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Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee, Michael Dante DiMartino
F. C. Yee’s The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom–born Avatar. The longest-living Avatar in this beloved world’s history, Kyoshi established the brave and respected Kyoshi Warriors, but also founded the secretive Dai Li, which led to the corruption, decline, and fall of her own nation... -
A Hero's Tale by Catherine M. Wilson
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn Book III of the trilogy, Tamras must make her own hero’s journey. She ventures into the unknown and encounters a more formidable enemy than any she has ever faced. Character is destiny, and the destiny of Tamras and all her people will depend upon choices that come less from the skills she has been taught than from the person she has become, from her own heart... -
The Answer by Rebecca Sugar
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhy would a Gem turn against her Homeworld to protect the messy, pointless planet Earth?What would make an aristocratic Gem risk everything for a common guard?And how could a humble soldier alter the track of fate forever?It's up to Sapphire and Ruby to find The Answer... -
Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe fate of an empire lies in the hands of one untested princess. Princess Natasia is the eldest child of the Emperor Andreth, ruler of the Four Realms. If she were a boy, she’d be the unquestioned heir to the throne. But as a girl, her main duty in life is to marry someone her father can shape into his successor. Everything changes when an unknown would-be assassin nearly takes Tasia’s life... -
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I'm in Love with the Villainess: She's so Cheeky for a Commoner Vol. 2 by Inori
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA retelling of the hit yuri series I'm in Love with the Villainess that inspired an upcoming anime (original light novels and manga adaptation also from Seven Seas)--from the villainess' point of view!Claire François has it beauty, brains, and the blood of nobility... -
The Follower of Flowers by Natalia Hernandez
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs a child, the Name-Bearer had one duty; to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But on the day of the Naming Ceremony, the Flowers refused. They claim another child was born more worthy of the Naming, and the Name-Bearer must find him and bring him to them in order to restore peace to her land... -
Rising From the Ashes: The Chronicles of Caymin by Caren J. Werlinger
Rising From the Ashes: The Chronicles of Caymin Ancient Ireland – an era of clan wars, petty kings and invasions by raiders from the north. As Christianity tightens its hold, magic and the old ways fight to keep their place in the hearts of the people. Born into this world is Ash, orphaned and maimed, left to die. She is rescued by a clan of badgers and raised to be one of them... -
The Quicksilver Court by Melissa Caruso
The Quicksilver Court continues the wildly original epic fantasy series bursting with intrigue and ambition, questioned loyalties, and broken magic that began with The Obsidian Tower. Ryxander, Warden of Gloamingard, has failed. Unsealed by her blood, the Door hidden within the black tower has opened. Now, for the first time since the age of the Graces, demons walk the world... -
The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald
The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, growing TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN.Princess. Priestess. The most beautiful girl in Troy. Cassandra is used to being adored – and when her patron god, Apollo, offers her the power of prophecy, she sees an opportunity to rise even higher... -
Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cori McCarthy
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn this epic sequel to Once & Future, Ari and her Rainbow knights must pull off a Holy Grail heist thousands of years in the past -- without destroying their own destinies.Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun... -
The Avatar's Flames by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRuethwyn’s life was promising. Talented in magic, the young elven woman didn’t fit in in her hometown, but was scheduled to attend the most renowned academy of magic in the kingdom, and was even building up the courage to confess her love in the hope that it might be returned. That all ended in a dragon’s fire... -
A Harvest of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEsther of the Singing Hands is Perach's Sweetheart, a young and beautiful musician with a Girl Next Door image. When her violin is stolen after a concert in the capital city, she doesn't expect the queen herself to show up, intent upon solving the mystery.But Queen Shulamit--lesbian, intellectual, and mother of the six month old crown princess--loves to play detective... -
Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsPhoebe Mendel's day is never ending—literally.On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August 6ths since, Phoebe has relived the same day: pancakes with Mom in the morning, Scrabble with Dad in the afternoon, and constant research into how to reach tomorrow and make it to her appointment with a doctor who may actually take her IBS seriously... -
Otherside Picnic: Volume 6 by Iori Miyazawa
My name is Sorawo Kamikoshi. I’m just your everyday, plain-as-can-be student attending university in Saitama.One day, some blonde I've never met shows up and tells me I have amnesia. Before I have time to be confused, I'm whisked away to a mysterious facility in a car driven by a member of the yakuza... -
