Queer Fantasy Books We Love

Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston isn’t like every other student at St. Clair Prep. For one thing, he’s one of the school’s few Black students (something his racist teachers never let him forget), and second of all, he can see dead people. Lots of them. Jake’s world — already disorienting enough — is turned upside down when a new student brings romance into his life while a terrifying, vengeful and powerful ghost begins to haunt him like no other.

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.

Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice.

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.

This next spellbinding installment of Juno’s “irresistible” fantasy series Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (Lana Harper) takes us back to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven under the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn.

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.

Ettian has spent years cobbling his life back together after the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He’s gone so far as to join the empire’s military academy, climbing its ranks and falling for his irresistible roommate, Gal. Just when everything seems to be on solid ground for once, Ettian’s world is rocked by the revelation that Gal is actually the heir to the empire that shattered his world. Faced with an impossible choice, Ettian must decide between his heart and his desire to build back the life that was taken from him.

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.”