to rule the desert
By: Monica Robinson
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Set along Route 40 in the American Southwest, this debut novella loosely retells the myth of Orpheu…
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1. The Hike
By: Drew Magary
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you've read before, weaving elements o… read more
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3. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
4. The Haar
By: David Sodergren
4.17
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more
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- adult
5. Spear
By: Nicola Griffith
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more
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- lesbian
- retellings
- lgbt
- mythology
- queer
"My lord."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"I never knew my father,"-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Even the dead had names."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
6. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)
By: Ashley Herring Blake
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
7. Undercover (Into Shadow, #5)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.01
Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition
When a stranger comes to town, secrets are sure to come out. New York Times bestselling author Tams… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"The dancer moaned and scrabbled at the cage mesh. She made guttural honks of frustration and excitement. The raspberry mouth opened to reveal the long black tongue and pointed pink teeth. It was a lo…"-Tamsyn Muir, Undercover (Into Shadow, #5)
8. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
By: Emily Tesh
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
9. The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more
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- retellings
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
10. Certain Dark Things
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street … read more
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- adult
"One moment he was flinching and the next there was a slow, sweet wave that dragged him down ... it was a haze. The haze you experience when your eyes are heavy and you are about to fall asleep, where…"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things
11. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
12. The Bruising of Qilwa
By: Naseem Jamnia
3.75
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
13. The Garden (Into Shadow, #1)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
2.80
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
In this dreamlike short story told in alternating prose and verse, number one New York Times bestse… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
14. Our Crooked Hearts
By: Melissa Albert
3.75
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . This is Our Crooked Hearts, a contemporary fanta… read more
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"Magic was a thing with teeth and a history as old as the world."-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts
"Rage and time were the only currencies left to her, and she used them."-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts
"The memories blossomed and withered, and now they belonged only to me."-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts
"The air shimmered with the ghosts of our younger selves, our secrets, our heads side by side on the wooden floor."-Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts
15. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
16. Golden Hills
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.91
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a heartfelt short story about a com… read more
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- contemporary
17. The Manningtree Witches
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more
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- adult
""-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
18. Gone to the Wolves
By: John Wray
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author John Wray dives deep into the wild, risky world of heavy metal in the 1980… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
19. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
20. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- adult
- contemporary
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
21. Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
By: Margot Douaihy
3.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to … read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat,…"-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
"I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed.…"-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
22. Juniper & Thorn
By: Ava Reid
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper T… read more
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- retellings
- adult
"It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief."-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
"If I have you it will be as a man has a woman, a husband his wife. Do you dream of Bogatyr Ivan when you kiss me? Do you wish I entered you while holding a wooden sword? I would not like any story to…"-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
"The grandfather clock gonged three. Papa spoke a word that sounded like a spell, though I couldn't be sure. It was neither kind nor cruel. It was simply a wheel going into its grooves. All I knew the…"-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn
23. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- adult
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
24. 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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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black
25. Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1)
By: Liz Kerin
3.91
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrou… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
26. Court of Blood and Bindings (Fae Isles, #1)
By: Lisette Marshall
4.06
Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition
They call him the Silent Death, because he kills without sound and leaves none capable of speaking … read more
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- adult
"Home. Home. It had never been much, never been more than a place I couldn't wait to leave, and yet it had been safe. Easy. Familiar. And now I had been ripped out with stems and roots, and it turned …"-Lisette Marshall, Court of Blood and Bindings (Fae Isles, #1)
27. Sorry, Bro
By: Taleen Voskuni
3.66
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"For all my mom knows, I am as straight as Taylor Swift (my mortal enemy)."-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro
"There's a moon ring on her index finger, and with her other hand she pinches the moon and twists the ring all the way around and back. I want to be that moon. The I immediately tell myself to dial it…"-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro
"I don't need to do a quick self-assessment to know that I read as super-duper straight. And, let's be real, a basic bitch. My hair is long past my shoulders, styled and sleek and very conventional. S…"-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro
28. Wild and Wicked Things
By: Francesca May
3.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into a glittering world filled with dark ma… read more
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- lesbian
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"I do it because... because this life chews people like us up and spits them right back out again. Because I have never asked for anything more than the safety of my brother and sister, yet all we get…"-Francesca May, Wild and Wicked Things
29. The Faerie Hounds of York
By: Arden Powell
3.92
Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition
England, 1810. The north is governed by a single rule. Faerie will take as it pleases. William L… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"And until then, we'll stay side by side, and if we forget the world, we'll forget it together. And if we turn into trees, we'll grow so near to one another that our roots will tangle under the ground…"-Arden Powell, The Faerie Hounds of York
30. to rule the desert
By: Monica Robinson
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Set along Route 40 in the American Southwest, this debut novella loosely retells the myth of Orpheu… read more
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- lesbian
- retellings
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- mythology
- queer
31. The Hollow Plane (The Aethereals Duology, #1)
By: Allison Carr Waechter
3.89
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
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- adult
