8 Top lesbian books like The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad

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The Wild Ones

By: Nafiza Azad

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From William C. Morris Finalist Nafiza Azad comes a thrilling, feminist fantasy about a group of te…

"Aren't you angry, sister? At being treated the we are? At having to pick up the pieces of what remains after the world is through with us? At being silenced and abused? At being denied our dignity, our bodies, our voices, and our right to justice? Aren't you angry? Embrace this anger. Let it fuel your every days. Defy everyone who tells you that you can't. Be wild."

-Nafiza Azad, The Wild Ones

"Aren't you angry, sister? At being treated the we are? At having to pick up the pieces of what remains after the world is through with us? At being silenced and abused? At being denied our dignity, our bodies, our voices, and our right to justice? Aren't you angry? Embrace this anger. Let it fuel your every days. Defy everyone who tells you that you can't. Be wild."

-Nafiza Azad, The Wild Ones

If you liked the lesbian plot in The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mysteries, #1)

By: Caroline Lawrence

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The dogs on Flavia's street have started dying mysteriously, and she is determined to find out why.… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Lawrence's The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mysteries, #1) book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fiction
  • young adult

2. Kaguya wants to be confessed to: The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains 4 (Kaguya wants to be confessed to: The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains, #4)

By: Aka Akasaka , None

3.12

Format: None pages, ebook

read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult

3. Moonstruck Volume 1

By: Grace Ellis

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Werewolf barista Julie and her new girlfriend go on a date to a close-up magic show, but all heck b… read more

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4. What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1)

By: Sonya Sones

3.33

Format: 300 pages,

My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first … read more

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5. Pilgrim Playwright Genie Guard

By: Heidi Heilig , Katherine Locke , Corinne Duyvis , Kody Keplinger , Dhonielle Clayton , Francisco X. Stork , Fox Benwell , Marieke Nijkamp , William Alexander , None , Kristine Wyllys , Karuna Riazi , Keah Brown

3.50

Format: None pages,

A YA Anthology of short stories featuring disabled teens, written by #OwnVoices disabled authors. T… read more

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Cover of Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) by Seanan McGuire

6. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Cover of Ember and the Ice Dragons by Heather Fawcett

7. Ember and the Ice Dragons

By: Heather Fawcett

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Ember St. George is a dragon. At least she was before her adoptive father—a powerful but accident-p… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Ember and the Ice Dragons book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"This far north, the wind was woven with frost even at midsummer."

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

"Half the size of Lionel's palm, it glittered with a color richer than rubies, deeper than amber, and threaded with veins like fired gold."

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

"Half the size of Lionel's palm, it glittered with a coloraturas richer than rubies, deeper than amber, and threaded with veins like fired gold."

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

"The wood was her favourite place, for it was also where you could find foxes and hares and slowworms and at least ten species of birds. She could sit for hours in the treetops, observing owls chasing…"

-Heather Fawcett, Ember and the Ice Dragons

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8. Spin

By: Rebecca Caprara

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Song of Achilles and Circe get a sapphic, young adult twist in this gorgeously lush, feminist r… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Caprara's Spin book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata

9. Nayra and the Djinn

By: Iasmin Omar Ata

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this coming-of-age graphic novel with a fantastical twist, Nayra Mansour, a Muslim American girl… read more

Similar categories in Iasmin Omar Ata's Nayra and the Djinn book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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10. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

By: Nisi Shawl

3.85

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers o… read more

Similar categories in Nisi Shawl's New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The grand philosopher Ancient Leaf once expounded that a man who kills another out of passion or greed is condemned as a murderer, and one who kills ten people is reviled as a maniac, but one who cau…"

-Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

Cover of Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu

11. Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid

By: Ngozi Ukazu

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned… read more

Similar categories in Ngozi Ukazu's Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1) by Ashley Shuttleworth

12. A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

By: Ashley Shuttleworth

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Choose your player. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family. A tempestuous Fury… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shuttleworth's A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1) book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

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

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

"Hang on a little tighter than that, Spider Monkey."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

"You’re… you’re something else, Arlo Jarsdel. But you’re also weird as fuck."

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

"She had her morals, the whole one or two of them that stubbornly clung to existence"

-Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star (The Hollow Star Saga, #1)

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13. The Cost of Knowing

By: Brittney Morris

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down w… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Morris's The Cost of Knowing book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics) by C.B. Lee

14. Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: C.B. Lee

4.01

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the cl… read more

Similar categories in C.B. Lee's Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh, she deserves so many good things, and I want to be one of them"

-C.B. Lee, Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)

Cover of Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic, #1) by Rin Chupeco

15. Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic, #1)

By: Rin Chupeco

3.41

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“A great read for fans of fairy tales, myths and legends… Come for the adventure, stay for the sass… read more

Similar categories in Rin Chupeco's Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic, #1) book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What I mean is, you've got magic in your blood, love. You can't take it out of you any more than you can will yourself to stop breathing. Y'got a whole language of charms."

