21 must-read queer books like Darknesses (Darknesses, #1) by Lachelle Seville

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Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

By: Lachelle Seville

4.28

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It’s been a year since Oasis stumbled away from Blessed Falls with wings carved into her back and t…

If you liked the queer plot in Darknesses (Darknesses, #1) by Lachelle Seville , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Loathing You

By: Amina Khan

4.15

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

Hate. Detest. Despise. These words were the only way that Adaline and Juliette could possibly descr… read more

Similar categories in Amina Khan's Loathing You book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"I think we're all monsters deep down, if we're pushed to that extent. Maybe if I felt like he was my father I could hate him. How could I hate a man that was just a stranger to me?"

-Amina Khan, Loathing You

"Being with girls is the same—it’s shameless and gritty, it’s not as soft as people make it out to be. It’s soft with men too. Even unknowingly, we diminish ourselves little by little to feel more lov…"

-Amina Khan, Loathing You

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2. Hearing Red

By: Nicole Maser

4.56

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

New Recommended for ages 18+ In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women f… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Maser's Hearing Red book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1) by Britney Jackson

3. Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1)

By: Britney Jackson

4.46

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

A 2022 Goldie award-winning sapphic fantasy for anyone who loves dangerous women, magical worlds, a… read more

Similar categories in Britney Jackson's Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, and Dragons #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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4. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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5. Twisted Sorcery (Midnight City, #1)

By: Kira Adler

4.07

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Midnight City has taken everything from Deni. Two months after being turned into a vampire by her a… read more

Similar categories in Kira Adler's Twisted Sorcery (Midnight City, #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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7. Unbroken (The Pirate & Her Princess, #2)

By: Alli Temple

4.17

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

A pirate’s home is the sea, sailing beyond the horizon with her true love. Aboard the Crimson Si… read more

Similar categories in Alli Temple's Unbroken (The Pirate & Her Princess, #2) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1) by S.D. Simper

8. The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1)

By: S.D. Simper

3.75

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A devout mermaid. A disgraced princess. A feud as ancient as the gods Worlds collide when Tallor… read more

Similar categories in S.D. Simper's The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Whatever this feeling gripping Tallora’s heart, it paled to the shattering she felt when she heard Dauriel’s tearful reply. “Then what do I do?"

-S.D. Simper, The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1)

Cover of Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1) by Liz Kerin

9. 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

Similar categories in Liz Kerin's Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. 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 Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • 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 Compass Rose (Compass Rose, #1) by Anna  Burke

11. Compass Rose (Compass Rose, #1)

By: Anna Burke

4.33

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what’s at stake for those who sail them. R… read more

Similar categories in Anna Burke's Compass Rose (Compass Rose, #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of In the Roses of Pieria (The Blood Files, #1) by Anna  Burke

12. In the Roses of Pieria (The Blood Files, #1)

By: Anna Burke

4.25

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance teem… read more

Similar categories in Anna Burke's In the Roses of Pieria (The Blood Files, #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Contract Bound (Blood Bound Book 1) by Elle Mae

13. Contract Bound (Blood Bound Book 1)

By: Elle Mae

3.97

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

Silvia If there is one thing you needed to know about me it is this: I hate vampires. They… read more

Similar categories in Elle Mae's Contract Bound (Blood Bound Book 1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling

14. Serpentine Valentine

By: Giana Darling

4.09

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Giana Darling comes a sapphic dark academia Medusa rete… read more

Similar categories in Giana Darling's Serpentine Valentine book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology)

By: Heather Walter

4.17

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the wickedest of them all? Snow White’s dark queen tells her sid… read more

Similar categories in Heather Walter's The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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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 Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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. 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 Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. A Dark and Drowning Tide

By: Allison Saft

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Dark and Drowning Tide book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Deal with the Devil (Underworld University #1) by Bex Deveau

19. Deal with the Devil (Underworld University #1)

By: Bex Deveau

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

You have been selected to attend Underworld University, the most prestigious training ground for de… read more

Similar categories in Bex Deveau's Deal with the Devil (Underworld University #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
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20. Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

By: Lachelle Seville

4.28

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It’s been a year since Oasis stumbled away from Blessed Falls with wings carved into her back and t… read more

Similar categories in Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1) book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Unworthy: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 1 by J.A. Vodvarka

21. Unworthy: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 1

By: J.A. Vodvarka

4.53

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Capture one harmless fugitive. What could go wrong? Nyssa Blacksea is eager to silence her doubt… read more

Similar categories in J.A. Vodvarka's Unworthy: The Blacksea Odyssey Book 1 book and Lachelle Seville's Darknesses (Darknesses, #1)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

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Loathing You

Amina Khan

4.15

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Hearing Red

Nicole Maser

4.56

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My Darling Dreadful Thing

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3.89

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Dead Collections

Isaac Fellman

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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Lee Mandelo

3.52

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