15 must-read queer books like Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer

Cover of Witches of Ash and Ruin by E.  Latimer

Witches of Ash and Ruin

By: E. Latimer

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Modern witchcraft blends with ancient Celtic mythology in an epic clash of witches and gods, perfec…

If you liked the queer plot in Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. This Gilded Abyss

By: Rebecca Thorne

4.23

Format: None pages, ebook

Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She’s also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in th… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Thorne's This Gilded Abyss book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

2. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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3. Dark and Deepest Red

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until … read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"I had learned, from a girl with rage-lit eyes and a blue dress, to grasp the blade the world held to me, and hold it myself."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to w…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

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4. 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 E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • 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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5. 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 E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • 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 Out Now: Queer We Go Again! by Saundra Mitchell

6. Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

By: Saundra Mitchell

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

QUEER WE GO AGAIN! A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seve… read more

Similar categories in Saundra Mitchell's Out Now: Queer We Go Again! book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I don't get enough credit for using my genius only for personal gain and not all-out evil."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"... how everyone is made to believe white is good, pure, a ray of light while black is bad, tainted, the ugliest darkness, is ridiculous."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"Museums tell stories so much better than textbooks do. And that's what history is, isn't it? It's just a really big story. That's what makes it important. And museums get that. Textbooks don't."

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

"It's hard. Wanting the tea, but also not wanting the tea, but feeling like you should want the tea, but knowing you should protest the tea, so you put the protest on the teapot and throw all the tea …"

-Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

Cover of The Empire of Dreams (Fire and Thorns, #4) by Rae Carson

7. The Empire of Dreams (Fire and Thorns, #4)

By: Rae Carson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, ebook

New York Times-bestselling author Rae Carson makes a triumphant return to the world of her award-wi… read more

Similar categories in Rae Carson's The Empire of Dreams (Fire and Thorns, #4) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
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8. 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 E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
Cover of An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

9. 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

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) by Alexandra Overy

10. These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1)

By: Alexandra Overy

3.78

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

When twin heirs are born in Tourin, their fates are decided at a young age. While Izaveta remained … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Overy's These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

11. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1) by H.A. Clarke

12. 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 E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
  • 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)

Cover of Poison in Their Hearts (Castles in Their Bones, #3) by Laura Sebastian

13. Poison in Their Hearts (Castles in Their Bones, #3)

By: Laura Sebastian

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Immerse yourself in the final book in the epic fantasy trilogy from the author of the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sebastian's Poison in Their Hearts (Castles in Their Bones, #3) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Bruised by Tanya Boteju

14. Bruised

By: Tanya Boteju

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an acci… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Boteju's Bruised book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of She Came for Blood (Dreamers & Demons: Sapphic Monsters #3) by Darva Green

15. She Came for Blood (Dreamers & Demons: Sapphic Monsters #3)

By: Darva Green

4.41

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Anna "You'll watch your true love die three times before joining them in death." I've been living… read more

Similar categories in Darva Green's She Came for Blood (Dreamers & Demons: Sapphic Monsters #3) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
  • queer
Cover of Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil, #1) by Mara Fitzgerald

16. Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil, #1)

By: Mara Fitzgerald

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark, queer YA fantasy that's perfect for fans of the Three Dark Crowns series. After Emanuela Ra… read more

Similar categories in Mara Fitzgerald's Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil, #1) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens

17. A Wicked Magic

By: Sasha Laurens

3.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The Craft when modern witches must save teens stolen by an… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Laurens's A Wicked Magic book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
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18. Ravensong

By: Cayla Fay

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A demi-god who refuses to cohabitate with humans accidentally falls in love with one in the first b… read more

Similar categories in Cayla Fay's Ravensong book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
Cover of Witches of Ash and Ruin by E.  Latimer

19. Witches of Ash and Ruin

By: E. Latimer

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Modern witchcraft blends with ancient Celtic mythology in an epic clash of witches and gods, perfec… read more

Similar categories in E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • witches
  • paranormal
  • mythology
  • queer
Cover of Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost, #1) by Coco Ma

20. Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost, #1)

By: Coco Ma

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

IN THE KINGDOM OF AXARIA, a darkness rises. Some call it a monster, laying waste to the village… read more

Similar categories in Coco Ma's Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost, #1) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Courting of Bristol Keats (The Courting of Bristol Keats, #1) by Mary E. Pearson

21. The Courting of Bristol Keats (The Courting of Bristol Keats, #1)

By: Mary E. Pearson

3.87

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Mary E. Pearson comes a thrilling romantic fantasy full of d… read more

Similar categories in Mary E. Pearson's The Courting of Bristol Keats (The Courting of Bristol Keats, #1) book and E. Latimer's Witches of Ash and Ruin

  • fantasy
  • fiction

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Rebecca Thorne

4.23

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4.11

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3.57

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Emily Varga

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Sabaa Tahir

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Sophie Jordan

4.02

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