-Rin Chupeco, Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic, #1)

"Just because you've never been to the Philippines doesn't mean their rivers don't course through your blood. It doesn't mean you don't have their mountains in your eyes. It's not where we are; it's w…"

-Rin Chupeco, Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic, #1)

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16. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

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17. Miss Meteor

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.99

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Qu… read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because I am a girl worth the space I take up. I am a girl this world, this town, and most of all, the people who love me, won't let go of. Because I am a star they won't let the sky take back"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, Miss Meteor

Cover of Queer Little Nightmares by David Ly

18. Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more

Similar categories in David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. A Curse of Roses

By: Diana Pinguicha

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With just one touch, bread turns into roses. With just one bite, cheese turns into lilies. There… read more

Similar categories in Diana Pinguicha's A Curse of Roses book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Every kiss shared with you is worth remembering."

-Diana Pinguicha, A Curse of Roses

"She had never been cursed to waste. She’d been blessed to transform."

-Diana Pinguicha, A Curse of Roses

"Leave it to men to believe themselves the reason for a woman’s actions."

-Diana Pinguicha, A Curse of Roses

"Yzabel didn’t know death could be so beautiful, or that betrayal could cut so deep."

-Diana Pinguicha, A Curse of Roses

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20. You Truly Assumed

By: Laila Sabreen

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and thought-provoking debut novel, after a terrorist attack rocks the country an… read more

Similar categories in Laila Sabreen's You Truly Assumed book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • fiction
  • young adult
"I am tired of existing. I want to live"

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

"She has a heart of gold. But people rob gold."

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

"But their voices and their words move mountains, create waterfalls, mend hearts, and make this world closer to what it should be."

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

"But if I am going to paint my own future, then I can't have have people-pleasing on my paint palette. It only muddles the rest of the colors."

-Laila Sabreen, You Truly Assumed

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21. Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Lakelore book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore

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22. かぐや様は告らせたい ~天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦~ 7

By: Aka Akasaka

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

「恋愛は告白した方が負けなのである!」 エリートの集う秀知院学園生徒会で出会った会長・白銀御行と副会長・四宮かぐや…。この両想いであるはずの天才2人が、互いに相手に惚れさせ、相手から告白させようと… read more

Similar categories in Aka Akasaka's かぐや様は告らせたい ~天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦~ 7 book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim

23. The Marvelous Mirza Girls

By: Sheba Karim

3.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

To cure her post–senior year slump, made worse by the loss of her aunt Sonia, Noreen is ready to fo… read more

Similar categories in Sheba Karim's The Marvelous Mirza Girls book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

24. Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

By: Tanya Boteju

3.78

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Boteju's Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"But I told myself if I could just get past my house and hammock without being sucked in by the guaranteed comfort, something else might be waiting for me on the other side, something that might color…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"With each passing moment, I’d get that feeling you sometimes have the moment you’re about to flip the final page of a really good book, when your anticipation for what happens next overwhelms you, bu…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"As I said it, I immediately felt a twinge of desire for something else poking between my ribs, jabbing at the familiar emptiness. Like maybe, if I could change thing up somehow, I might be able to fi…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

Cover of The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

25. The Return of the Sorceress

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a magical journey of revenge and redemption. … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Return of the Sorceress book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • witches
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"adventure surely awaits tomorrow and barring that there will be breakfast"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Return of the Sorceress

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26. It Ends in Fire

By: Andrew Shvarts

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

ALKA CHELRAZI IS ON A MISSION: 1. Infiltrate Blackwater Academy 2. Win the Great Game 3. Burn … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Shvarts's It Ends in Fire book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
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27. The Wild Ones

By: Nafiza Azad

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From William C. Morris Finalist Nafiza Azad comes a thrilling, feminist fantasy about a group of te… read more

Similar categories in Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Aren't you angry, sister? At being treated the we are? At having to pick up the pieces of what remains after the world is through with us? At being silenced and abused? At being denied our dignity, o…"

-Nafiza Azad, The Wild Ones

Cover of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 5 by Aka Akasaka

28. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 5

By: Aka Akasaka

4.45

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Will Kaguya and Miyuki find a way to see each other sooner rather than later over summer vacation? … read more

Similar categories in Aka Akasaka's Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 5 book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
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29. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 6

By: Aka Akasaka

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Two high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first. Two geniuses. Two … read more

Similar categories in Aka Akasaka's Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 6 book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

30. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

Cover of How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole

31. How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1)

By: Alyssa Cole

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of New York Times and USA Today … read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Cole's How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1) book and Nafiza Azad's The Wild Ones

  • romance
  • fiction
"Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked."

-Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1)

"We don't stop needing to hear what's good in ourselves, ever. Other people just stop telling us as we get older. But I'm not other people. I'm your wife."

-Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1)

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