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

Kamilah Cole

3.90

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Anna-Marie McLemore

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Liselle Sambury

3.90

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Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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Jonny Garza Villa

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