Books like 'Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge'

Readers who enjoyed Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge by Anne Regan, Irene Grant, Arbour Ames, Dani Anderson, Caleb Andrews, Latitude Brown, Sarah Caulfield, Julia Dupuis, Hilda Friday, Frisk Gillespie, Nick Anthony, Xoe Juliani, Anika Olivo & Chloe Smith also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

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  • He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

    He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn’t the only one with imperial ambitions...
  • Labyrinth's Heart by M.A. Carrick

    Labyrinth's Heart by M.A. Carrick

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    “Lush, engrossing and full of mystery and dark magic" ( BookPage ), Labyrinth's Heart is the thrilling conclusion to M. A. Carrick's Rook & Rose trilogy, in which a con artist, a vigilante, and a crime lord become reluctant allies in the quest to save their city from a dangerous ancient magic. May you see the face and not the mask. Ren came to Nadežra with a plan...
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  • Proud by Juno Dawson

    Proud by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020. Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzling new edition of the anthology, featuring a brand-new story and artwork. A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride...
  • Air Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Air Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Laurie J. Marks returns at last to Shaftal in Air Logic, the long-awaited conclusion to her acclaimed series. Karis and those who love her must figure out, in the aftermath of war and an assassination attempt, how to bring together Sainnites and Shaftalese in a country where old wounds and enmities fester and Air magic conceals the treason hidden in the heart of the G’deon’s household...
    Categorized as:
    young adult  queer  fantasy  f-f  magic  high fantasy  m-m  bisexual
  • Earth Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Earth Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    A sweeping drama of war, intrigue, magic, and love. With Earth Logic , Laurie J. Marks continues the epic of her stunningly imagined world of Shaftal, which she first introduced in Fire Logic . Shaftal has a ruler again, a woman with enough power to heal the war-torn land and expel the invading Sainnites from Shaftal. Or it would have a ruler if the earth witch Karis G'deon consented to rule...
    Categorized as:
    young adult  queer  fantasy  f-f  magic  high fantasy  war  m-m
  • Liberty & Other Stories by Alexis Hall

    Liberty & Other Stories by Alexis Hall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the delight and edification of discerning readers, we present diverse stories concerning the lives, histories, and adventures of the crew of the aethership Shadowless. Lament! as an upstanding clergyman falls into the villainous clutches of a notorious criminal mastermind. Question your sanity! as a dissolute governess confronts blasphemies from beyond creation...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  m-m  f-f  steampunk  length-medium
  • Conflicting Lyrics by Alisha Williams

    Conflicting Lyrics by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Why did she have to kiss me? I shouldn't have wanted it. Shouldn't have liked it. It ruined everything. Now she's gone, and I'm all alone. I miss her more than I care to admit. To make matters worse, I present as the one thing my parents despise—an Omega. They disowned me, calling me vial and worthless. Destined to be a wh*re. With nowhere else to go, I spent years at an Omega center...
  • Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    By water logic, a cow doctor becomes a politician. A soldier becomes a flower farmer. A lost book contains a lost future. The patterns of history are made and unmade. Amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government forms in the land of Shaftal—a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace...
    Categorized as:
    young adult  queer  fantasy  f-f  magic  time travel  high fantasy  m-m
  • Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

    Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 68 ratings
    Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history. It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth...
    Categorized as:
    young adult  queer  fantasy  f-f  arthurian  royalty  medieval  humor
  • Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman, Rebecca Schauer

    Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman, Rebecca Schauer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Prince Kaveh, the youngest son of the king of the City of Red Clay, is bisexual, and completely besotted with Farzin, the engineer his father hired to oversee the improvements to the city's roads and bridges. However, the king doesn't share his positive feelings...
    Categorized as:
    young adult  queer  m-m  fantasy  f-f  new adult  bisexual  m-f
  • Fire in the Hole by Alex Westmore

    Fire in the Hole by Alex Westmore

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Fire in the hole! Those were the last words Quinn Gallagher heard before her mighty ship sunk beneath the waves. Now she’s adrift in more ways than one as she attempts to flee from all those who would push her under… underground, under water, and of course under the covers...
    Categorized as:
    queer  pirates  f-f  historical  fantasy  new adult  m-m  length-medium
  • A Captured Cauldron by R.K. Ashwick, Kim Halstead

    A Captured Cauldron by R.K. Ashwick, Kim Halstead

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 13 ratings
    Why steal a potion when you can steal a potioneer? Grumpy potioneer Ambrose Beake has only one social event marked on his the country’s three-day Potion Convention. Alchemists from all over the world pour in to discuss their life’s work, and Ambrose eagerly dives into the excitement. Greeting old friends, speaking on panels, hopping into heated debates…...
  • We Are Destiny by Alisha Williams

    We Are Destiny by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 53 ratings
    I’ve been in love with Ivy Sinclair since as long as I can remember. But she’s only ever seen me as her best friends little brother. When she came out as an Alpha, she took off to Calling Wood to start her new life and found her pack, leaving me behind to pine after her. When I came out as an Omega, my heart broke because the only Alpha I could ever want, was unavailable...
  • Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 45 ratings
    Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret―but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they've needed to keep others out...
  • Driven by Duty by Mia West

