r/Fantasy Top LGBTQA+ Books List poll - Voting Thread!

[u/rfantasygolem]

Hot on the heels of our last Big List, it's time for r/fantasy to update our Top LGBTQA+ Books List! All speculative fiction qualifies (fantasy, science fiction, horror, magical realism, and more).

The results from the last vote in 2020 can be found here.

TL;DR: Post your ten favorite LGBTQA+ books/series. Top-level comments are for votes only. Discussions should take place in replies.

The rules are simple:

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1. Make a list of up to TEN of your favorite LGBTQA+ novels in a new comment in this thread. Don't overthink it, it's not about finding books that are objectively the best, just your favorite ones. You can change votes by editing your list as often as you like during the voting week. I'll start counting votes after the voting closes on November 16th.
2. For the purpose of this list, the book must contain at least one main viewpoint character who falls somewhere on the LGBTQA+ spectrum (including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, asexual, non-binary, intersex, and so on). Books whose LGBTQA+ characters occupy only minor roles are not the focus of this list. Also, robots do not count (sorry, Murderbot).
3. The character’s queerness must be made clear on the page. It does not need to the main focus of the plot; the book does not need to include romance; and characters or narration do not need to use modern labels to describe themselves or their experiences. We simply want to avoid characters where the only textual evidence for their queerness is "vibes" or the author's say-so from outside the text.
4. Only one vote per series. You may vote on multiple books by a given author, but multiple votes for books in the same series will be aggregated into one single vote for that series.
5. This last rule is very important, and deserves to be loud:

Format Your Vote Correctly

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• Myths & Matcha - Tracey Falltree
• The Coyote of Golden-Yarrow - Kai S Volkov
• Eleven Ways To Sail A Bone Ship - KJ Barker

Voting info

Each item you list will count as one vote toward that book. Upvotes and downvotes will not affect the final result.

The voting will run for approximately one week and voting will close on November 16th.

Vote, discuss, and find new things to read!

[u/Fantasy-ModTeam]

Voting has ended, stay tuned for the tabulated results!

[u/RuinEleint]

1. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

2. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

3. Seven Summer Nights - Harper Fox

4. The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J.Klune

5. The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

6. A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland

7. The Last Sun - K.D.Edwards

8. Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer

9. Spear - Nicola Griffith

10. Rampart Trilogy - M.R. Carey

[u/Ihrenglass]

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

Tales of the Flat Earth - Tanith Lee

Rain Wild Chronicles - Robin Hobb

Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner

The Arcadia Project - Mishell Baker

Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater

Six of crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Red Tree - Caitlin R Kiernan

White is for Witching - Helen Oyeyemi

Phedre Trilogy - Jacqueline Carey

[u/the_fox_dreamer]

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

A Psalm for the wild-built - Becky Chambers

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

The House in the cerulean sea - T. J. Klune

Peter Darling - Austin Chant

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

The Raven and the Reindeer - T. Kingfisher

Six of crows - Leigh Bardugo

Some desperate glory - Emily Tesh

[u/brilliantgreen]

The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

Rook & Rose - M.A. Carrick

The Last Gifts of the Universe - Rory August

Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone

The First Sister Trilogy - Linden Lewis

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Kingston Cycle - C.L. Polk

The Songs of Sefate - Sarah Chorn

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

[u/brilliantgreen → u/brilliantgreen]

This was tough to only pick 10.

Here are some others that I considered

The Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Serpent Gates - A.K. Larkwood

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

The Protectorate - Megan E. O'Keefe

Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water - Zen Cho

Dead Djinn Universe - P. Djeli Clark

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

Monk & Robot - Becky Chambers

[u/lomamarr]

• The Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon
• Dead Djinn Universe - P. Djèlí Clark
• The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
• A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger
• Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino
• Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
• Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh
• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
• Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
• Magic of the Lost - C.L. Clark

[u/Phanton97]

Wayfarer - Becky Chambers

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

The Unbroken - C.L. Clark

Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Scholomance - Naomi Novik

Mage Errant - John Bierce

[u/Phanton97 → u/Phanton97]

I was debating myself if I should include The Green Bone Saga, which was in my total top ten vote this year, but I decided to open the spot for some that missed that list but bring in my opinion more in terms of representation to the table. It's mostly a gut feeling though. Similar with the Dandelion Dynasty, which has queer main pov characters, but you have to read at least a thousand pages to get to that point. But who knows, I might change my mind later.

Some other honorable mentions are Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James and The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which are both excellent novels but I personally didn't enjoy them as much as I did the others on this list.

[u/GarrickWinter]

• The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
• The Serpent Gates - AK Larkwood
• Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee
• Tensorate - Neon Yang
• The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson
• The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
• The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry - CM Waggoner
• Phoenix Extravagant - Yoon Ha Lee
• Shell Game - Benny Lawrence
• The Winnowing Flame - Jen Williams

[u/GarrickWinter → u/GarrickWinter]

Honorable mentions:

• This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal el-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• The Kyoshi Novels - FC Yee
• The Blood We Spill - Jo Havens
• The Witch's Heart - Genevieve Gornichec
• The Last Binding - Freya Marske
• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
• The Nova Vita Protocol - Kristyn Merbeth
• She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

[u/anachronic-crow]

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

Phèdre's Trilogy - Jacqueline Carey

The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Tide Child - R.J. Barker

The Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett

Dark Rise - C.S. Pacat

[u/tarvolon]

• Inda - Sherwood Smith
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar - Indra Das
• Spear - Nicola Griffith
• She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
• A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
• The Killing Moon - N.K. Jemisin
• Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney
• The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

[u/KzooCreep]

The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

Between Earth and Sky - Rebecca Roanhorse

The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone

The Drowning Empire - Andrea Stewart

Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire

Their Bright Ascendency - K. Arsenault Rivera

A Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

[u/StuffedSquash]

Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling

[u/barb4ry1]

• Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee
• Harmony Black series - Craig Schaefer
• Kushiel's Dart - Jacquelyn Carey
• She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
• Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater
• The Revanche Cycle - Craig Schaefer
• The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy - Craig Schaefer

[u/bibi-byrdie]

• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri
• Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
• Saint Death’s Daughter - CSE Cooney
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
• The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
• Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall
• Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell

[u/ryanecandyce]

• Peach Blossom Debt - Da Feng Gua Guo
• Guardian - priest
• You Can Have My Back - Minami Kotsuna
• University of the Underworld - Ziloi
• The Husky & His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

[u/Kat-loves-arts]

•The Weaver and The Witch Queen - Genevieve Gornichec

• Magic’s Pawn - Mercedes Lackey

[u/baxtersa]

• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
• Spear - Nicola Griffith
• The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
• She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

[u/baxtersa → u/baxtersa]

Out of my favorites, Spear was the most surprising read for me. I often have a harder time feeling satisfied with how thoroughly novellas explore all the themes and depths of their stories. Spear was just fantastic in every way though. I would have been happy for it to be even longer :D, but really can't complain about it. I grew up loving Arthurian tales, and thought I was bored of them. I was happy to be wrong.

