18 Best fantasy books like To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz

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To a Darker Shore

By: Leanne Schwartz

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A da Vinci-esque teen girl inventor on a Dante-esque journey through hell to save her best friend. …

"She couldn’t help the hope that kindled painfully in her chest. Couldn’t help the steps she took in the wrong direction—nearer to him. Greater than any pull of gravity upon a flier, more than her duty to Soladisa, stronger than the lure of Teras to sinners, he would always be the primary force compelling her. Alive or dead, boy or monster."

-Leanne Schwartz, To a Darker Shore

If you liked the fantasy plot in To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) by Kamilah Cole

1. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

Similar categories in Kamilah Cole's So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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2. A Crane Among Wolves

By: June Hur

4.03

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that w… read more

Similar categories in June Hur's A Crane Among Wolves book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands." "Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly se…"

-June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves

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3. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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4. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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5. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Song of the Six Realms

By: Judy I. Lin

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy got… read more

Similar categories in Judy I. Lin's Song of the Six Realms book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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7. Your Blood, My Bones

By: Kelly Andrew

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's Your Blood, My Bones book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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8. The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1)

By: Vanessa Le

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Las… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Le's The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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9. The Sky on Fire

By: Jenn Lyons

3.75

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Enter a world ruled by dragons… Anahrod lives only for survival, preferring to thrive in the ju… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Lyons's The Sky on Fire book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

10. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1)

By: Tara Sim

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Frankenstein meets Indian mythology in this twisty, darkly atmospheric fantasy where the horror is … read more

Similar categories in Tara Sim's We Shall Be Monsters (We Shall be Monsters, #1) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
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12. 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 Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • disability
  • queer
"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

Cover of The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1) by Laura R. Samotin

13. The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

By: Laura R. Samotin

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing … read more

Similar categories in Laura R. Samotin's The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's not shameful to seek help for a wound," Mischa continued. "Whether a wound to your body, or one to your mind."

-Laura R. Samotin, The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

Cover of Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1) by Amber Chen

14. Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1)

By: Amber Chen

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a world-class engineer like her father, but after h… read more

Similar categories in Amber Chen's Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

15. The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray

By: Christine Calella

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Storms and pirates are nothing compared to the evil within men’s hearts. After a lifetime of abu… read more

Similar categories in Christine Calella's The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska

16. This Fatal Kiss

By: Alicia Jasinska

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Spirit away with a whimsical fantasy filled with dark magic and flirty, polyamorous romance. Cur… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Jasinska's This Fatal Kiss book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow

17. The Girl with No Reflection

By: Keshe Chow

3.44

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman chosen as the crown prince’s bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new hu… read more

Similar categories in Keshe Chow's The Girl with No Reflection book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

18. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Ifueko's The Maid and the Crocodile book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) by Aiden Thomas

19. Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. The sun is gone, the Obsid… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, #2) book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz

20. To a Darker Shore

By: Leanne Schwartz

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A da Vinci-esque teen girl inventor on a Dante-esque journey through hell to save her best friend. … read more

Similar categories in Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • disability
  • queer
"She couldn’t help the hope that kindled painfully in her chest. Couldn’t help the steps she took in the wrong direction—nearer to him. Greater than any pull of gravity upon a flier, more than her dut…"

-Leanne Schwartz, To a Darker Shore

Cover of My Kind of Trouble by L.A. Schwartz

21. My Kind of Trouble

By: L.A. Schwartz

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy small-town librarian in this debut romance, per… read more

Similar categories in L.A. Schwartz's My Kind of Trouble book and Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore

  • romance
  • disability
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • fiction
"She normally didn’t play too hard with the feelings of the innocents she conned, but right now she’d like to show Preston just how good she was. She’d like to see that mouth, pressed now in a thin, s…"

-L.A. Schwartz, My Kind of Trouble

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Kamilah Cole

3.90

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June Hur

4.03

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Ann Zhao

4.01

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Liselle Sambury

3.90

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Sophie Kim

4.12

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Judy I. Lin

3.58

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Eliza Chan

3.16

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Elizabeth May

3.36

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