Queer Fantasy Books We Love

A multiverse novel about two women who fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn’t end in disaster, in this debut novel by Annie Mare.

From the National Book Award finalist and author of Pet comes a novel set in a magical West African world, about a teen girl who must save her missing twin while learning to navigate her own terrifying new powers.

From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of LGBTQ+ inclusive retellings. Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Sword Stone Table will bring fresh life to beloved myths and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in their favorite legends.

Noche is a Lechuza by night, an ethereal jet-black owl who guides the dead to the after. Except now, Noche cannot bring herself to escort her dead girlfriend, whose soul is fading the harder Noche holds on — an aching romance about first and second loves and finding the strength to let go.

All gods must die in this searingly relevant YA dystopian from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Bargain and Most Ardently. In a world bound by violence, a teen descended from the god of Death must keep their true identity a secret as they fight their way through a gladiator-style competition towards victory and rebellion against the gods who murdered their family.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the wickedest of them all? Snow White’s dark queen tells her side of the story in the first book of a queer, witchy duology that reimagines the classic fairy tale — from the author of Malice.

A cozy sapphic romantasy about a teen witch trying to keep her family’s apothecary up and running, with a little help from her ex-best friend — and first crush.

The occasionally magic, always superstitious town of Prior’s End is famous for three things: Whimsical charm at the annual Fall Festival, the legend of the wishing well hidden in a forest bristling with secrets, and Nova Marwood’s missing hiker father. Every year without him, it gets easier to pretend Nova doesn’t believe in myth and magic. Easier to pretend she’s doing okay. Easier to pretend she doesn’t have a secret crush on Kiara, the girl she fake-hates. But when Nova lays an unintended hex on Kiara at the Fall Festival, they embark on a quest for the miraculous wishing well. But to save Kiara — and maybe find her dad, too — she’ll have to believe in something much stronger than magic. Nova will need to believe in herself.

Bloody magic. Ancient fury. Prepare for the gripping conclusion to the Chaos & Flame saga, the “fast-paced, action-filled fantasy that reads like a mix of Game of Thrones and Avatar: The Last Airbender” (BCCB) from two beloved New York Times bestselling authors.

18-year-old Zetian only wanted one thing when she enlisted as a concubine-pilot of the giant transforming robots known as Chrysalises: Revenge for the death of her sister. Her plan is a suicide mission, and she goes through with it knowing full well it will kill her. But when her gambit leaves her victorious and unexpectedly unscathed, she’s labeled an Iron Widow — and finds herself in more danger than she could have ever predicted.

Dellaria Wells is a down-on-her-luck petty criminal and fire witch without a penny to her name. Everything changes when she joins a ragtag group of highly peculiar strangers with unique abilities hired to protect a gentlewoman named Winn Cynallum on the eve of her wedding. How much danger could a society woman like this really be in? More than Dellaria could have ever imagined.

As one of the first fantasy novels to feature a gay protagonist, Magic’s Pawn is a groundbreaking adventure that has captivated readers since 1989. Set in a world full of magic and monsters, the story follows the adventures of a young man named Vanyel, who shuns the path of magic and warriors to follow his dream of becoming a bard. Vanyel’s plans are interrupted when he falls in love and a raw, hidden power deep within him emerges.

As a master necromancer, Odessa knows the stakes of raising the dead. It’s a dangerous task, and if her magic is done incorrectly the dead transform into terrifying, bloodthirsty beings known as Shades. Odessa’s world is shattered after the death of a close companion reveals a terrible conspiracy: Someone with her powers is raising the dead and purposely turning them into Shades. It is now up to Odessa and a group of powerful mages to unravel the violent mystery that’s enveloped her world before it takes her with it.

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time! London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest comes a cozy fantasy romance about a teen witch who must complete her magical training by breaking a powerful family’s curse. But her own affliction — to never find true love — gets in the way when she falls for the girl she’s trying to save.

Lady Evelyn Hasegawa is on a one-way voyage to an arranged marriage with her own casket in tow. But when the captain of her ship reveals herself to be the pirate Florian, all of her plans go overboard. These two women — both of whom have lived lives controlled by others — fall in love and choose to manifest their own destiny. The only thing standing in their way? Everything.

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll have to fight to keep herself — and the woman she loves — safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale “The Selkie Wife.”