15 best-selling fantasy books like Nicked by M.T. Anderson

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Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction…

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1. Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"

-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

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2. The Haunting of Moscow House

By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sist… read more

Similar categories in Olesya Salnikova Gilmore's The Haunting of Moscow House book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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4. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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5. Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)

By: Maiga Doocy

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Desperate to undo the curse binding them to each other, an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly … read more

Similar categories in Maiga Doocy's Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1) book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Swordcrossed

By: Freya Marske

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“Clever, sparkling, and perfectly indulgent, Swordcrossed feels like stepping into a party already … read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's Swordcrossed book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. 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 M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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9. 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 M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult
  • fiction
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10. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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11. 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 M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

4.06

Format: 673 pages, Hardcover

A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more

Similar categories in Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"

-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

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13. The West Passage

By: Jared Pechaček

3.96

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to s… read more

Similar categories in Jared Pechaček's The West Passage book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. Lucy Undying

By: Kiersten White

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Lucy Undying book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Nicked by M.T. Anderson

15. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • historical fantasy
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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17. Confounding Oaths

By: Alexis Hall

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone wrong, … read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's Confounding Oaths book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

18. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

By: Juliet Grames

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

19. 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 M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland

20. Yield Under Great Persuasion

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Tam Becket has hated Lord Lyford since they were boys. The fact that he’s also been sleeping with t… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Yield Under Great Persuasion book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen

21. The Black Hunger

By: Nicholas Pullen

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell as he mourns the death … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Pullen's The Black Hunger book and M.T. Anderson's Nicked

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

19 must-read fiction books like Nicked by M.T. Anderson

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Someone You Can Build a Nest In

John Wiswell

4.07

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The Haunting of Moscow House

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.69

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

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When Among Crows

Veronica Roth

3.73

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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The Haunting of Moscow House

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.69

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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