    Driven by Duty by Mia West

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A woman’s place is with those she’s willing to fight for…. A warlord’s daughter has responsibilities. No one knows that better than Gwen, only daughter and political pawn of her father, Uthyr. But with her husband banished and her brother gone after him, Gwen isn’t leaving her fate in Uthyr’s hands one moment longer. She has a plan and needs an accomplice she can trust...
    Categorized as:
    queer  historical  fantasy  m-m  f-f  military  medieval  length-short
  • Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan

    Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 5 ratings
    At age eighteen, when they become marriageable, all royal children in the Thousand Kingdoms must either go questing to rescue another royal or be hidden away to await rescue themselves. Some go the traditional route of princes rescuing princesses, but not all princes want to be rescuers…and some would rather rescue other princes...
  • The Packaged Deal by Tea Ravine

    The Packaged Deal by Tea Ravine

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆. 𝗜𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹. When I’m found broken and bleeding on the steps of the Omega Refuge, I’m given straight into the arms of a dark angel. And when I meet the team determined to keep me safe, I know that destiny is offering me something rare and wondrous...
  • Beauty and Cruelty by Meredith Katz

    Beauty and Cruelty by Meredith Katz

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Cruelty, once an evil fairy and now working in fast food, comes home one day to find the lazy, drooling King of Cats on her doorstep. Worse, he comes bearing news Cruelty would be happier not hearing: Sleeping Beauty has gotten tired of lying around and is trying to save the world Cruelty left long ago...
  • Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff

    Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 64 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the #1 international bestselling sensation EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. From holy cup comes holy light;. The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,. Mere man shall end this endless night...
  • Odyssey by Alethea Faust

    Odyssey by Alethea Faust

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 50 ratings
    Magic is a rare gift, one only made possible by an invaluable stone: magiline. After he was tasked with his first official assignment, Dominai and his fellow wizards must now travel to the Crux’s sister tower in Immenbach to deliver a shipment of it. But the road is full of trials and dangers, and not just because Thaddius’ bullying has escalated into something worse...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  bdsm  bondage  spanking  bisexual  found-family  magic
  • A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

    A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 68 ratings
    The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose...
  • Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 102 ratings
    From holy cup comes holy light;. The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,. Mere man shall end this endless night. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness...
  • The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Every heart is meant to break. THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  m-m  steampunk  high fantasy  magic  f-f  mystery
  • Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Parker Ferro is not okay. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the San Amaro Investigations series, Parker faces down enemies on all sides, including one within his own family. With his city under lockdown, Parker is fighting for everyone and everything that he cares about. The fate of the thousand realms rests on his shoulders. What’s a local PI to do?
    Categorized as:
    urban fantasy  queer  paranormal  fantasy  mystery  magic  m-m  fae
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 ratings
    Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones...
  • Mistaken Magic by A.H. Hadley

    Mistaken Magic by A.H. Hadley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    Once upon a time, I was a typical foster kid - overlooked, bounced around, and just waiting until I was old enough to get out. Some girls in my situation might dream of being a secret fairy princess, but not me. I simply wanted a chance. It came by accident when a bird flew into my latest home. No big deal, right? Except that was all it took to get noticed...
  • Oglaf Book One by Trudy Cooper, Doug Bayne

    Oglaf Book One by Trudy Cooper, Doug Bayne

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 24 ratings
    Oglaf Book 1 collects the first 199 pages of comics from the website, including alt text and epilogues, in a festival of fantasy smut and madness. There's also bonus extras, never seen before and printed in internet-proof ink, including Ivan's 'doesn't count' kama sutra -- handy if you love somebody but still need to use them as unicorn bait.
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  humor  m-m  magic  high fantasy  bdsm  f-f
  • The Assassin's Dragon by W.M. Fawkes, Sam Burns

    The Assassin's Dragon by W.M. Fawkes, Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    In Atheldinas, everyone’s secrets have been uncovered. Tristram is a half-dragon, Nicholas is a villain scheming to take the throne from his cousin Roland, and eternally sharp Bet is nothing less than a hero. The cost has been high, and now Tristram is forced to amass the armies of Llangard to save his king from Jarl Vidar, the mysterious figure who’s hellbent on tearing Llangard in two...
  • The Prince's Dragon by W.M. Fawkes, Sam Burns

    The Prince's Dragon by W.M. Fawkes, Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The last place Lord Tristram Radcliffe ever expected to find himself was right hand to the Llangardian throne. His parentage should have seen him banished, but he managed to keep his draconic secret. Now, King Reynold is dead. Long live King Roland...
  • Switch Heater by K.L. Moore

    Switch Heater by K.L. Moore

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 81 ratings
    Three years. Three years at the Omega Center, learning everything I need to learn, becoming the omega that they say we're supposed to be. You know what else they say? That we'll find our pack, our alphas, while here. There hasn't been an omega yet that's walked through those doors and not walked out ready to bond with their intended packs and alphas. The exception being me...
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