26 must-read queer books like Death's Country by R.M. Romero

Cover of Death's Country by R.M. Romero

Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th…

If you liked the queer plot in Death's Country by R.M. Romero , here is a list of 26 books like this:

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

1. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

Cover of Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

2. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

Cover of Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco

3. Court of Wanderers

By: Rin Chupeco

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Remy Pendergast and his royal vampire companions return to face an enemy that is terrifyingly close… read more

Similar categories in Rin Chupeco's Court of Wanderers book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • polyamory
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Covenant, Vol. 1 (Covenant, #1) by LySandra Vuong

4. Covenant, Vol. 1 (Covenant, #1)

By: LySandra Vuong

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Discover Lysandra Vuong's hit supernatural action Webtoon Covenant in print for the first time ever… read more

Similar categories in LySandra Vuong's Covenant, Vol. 1 (Covenant, #1) book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

5. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) by Kacen Callender

6. Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

By: Kacen Callender

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward u… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Marble Queen by Anna Kopp

7. 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 R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • 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 On the Bright Side by Anna Sortino

8. On the Bright Side

By: Anna Sortino

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's On the Bright Side book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker

9. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

10. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures by Rob Costello

11. We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures

By: Rob Costello

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An empowering cross-genre YA anthology that explores what it means to be a monster, exclusively hig… read more

Similar categories in Rob Costello's We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

12. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

Cover of Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

13. Four Eids and a Funeral

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.71

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Four Eids and a Funeral book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

14. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2) by H.E. Edgmon

15. Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2)

By: H.E. Edgmon

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Mari… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Edgmon's Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2) book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Death's Country by R.M. Romero

16. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's Death's Country book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • poetry
  • retellings
  • polyamory
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson

17. Blood City Rollers

By: V.P. Anderson

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Skates on. Fangs out. Let’s roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice s… read more

Similar categories in V.P. Anderson's Blood City Rollers book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Lunar Boy by Jacinta Wibowo

18. Lunar Boy

By: Jacinta Wibowo

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more

Similar categories in Jacinta Wibowo's Lunar Boy book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

19. Wish You Weren't Here

By: Erin Baldwin

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer

20. Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojib… read more

Similar categories in Anton Treuer's Where Wolves Don't Die book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kolsch

21. Now, Conjurers

By: Freddie Kolsch

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

November 1999. North Dana, Massachusetts. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of… read more

Similar categories in Freddie Kolsch's Now, Conjurers book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

22. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska

23. This Fatal Kiss

By: Alicia Jasinska

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Spirit away with a whimsical fantasy filled with dark magic and flirty, polyamorous romance. Cur… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's This Fatal Kiss book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • polyamory
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Worst Perfect Moment by Shivaun Plozza

24. The Worst Perfect Moment

By: Shivaun Plozza

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts tender and edgy, this inventive queer romance imagines what it might feel like to come … read more

Similar categories in Shivaun Plozza's The Worst Perfect Moment book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Brownstone by Samuel Teer

25. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Take All of Us by Natalie Leif

26. Take All of Us

By: Natalie Leif

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A YA unbury-your-gays horror in which an undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Leif's Take All of Us book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina  Li

27. True Love and Other Impossible Odds

By: Christina Li

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pitched as Nina LaCour meets The Half of It, the story follows a first-year college student Grace T… read more

Similar categories in Christina Li's True Love and Other Impossible Odds book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

28. The Last Love Song

By: Kalie Holford

3.73

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

After high school graduation, Mia Peters faces a summer full of painful goodbyes. Songwriting is he… read more

Similar categories in Kalie Holford's The Last Love Song book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Ash's Cabin by Jen Wang

29. Ash's Cabin

By: Jen Wang

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash’s age are more inter… read more

Similar categories in Jen Wang's Ash's Cabin book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters

30. Prince of the Palisades

By: Julian Winters

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Young Royals meets Red, White, and Royal Blue in this heart-pumping romance by award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Julian Winters's Prince of the Palisades book and R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

31. 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 R.M. Romero's Death's Country

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer

27 must-read fiction books like Death's Country by R.M. Romero

Transform Your Habits

Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Canto Contigo

Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

Kacen Callender

3.49

View all the books

20 best-selling fantasy books like Take All of Us by Natalie Leif

Transform Your Habits

Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Lockjaw

Matteo L. Cerilli

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Lamplighter

Crystal J. Bell

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Icarus

K. Ancrum

4.08

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.