Hostis
By: Vale Aida
4.63
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Punic Wars, retold. At eighteen, Publius Scipio – son of a Roman senator – has been raised t…
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1. The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more
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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
2. The Last of the Wine
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey … read more
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- historical
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3. Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
By: C.S. Pacat
4.43
Format: 385 pages, ebook
Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince L… read more
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"You see?"-C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
"Laurent said, ‘Hello, lover."-C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
"I know who you are, Damianos,’ said Laurent."-C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
"You were right about Kastor,' Damen said. It was all he said."-C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
4. The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
By: Mary Renault
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply… read more
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- historical
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5. Lavinia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.66
Format: 384 pages,
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice. In … read more
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6. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
7. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
By: Natasha Pulley
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian … read more
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9. The Ides of March
By: Thornton Wilder , Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections f… read more
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10. Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)
By: C.S. Pacat
4.16
Format: 464 pages, ebook
The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great batt… read more
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"Kindness is never a mistake. Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered."-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)
"Kindness is never a mistake," said the Elder Steward. "Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered."-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)
"I’m here to follow you.' His eyes were bright, his lips smiling, his hair gold in the shifting light from the fire. Will said, 'Of course you are."-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)
"When the past is forgotten, then it can return. Only those who remember have the chance to stave it off. For the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise a…"-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)
11. 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
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- historical
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"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)
12. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
By: K.J. Charles
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more
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13. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
By: Freya Marske
4.29
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more
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"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
14. The Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more
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15. Death in the Spires
By: K.J. Charles
4.42
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more
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16. Herc
By: Phoenicia Rogerson
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more
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17. 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
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"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
18. Prophet
By: Sin Blaché
3.68
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more
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"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."-Sin Blaché, Prophet
19. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)
By: Alexandra Rowland
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more
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20. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
21. At the Feet of the Sun (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)
By: Victoria Goddard
4.57
Format: 1330 pages, Kindle Edition
Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who … read more
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- queer
22. The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)
By: Victoria Goddard
4.45
Format: 969 pages, Kindle Edition
An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can cha… read more
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"He was not an artist of anything but the hidden intricacies underlying government bureaucracy, and no one else actually cared whether those were beautiful or not."-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)
"I am suggesting that as a leader it is your responsibility to shape the culture of your communities, to encourage them to beauty and resilience and prosperity, to make them thrive."-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)
"I am not, and have never been, willing to compromise my principles. When I look back on what I have done with my life I rest content knowing that when I have made mistakes, I made them from my princi…"-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)
"It is a small thing, yes, but on small things hinge the turning of the world. Very rarely does the opportunity come to stand up against torture and evildoing - or for justice and equality - in the gr…"-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)
23. The Kingdoms
By: Natasha Pulley
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more
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- historical
- queer
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
24. Masters of Death
By: Olivie Blake
3.73
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Masters of Death, a… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"It is to win against your demons, he said, and therefore gain mastery of yourself"-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death
"Brandt Solberg had never been a good man, but what did that matter? Fox hadn't fallen in love with his goodness."-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death
"Wait a minute. Did you just offer me a bite of an immortal apple?" "I did." "Why?" "Seemed rude not to." "That's an insane thing to say." "Well, we all have our flaws."-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death
"I don't care if it's love between them or not," one says, "that shouldn't change anything." "You care about nothing," the second chides the first. "I'm not built to care," the first says, "only to la…"-Olivie Blake, Masters of Death
25. The Half Life of Valery K
By: Natasha Pulley
4.20
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K
26. 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
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- fiction
- 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)
27. Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)
By: Rin Chupeco
3.98
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wis… read more
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"Can't I just have a little bit of slaughter? I'm sure they won't notice."-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)
"He was too soft, like his father had said. Must have gotten it from his mother. And then he wondered if his mother had only been soft because she'd loved his father. Like kindness had ever been a sin."-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)
"[Xiaodan] '...Perhaps you're being unduly hard on yourself, milord.' 'Armiger,' Remy said, before he could stop himself. 'Not milord.' 'Armiger. That means "arm's bearer," doesn't it? But why choose …"-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)
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28. 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]
By: Priest
4.36
Format: 1400 pages, Webnovel
In the age of the Great Liang Dynasty, the lives of the people were made convenient with steam-powe… read more
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"他曾以为天性遇强则强，所以从未畏惧过父亲，却原来是记忆里最深处已经模糊的地方，戳着一根没有芯的割风刃，顶天立地地护持着他。"-Priest, 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]
"If you want the stars, I will not give you the moon. Even if it is rainy or cloudy, I will still put up a ladder to the sky to pick them for you."-Priest, 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]
"If one's heart is small, all their sufferings even as large as a house can only be crammed in that small corner. But if one's heart were as vast as heaven and earth, then even if their troubles were …"-Priest, 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]
29. The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2)
By: K.J. Charles
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Don't miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
30. Hostis
By: Vale Aida
4.63
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Punic Wars, retold. At eighteen, Publius Scipio – son of a Roman senator – has been raised t… read more
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- fiction
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