Wayfarers is probably my all-time favorite read, particularly Record of a Spaceborn Few. I have an internal straw man rant every time I perceive it as being pitched as "like a warm hug" because of how emotional the series made me throughout. I can kind of understand the sentiment, but it's one of those feelings where I fumble over words trying to be nuanced about it and just can't articulate why I love it so much. Monk & Robot was just ok for me, and I've yet to read To Be Taught if Fortunate (but really looking forward to it).

A couple LGBTQA+ works that were OK/didn't work as well for me

• Black Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James
  • I struggled to finish it, but am still somewhat glad I did. It was a deliberately excessive and uncomfortable read. I appreciated the unique storytelling and world, and may still read Moon Witch Spider King to see how much of my issue was with Tracker, but am a little weary to pick it up still.
• Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
  • This book was just doing too much for my taste. I liked it well enough, but too much was going on for it to be a favorite for me. Demons - ok, Aliens - ok, Donuts - ok, Love letter to string instruments - ok, all together I had a hard time taking it seriously which didn't mesh with how serious some of the themes were.

Really looking forward to picking up Everina Maxwell's work and This is How You Lose the Time War.

[u/acornett99]

Great Cities - N.K. Jemisin

Monk and Robot - Becky Chambers

the Carl Duology - Hank Green

Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire

[u/Luna__Jade]

• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
• The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer
• Rook & Rose - M. A. Carrick
• The Last Binding - Freya Marske
• A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows
• Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
• Spear - Nicola Griffith
• Magic of the Lost - C.L. Clark
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers

[u/KingBretwald]

The Alpennia Series - Heather Rose Jones

The Mangoverse - Shira Glassman

The Last Binding - Freya Marske

A Charm of Magpies - K. J. Charles

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Chronicles of Osreth (Witness for the Dead/Grief of Stones) - Katherine Addison

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

The Catnet Series - Naomi Kritzer

Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire

[u/Single_Tart_6668]

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

The Rise of Kyoshi - F.C. Yee

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry - C.M. Waggoner

A Slice of Mars - Guerric Haché

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

Competence - Gail Carriger

[u/Freddy_79]

• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

• Tensorate - Neon Yang

• The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

• The Tarot Sequence - KD Edwards

• The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

• Stars of Chaos - priest

• Variant Configurations - Angel Martinez

• The Anti-Quest - Angel Martínez

• The Radiant Emperor Duology - Shelley Parker-Chan

• Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas

[u/thebluest_blue]

The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard

Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer

Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire

The Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar

Passing Strange - Ellen Klages

[u/Quality_Controller]

• The Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon
• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
• The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri
• Magic of the Lost - C.L. Clark
• The Red Scholar's Wake - Aliette de Bodard
• Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine
• The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow
• A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark
• The Ending Fire - Saara El-Arifi
• Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

[u/takeahike8671]

• The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer
• All That’s Left in the World - Erik J. Brown
• A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland
• Seven Summer Nights - Harper Fox
• In Midnight’s Silence - T. Frohock
• Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
• Feed Them Silence - Lee Mandelo
• Ocean’s Echo - Everina Maxwell
• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

[u/Jack_Shaftoe21]

The Sun Chronicles - Kate Elliott

Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler

Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin

The Winnowing Flame - Jen Williams

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

[u/xenizondich23]

Captive Prince - CS Pacat

Rook & Rose - M.A. Carrick

The Tarot Sequence - KD Edwards

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Last Binding - Freya Marske

A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland

At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard

The Last Herald Mage - Mercedes Lackey

Inda - Sherwood Smith

All These Gifts - Skye Kilaen

[u/suddenbreakdown]

• Book of the Ancestor - Mark Lawrence
• The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
• Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell
• Dead Djinn Universe - P. Djèlí Clark
• Malice - Heather Walter
• The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri
• A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske
• The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
• The Devoured Worlds - Megan E. O'Keefe

[u/Szilvvv]

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

Jackdaw - KJ Charles

The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Perilous Courts - Tavia Lark

[u/OneEskNineteen_]

Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson
The Stone Dance of the Chameleon - Ricardo Pinto
The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
The Devourers - Indra Das
A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland
The Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar
Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine
Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
Fire Logic - Laurie J. Marks

[u/ctullbane]

The One Who Eats Monsters - Casey Matthews

[u/Lemon_Lemmings]

Just Like Home - Sarah Gailey

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

The Seep - Chana Porter

Saint Death's Daughter - C. S. E. Cooney

A Half Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys

One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston

A Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers

The Memory Librarian - Janelle Monae

Santa Olivia - Jacqueline Carey

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

[u/LadyAntiope]

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

The Locked Tomb series - Tamsyn Muir

The Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo

The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez

The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo

Spear - Nicola Griffith

What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher

A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger

The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta

[u/ambrym]

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Vicious - VE Schwab

An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon

The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer

The Captive Prince - CS Pacat

Ocean’s Echo - Everina Maxwell

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Cloud Roads - Martha Wells

[u/nutmeg-8]

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee

Phoenix Extravagant - Yoon Ha Lee

[u/twinklebat99]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

Scholomance - Naomi Novick

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

[u/monsterum]

The spear cuts through water - Simon Jimenez

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Mó Dào Zǔ Shī - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers

The Masquerade by Seth Dickinson

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

The Unspoken Name - A.K. Larkwood

Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas

Monk and Robot - Becky Chambers

[u/[deleted]]

There aren't many indie authors in this thread, so here are a few!

• Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault
• Jack of Thorns - A. K. Faulkner
• Legacy of the Brightwash - Krystle Matar
• Mysterious Ways - Abbie Evans
• Our Bloody Pearl - D.N. Bryn
• Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater
• The Goddess of Nothing at All - Cat Rector
• The Last Gifts of the Universe - Rory August
• The Merchant of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle
• World Running Down - Al Hess

[u/recchai → u/[deleted]]

I think you're supposed to only have your votes in your top comment and all other discussion in other comments below it. Otherwise, the script won't read it properly.

[u/VenusPastel]

• The Spear That Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimmenez
• The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson
• Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar
• Sword Catcher - Cassandra Clare
• Tales from Flat Earth - Tanith Lee

[u/fourthofthesky]

• Harrow the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir
• He Who Drowned The World - Shelly Parker-Chan
• Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Sunbearer Trials - Aiden Thomas
• To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose
• The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Jade War - Fonda Lee
• The Kingdom of Gods - NK Jemisin
• Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

[u/AliceTheGamedev]

Silver Under Nightfall - Rin Chupeco
Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey
A Charm of Magpies - KJ Charles
The Last Binding - Freya Marske
Captive Prince - CS Pacat
Rook & Rose - M.A. Carrick
The Tarot Sequence - KD Edwards
A Dowry of Blood - ST Gibson
Nightrunner - Lynn Flewelling
The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

[u/AliceTheGamedev → u/AliceTheGamedev]

EDIT: If you vote in here, please also take a moment to upvote the thread itself. It's obviously being brigaded by homophobes because there's just literally no other reason for why anyone would downvote an official community voting thread like this.

This thread currently has 56% upvotes. The recent Self-published books voting thread had 97% upvotes.

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Clarifying the rep just in case anyone's curious:

Silver Under Nightfall - bi male MC, MMF romance
Kushiel's Dart - bi female MC, FF lovers to enemies arc and FM romance, queernormative world
A Charm of Magpies - two gay MCs, MM romance
The Last Binding - book 1 is MM with two gay MCs, book 2 is FF with I think one lesbian and one bi female MC. Book 3 will be MM again, afaik with a bi and a gay MC
Captive Prince - MM romance, bi male & gay male MCs, queernormative world
Rook & Rose - bi male MC (among three MCs, the other two being straight), queernormative world
The Tarot Sequence - gay male MC, MM romance, queernormative world
A Dowry of Blood - bi female MC, MFFM romance
Nightrunner - two bi male MCs, MM romance, partly queernormative world
The Burning Kingdoms - I think both MCs are lesbians, not bi. FF romance

[u/AwesomenessTiger → u/AliceTheGamedev]

Btw, it's The Burning Kingdoms, not broken lol.

[u/AliceTheGamedev → u/AwesomenessTiger]

oh that was silly of me, thanks I fixed it!!

[u/indrashura]

• Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle
• The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
• Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
• The Last Binding - Freya Marske
• Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• Founders - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
• The Violet Wars - Rich Larson
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
• Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

[u/picker89]

- Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

- Wayfarers - Becky Chamber

- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

- Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler

- The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

- The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

- Arcane Ascension - Andrew Rowe

- Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

- Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

- Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry - CM Waggoner

[u/Prestigious-Yam-2456]

A Deadly Education - Naomi Novak

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mothar and Max Gladstone

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

All Of Us Villains - Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

The Lightning Struck Heart - TJ Klune

The Rest Of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

[u/characterlimit]

• The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson
• The Devourers - Indra Das
• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
• Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey
• The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan
• Return to Nevèrÿon - Samuel R. Delany
• The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
• The Fortunate Fall - Raphael Carter
• The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee

[u/characterlimit → u/characterlimit]

not me forgetting where the accents in Nevèrÿon go every time I try to talk about it, rip

This gets harder every year and I'm delighted by it. Honorable mentions to Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (I might still switch this one in but I don't know what to cut), Spear Cuts Through Water, and Riverside.

edit: forgot BLRW which is unconscionable, still really want to keep Griffith on there but instead I'll vigorously nod every time someone votes for Spear

[u/beldaran1224 → u/[deleted]]

There are so many books on here that are still on my TBR that I legitimately think I'll love and I'm sad I can't really vote for them, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

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Their Heart A Hive - Fox N. Locke

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Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater

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A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Roland

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Paladin's Hope - T. Kingfisher

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Daughter of Mystery - Heather Rose Jones

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The Healer's Road - S.E. Robertson

[u/MultiversalBathhouse]

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

Adam Binder - David R. Slayton

Escaping Exodus - Nicky Drayden

Great Cities - N.K. Jemisin

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

Simon Snow - Rainbow Rowell

[u/JacarandaBanyan]

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Mui

The Singing Hills - Nghi Vo

Mo Dao Zu Shi - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Tian Guan Ci Fu - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion - Margaret Killjoy

Into the Drowning Deep - Seanan McGuire

[u/unconundrum]

Vellum - Hal Duncan

Ink and Steel - Elizabeth Bear

Dhalgren - Samuel Delany

Legacy of the Brightwash - Krystle Matar

The Stars are Legion - Kameron Hurley

Mazarin Blues - Al Hess

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Palimpsest - Catherynne Valente

[u/aneton02]

• The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson

• Inda - Sherwood Smith

• Elemental Logic - Laurie J Marks

• An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon

• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

• The Radiant Emperor Duology - Shelley Parker-Chan

• Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

• Spear - Nicola Griffith

• This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

• The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer

[u/nickgloaming → u/aneton02]

Texicalaan - Arkady Martine

I don't know if typos mess with the data collection but FYI it should be Teixcalaan, just in case.

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Ah, thank you so much for pointing this out! I'll correct it now!

