19 Top queer books like Ruinsong by Julia Ember

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Ruinsong

By: Julia Ember

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In Julia Ember's dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy Ruinsong, two young women from rival faction…

If you liked the queer plot in Ruinsong by Julia Ember , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Untitled

By: Marie Rutkoski

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

New YA fantasy project planned for 2018. read more

Similar categories in Marie Rutkoski's Untitled book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
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2. Girls of Paper and Fire

By: Natasha Ngan

3.64

Format: None pages,

"Inspired by Asian mythology, it follows Lei, a girl who is taken from her remote village to serve … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Ngan's Girls of Paper and Fire book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

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

3. 10 Things I Can See from Here

By: Carrie Mac

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Think positive. Don't worry; be happy. Keep calm and carry on. Maeve has heard it all before. She's… read more

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4. Girls Made of Snow and Glass

By: Melissa Bashardoust

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

Frozenmeets The Bloody Chamberin this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At s… read more

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5. Sofi and the Bone Song

By: Adrienne Tooley

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous standalone fantasy with a “sweet sapphic romance” ( Booklist ), a young musician s… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's Sofi and the Bone Song book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Crier's War (Crier's War, #1)

By: Nina Varela

4.12

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution. … read more

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Crier's War (Crier's War, #1) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

By: Heather Walter

3.95

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this darkly magical retelling of “S… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's Malice (Malice Duology, #1) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's nothing for me here. I'm tired of being a villain." "Magic is everywhere...even humans carry a spark of it in their fragile, fickle souls. All you need to do is reach out and find it."

-Heather Walter, Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

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8. Girl, Serpent, Thorn

By: Melissa Bashardoust

3.65

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Bashardoust's Girl, Serpent, Thorn book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I have nothing else to lose now—except for you."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"What if there was a loneliness even deeper than the one she felt now?"

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"You’re my favourite story. I feel like I’ve known you for a long time."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

"To anyone who has ever felt poisonous or monstrous or bristling with thorns."

-Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

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9. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

By: Lex Croucher

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

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10. Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

By: Nina Varela

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For too long, Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing its human citizens. But the … read more

Similar categories in Nina Varela's Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You are newbuilt,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Cruelty was wasted on the kind."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"I told you once I’m not a book to be read,"

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

"Strength isn’t measured by the ability to cause harm."

-Nina Varela, Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2)

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11. The Dark Tide

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, dark enemies-to-lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's The Dark Tide book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Betrayal cut so much deeper when you loved the hand that held the knife."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"Do you have to stare at me like that?" "Like what?" Like you're planning to eat me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"The Witch Queen comes on wings of night. The Witch Queen has your heart's delight. Hold him, hold him, hold on tight. Hide him, hide him, out of sight."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

"People claimed witches were nightmares, dreams, but Eva felt they were closer to plants; wild magic grew inside of each of them, waiting to be harvested in the strands of their hair, their salt tears…"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

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12. The Midnight Girls

By: Alicia Jasinska

3.79

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

The Wicked Deep meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this new standalone YA fantasy set in a snow-clo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's The Midnight Girls book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You don’t notice the bars of the cage,"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"Where would you even go if you were free?"

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"I’ve tasted freedom. I’ve tasted hearts and it’s changed me."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

"It is not a fairy tale. And monsters like us don’t get happy endings."

-Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

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13. Sweet & Bitter Magic

By: Adrienne Tooley

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this debut fantasy, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, an… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Tooley's Sweet & Bitter Magic book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was enchanted by the witch's lips."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Now Tamsin was nothing but bitter and dark and cold—always so impossibly cold."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Never learn to love someone untouchable. They'll only disappoint you in the end."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Tamsin had quite preferred the child when he was quiet, but the mother seemed pleased."

-Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

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14. Something Like Possible

By: Miel Moreland

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling YA contemporary from author Miel Moreland, a bisexual teen's path to political s… read more

Similar categories in Miel Moreland's Something Like Possible book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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15. The Valkyrie's Daughter (The Helheim Prophecy #1)

By: Tiana Warner

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the time she was born, Sigrid has only ever been ordinary. Being paired at birth with a plain … read more

Similar categories in Tiana Warner's The Valkyrie's Daughter (The Helheim Prophecy #1) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.88

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose--and falling fo… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because I am miserable and so viciously in love with her, I eat the soup."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"I could hate you, but it would kill me, and that is not how I am dying for you."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"The whole world can rot.' Eris whispers. 'Let's just sit here and watch it happen."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

"It's not who I want to be. I want to be soft, and I don't want to take shit from any-one."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1)

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17. Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Godslayers--Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane sequel to Gearbreakers--is perfect for fans of Pacific Ri… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Me...what? Ha. I'm good. I'm all good. It's just I want to punch something, and the impulse never really passes."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

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18. The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)

By: H.A. Clarke

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An outcast teenage lesbian witch finds her coven hidden amongst the popular girls in her school, an… read more

Similar categories in H.A. Clarke's The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I used to underline passages in my English books, because certain lines crawled off the page, because those lines were magic and they meant something on a cosmic scale."

-H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)

"I guess my point is that teenage girls aren't supposed to be powerful, you know? Everybody hates teenage girls. They hate our bodies and hate us if we want to change them. They hate the things we're …"

-H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)

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19. City of Shattered Light (Requiem Dark, #1)

By: Claire Winn

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether … read more

Similar categories in Claire Winn's City of Shattered Light (Requiem Dark, #1) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)

By: Marie Rutkoski

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Intrigue, romance, and magic abound in the heart-stopping conclusion to Marie Rutkoski’s Forgotten … read more

Similar categories in Marie Rutkoski's The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2) book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She smoothed flyaway hair off my brow. Yes, he imprisoned me, but I imprisoned him first. Do not worry, tadpole. He is mine, and I am his. Always."

-Marie Rutkoski, The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)

"I breathe out slowly, my hands still pressed against my eyes and cheeks. "I am not like you." "You must admit that you are, in a number of important ways." "I have been with many women." "You are a l…"

-Marie Rutkoski, The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)

"I am a practical person. You, on the other hand, are just like Kestrel and Arin. So much drama. Perhaps whatever has gone wrong between you and this girl could be solved with more honesty, and less w…"

-Marie Rutkoski, The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)

"Nirrim could have wondered about the truth of what she had lost for every moment of her little life, but she could not have named it, for it was compassion, and it remains the fate of all humans who …"

-Marie Rutkoski, The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)

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21. Ruinsong

By: Julia Ember

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In Julia Ember's dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy Ruinsong, two young women from rival faction… read more

Similar categories in Julia Ember's Ruinsong book and Julia Ember's Ruinsong

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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