19 must-read queer books like The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1) by Ladz

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The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

By: Ladz

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winter 1917. After years on the run from a dangerous cult, twenty-three-year-old Sasza and his fath…

If you liked the queer plot in The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1) by Ladz , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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2. 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

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • adult
  • 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)

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3. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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4. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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5. Angels Before Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.14

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I know what the Lord dressed me in and what He handed to me, and inside, I can feel the detail He put into me. And yet, still, I’m so lost. I only want to be useful to Him, but I don’t know how. I wa…"

-Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man

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6. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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7. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

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  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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8. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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9. Tripping Arcadia

By: Kit Mayquist

3.51

Format: 368 pages, None

From debut author Kit Mayquist, a propulsive and atmospheric modern Gothic with all the splendor of… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Angels & Man

By: Rafael Nicolás

4.59

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

A Queer Retelling of the Watcher's Flood The angel Azazel is miserable in Heaven. In the afterma… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Nicolás's Angels & Man book and Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) by K.M.  Enright

11. Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1)

By: K.M. Enright

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

FATE IS A CRUEL MISTRESS The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire ha… read more

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  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

By: Laura R. Samotin

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing … read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's not shameful to seek help for a wound," Mischa continued. "Whether a wound to your body, or one to your mind."

-Laura R. Samotin, The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

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13. 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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  • lgbt
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. First Creation (Gods and Monsters 'verse #1)

By: Mars Adler

4.31

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

In an alternate biblical history, the war between angels and demons is unending and brutal. Amit… read more

Similar categories in Mars Adler's First Creation (Gods and Monsters 'verse #1) book and Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Monsters within Men

By: T.J. Rose

4.21

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 2053. One of the last remaining civilisations in the world. A decade on from the first … read more

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  • queer
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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16. The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

By: Ladz

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winter 1917. After years on the run from a dangerous cult, twenty-three-year-old Sasza and his fath… read more

Similar categories in Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1) book and Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • queer
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17. Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

By: Morgan Dante

4.09

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

“Indulgent, depraved, and sanguine, UNHOLY WITH EYES LIKE WOLVES is a gory fugue that will have rea… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • vampires
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. Where Willows Weep

By: Luna Fiore

4.45

Format: 226 pages, ebook

If these walls could talk… Years ago, Jess ran away from her small Southern town and vowed to ne… read more

Similar categories in Luna Fiore's Where Willows Weep book and Ladz's The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1)

  • horror
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19. Mercy

By: Ian Haramaki

3.65

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

A PRIEST AND HIS ANGEL... Father Ilya Pavlovich Sokolovis a lonely priest and pariah of his smal… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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21. ROTGUT (ROTGUTVERSE)

By: H.S. Wolfe

3.86

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

All I want to do is play drums in Cluster Headache, but I can’t even get that right. Between my on-… read more

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  • horror
  • queer

15 best-selling fiction books like The Fealty of Monsters, Vol. 1 (The Fealty of Monsters, #1) by Ladz

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Justinian Huang

3.52

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3.66

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Noah Medlock

3.72

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S.T. Gibson

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Jenn Lyons

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