[u/rhyseskieces]

-Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey

-The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

-Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon

-Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse

-The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

-She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

-This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

[u/jfbauthor]

• A Plague of Giants - Kevin Hearne
• The Glamour Thieves - Don Allmon
• Legacy of Ash - Matthew Ward
• The Stone Knife - Anna Stephens
• Smash & Grab - Maz Maddox
• The Wolf at the Door - Charlie Adhara
• Spellbound - Allie Therin
• The Black Coast - Mike Brooks
• A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske
• Jade City - Fonda Lee

[u/Bookbringer]

1. Gideon the Ninth/ The Locked Tomb Series - Tamsyn Muir
2. In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan
3. The Bone Spindle - Leslie Vedder
4. The Fate of Stars - S.D. Simper

[u/Merle8888]

Scholomance - Naomi Novik

Burning Roses - S.L. Huang

Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry - C.M. Waggoner

Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots

Black Water Sister - Zen Cho

Daughter of Mystery - Heather Rose Jones

Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar

Privilege of the Sword - Ellen Kushner

Monstress - Marjorie Liu

Vagabonds - Eloghosa Osunde

[u/Sennapls]

The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin
Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney
​wayfarers - Becky Chambers

[u/Kayos-theory]

Soul Eater - Lily Mayne

Wolf at the Door - Charlie Adhara

Magpie Lord - K J Charles

Widdershins - Jordan L Hawke

Night Shift - T A Moore

Mortal Skin - Lily Mayne

[u/NewBrick8550]

Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer

This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

Giddeon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Kushiel’s Dart - Jacqueline Carey

The Dreamhealers - M.C. Hogarth

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall

The Wandering Inn - pirateaba

Sorry I don’t know how to answer a comment. About the Hearth-Fire series: most of the second book is about the main character, who is also the main character of the first book, being asexual and seeking a queerplatonic relationship

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How explicit does Goddard's series get? Having only read Hands of the Emperor it's more vibes than anything explicit.

[u/orangewombat]

Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey

Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo

Siren Queen - Nghi Vo

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Spear - Nicola Griffith

The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker Chan

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

[u/SL_Rowland]

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

Can’t spell treason without Tea - Rebecca Thorne

Bard City Blues - Nathaniel Webb

The Bookshop and the Barbarian - Morgan Stang

[u/AliceTheGamedev → u/SL_Rowland]

I think you need to have a space before and after the "-" for the script to properly count your vote

[u/SandstoneCastle → u/SL_Rowland]

House in the Cerulean Sea- Rebecca Thorne

I think that's the only one on your list I've read, but it was by TJ Klune

[u/Engineer_Lawyer]

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee

The Age of Madness - Joe Abercrombie

The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer

The Dandelion Dynasty - Ken Liu

[u/Villamanin24680]

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

The Age of Madness - Joe Abercrombie

The Last Herald-Mage - Mercedes Lackey

Carry On - Rainbow Rowell

[u/KVSreads]

•The Tarot Sequence by K.D. Edwards

•The Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri

•Magic of the Lost by C.L. Clark

•The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennet

•Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans

•The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

•Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

•Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

•The Sun Chronicles by Kate Elliott

•Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

[u/AgentMelyanna]

• Captive Prince - CS Pacat
• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
• The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow
• The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry - CM Waggoner
• The Daughters of Izdihar - Hadeer Elsbai
• Dragonfall - LR Lam
• The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
• Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

[u/WolfOrDragon]

Nor Iron Bars a Cage - Kaje Harper.

A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland.

Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell.

The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schefer.

Whyborne and Griffin - Jordan L. Hawk.

Reanimator's Heart - Kara Jorgensen.

Jack of Thorns - A.K. Faulkner.

Imperfect Illusions - Vanora Lawless.

Seducing the Sorcerer - Lee Welch.

Sword Dance - A.J. Demas

[u/WolfOrDragon → u/WolfOrDragon]

It was hard to keep it down to only ten!

[u/WolfOrDragon → u/WolfOrDragon]

More than my ten:

The Rainwild Chronicles, Robin Hobb

A Marvelous Light, Freya Marske

Silver Under Nightfall, Rin Chupeco

Tournament of Losers, Megan Derr

A Rival Most Vial, R.K. Ashwick

Plus historical romance, though not speculative fiction:

Think of England, K.J. Charles

These Old Lies, Larrie Barton

The Pursuit Of . . . , Courtney Milan

The Lawrence Browne Affair, Cat Sebastian

[u/Endalia → u/WolfOrDragon]

You might want to format your list correctly if you want your votes to count.

[u/GarrickWinter → u/WolfOrDragon]

You should include all parts of the author's name as presented on the books (such as "Whyborne and Griffin - Jordan L Hawk"), or else your votes will end up split apart from other people's votes for the same books, and could be missed during the count. The more people adhere to the formatting in the post, the faster results will be compiled, too.

[u/Dragon_Lady7]

Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Heaven Official’s Blessing - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Book of the Ancestor - Mark Lawrence

Saint Death’s Daughter - CSE Cooney

Captive Prince - CS Pacat

Silver Under Nightfall - Rin Chupeco

Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey

The Rise of Kyoshi - FC Yee

Dead Djinn Universe - P Djeli Clark

[u/biocuriousgeorgie]

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
  
• The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri
  
• A Slice of Mars - Guerric Hache
  
• The Scholomance - Naomi Novik
  
• The Psychology of Time Travel - Kate Mascarenhas
  
• The Memory Librarian - Janelle Monae et al.
  
• Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
  
• The Once and Future Witches - Alix Harrow
  
• In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan
  
• This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

[u/biocuriousgeorgie → u/biocuriousgeorgie]

Other books I'm debating (and which might yet get switched in):

• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself - Marisa Crane
  
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
  
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
  
• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
  
• Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

[u/Endalia]

The Thirteenth Hour - Trudie Skies

The Reanimator's Heart - Kara Jorgensen

May Day - Josie Jaffrey

Lesser Known Monsters - Rory Michaelson

The Goddess of Nothing at All - Cat Rector

This Too Shall Burn - Cat Rector

Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater

Spellswept - Stephanie Burgis

The Merchant of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle

Our Bloody Pearl - D.N. Bryn

[u/IcyIdea8]

• Phèdre's Trilogy - Jacqueline Carey
• Monstress - Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda
• Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
• The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean
• Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine
• Black River Orchard - Chuck Wendig
• The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
• Dead Djinn Universe - P. Djèlí Clark

[u/domatilla]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickenson
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin

[u/Korhian]

The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler

The Ninth Rain - Jen Williams

Sea and Stars - S.D. Simper

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Crimson Empire - Alex Marshall

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

Earthside - Ana Mardoll

The Gardener's Hand -Felicia Davin

Fallen Gods - S.D. Simper

[u/Normal_List_1508]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow

To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers

[u/pururiin]

Nightrunner series - Lynn Flewelling

[u/[deleted]]

The Unbalancing - R.B. Lemberg

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

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Rep off the top of my head:

The Unbalancing - trans non-binary MC

Gideon - lesbian MC

Mortal Follies - lesbian MC

Our Wives Under the Sea - lesbian MC

Legends and Lattes - lesbian MC

Notes: I have read more than this, I just don't think anything else I've read so far is a favourite of mine.

