11 Best queer books like In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) by Seanan McGuire

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In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible …

If you liked the queer plot in In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) by Seanan McGuire , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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2. 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 Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(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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3. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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8. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under, #4)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.99

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

The end of the improbable road. Since stumbling from their world into the Up-and-Under, Avery an… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under, #4) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • urban fantasy
  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

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 Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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. Along the Saltwise Sea (The Up-and-Under, #2)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.88

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

After climbing Over the Woodward Wall and making their way across the forest, Avery and Zib found t… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Along the Saltwise Sea (The Up-and-Under, #2) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. D.I.Y

By: John Wiswell

3.76

Format: 25 pages, ebook

When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's D.I.Y book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • urban fantasy
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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15. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Into the Windwracked Wilds (The Up-and-Under, #3)

By: A. Deborah Baker

4.00

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Adventurous readers of Kelly Barnhill and Cat Valente's Fairyland books will be sure to soar among … read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Into the Windwracked Wilds (The Up-and-Under, #3) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.98

Format: 32 pages, ebook

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan disc… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Salt Water

By: Eugenia Triantafyllou

3.62

Format: 18 pages, ebook

While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more

Similar categories in Eugenia Triantafyllou's Salt Water book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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19. Also, the Cat

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.32

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's Also, the Cat book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You know, life never made any sense. I guess there’s no reason for the afterlife to."

-Rachel Swirsky, Also, the Cat

Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

20. Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

By: Jason Sizemore

4.49

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-b… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sizemore's Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I’m not a natural rule-follower. I roll through stop signs, I swear in public, I lie on online personality tests so I get the answers I want (Hermione, Arya Stark, Jo March)."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"He took The Runaway Prince home and renewed it twice online, at which point a gray pop-up box that looks like an emissary from 1995 tells you, “the renewal limit for this item has been reached."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"The boy returned at ten-thirty on a Tuesday morning. It’s official library policy to report truants to the high school, because the school board felt we were becoming 'a haven for unsupervised and il…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them. (That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to sav…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

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21. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Dark House book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3)

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.27

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, re… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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23. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.69

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • novella
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

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24. The Puppetmaster

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.71

Format: 15 pages, ebook

A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Puppetmaster book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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25. Unbreakable

By: Mira Grant

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

The girls of Unbreakable Starlight were part of an ancient tradition of magical warriors defending … read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Unbreakable book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • urban fantasy
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch by Garth Nix

26. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

By: Garth Nix

3.92

Format: 34 pages, ebook

A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.In this raucous, st… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5) by Lavie Tidhar

27. Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.12

Format: 39 pages, ebook

Judge Dee must himself stand trial before his fellow vampires for the loss of a valuable manuscript… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5) book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Goblins & Greatcoats by Travis Baldree

29. Goblins & Greatcoats

By: Travis Baldree

3.87

Format: 25 pages, ebook

A goblin with too many pockets and a disturbing affinity for cutlery, a rain-soaked night, four adv… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Goblins & Greatcoats book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. Pretty Good Neighbor

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.22

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor book and Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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4.20

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