13 Best lgbt books like Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

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Dark and Deepest Red

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until …

"Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"I had learned, from a girl with rage-lit eyes and a blue dress, to grasp the blade the world held to me, and hold it myself."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to wear iron heels, or a lovely, golden-haired girl in slippers of glass. This had been about a fever, a nightmare, a dance made into a curse. It was about women turning their own fears into their sharpest blades."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

If you liked the lgbt plot in Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Castle Hangnail

By: Ursula Vernon

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just r… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Vernon's Castle Hangnail book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

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2. What Monstrous Gods

By: Rosamund Hodge

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting t… read more

Similar categories in Rosamund Hodge's What Monstrous Gods book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"When we get there, I whisper silently to Ruven, don’t leave me. “Never,"

-Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods

Cover of Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

3. Dark and Deepest Red

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until … read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"I had learned, from a girl with rage-lit eyes and a blue dress, to grasp the blade the world held to me, and hold it myself."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

"My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to w…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

Cover of The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

4. The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

Format: 368 pages, None

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Wicked Bargain book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Elsie Chapman

5. Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

By: Elsie Chapman

3.70

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of short stories about the intersection of family, culture, and food in the l… read more

Similar categories in Elsie Chapman's Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Like candy and heartbreak, moderation was key."

-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

"Oh wow. Bliss. The adobo was perfectly calibrated between my two favorite flavor juxtapositions: sweet and tangy. And the shrimp: practically dissolving in my mouth."

-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

"I wonder, just for a second, how it will taste on Gael's tongue, the cinnamon and chile en polvo laced into our vanilla cake, the spice a little like what he adds to his family's tamales."

-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

"The smell of khoresht e gheihmeh immediately hit my nostrils: The combination of tomato paste, dried limes, cubes of lamb, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, and split yellow lentils all hung sweetly in the …"

-Elsie Chapman, Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

Cover of A Treason of Thorns by Laura E. Weymouth

6. A Treason of Thorns

By: Laura E. Weymouth

3.44

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One o… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Weymouth's A Treason of Thorns book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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7. Silence and Shadow (Blood and Moonlight, #2)

By: Erin Beaty

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

After confronting a killer and fleeing her home to be with each other, Cat and Simon arrive in the … read more

Similar categories in Erin Beaty's Silence and Shadow (Blood and Moonlight, #2) book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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8. The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror/fantasy se… read more

Similar categories in Kosoko Jackson's The Forest Demands Its Due book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) by Kacen Callender

9. Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1)

By: Kacen Callender

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward u… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist, #1) book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1) by Natalia  Hernandez

10. The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1)

By: Natalia Hernandez

4.02

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

For her entire life, the Name-Bearer’s sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of th… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Hernandez's The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1) book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa

11. The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill a… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's The Diablo's Curse book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar

12. Star Daughter

By: Shveta Thakrar

3.29

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

If the night sky holds many secrets, it holds Sheetal Mistry's secret the closest. A secret that ex… read more

Similar categories in Shveta Thakrar's Star Daughter book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Seizing power is one thing, and holding it is quite another,"

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"Sheetal woke night after night singing songs no human knew..."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"You want to understand humans? That is what makes us—and art—what we are. That choice to keep getting back up and trying again in the face of suffering and injustice and despair."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"What did she want? Adventures. Cupcakes and kulfi. To be star bright and mortal dark and make her own choices, too. To not be bound by other people’s expectations. More than anything, to be seen."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

Cover of All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

13. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

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14. Miss Meteor

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

3.99

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Qu… read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's Miss Meteor book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Because I am a girl worth the space I take up. I am a girl this world, this town, and most of all, the people who love me, won't let go of. Because I am a star they won't let the sky take back"

-Tehlor Kay Mejia, Miss Meteor

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15. At Midnight

By: Dahlia Adler

3.42

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weav… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's At Midnight book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Spark of White Fire (The Celestial Trilogy, #1) by Sangu Mandanna

16. A Spark of White Fire (The Celestial Trilogy, #1)

By: Sangu Mandanna

3.94

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a curs… read more

Similar categories in Sangu Mandanna's A Spark of White Fire (The Celestial Trilogy, #1) book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Scout's Honor by Lily  Anderson

17. Scout's Honor

By: Lily Anderson

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monste… read more

Similar categories in Lily Anderson's Scout's Honor book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of House of Ash and Bone by Joel A. Sutherland

18. House of Ash and Bone

By: Joel A. Sutherland

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Haunted meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this young adult debut horror by acclaimed Canadian … read more

Similar categories in Joel A. Sutherland's House of Ash and Bone book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

19. Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

By: Justine Pucella Winans

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen bi… read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
Cover of I Kissed Alice by Anna  Birch

20. I Kissed Alice

By: Anna Birch

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and Fangirl, I Kissed Alice is a romantic comedy abou… read more

Similar categories in Anna Birch's I Kissed Alice book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Wicked Blue (Fairy Tale Flip Book 1) by Cassie Swindon

21. The Wicked Blue (Fairy Tale Flip Book 1)

By: Cassie Swindon

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER REVERSAL LITTLE MERMAID FOR ADULTS Eribelle After my brother’s death at the hands of m… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Swindon's The Wicked Blue (Fairy Tale Flip Book 1) book and Anna-Marie McLemore's Dark and Deepest Red

  • romance
  • retellings
  • fantasy

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What Monstrous Gods

Rosamund Hodge

3.32

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Anna-Marie McLemore

3.57

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Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

Elsie Chapman

3.70

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Laura E. Weymouth

3.44

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Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

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Gabe Cole Novoa

4.19

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Anna-Marie McLemore

3.73

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Andrew Joseph White

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