Queer Fantasy Books of the 2020s
The 237 most-read queer fantasy books first published between 2020 and 2029, led by The Sun and the Star (2023), Legends & Lattes (2022) and Harrow the Ninth (2020).
This list collects 237 books from the 2020s by 178 authors, published between 2020 and 2026. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Sun and the Star
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
The Girl from the Sea
Lee Knox Ostertag
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
A Dowry of Blood
S T Gibson
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean
The Court of the Dead
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro
Any Way the Wind Blows
Rainbow Rowell
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
In the Lives of Puppets
T. J. Klune
A Lesson in Vengeance
Victoria Lee
A Marvellous Light
Freya Marske
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
Rebecca Thorne
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
T. J. Klune
Payback's a Witch
Lana Harper
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
The Lost Book of the White
Wesley Chu, Cassandra Clare
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
D. N. Bryn
Lost in the Never Woods
Aiden Thomas
Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko
Captive in the Underworld
Lianyu Tan
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Nghi Vo
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nghi Vo
The Taking of Jake Livingston
Ryan Douglass
Squad
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Wicked Beauty
Katee Robert
Winter's Orbit
Everina Maxwell
Taste of Gold and Iron
Alexandra Rowland
A Restless Truth
Freya Marske
House of Hunger
Alexis Henderson
Iron Heart
Nina Varela
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
John Wiswell
Final Strife
Saara El-Arifi
Lies We Sing to the Sea
Sarah Underwood
Hazelthorn
C. G. Drews
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Kate Rudd
An Education in Malice
S T Gibson
Ruinsong
Julia Ember
Persephone Station
Stina Leicht
Siren Queen
Nghi Vo
Ocean's Echo
Everina Maxwell
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
Lex Croucher
Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Melissa Bashardoust
The Price of Silence
Elle Mae
Each of Us a Desert
Mark Oshiro
Fireheart Tiger
Aliette de Bodard
Vampires Never Get Old
Zoraida Córdova, Natalie C. Parker
Icarus
Kayla Ancrum
The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson
This Poison Heart
Kalynn Bayron, Paz Pruneda Gozálvez
A Pirate's Life for Tea
Rebecca Thorne
Bone Spindle
Leslie Vedder
The Coldest Touch
Isabel Sterling
Lucy Undying
Kiersten White
The Starving Saints
Caitlin Starling
The Lost Girls
Sonia Hartl
The Witch and the Vampire
Francesca Flores
In the Ravenous Dark
A. M. Strickland
Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues
H. S. Valley
The Dead and the Dark
Courtney Gould
The River Has Teeth
Erica Waters
My Darling Dreadful Thing
Johanna van Veen
Magical Boy
The Kao
This Ravenous Fate
Hayley Dennings
Ruthless Gods
Emily A. Duncan
One Good Turn
Sarah Wallace
At Midnight
Dahlia Adler, Melissa Albert
Boys of Alabama
Genevieve Hudson
A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger
Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
E. M. Anderson
Blood on the Tide
Katee Robert
Master of One
Jaida Jones, Dani Bennett
Daughters of Izdihar
Hadeer Elsbai
Spellhacker
M. K. England
A Neon Darkness
Lauren Shippen
The Witch King
H.E. Edgmon
Not for the Faint of Heart
Lex Croucher
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love
D. N. Bryn
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Tasha Suri
Elysium Girls
Kate Pentecost
The Fascinators
Andrew Eliopulos
Not Good for Maidens
Tori Bovalino
The Library at Hellebore
Cassandra Khaw
Queen of Coin and Whispers
Helen Corcoran
This Golden Flame
Emily Victoria
Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus
Chuck Tingle
The Forest Demands Its Due
Kosoko Jackson
Phantom and Rook
Aelina Isaacs
Carmilla
Amy Chu
Rafts
Utunu