9 must-read queer books like The Day Death Stopped by Rebecca Thorne

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The Day Death Stopped

By: Rebecca Thorne

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Desperation is the most dangerous type of magic. An out-of-control spell isn't her problem. …

If you liked the queer plot in The Day Death Stopped by Rebecca Thorne , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

1. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Cover of A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Adenashire, #1) by J. Penner

2. A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Adenashire, #1)

By: J. Penner

3.93

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

A human, a dwarf and an elf walk into a bake-off… In the heart of Adenashire, where elfish encha… read more

Similar categories in J. Penner's A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Adenashire, #1) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
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3. Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)

By: Nino Cipri

4.09

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Defekt (LitenVerse, #2) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • queer
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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4. Daindreth's Assassin (Daindreth's Assassin #1)

By: Elisabeth Wheatley

3.94

Format: 283 pages, ebook

An assassin falls for the archduke she was sent to kill, but killing him might be the only way to s… read more

Similar categories in Elisabeth Wheatley's Daindreth's Assassin (Daindreth's Assassin #1) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
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5. Cursed Cocktails (Tales of Aedrea, #1)

By: S.L. Rowland

4.21

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

When life gives you lemons, squeeze them into a stiff drink and stir. After twenty years defendi… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Rowland's Cursed Cocktails (Tales of Aedrea, #1) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

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7. The Honey Witch

By: Sydney J. Shields

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young … read more

Similar categories in Sydney J. Shields's The Honey Witch book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets…"

-Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

Cover of Murder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1) by Morgan Stang

8. Murder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1)

By: Morgan Stang

4.09

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Mysteries abound in Spindle Manor. For Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, the countryside inn is the last… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Stang's Murder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • magic
  • fantasy
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9. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • queer
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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10. The Follower of Flowers (Flowers of Prophecy #2)

By: Natalia Hernandez

4.43

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

As a child, the Name-Bearer had one duty; to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy f… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Hernandez's The Follower of Flowers (Flowers of Prophecy #2) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • queer
  • magic
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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11. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • witches
  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of Practical Potions and Premeditated Murder (Practical Potions, #1) by Wren Jones

12. Practical Potions and Premeditated Murder (Practical Potions, #1)

By: Wren Jones

4.06

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The first in the Practical Potions series. Sella is tired of being a failure. She has a lovel… read more

Similar categories in Wren Jones's Practical Potions and Premeditated Murder (Practical Potions, #1) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

By: Anna Lapera

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes M… read more

Similar categories in Anna Lapera's Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • contemporary
Cover of The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

14. The Spellshop

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
"We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it. It felt like touching pure potential."

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

"I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned. "I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

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15. World Running Down

By: Al Hess

3.97

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dr… read more

Similar categories in Al Hess's World Running Down book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Day Death Stopped by Rebecca  Thorne

16. The Day Death Stopped

By: Rebecca Thorne

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Desperation is the most dangerous type of magic. An out-of-control spell isn't her problem. … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • urban fantasy
  • asexual
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • contemporary
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens by Laraine Herring

17. A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens

By: Laraine Herring

4.49

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a commitment. When Laraine Herring rece… read more

Similar categories in Laraine Herring's A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

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18. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Tenfold Tenants by E.V. Belknap

19. The Tenfold Tenants

By: E.V. Belknap

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Corvinian Hark thought he'd be the next great villain. What he ended up as, is a caretaker of magi… read more

Similar categories in E.V. Belknap's The Tenfold Tenants book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • fantasy
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20. The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The City in Glass book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Guarding Gus (The Gus Chronicles, #1) by Karryn Nagel

21. Guarding Gus (The Gus Chronicles, #1)

By: Karryn Nagel

4.34

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do if you found a rare magical animal? Nico, who has just begun passing as a tran… read more

Similar categories in Karryn Nagel's Guarding Gus (The Gus Chronicles, #1) book and Rebecca Thorne's The Day Death Stopped

  • fantasy
"Remi sighed dramatically, clearly for effect. “Everyone expects me to be such a brooding and bloodthirsty killer. I VANT to DWAIN your BLOOD, and all that nonsense. I mean, I drink as needed, but,"

-Karryn Nagel, Guarding Gus (The Gus Chronicles, #1)

"As Brant listened intently to Nico share about his transition, his mind was crowded with questions and curiosities about the process of transforming from a girl to a boy — to a man, he corrected hims…"

-Karryn Nagel, Guarding Gus (The Gus Chronicles, #1)

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Travis Baldree

4.20

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J. Penner

3.93

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Defekt (LitenVerse, #2)

Nino Cipri

4.09

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Elisabeth Wheatley

3.94

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Rebecca Thorne

3.82

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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Forged by Magic (Falling for Fables, #1)

Jenna Wolfhart

3.88

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J. Penner

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