6 best-selling queer books like Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) by Ann Leckie

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Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment…

"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

If you liked the queer plot in Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) by Ann Leckie , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

By: Martha Wells

4.15

Format: 144 pages, ebook

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

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2. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • audiobook
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"There was not ... universal enthusiasm at the prospect of treating Humans as Significant beings."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

3. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

By: None

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more

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4. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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5. Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • audiobook
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Cheris, people are very simple,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"Taking away people’s names denied their power"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"But then, war is about taking the future away from people."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

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6. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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7. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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8. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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9. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

By: Martha Wells

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

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10. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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11. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

By: Arkady Martine

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more

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  • audiobook
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I thought you hated them,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

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12. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells

13. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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14. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

By: Martha Wells

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

Cover of A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine

15. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) book and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

  • audiobook
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

16. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells

17. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

By: Martha Wells

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"Ugh, emotions."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"So, you have a relationship with this transport."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

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18. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • audiobook
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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20. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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