21 must-read lgbt books like A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) by Freya Marske

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A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent…

"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

If you liked the lgbt plot in A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) by Freya Marske , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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 Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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)

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2. 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

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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3. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.13

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."

-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

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4. We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's We Could Be So Good book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.04

Format: 265 pages, ebook

Will Darling came back from the Great War with a few scars, a lot of medals, and no idea what to do… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"Libra smiled. It gave Will the impression he'd sent off a postal order for a booklet on Smiling for Beginners."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

"Britain was full of men like him, trying to find something to do in a country that had managed perfectly well without them."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

"He'd been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged."

-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)

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6. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

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7. 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

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Death in the Spires book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
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8. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

Cover of Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) by Everina Maxwell

9. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

Similar categories in Everina Maxwell's Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

Cover of The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1) by K.J. Charles

10. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.17

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne are the hit of the Season, so attractive and delightful that… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply."

-K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

"... why have we all decided that the most important and to-be-respected quality is the one possessed by the worst people?"

-K.J. Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

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11. Once a Rogue (Roaring Twenties Magic, #2)

By: Allie Therin

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two reformed scoundrels have renounced the battlefields and scandals for one another, but their tro… read more

Similar categories in Allie Therin's Once a Rogue (Roaring Twenties Magic, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2) by K.J. Charles

12. The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been two months since Will Darling saw Kim Secretan, and he doesn't expect to see him again. W… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"Our will and fates do so contrary run."

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

"Scars are always beautiful. They're proof we lived."

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

"Avarice, envy, pride: three fatal sparks have set the hearts of all on fire."

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

"All his tangles were tugging tighter, and he couldn’t blame anyone but himself"

-K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)

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13. 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

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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14. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

By: Foz Meadows

4.02

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planne… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"…rest assured, making a spectacle of myself by kissing strange men at parties is one of my foremost skill sets."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"I didn’t know wether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live or because I hope to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"It was like being haunted: I had no control over what apparently innocent thing would suddenly turn spectre, making me fear his hands, his voice, as though it were happening again; as though, in some…"

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

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15. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

By: Lex Croucher

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more

Similar categories in Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

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16. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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17. 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

3.91

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves―or, okay, likes―his job. Sure, man… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I don't think he'll be able to tell. Memory is peculiar. Worst comes to absolute worst, I'll just arrange to get whacked on the head again and say that's brought everything back." "That's not a thing…"

-Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)

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18. Mortal Follies

By: Alexis Hall

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A young noblewoman must pair up with a rumoured witch to ward off a curse. It is the year 1814 a… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's Mortal Follies book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ve half a mind to seek her out right now and tell her to corrupt my daughter immediately"

-Alexis Hall, Mortal Follies

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19. 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 Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. One Night in Hartswood

By: Emma Denny

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Oxford 1360 When his sister’s betrothed vanishes the night before her politically arranged marr… read more

Similar categories in Emma Denny's One Night in Hartswood book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"I was not rid of you,’ he spoke quietly, trailing his fingertips across the fabric of Penn’s tunic. ‘I have not been rid of you since that first evening in Hartswood Forest. I followed you because I …"

-Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

Cover of The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2) by K.J. Charles

21. 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

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2) book and Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer

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K.J. Charles

4.25

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