21 Top queer books like The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) by K. Arsenault Rivera

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The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

By: K. Arsenault Rivera

3.92

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The Phoenix Empress, the sequel to K Arsenault Rivera's wildly buzzed about The Tiger's Daughter, a…

If you liked the queer plot in The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) by K. Arsenault Rivera , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Stone in the Skull (Lotus Kingdoms, #1) by Elizabeth Bear

1. The Stone in the Skull (Lotus Kingdoms, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.66

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's The Stone in the Skull (Lotus Kingdoms, #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lgbt
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He tried to feel the meaning of the words, speak them with passion nonetheless. If this was what he was inspired to, then he would not believe he had been inspired wrong. And it wrong to simply inton…"

-Elizabeth Bear, The Stone in the Skull (Lotus Kingdoms, #1)

Cover of The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1) by Seth Dickinson

2. The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)

By: Seth Dickinson

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The Traitor Baru Cormorantis an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman's mission to tear down an… read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

3. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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4. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

By: Seth Dickinson

4.32

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

"The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destr… read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Baru,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

"You cannot destroy the masters by mastering them. You destroy them by destroying."

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

"Yes, Juris thought. Keep trying. Keep finding wrongs, and naming them, and trying to make them right. Never stop. Even now."

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

"Baru felt a profound empathy for her attacker. Falcrest has cut your people, cut off lips and balls and fingers and tongues, and you cannot get justice. You cannot wait for history to turn in your fa…"

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

Cover of The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) by Tasha Suri

5. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.34

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

Cover of The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) by Tasha Suri

6. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

By: Tasha Suri

4.13

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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7. Aurora's Angel

By: Emily Noon

4.33

Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition

Joined in a battle for survival, a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody pa… read more

Similar categories in Emily Noon's Aurora's Angel book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2) by Seth Dickinson

8. The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

By: Seth Dickinson

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A breathtaking geopolitical fantasy as fraught as Game of Thrones, The Monster Baru Cormorant is th… read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

"Baru,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

"There are families here, Baru."

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

"I need someone to take up strangling me during sex,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)

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9. 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 (Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, #1)

By: Sumiko Arai

4.61

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

私が推している彼は、男じゃなかった。 CDショップで働いているミステリアスな「おにーさん」が気になってしょうがない女子高生・あや。しかし「おにーさん」の正体は、話したこともない、クラスメイトの… read more

Similar categories in Sumiko Arai's 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 (Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
"C'est parce que j'aime ce qui est cool... Voilà pourquoi je m'habille de cette façon."

-Sumiko Arai, 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 (Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, #1)

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10. Compass Rose (Compass Rose, #1)

By: Anna Burke

4.33

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what’s at stake for those who sail them. R… read more

Similar categories in Anna Burke's Compass Rose (Compass Rose, #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

By: C.L. Clark

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and rai… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Clark's The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs?"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and no…"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

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12. 付き合ってあげてもいいかな 8 [Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii ka na 8] (How Do We Relationship?, #8)

By: Tamifull

4.34

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

何もなかった、ことにしたくない 冴子への気持ちに折り合いをつけつつある一方、 環との微妙な距離が気になっている、みわ。 触れたい。気持ちを伝えてしまいたい。 でも…自信がない。このままじ… read more

Similar categories in Tamifull's 付き合ってあげてもいいかな 8 [Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii ka na 8] (How Do We Relationship?, #8) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1) by A.K. Larkwood

13. The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

By: A.K. Larkwood

3.73

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the … read more

Similar categories in A.K. Larkwood's The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Much is lost, but much lasts. . ."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

"She told him the plan. It was loud and dumb and very likely to hurt, so, of course, he agreed."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

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14. How Do We Relationship?, Vol. 1

By: Tamifull

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Shy Miwa has always dreamed of finding love, but living in small-town Japan made finding the right … read more

Similar categories in Tamifull's How Do We Relationship?, Vol. 1 book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) by C.L. Clark

15. The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2)

By: C.L. Clark

4.30

Format: 512 pages, None

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Clark's The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of How Do We Relationship?, Vol. 2 (2) by Tamifull

16. How Do We Relationship?, Vol. 2 (2)

By: Tamifull

4.05

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Shy Miwa has always dreamed of finding love, but living in small-town Japan made finding the right … read more

Similar categories in Tamifull's How Do We Relationship?, Vol. 2 (2) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Soldier of Dorsa (The Chronicles of Dorsa, #2) by Eliza Andrews

17. Soldier of Dorsa (The Chronicles of Dorsa, #2)

By: Eliza Andrews

4.29

Format: 586 pages, Kindle Edition

A war is brewing in the Empire. Not the War in the East — that is a war everyone already knows a… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Andrews's Soldier of Dorsa (The Chronicles of Dorsa, #2) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) by Olivia Waite

18. The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3)

By: Olivia Waite

3.71

Format: 384 pages, ebook

It’s not a crime to steal a heart... Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. Aft… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Waite's The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Wrath Goddess Sing

By: Maya Deane

3.49

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman's story hidden underneath … read more

Similar categories in Maya Deane's Wrath Goddess Sing book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And it would be death -- the death of her self, the inexorable corrosion of her soul, until even her name was forgotten and nothing was left but the shell of a man she never was."

-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

"She loved Patroklos, she loved Meryapi, and it had nothing to do with desire, only joy—to see them was joy; to breathe with them was joy; to ride with Patroklos on a cattle raid was joy; scanning the…"

-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

Cover of The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée

20. The Fall That Saved Us

By: Tamara Jerée

3.93

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassiel has given up the family tradition of demon hunting, leaving behind her sacred angelic duty … read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) by K. Arsenault Rivera

21. The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

By: K. Arsenault Rivera

3.92

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The Phoenix Empress, the sequel to K Arsenault Rivera's wildly buzzed about The Tiger's Daughter, a… read more

Similar categories in K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) book and K. Arsenault Rivera's The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

17 Top fiction books like The Phoenix Empress (Ascendant, #2) by K. Arsenault Rivera

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The Stone in the Skull (Lotus Kingdoms, #1)

Elizabeth Bear

3.66

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Seth Dickinson

4.12

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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Seth Dickinson

4.32

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Ann Leckie

4.08

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Ann Leckie

4.22

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Ann Leckie

3.84

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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