13 must-read queer books like Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova…

"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

If you liked the queer plot in Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

1. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

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 Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • 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)

Cover of Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) by Tamsyn Muir

3. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

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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 Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • 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

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

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 Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

8. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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9. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

Cover of Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse

10. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

Cover of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

11. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

Similar categories in Simon Jimenez's The Spear Cuts Through Water book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

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12. 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 Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

13. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) by N.K. Jemisin

14. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

15. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Cover of The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2) by Saara El-Arifi

16. The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.36

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire's past. And the truth they fin… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan

17. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Parker-Chan's He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

18. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

19. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

20. The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.22

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control. Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, o… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's The Final Strife (Ending Fire, #1) book and Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

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

21. 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 Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Transform Your Habits

To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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

Nghi Vo

4.17

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31 best-selling fiction books like The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

Transform Your Habits

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

S.A. Chakraborty

4.03

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Hannah Kaner

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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