11 best-selling lgbt books like The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1) by Katherine Addison

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The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

By: Katherine Addison

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, 'The Goblin Em…

"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"

-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"

-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1) by Katherine Addison , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Mirador (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #3)

By: Sarah Monette

3.83

Format: None pages,

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2. Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

By: Sarah Monette

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Melusine -- a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption -- and destinies lo… read more

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3. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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)

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4. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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5. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high 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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6. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • 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

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7. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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8. Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"If you have any enemies I'll kill them and you can dissect them. Would you like that?"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that. ... "The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmi…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"The one advantage police had over paladins was that guards had no problem believing that someone would randomly shove pointy logs into other people. Paladins generally took a little longer to get the…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

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9. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

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10. 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

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. At the Feet of the Sun (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.57

Format: 1330 pages, Kindle Edition

Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

By: Katherine Addison

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, 'The Goblin Em… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • steampunk
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"

-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

Cover of Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1) by T. Kingfisher

13. Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.12

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladi… read more

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  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I fear that I am not the best possible person for this, but I am the best possible person available at this time, which is much the same thing."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

"There was something about poverty that was a little like war. Either you had been there or you hadn't, and it wasn't really possible to explain it to anyone who hadn't."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

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14. The Game of Courts (Lays of the Hearth-Fire #0.6)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.34

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cavalier Conju enazo Argellian an Vilius—Conju to his friends, or he would be if any of them ha… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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15. The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.45

Format: 969 pages, Kindle Edition

An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can cha… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"He was not an artist of anything but the hidden intricacies underlying government bureaucracy, and no one else actually cared whether those were beautiful or not."

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

"I am suggesting that as a leader it is your responsibility to shape the culture of your communities, to encourage them to beauty and resilience and prosperity, to make them thrive."

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

"I am not, and have never been, willing to compromise my principles. When I look back on what I have done with my life I rest content knowing that when I have made mistakes, I made them from my princi…"

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

"It is a small thing, yes, but on small things hinge the turning of the world. Very rarely does the opportunity come to stand up against torture and evildoing - or for justice and equality - in the gr…"

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

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16. Petty Treasons (Lays of the Hearth-Fire #0.5)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.28

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

Artorin Damara, last Emperor of Astandalas, is in need of a new secretary. It has been three yea… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. The Return of Fitzroy Angursell (The Red Company Reformed, #1)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.40

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Artorin Damara is the Last Emperor of Astandalas and present Lord Magus of Zunidh. He is respected … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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19. Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1.5)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.50

Format: 100 pages, ebook

“Someone always leaves.” That’s what Tovo has been saying to anyone who asks him why his great-n… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Those Who Hold the Fire (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #0.4)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The tanà holds the fire of the community. Thirteen-year-old Kip's always felt a bit of an outsider,… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Cobbler's Boy

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.88

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Brilliant, bookish Christopher Marlowe is fifteen years old and desperate to qualify for a scholars… read more

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4.17

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