21 Top queer books like Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells

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Briar Girls

By: Rebecca Kim Wells

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“Sexy and dangerous and full of liars.” —Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of The Mermaid, the Witch, and …

If you liked the queer plot in Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

1. 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 Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa

2. Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

By: Kate Scelsa

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A witchy, atmospheric lesbian contemporary romance set in Salem—from the acclaimed author of Fans o… read more

Similar categories in Kate Scelsa's Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1) by Laura Pohl

3. The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

By: Laura Pohl

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Four friends, one murder, and a dark fate that may leave them all doomed ... After the mysteriou… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pohl's The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1) book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"sometimes people are evil or French and can't be redeemed"

-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

"yuki laughed, because it was the natural response. everyone assumed it was easier, that she wouldn't have to navigate the difficulties of love. even her friends thought that, but it only came back to…"

-Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

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4. 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 Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • 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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5. The Coldest Touch

By: Isabel Sterling

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Elise Beaumont is cursed. With every touch, she experiences exactly how her loved ones will die. An… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Sterling's The Coldest Touch book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. A Million to One

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 make… read more

Similar categories in Adiba Jaigirdar's A Million to One book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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7. The Winter Duke

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An enchanted tale of intrigue where a duke's daughter is the only survivor of a magical curse. W… read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Sometimes you must be brutal and unforgiving even to people you once considered friends"

-Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke

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8. Misrule (Malice Duology, #2)

By: Heather Walter

3.77

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her sto… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's Misrule (Malice Duology, #2) book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Tragedy teaches us things about ourselves and about others. Sometimes we do not like what we see, but we have to look anyway. We have to know."

-Heather Walter, Misrule (Malice Duology, #2)

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9. 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 Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • 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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10. 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 Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • 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

Cover of Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2) by Audrey Coulthurst

11. Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2)

By: Audrey Coulthurst

3.78

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Princesses Denna and Mare are in love and together at last--only to face a new set of dangers. M… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Coulthurst's Of Ice and Shadows (Of Fire and Stars, #2) book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. 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 Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1) by Leslie Vedder

13. The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1)

By: Leslie Vedder

3.80

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Th… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Vedder's The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1) book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology)

By: Heather Walter

4.17

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the wickedest of them all? Snow White’s dark queen tells her sid… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology) book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Two of a Kind by Eden    Emory

15. Two of a Kind

By: Eden Emory

3.83

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From Eden Emory and Ashley Pines comes a second chance, steamy wlw holiday romance. This is a stand… read more

Similar categories in Eden Emory's Two of a Kind book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor

16. Fire Becomes Her

By: Rosiee Thor

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In Rosiee Thor's lavish fantasy novel with a Jazz Age spark, a politically savvy teen must weigh he… read more

Similar categories in Rosiee Thor's Fire Becomes Her book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Linden."

-Rosiee Thor, Fire Becomes Her

"I lied,"

-Rosiee Thor, Fire Becomes Her

"It’s okay, you know."

-Rosiee Thor, Fire Becomes Her

"Nowhere is it written in stone that you must love in only one way, only one person, only one time. You haven't missed your shot at love, because love isn't just one thing."

-Rosiee Thor, Fire Becomes Her

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17. The River Has Teeth

By: Erica Waters

3.85

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Natasha’s sister is missing. Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The River Has Teeth book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Seemed like it was always the greed of men that undid a successful woman."

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

"There will always be men in the world who want to control and hurt and kill us. Men who drug us and drive us off roads and hit us with their fists. Men who take girls and make them their toys. Men wh…"

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

Cover of The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1) by H.A. Clarke

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 Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • 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. Yellow Jessamine

By: Caitlin Starling

3.52

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Powerful shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu lives a tight, contained life, holding herself at a distan… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's Yellow Jessamine book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells

20. Briar Girls

By: Rebecca Kim Wells

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“Sexy and dangerous and full of liars.” —Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of The Mermaid, the Witch, and … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2) by Laura Pohl

21. The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2)

By: Laura Pohl

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the gi… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pohl's The Wicked Remain (The Grimrose Girls, #2) book and Rebecca Kim Wells's Briar Girls

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

19 Best fiction books like Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells

Transform Your Habits

Sofi and the Bone Song

Adrienne Tooley

4.05

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Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

Kate Scelsa

3.72

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The Grimrose Girls (Grimrose Girls, #1)

Laura Pohl

3.56

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Malice (Malice Duology, #1)

Heather Walter

3.95

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17 must-read fiction books like The Bone Spindle (The Bone Spindle, #1) by Leslie Vedder

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Sofi and the Bone Song

Adrienne Tooley

4.05

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Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

Kate Scelsa

3.72

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Kamilah Cole

3.90

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