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The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAndrea Stewart returns with The Bone Shard Emperor, the second installment of this unmissable, action-packed, magic-laced fantasy epic. The Emperor is Dead. Long live the Emperor. Lin Sukai finally sits on the throne she won at so much cost, but her struggles are only just beginning. Her people don’t trust her. Her political alliances are weak... -
Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O'Neill
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsAvailable for the first time in paperback, Princess Princess Ever After is the award-winning, queer graphic novel from Katie O'Neill, the author of The Tea Dragon Society. 2014 Cybils Awards Finalist 2014 Autostraddle Comic Art Award for Favorite Graphic Novel 2017 ALA Rainbow Book List Top Ten 2018 Sakura Medal Nominee "It’s super cute, super queer, and feminist as all get out... -
Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwo girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest.Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone... -
Thorn by Anna Burke
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOn a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose.The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt... -
I'm in Love with the Villainess Vol. 4 by Inori
SAVING THE WORLD FOR EACH OTHERRae and Claire may have thwarted the assassination attempt on the pope, but life in the Nur Empire was never going to be easy. Intrigue abounds, from a brewing power struggle between the empress and her daughter, to the ever-present threat of Nur's demon neighbors, to the growing fires of another revolution... -
Life is Strange: Strings #2 (Life is Strange Comics (Single Issues) #10) by Emma Vieceli
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMax, Chloe and Rachel face a new challenge – with Tristan at its heart!Acclaimed writer Emma Vieceli and artists Claudia Leonardi and Andrea Izzo continue the highly anticipated third arc of the official comic... -
Beneath the Dark Moon by S.D. Simper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the night of the dark moon, followers of the Goddess of Stars come to pray and bask in her love and light on the ocean’s surface. All the mermaid priestesses-in-training are there—except Tallora.Tallora is at a party meeting a beautiful stranger. But she’ll arrive before the night is through... -
Colorblind by Siera Maley
Harper has a secret... and it’s not that she likes girls. She has a rare and special gift: she can see how old other people will be when they pass away. Nothing she does changes this number, and that becomes especially clear when her mother dies in a car crash. With only one other person in the world who knows about and shares her gift, Harper is determined to keep her distance from everyone... -
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAfter a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm... -
The Cursed Rose by Leslie Vedder
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fate of a cursed kingdom rests on ancient secrets, broken promises, and fierce friendships in this gasp-worthy final book of the bestselling twisted fairytale Bone Spindle series.**Perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson, Holly Black, and Marissa Meyer**Not all curses should be broken. Not all fairytales end happily ever after.Fi is a prisoner. Briar, a monster. Shane's a warrior... -
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Grand Slam Romance by Ollie Hicks
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsStorytelling team Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous’s first Grand Slam Romance is a queer, full-color graphic novel that’s equal parts romance, softball, and drama, where the balls are fast, the smooches are spicy, and the girls . . . magical.Mickey Monsoon is the hotshot pitcher for the Belle City Broads, and their team is poised to sweep the league this season... -
Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGripping, romantic, and impossible to put down, this dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut YA novel is about two teen girls who loved each other before the end of the world — and before one of them became infected with the virus that turned her into a monster.Perfect for fans of Krystal Sutherland, Adam Silvera, and the darkly human side of the HBOMax horror-drama, The Last of Us... -
Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest comes a sapphic fantasy adventure about a teen witch who must complete her magical training by breaking a powerful family’s curse. But her own affliction—to never find true love—gets in the way when she falls for the girl she’s trying to save.Magic is in Delilah Bea’s blood... -
Markless by C.G. Malburi
Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the mark on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. Except she’s also a hardened survivor, a protector of the Markless…and the most powerful witch in Somanchi. With a single song, she can pray to the many gods for unimaginable powers... -
The Valkyrie’s Shadow by Tiana Warner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thrilling Sapphic fantasy based on unique Norse mythology that ups the stakes of adventure, romance, and mystery... -
To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz
Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her kingdom that she’s too useful to be sacrificed like so many of their country’s poor to appease the infernal monster across the poison sea in hell... -
A Thorn Among Roses by Hayley Anderton
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAt seventeen, Alana single-handedly defeated the biggest army that Thornwood had ever seen. By sunrise the very next day, she'd been shunned by her own people, forced to become a recluse and reside in the castle where she was supposed to rule over them... -