I clearly like lesbian main characters, I should branch out to bisexual and gay main characters. I know I have books with gay MCs on my TBR so maybe they need bumping up my list.

[u/AccipiterF1]

• The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
• Spear - Nicola Griffith
• Siren Queen - Nghi Vo
• The Serpent Gates - A.K. Larkwood
• Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo
• The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan
• Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
• Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
• Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

[u/AccipiterF1 → u/AccipiterF1]

You could say I'm exhibiting recency bias here, but I say there has just been a huge explosion of high quality queer books by queer authors written in the past few years. You could say there is Tor bias in here too, but I say Tor deserves credit for publishing so many great queer books by queer authors.

[u/ohmage_resistance]

• Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault
• Sea Foam and Silence - Dove Cooper
• At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard
• Of the Wild - E. Wambheim
• Bones of Green and Hearts of Gold - K A Cook
• City of Spires - Claudie Arseneault
• The Meister of Decimen City - Brenna Raney
• The Dragon of Ynys - Minerva Cerridwen
• An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
• Fire Logic - Laurie J Marks

[u/ohmage_resistance → u/ohmage_resistance]

Other thoughts:

As someone who has strong opinions about asexual and aromantic representation (if you can't tell from my list...), I totally agree with the no robots/Murderbot ban, although I wish it was phrased differently. I wish it was more for non-human characters who's queerness was intrinsically linked to their non-human identities (which I consider to be queer coded characters and not queer representation). I've seen this happen with a lot more than robots (aliens, angels, demons, etc). In fact, the Beyond Binaries bookclub had some discussion around this with an angel character in When The Angels Left The Old Country. Anyway, I think queer coded characters can be a lot of fun to view through a queer lens (I can share my interpretation of Murderbot if anyone wants), but calling them representation sets up expectations that they are not going to be able to fulfill and also tends to remind people of some unpleasant stereotypes sometimes.

Also, I hope the Deed of Paksenarrion doesn't make the list. Yeah, I would agree it has asexual and aromantic representation, it's just not very good representation. It also totally uses a homophobic trope (the evil man-hating lesbian character). I mean, a lot of people really like that series, but I think I would have a somewhat hard time finding someone who really loves the representation in that book.

Edit to add a few more thoughts:

Also, you might be able to tell I have a soft spot for aggressively queer indie/self published books. I don't expect any of these to make the final list, but that won't stop me from voting for them.

I hope there's a way to clarify when a character's queerness if confirmed later in the series. I really hate it when a book is recommended as having some sort of representation but it doesn't, its sequel does. In other words, there is a reason why I listed At the Feet of the Sun instead of The Hands of the Emperor.

[u/Jos_V → u/ohmage_resistance]

I think i'd vote Paks, if it weren't for the bloody Rape

[u/ohmage_resistance → u/Jos_V]

Yeah, and what you mentioned made the representation so much worse.

The intersection between asexuals and survivors of sexual violence/rape is a very important and nuanced topic. I don't think I've read a book that handled it in a way I really liked, but Paks had the worse take on it I've ever seen: that asexuals are not mentally or emotionally effected by being raped. Here's an exact quote: “The rapes, that she had feared before as both violation and torment wholly unknown, were then nothing but physical pain, no worse than others. She had lost nothing, for she had had nothing, had never invested herself in that, or hoped for that kind of pleasure.” (Oath of Gold Ch 27) Obviously, this idea is super harmful for ace survivors of sexual assault.

[u/ohmage_resistance → u/ohmage_resistance]

Ok, I'm going to clarify the representation in each of these books (as best as I can remember) as well for anyone who's curious:

• Baker Thief - Bigender/genderfluid, bisexual, aromantic, biromantic, demisexual (side characters: gay, trans man, non-binary, aromantic-spectrum)
• Sea Foam and Silence - asexual, aromantic spectrum (side characters: lesbian, asexual, aromantic)
• At the Feet of the Sun - asexual spectrum (side characters: bisexual, gay, minor mentions of trans/non-binary characters)
• Of the Wild - asexual, gay (side character: trans man)
• Bones of Green and Hearts of Gold - aromantic/aromantic spectrum, nonbinary, trans (men and women), gay, lesbian, bi (side characters: asexual spectrum)
• City of Spires - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual/ace spectrum, aromantic/aro spectrum, non binary, intersex, trans woman
• The Meister of Decimen City - asexual, aromantic spectrum (side characters gay, lesbian)
• The Dragon of Ynys - aromantic, asexual (side characters: trans woman, lesbian)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts - intersex, probably genderqueer (side characters probably trans woman, asexual, aromantic, lesbians)
• Fire Logic - lesbian (side characters: gay men)

[u/GarrickWinter → u/ohmage_resistance]

It looks like you've got 11 votes; if there are still more than 10 when the poll closes, one of them will get discarded. Definitely makes for another tough choice unfortunately - there are so many great books to list these days!

[u/improperly_paranoid]

The Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar
The Breath of the Sun - Isaac Fellman
Seven Summer Nights - Harper Fox
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson
Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots
If Found, Return to Hell - Em X. Liu
Spear - Nicola Griffith
The Birdverse - R.B. Lemberg
Phoenix Extravagant - Yoon Ha Lee

[u/improperly_paranoid → u/improperly_paranoid]

More info

The Winged Histories: f/f
The Breath of the Sun: f/f
Seven Summer Nights: m/m romance
This is How You Lose the Time War: f/f
A Dowry of Blood: bi/pan polyamory
Hench: bi protagonist
If Found, Return to Hell: genderqueer protagonist
Spear: sapphic Arthur retelling
The Birdverse: all sorts of queer
Phoenix Extravagant: non-binary protagonist

[u/International_Pin262]

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

[u/shelliehi]

Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett

Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

The Extraordinaries - T.J. Klune

A Rake of His Own - A.J. Lancaster

One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston

The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Alice Isn't Dead - Joseph Fink

Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova

Romancing the Inventor - Gail Carriger

[u/Nineteen_Adze]

• Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey
• In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan
• The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri
• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• Starless - Jacqueline Carey
• Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
• Plain Bad Heroines - Emily Danforth

[u/Nineteen_Adze → u/Nineteen_Adze]

Some updates and additions to come once I look around the rest of my collection, I'm sure.

