17 best-selling queer books like Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1) by Madeleine Nakamura

Cover of Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1) by Madeleine Nakamura

Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

By: Madeleine Nakamura

4.01

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic, must survive his own failing mental health and a tenuous p…

If you liked the queer plot in Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1) by Madeleine Nakamura , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens

1. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • magic
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) by Foz Meadows

2. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

Cover of The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

3. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

Similar categories in Justinian Huang's The Emperor and the Endless Palace book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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4. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

By: Eliza Chan

3.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Chan's Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • adult
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1) by Ariel Kaplan

5. The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1)

By: Ariel Kaplan

3.99

Format: 545 pages, Hardcover

Ariel Kaplan’s The Pomegranate Gate is the lyrical first installment of the Mirror Realm Cycle, a v… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Kaplan's The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2) by Lev A.C. Rosen

6. The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

4.17

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The Bell in the Fog, a dazzling historical mystery by Lev AC Rosen, asks―once you have finally foun… read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's The Bell in the Fog (Evander Mills, #2) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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7. Running Close to the Wind

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen th… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse

8. Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinét… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • fantasy
"You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

Cover of Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1) by Maiga Doocy

9. 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 Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. A Market of Dreams and Destiny

By: Trip Galey

3.90

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Nominated for the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! Enter the bazaar of the bi… read more

Similar categories in Trip Galey's A Market of Dreams and Destiny book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage."

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customer…"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, …"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

Cover of The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

11. 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 Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

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

12. 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 Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

13. 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 Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

14. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • mystery
  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1) by Beth Revis

15. Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)

By: Beth Revis

4.03

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a no… read more

Similar categories in Beth Revis's Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor

16. The Ghostkeeper

By: Johanna Taylor

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of everything from Lockwood & Co to The Haunting of Hill House, this gothic graphi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Taylor's The Ghostkeeper book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

17. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1) by Madeleine Nakamura

18. Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

By: Madeleine Nakamura

4.01

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic, must survive his own failing mental health and a tenuous p… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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 Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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 Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Bloodless Princes (The Fireborne Blade, #2) by Charlotte Bond

21. The Bloodless Princes (The Fireborne Blade, #2)

By: Charlotte Bond

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Orpheus meets A Natural History of Dragons in a tale of death, honor and true love's embrace. It… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Bloodless Princes (The Fireborne Blade, #2) book and Madeleine Nakamura's Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1)

  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

17 must-read adult books like Cursebreakers (The Cursebreakers Series, 1) by Madeleine Nakamura

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Foz Meadows

4.20

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Justinian Huang

3.52

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Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

Eliza Chan

3.16

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The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1)

Ariel Kaplan

3.99

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21 Top fiction books like The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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Yume Kitasei

3.78

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Veronica Roth

3.73

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