The Ascent to Godhood by J.Y. Yang
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe Protector is dead.For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice... -
Seven: A Lesbian Snow White by Jennifer Diemer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe strange witch girl Neve has skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and a dark secret. Her father Lexander, an alchemist, harbors an evil obsession, and Catalina, his newest bride, made the grave mistake of becoming his wife... -
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn the lower wards of Kahnzoka, the great port city of the Blessed Empire, eighteen-year-old ward boss Isoka comes to collect when there's money owing... -
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I Will Never Leave You by Kara A. Kennedy
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfriend, who gives her a chilling ultimatum—help her possess another girl or go down for her murder."A blistering exploration of the ugliest and tenderest parts of love, Kennedy turns the classic ghost story on its head."—Courtney Gould, author of The Dead and the DarkMaya has always belonged to Alana... -
The Navigator's Touch by Julia Ember
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter invaders destroyed her village, murdered her family, and took her prisoner, shield-maiden Ragna is hungry for revenge. A trained warrior, she is ready to fight for her home, but with only a mermaid and a crew of disloyal mercenaries to aid her, Ragna knows she needs new allies. Guided by the magical maps on her skin, battling storms and mutiny, Ragna sets sail across the Northern Sea... -
A Witch's Love at the End of the World, Vol. 2 by Kujira
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA witch must empty her heart if she hopes to keep her magic, for to feel love is to be no witch at all...Alice fears her grandmother’s warning from many years ago is coming true... -
Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this fiercely imaginative Filipino-inspired fantasy debut, a bisexual nun hiding a goddess-given gift is unwillingly transformed into a lightning rod for her people's struggle against colonization. Perfect for fans of lush fantasy full of morally ambiguous characters, including The Poppy War and The Jasmine Throne.Maria Lunurin has been living a double life for as long as she can remember... -
This Ends in Embers by Kamilah Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect for fans of Raybearer and Fourth Wing, this astonishing sequel to the bestselling novel So Let Them Burn doesn't hold back. After all, there are no easy endings in war—especially when sisters are forced to fight on opposite sides. Faron Vincent was once the saint of San Irie. Now, she’s done the unthinkable: betrayed her country... -
The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences.Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest... -
Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFour destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle.A soldier with a curseTala lost her family to the empress’s army and has spent her life avenging them in battle... -
The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhere Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences.Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest... -
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Malinda Lo, Robin Talley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTake a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens... -
A Witch's Love at the End of the World, Vol. 1 by Kujira
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a world where magic rules from the shadows, there exists a school for witches. This mysterious academy trains young witches on a path of revenge against those who have used them only as tools... -
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Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life.Xochital is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enimagic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes.Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit... -
Beauty and the Beast Girl by neji, 寝路
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA sweet yuri manga about a lonely monster and the girl she loves!A lonely monster, living in seclusion in the forest, wishes she could live amidst humans despite her frightening appearance. Everything changes when she starts getting a visitor--a blind human girl who’s fascinated with her mysterious forest friend... -
The Witchling's Girl by Helena Coggan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Coggan invites you to be with characters who, for all the magic and wonder of the world she creates, are entirely relatable - women bound by duty and justice, love and fear, trying to find their own paths in a world not of their making. It gave me hope; it made me cry. It's a fantastically good book... -
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors... -
The Storm Lords by Ravon Silvius
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe heat took everything from his parents, his voice when the local cure for heatstroke poisoned him, and the trust of his fellow villagers, who branded him a water thief. It would have claimed his life when he was deemed unworthy of precious resources and left in the sun to die, had not a strange man named Kristoff ridden in on the wind and told Rowen he had power... -
The Afterdark by E. Latimer
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsQueer horror at a boarding school with a Lovecraftian twist in this new YA novel from E. Latimer, author of the acclaimed The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray.Northcroft is an elite boarding school with a deadly secret...
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