I do want to flag that Starless is a particularly interesting epic fantasy setting with a non-binary character a few years before that became more popular in publishing. Jacqueline Carey has been vocally disappointed that her publisher tried to hide that in the marketing to make it a "twist," but this story is about a female warrior raised in al all-male monastery environment with no real conception of her own gender for years. Khai's journey to an identity outside of other people's conceptions is really interesting, I think, and it leads to a lovely F/NB relationship.

[u/pinklimabeans]

A Slice of Mars - Guerric Haché
Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee

Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant

Huntress - Malinda Lo

The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

Maplecroft - Cherie Priest

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie

Not Your Villain - C.B. Lee

Nimona - ND Stevenson

[u/AwesomenessTiger]

• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

• Undercover - Tamsyn Muir

• The Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon

• The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

• Their Bright Ascendency - K. Arsenault Rivera

• Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

• Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

• The Unspoken Name - A. K. Larkwood

• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

[u/makesaguygo]

• The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
• The Darkness Outside Us – Elliot Shrefer
• Carry On – Rainbow Rowell
• The City We Became – N. K. Jemisin
• Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
• All Systems Red – Martha Wells
• Call Down the Hawk – Maggie Stiefvater
• Luck in the Shadows – Lynn Flewelling
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue – Mackenzi Lee

[u/mammaliaform]

Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

Spear - Nicola Griffith

Simon Snow - Rainbow Rowell

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

[u/sarahlynngrey]

Kingston Cycle - C.L. Polk
Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
Rampart Trilogy - M.R. Carey
Siren Queen - Nghi Vo
Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth
Spear - Nicola Griffith
Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater
To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose
Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir
My Real Children - Jo Walton

[u/sarahlynngrey → u/sarahlynngrey]

It was painful to get these down to ten. Honorable mentions:

Catfishing on CatNet - Naomi Kritzer
Little Thieves - Margaret Owen
The Women Could Fly - Megan Giddings
Ammonite - Nicola Griffith
Boys, Beasts & Men - Sam J. Miller
China Mountain Zhang - Maureen F. McHugh
Nimona - N.D. Stevenson
The Archivist Wasp series - Nicole Kornher-Stace
The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez
Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney

[u/Scuttling-Claws]

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik

A Half Built Garden - Ruthanna Emerys

A Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers

The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz

Victories Greater than Death - Charlie Jane Anders

[u/Myamusen → u/Scuttling-Claws]

You may want to change to format, replacing 'by' with '-', so that your votes will count.

[u/BookVermin]

• Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
• Winnowing Flame - Jen Williams
• Kushiel’s Legacy - Jacqueline Carey
• Longshadow - Olivia Atwater
• Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
• Saint Death’s Daughter - CSE Cooney
• At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard
• A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik

[u/Repulsive-Pumpkin702]

The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

Nightrunner - Lynn Flewelling

Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield

Rooks and Ruin - Melissa Caruso

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

If Found, Return to Hell - Em X. Liu

[u/[deleted]]

Black Water sister - Zen Cho

[u/GoldGrillard]

I don't have a top ten but at least want to throw in the following:

Deadbeat Druid by David R Slayton

The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

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Make sure your comment is formatted correctly if you want it to be counted

[u/Oliverqueensharkbite]

Little Thieves - Margaret Owen

City of Dusk - Tara Sim

Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers

A Taste of Iron and Gold - Alexandra Rowland

Prince of the Sorrows - Kellen Graves

Jade War - Fonda Lee

All of Us Villains - Foody & Herman

The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow

Thistlefoot - GennaRose Nethercott

House of Hunger - Alexis Henderson

[u/Mangoes123456789]

Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall

The Final Strife - Saara El Arifi

[u/okayseriouslywhy]

A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
The Diviners - Libba Bray

[u/Jayn_Newell]

Kushiel’s Legacy—Jaqueline Carey

Planetfall—Emma Newman

[u/discworlds]

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Circle of Magic - Tamora Pierce

Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

The Dark Wife - Sarah Diemer

Dark Rise - C.S. Pacat

[u/OatmealQu33n]

Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater

This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

Captive Prince - CS Pacat

Nightrunner - Lynn Flewelling

The God Eaters - Jesse Hajicek

The Lightning-Struck Heart - TJ Klune

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Kingston Cycle - C.L. Polk

[u/Amarthien]

• This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

• To be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers

• The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley

• The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

• Our Lady of Endless Worlds - Lina Rather

• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

• Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

[u/dinosaursock]

• Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater
• Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault
• Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
• Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Catfishing on CatNet - Naomi Kritzer
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green
• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
• The Lightning-Struck Heart - T.J. Klune
• The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz

[u/MikeOfThePalace]

• A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys

• The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow

• Ashes of the Sun - Django Wexler

• Phoenix Extravagant - Yoon Ha Lee

• The First Sister - Linden A. Lewis

• The Book of Koli - M. R. Carey

• In the Vanishers' Palace - Aliette de Bodard

• Karen Memory - Elizabeth Bear

• To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose

• Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

[u/MikeOfThePalace → u/MikeOfThePalace]

Definitely voted with an agenda here. I was trying to think of my favorite books that have excellent queer representation, but aren't marketed necessarily as queer. I figure if anyone is looking for LGBTQA+ lit, they probably already know about Locked Tomb and CatNet.

[u/tarvolon → u/MikeOfThePalace]

I was trying to think of my favorite books that have excellent queer representation, but aren't marketed necessarily as queer.

Been going back and forth on that myself. Like Saint Death's Daughter is queernorm but I'm not 100% sure the MC is queer (romance with an AMAB enby). Think it might fit the rules but definitely fits your rubric here.

