11 Best queer books like The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

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The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg…

If you liked the queer plot in The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) by Kamilah Cole

1. So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

By: Kamilah Cole

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s force… read more

Similar categories in Kamilah Cole's So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time." "That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them."

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen." "Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years …"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too l…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

"Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured ou…"

-Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

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2. Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury

3.90

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and c… read more

Similar categories in Liselle Sambury's Tender Beasts book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) by Hafsah Faizal

3. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

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4. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2) by Kika Hatzopoulou

5. Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2)

By: Kika Hatzopoulou

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this heart-pounding, much-anticipated sequel to Threads That Bind , Io will face threats even mo… read more

Similar categories in Kika Hatzopoulou's Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • fantasy
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

6. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

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7. The Dangerous Ones

By: Lauren Blackwood

3.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A romantic historical fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood, set in the A… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Blackwood's The Dangerous Ones book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

By: Molly X. Chang

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will … read more

Similar categories in Molly X. Chang's To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
"白发送黑发, 不孝之道. Letting the white hair bury the black hair was unfilial to the highest degree."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

"聪明一世,糊涂一时. Intelligent and cautious for a lifetime, it takes a second of stupidity to unravel it all."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

"You shouldn’t ask the girl blessed by Death whom she’ll die for. You should ask her whom she’ll kill for."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

"To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed. We were products of our surroundings, of our upbringings."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

Cover of Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

9. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) by Vanessa Le

10. The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1)

By: Vanessa Le

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Las… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Le's The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1)

By: Analeigh Sbrana

3.35

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings t… read more

Similar categories in Analeigh Sbrana's Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) by K.M.  Enright

12. Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1)

By: K.M. Enright

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

FATE IS A CRUEL MISTRESS The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire ha… read more

Similar categories in K.M. Enright's Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #2) by Brittany N. Williams

13. Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #2)

By: Brittany N. Williams

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The second book in the stunning YA historical fantasy trilogy that New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Brittany N. Williams's Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #2) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

14. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

15. Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

4.33

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice. They took back their family’… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

16. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • urban fantasy
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

Similar categories in Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

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18. Sleep Like Death

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron returns to fairytales with a l… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Sleep Like Death book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) by Hayley Dennings

19. This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1)

By: Hayley Dennings

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at night the dance halls… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Dennings's This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

20. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Ifueko's The Maid and the Crocodile book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Empire Wars by Akana Phenix

21. The Empire Wars

By: Akana Phenix

3.79

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The Empire Wars is a powerful YA debut where survival and magic are a deadly mix. Coa, who was b… read more

Similar categories in Akana Phenix's The Empire Wars book and Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Kamilah Cole

3.90

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Liselle Sambury

3.90

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Hafsah Faizal

3.57

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3.90

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The Poisons We Drink

Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

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Myah Ariel

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