23 must-read queer books like The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5) by K. Ancrum

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The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

By: K. Ancrum

3.72

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven novella, part fairy tale and part gritty reality, follow…

"You're the love of my life, you know," he said bravely. August just looked at him and shrugged. "I know."

-K. Ancrum, The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

If you liked the queer plot in The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5) by K. Ancrum , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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2. The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.37

Format: 423 pages, ebook

The Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle they've always neede… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Some of the strongest people I’ve known are women."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

"I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

"You can't cut down someone who's already in the gutter."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

"He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting."

-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

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3. The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.58

Format: 556 pages, ebook

Neil Josten is out of time. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn't survive the year, but with his … read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The King's Men (All for the Game, #3) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"He wouldn’t die a lie."

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

"If it means losing you, then no"

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

"Is your learning curve a horizontal line?"

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

"We're all going to die," Kevin said at last."

-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)

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4. The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.02

Format: 237 pages, ebook

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast… read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Shirt off."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Are you stupid?"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Give your back to me."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"I don’t understand suicide,"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

5. Imago (Imago, #1)

By: N.R. Walker

4.40

Format: 80 pages,

Nerdy, introverted genius lepidopterist, Lawson Gale, is an expert on butterflies. He finds himself… read more

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6. Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.56

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

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7. The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.59

Format: None pages, None

My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas. It is a truth Jean h… read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time."

-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

"Jean held onto his control with everything he had left after such a nightmarish day, but he could feel his grip slipping. Endure, he warned himself, and on its tail-end came a desperate How much must…"

-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)

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8. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. Heart of Stone

By: Johannes T. Evans

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 1764, and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer, Henry Coffey, vamp… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We see the same colours, Mr Essex,"

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"Henry, you could not pressure a page to fold."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"One drunken night does not a madness make, Essex."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

"I am not by nature a dishonest man," Henry said softly, "but there are such times that the truth will not do."

-Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

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10. Summer Sons

By: Lee Mandelo

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Summer Sons book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

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11. 30살까지 동정이면 마법사가 될 수 있대 9

By: Yuu Toyota

4.36

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

It’s complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magica… read more

Similar categories in Yuu Toyota's 30살까지 동정이면 마법사가 될 수 있대 9 book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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12. Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 8

By: Yuu Toyota

4.53

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It’s A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reve… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい 10

By: Yuu Toyota

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

今日、かけがえのない人と結婚します。 結婚式を挙げる約束をした安達と黒沢。しかし、挙式までの道のりは未知の連続で…。そんな時、助けてくれるのは、身の回りにいる大切な人たちだった…!皆に祝福されて、… read more

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  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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14. These Violent Delights

By: Micah Nemerever

3.97

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more

Similar categories in Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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15. Brothersong (Green Creek, #4)

By: T.J. Klune

4.52

Format: 576 pages, ebook

The beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, lo… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Klune's Brothersong (Green Creek, #4) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
"Livingstone,"

-T.J. Klune, Brothersong (Green Creek, #4)

"Use your fork."

-T.J. Klune, Brothersong (Green Creek, #4)

"I’ve been to your house."

-T.J. Klune, Brothersong (Green Creek, #4)

"Excuse me for wondering why my f*ing brothers gave you a bottle of lube."

-T.J. Klune, Brothersong (Green Creek, #4)

16. Extras All For The Game (All For The Game, #3.5)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.26

Format: 160 pages, None

EXTRAS ALL FOR THE GAME NOTE FROM TRANSLATORS: Nora uploaded extra content about the trilogy to her… read more

Similar categories in Nora Sakavic's Extras All For The Game (All For The Game, #3.5) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption

By: C.S. Pacat

4.42

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A mysterious new fencer arrives at Halverton in the newest chapter of the GLAAD Media Award-nominat… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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18. 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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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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19. Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

4.13

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Balls,"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2)

"It’s bonkers, really,"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2)

"By the time we’re married,"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2)

"Her secret was this: She was tired of trying."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2)

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20. Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of the Lynch family. Niall and Mór escaped their homeland for a new start, an… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Dudifer, you are saddest dude I have ever met."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)

"Whoa, whoa, whoa' said Hennessy. 'Pump the brakes, as the Pope would say"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)

"On the seventh day, the Lynch brothers discovered they were friends once more."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)

"Love had changed the situation. Niall didn't yet love the strange, dangerous child, but he loved Declan, and Declan loved Ronan. So Ronan lived."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3)

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21. The Bayou

By: Arden Powell

4.03

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

"Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own ac… read more

Similar categories in Arden Powell's The Bayou book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • novella
  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Two Straights Too Many (Heroes of Port Dale, #1) by Romeo Alexander

22. Two Straights Too Many (Heroes of Port Dale, #1)

By: Romeo Alexander

3.91

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BTL43C7 Elias: Moving to Daleport City to work at the local… read more

Similar categories in Romeo Alexander's Two Straights Too Many (Heroes of Port Dale, #1) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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23. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

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24. The Other Ones

By: Fran Hart

3.85

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Sal lives in a haunted house. He longs to be ordinary, but when the strangest of strangers arrives… read more

Similar categories in Fran Hart's The Other Ones book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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25. Beautifully Fractured (Front Range University #1)

By: Michele Lenard

4.12

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever have someone get you so well it’s like looking in a mirror? Cruz Starting over is not what… read more

Similar categories in Michele Lenard's Beautifully Fractured (Front Range University #1) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • contemporary
  • lgbt
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26. Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 11

By: Yuu Toyota

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It’s A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reve… read more

Similar categories in Yuu Toyota's Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 11 book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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27. Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

4.11

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

An enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her bestselling Rav… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Yes,"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)

"It’s not going to be what you imagined, but it’ll be just as good."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)

"She’d been so afraid of the absolute worst that she’d forgotten how she missed the absolute best."

-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)

"It was funny how a dream really just contained the absolute best and absolute worst parts of the animal world. She’d been so afraid of the absolute worst that she’d forgotten how she missed the absol…"

-Maggie Stiefvater, Opal (The Raven Cycle, #4.5)

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28. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rio's Graveyard Shift book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

By: K. Ancrum

3.72

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven novella, part fairy tale and part gritty reality, follow… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're the love of my life, you know," he said bravely. August just looked at him and shrugged. "I know."

-K. Ancrum, The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

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30. Choke Up (Forbidden Goals, #3)

By: Rebecca Rathe

4.17

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Ellis Hope has one goal for his first year at be his own person. He’s determined to break free fro… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Rathe's Choke Up (Forbidden Goals, #3) book and K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven (The Wicker King, #1.5)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 6

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.70

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

CALM BEFORE THE STORM After two lifetimes of misunderstandings, Mo Ran and Chu Wanning have at l… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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