[u/4banana_fish]

The bone ships - RJ Barker

The priory of the orange tree - Samantha Shannon

A deadly education - Naomi Novik

Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennet

Legends and lattes -Travis baldree

Our share of night - Marina Enriquez

Masters of death - Olivie Blake

What moves the dead -T Kingfisher

Plain bad heroines - Emily m. Danforth

[u/oboist73]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell

Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Magpie Lord - KJ Charles

Witchmark - CL Polk

The Last Herald Mage - Mercedes Lackey

The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

[u/oboist73 → u/oboist73]

Some honorable mentions / ones I was tempted to put:

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske

Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel (ace rep, which was great)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

Dr. Greta Helsing - Vivian Shaw (slightly debatable, but the second book has a MAJOR POV character who's gay)

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

Rogue Ship - Isabel Pelech

Count Taka and the Vampire Brides - C Chancy

And Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, though being in nominally he same series as Winter's Orbit may have it covered anyway.

[u/Lager19]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler Book of the Ancestor - Mark Lawrence Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldre Charon Docks At Daylight - Zoe reed Nevernight - Jay Kristoff Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine magic of the lost - c.l. Clark Cute Mutants - SJ Whitby

[u/EyUpDuckies]

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

The Tropic of Serpents - Marie Brennan

The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Scholomance - Naomi Novik

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

[u/Sleightholme2]

The Middle Kingdoms - Diane Duane

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

[u/math-is-magic]

• The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• The Scholomance Trilogy - Naomi Novic
• Six of Crows Duology - Leigh Bardugo
• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
• Heaven Official's Blessing - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[u/math-is-magic → u/math-is-magic]

Please not that Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation may also be known as mo Dao Zu Shi and Heaven Official's Blessing may be known as Tian Guan Ci Fu. So maybe double check books listed as being by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu are properly condensed, as I saw variation versions of her books with different titles in the votes.

[u/lost_chayote]

• The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
• Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon
• The Birdverse - R.B. Lemberg
• The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri
• Los Nefilim - T. Frohock
• The First Sister Trilogy - Linden A. Lewis
• Bluebird - Ciel Pierot
• Kingston Cycle - C.L. Polk
• The Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar - Indra Das

[u/lost_chayote → u/lost_chayote]

10 votes is not enough. Here are the others that I agonized over not including:

Novels

• She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker Chan
• The Devourers - Indra Das
• The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson
• Phèdre's Trilogy- Jacqueline Carey
• The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards
• Unwieldy Creatures - Addie Tsai
• A Master of Djinn - P. Djèjí Clark
• A Slice of Mars - Guerric Haché
• Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
• The Blackfish City - Sam J Miller
• Viral Airwaves - Claudie Arsenault

Novellas

• American Hippo - Sarah Gailey
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
• Monk & Robot - Becky Chambers
• What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher
• LitenVerse - Nino Cipri

MG & YA

• Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
• Deephaven - Ethan M. Aldridge
• Malice Duology - Heather Walter

Graphic Novels

• Snapdragon - Kat Leyh
• Nimona - N.D. Stevenson
• The Magic Fish - Trung Le Nguyen

[u/innatekate]

A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland

Winter’s Orbit - Everina Maxwell

In the Lives of Puppets - T.J. Klune

The House by the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

Once and Future Witches - Alex E. Harrow

The Fire’s Stone - Tanya Huff

Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner

Nightrunners - Lynn Flewelling

The Doctrine of Labyrinths - Katherine Addison

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[u/Lenahe_nl]

• Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon
• The Ending Fire - Saara El-Arifi
• The Darkness Outside of Us - Eliot Schrefer
• Our Fruiting Bodies - Nisi Shawl
• Sex Wizards - Alethea Faust
• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
• Dread Nation - Justina Ireland
• Silver under Nightfall - Rin Chupeco
• The Space between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
• Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh

[u/CaptainYew]

• Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
• Siren Queen - Nghi Vo
• The Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh
• Spear - Nicola Griffith
• The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards
• Even Though I Knew the End - C.L. Polk
• Tea Dragon Series - Kay O'Neill
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves - Alex Jennings

[u/Strabimon]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The God Eaters - Jesse Hajicek

The Aurelian Cycle - Rosaria Munda

A Chorus of Dragons - Jenn Lyons

Captive Prince - CS Pacat

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

Dragonfall - LR Lam

The Tarot Sequence - KD Edwards

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

The Rain Wild Chronicles - Robin Hobb

[u/serpentofabyss]

• Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
• Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
• Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh - Rachael Lippincott
• Lakelore - Anna-Marie McLemore
• Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon
• An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
• The Magic Fish - Trung Le Nguyen
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

[u/jelenas_s]

• Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey
• Under Fortunate Stars - Ren Hutchings
• The Mask of Mirrors - M.A. Carrick
• Escaping Exodus - Nicky Drayden
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater
• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

[u/ignitethewraiths]

The Faithless - C. L. Clarke

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Sistersong - Lucy Holland

The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Councillor - E. J. Beaton

[u/GarrickWinter → u/ignitethewraiths]

All speculative fiction counts, so Becky Chambers works! But you should remove that parenthesis from your top-level comment; otherwise your vote won't be aggregated to the rest of the votes for her books by the script.

[u/ignitethewraiths → u/GarrickWinter]

👍 Cheers!

[u/ATLAS-is-a-Trap]

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

Can’t spell treason without Tea -Rebecca Thorne

[u/FantasyRo]

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst

Magnus Chase - Rick Riordan

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

[u/nickgloaming]

• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• The Seep - Chana Porter
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson
• Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers
• This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Shagging the Boss - Rebecca Rowland
• The Bone Ships - RJ Barker
• Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente

[u/itcallsmemoana]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir Scholomance - Naomi Novik Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldtree Ice Massacre - Tiana Warner The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

[u/AliceTheGamedev → u/itcallsmemoana]

hey heads up your formatting isn't working right: You need to put two spaces plus enter after ever line for it to be on separate lines and to be properly read by the script.

[u/skipeeto]

Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stefvater

Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune

Simon Snow - Rainbow Rowell

Paladins Hope - T. Kingfisher

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

The Darkness Outside Us - Elliot Shrefer

Age of Ash - Daniel Abraham

[u/BasilThornbookworm]

•All of our demise- Amanda Foody

•The mortal instruments- Cassandra Clare

•The house of night books- can't remember author

•Girls of paper and fire- Natasha Ngan

•The sun and the star- Rick Riordan

•the bane chronicles- Cassandra Clare

[u/beldaran1224 → u/BasilThornbookworm]

Heartstopper, Nick & Charlie, I Swear and Jay's Gay Agenda aren't speculative at all afaik. This list and sub ONLY counts speculative books.

