AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

Storm Constantine · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

Alison Goodman · 576 pages

Sixteen-year-old Eon has a dream, and a mission. For years, he's been studying sword-work and magic, toward one end. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye-an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a twelve-year-old boy. Females are forbidden t

Gender IdentityFantasyLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
❤️

Wake of Vultures

Lila Bowen

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyDark
❤️

Elysium

Jennifer Marie Brissett · 194 pages

A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love. The program's data, however, has been corrupted. As the novel's characters struggle to survive apocalypse, they are sustained and challenged by the demands of love in a shattered world both haunted and dangerous.

Gender IdentityPost-ApocalypticLGBTQ+ ProtagonistScience Fiction
❤️

Every Day

David Levithan · 330 pages

Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyFirst Person Narrator
❤️

Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Juno Dawson · 448 pages

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyDark
❤️

Sovereign

April Daniels · 315 pages

Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she's doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it's only going to get worse. When she crosses a newly discovered billionaire supervillain, Dreadnought comes und

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorScience Fiction
❤️

Myra Breckinridge

Gore Vidal · 277 pages

No one remains untouched by the luscious Myra Breckinridge's quest for Hollywood fame. Her job teaching Empathy and Posture at the Academy of Drama and Modeling gives her the perfect opportunity to vamp, scheme, and seduce her way into the undiscovered lives and passions of others - while trying to keep a few secrets of her own. In the sequel, Myron, the Breckinridge saga takes an increasingly biz

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorSpicy
❤️

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler · 248 pages

aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26

Gender IdentityPost-ApocalypticDarkScience Fiction
❤️

The Sword of Summer

Rick Riordan · 512 pages

Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnu

Gender IdentityFantasyLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
❤️

Shadowplay

Laura Lam · 400 pages

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasySeries
❤️

Girl Mans Up

M-E Girard · 384 pages

All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. But resp

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
❤️

Cam Girl

Elliot Wake, Leah Raeder · 422 pages

"From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable and Black Iris comes a new, sexy romantic suspense novel about two best friends who are torn apart by a life-shattering accident and the secrets left behind. Vada Bergen is broke, the black sheep of her family, and moving a thousand miles away from home for grad school, but she's got the two things she loves most: her art, and her best friend a

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorDark
❤️

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

Post-ApocalypticFantasyFirst Person NarratorDark
❤️

The Bone Palace

Amanda Downum · 352 pages

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyDark
❤️

Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters · 480 pages

Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-h

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorDark
❤️

Withered + Sere

T.J. Klune · 280 pages

Once upon a time, humanity could no longer contain the rage that swelled within, and the world ended in a wave of fire. One hundred years later, in the wasteland formerly known as America, a broken man who goes only by the name of Cavalo survives. Purposefully cutting himself off from what remains of civilization, Cavalo resides in the crumbling ruins of the North Idaho Correctional Institution

Post-ApocalypticLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyScience Fiction
❤️

Mission Child

Maureen F. McHugh · 385 pages

A stunning and provocative spiritual odyssey reminiscent of the best work of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, MISSION CHILD is a powerful fable, a stirring adventure, and a profoundly moving portrait of a lost woman in search of an identity as she walks the narrow fault line dividing female and male, child and adult, dark reality and illuminated dream.

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorScience Fiction
❤️

Peter Darling

Austin Chant · 207 pages

Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams of boyhood and resigning himself to life as Wendy Darling. Growing up, however, has only made him realize how inescapable his identity as a man is.But when he returns to Neverland, everything has changed: the Lost Boys have become men, and the war games they once played are now real and deadly. Even more shock

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyMale Lead
❤️

Empire Ascendant

Kameron Hurley · 460 pages

Every two thousand years, the dark star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and destruction. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies newly imbued with violent powers. The kingdom of Saiduan already lies in ruin, decimated by invaders from another world who share the faces of those they seek to destroy. Now the nation of Dhai is under siege by the same force

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyDark
❤️

After School Nightmare, Volume 10

Setona Mizushiro · 200 pages

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyDark
❤️

Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology

Sfe R. Monster, Taneka Stotts · 271 pages

BEYOND the queer sci-fi & fantasy comic anthology features 18 stories by 26 incredible contributors, celebrating unquestionably queer characters hailing from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality, front and centre as the heroes of their own stories. The softcover edition of the Beyond Anthology is 272 pages of black and white comics from a diverse roster of contributors, with stories star

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyScience Fiction
❤️

The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin · 505 pages

**A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.** IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL and long-dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as

Post-ApocalypticLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyScience Fiction
❤️

A Game of You

Neil Gaiman · 189 pages

Take an apartment house, add in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus himself and you get this fifth installment of the SANDMAN series. This story stars Barbie, who first makes an appearance in THE DOLL’S HOUSE and now finds herself a princess in a vivid dreamworld.

Gender IdentityLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyDark
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