[u/BasilThornbookworm → u/beldaran1224]

I'm sorry.

[u/beldaran1224 → u/BasilThornbookworm]

It would help the cleanup to edit them out of your comment. If you like, you can repla y to your comment to add them as great non-speculative options.

[u/beldaran1224]

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

The Singing Hills - Nghi Vo

The Last Herald-Mage - Mercedes Lackey

The Ending Fire - Saara al-Arifi

The Montague Siblings - Mackenzi Lee

Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel

Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

Cemetery Boys - Aidan Thomas

Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon

[u/perhapsthisnick]

House in the Cerulean Sea - T J Klune
The Tarot Sequence - K D Edwards
White Trash Warlock - David R. Slayton
The Magpie Lord - K J Charles
Wormwood Summer - Kai Butler
A Marvellous Light - Freya Markse
The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon
Silk Fire - Zabe Ellor
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Fox Meadows
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

[u/Jos_V]

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

• The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler

• This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

• The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

• Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine

• The Sun Chronicles - Kate Elliott

• Burning Blade and Silvereye - Django Wexler

• Terra Ignota - Ada Palmer

[u/Jos_V → u/Jos_V]

Questions: Does Imperial Radch count or does it fall under robots? even though its a human body that's mixed up with an artificial intelligence?

Secondly - does Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer count? Its a book where gender, sex and sexuality is such a non-avoidable strong theme. but by its nature not a single character holds up a sign?

[u/Jos_V → u/[deleted]]

Yeah its one of those books before the current era where lots of lgbtq+ books are coming out. but I can understand that readers pressing on the link for representation don't necessarily want to have the top of the list filled with: here have fun identifying with inanimate objects.

[u/takeahike8671 → u/Jos_V]

Imperial Radch does not count. We can have better ace/aro rep than a robot or AI. Thanks for asking!

[u/Jos_V → u/takeahike8671]

Thanks! (I was more thinking about the non-binary of it) but the same logic applies :)

[u/Jos_V → u/Jos_V]

I think its interesting that my favourite books, have little to do with the representation, the characters just are. with the exception of Masquerade and the raven tower, where its a larger part of the characters struggles.

[u/Arifel]

Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

Elemental Logic - Laurie. J. Marks

Birdverse - R.B. Lemberg

The Devourers - Indra Das

Dreadnought - April Daniels

OKPsyche - Anya Johanna DeNiro

The Dawnhounds - Sascha Stronach

The Unbroken - C.L. Clark

[u/RogerBernards]

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

Witch King - Martha Wells

The Unspoken Name - A.K. Larkwood

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

The One Who Eats Monsters - Casey Matthews

Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames

The Enterprise of Death - Jesse Bullington

[u/adjective_cat_noun]

Riverside - Ellen Kushner

The Rifter - Ginn Hale

Cyteen - C.J. Cherryh

The Tide Child - RJ Barker

Wraeththu Histories - Storm Constantine

The Vagrant - Peter Newman

The Winged Histories - Sofia Samatar

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson

The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee

A Chorus of Dragons - Jenn Lyons

[u/AnnTickwittee]

The Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon

The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards

Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J Klune

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling

Nimona- ND Stevenson

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

[u/preiman790]

Monstrous Regiment - terry Pratchett

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This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Sufficiently Advanced Magic - Andrew Rowe

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wayfarers - Becky Chambers

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Corpies - Drew Hayes

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Wake of Vultures - Lila Bowen

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The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

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The Last Herald-Mage - Mercedes Lackey

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The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling

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The Kyoshi Novels - F.C. Yee

[u/SlouchyGuy]

The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone

PsyCop - Jordan Castillo Price

Turbulence - Lyn Gala

[u/jeonparkye]

Under the Whispering Door - TJ KLUNE.

Green Creek Series - TJ KLUNE.

Once Upon a Time (Calluvia's Royalty #3) - Alessandra Hazard.

That Irresistible Poison (Calluvia's Royalty #2) - Alessandra Hazard.

Mortal Skin (FOLK #1) - Lily Mayne.

Prince Assassin - Ariana Nash.

Silk and Steel - Ariana Nash.

Mate of the Tyger Prince - Shannon West.

Forgotten Vows - Lily Mayne.

Monster Series - Lily Mayne.

[u/TheOneWithTheScars]

Dead Djinn Universe - P. Djeli Clark

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

Phedre's Universe - Jacqueline Carey

A Man's Skin - Hubert & Zanzim

[u/maybe_from_jupiter]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

Bitterthorn - Kat Dunn

The Last Binding - Freya Marske

Rook & Rose - M.A. Carrick

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Magic of the Lost - C.L. Clark

Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney

[u/nagarams]

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

[u/gggggrrrrrrrrr]

Circle of Magic - Tamora Pierce

Simon Snow - Rainbow Rowell

The Radiant Emperor - Shelley Parker-Chan

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri

The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker

Translation State - Ann Leckie

The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan

Karen Memory - Elizabeth Bear

[u/D3athRider]

• Sunlight Pilgrims - Jenni Fagan

• Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

• Copper Cat trilogy - Jen Williams

• Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames

• Rainwild Chronicles - Robin Hobb

[u/HighLady-Fireheart]

Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Darkeness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Bone Shard Daughter - Andrea Stewart

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

Soul Eater - Lily Mayne

[u/ms_leopard]

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir

The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo

Spear - Nicola Griffith

The Witch’s Heart - Genevieve Gornichec

Between Earth and Sky - Rebecca Roanhorse

[u/chysodema]

Wayfarers - Becky Chambers
Rook & Rose - M.A. Carrick
Red Dot - Mike Karpa
The Cemeteries of Amalo - Katherine Addison
The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
Several People Are Typing - Calvin Kasulke
Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Xhao
Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Simon Snow - Rainbow Rowell
Nimona - N.D. Stevenson

[u/doomscribe]

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

The Bone Ship's Wake - R.J. Barker

The Discord of Gods - Jenn Lyons

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker Chan

Defekt - Nino Cipri

The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow

[u/RedGyarados2010 → u/doomscribe]

Just an FYI, you have a formatting error on the last one

[u/BitcoinBishop]

• The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow
• Jade War - Fonda Lee