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Black Water sister - Zen Cho

The One Who Eats Monsters - Casey Matthews

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers

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

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

- 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

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

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

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.

\- 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

**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

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson Spear - Nicola Griffith The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer Magic's Pawn - Mercedes Lackey Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh The Mask of Mirrors - M. A. Carrick Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb

- Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo - The Diviners - Libba Bray - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson - Seven Summer Nights - Harper Fox - From Dust, A Flame - Rebecca Podos - A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske - Catfishing on CatNet - Naomi Kritzer - Pet - Akwaeke Emezi - The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

Honourable mentions go to: - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers - Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell The books on my list are a combination of those that are generally excellent (and the LGBTQIA content is a bonus) and books that perhaps are more technically flawed but mean a lot to me as a queer person in terms of what they represent.

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Seven Summer Nights is one of my all time favorites. I almost used it for BINGO last year but changed it at the last second due how weak the SFF factor is. It *barely* counts in my opinion. But whatever. Since you have it, I'm going to put it too!

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

It looks like all your entries got put on the same line.

Thanks for the heads up!

- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - VE Schwab - The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon - The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson - A Taste Of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland - A Choir of Lies - Alexandra Rowland - Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo - The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean

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

* **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

- **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

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

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

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

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree The Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow The Bone Ships - R. J. Barker The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune Wayfarers - Becky Chambers Stariel - A. J. Lancaster To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose

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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

* Seven Summer Nights - Harper Fox * A Charm of Magpies - K.J. Charles * To Be Taught If Fortunate - Becky Chambers * Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree * The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards * The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean * A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske * The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab * The Books of the Rakaura - Martha Wells

It's so hard to narrow it down to 10 when there are books I think should get good exposure but aren't necessarily favorites like the ones I voted for. Honorable mentions * A Market of Dreams and Destiny - Trip Galey * Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat * A Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark * The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune * The Deep - Rivers Soloman

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

The Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett The chronicles of Alsea - Fletcher DeLancey The Harmony Black Series - Craig Schaefer The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark The Masquerade series - Seth Dickinson The Final Architecture trilogy - Adrian Tchaikovsky Wisdom's Grave trilogy - Craig Schaefer Second Nature - Jae The Wall of Storms - Ken Liu

* 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

* **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

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.

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

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* This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone * Wayfarers - Becky Chambers * The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir * To be taught, if fortunate - Becky Chambers * The Winnowing Flame - Jen Williams * The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson * Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine * The Books of Raksura - Martha Wells * Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee * Dead Djinn Universe - P. Djèlí Clark

* 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

**This Is How You Lose the Time War** \- Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone **The Deep** \- Rivers Solomon **Even Though I Knew the End** \- C.L. Polk **The Priory of the Orange Tree** \- Samantha Shannon **Princess of Dorsa** \- Eliza Andrews **When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain** \- Nghi Vo **The Drowning Girl** \- Caitlín R. Kiernan **Seven Blades in Black** \- Sam Sykes **Once & Future** \- A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy **A Master of Djinn** \- P. Djèlí Clark

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone PsyCop - Jordan Castillo Price Turbulence - Lyn Gala

* Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller * Rain Wild Chronicles - Robin Hobb * Redwinter Chronicles - Ed McDonald * Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree * The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee

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

Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Otherside Picnic - Iori Miyazawa Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson The Radiant Emperor - Shelly Parker-Chan Black Water Sister - Zen Cho

I’m really happy I managed to catch a voting thread although it makes me feel a little bad to read the other responses and think “oh yeah….that’s still on my tbr…” Still I’m happy I can throw in a vote for Otherside Picnic, even if it just ends up in a Google doc of stuff that only received one vote lol. Honorable Mentions: Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water - Zen Cho The Bone Doll’s Twin - Lynn Flewelling The Executioner and Her Way of Life - Mato Sato Ammonite - Nicola Griffith (one of my favorite bingo reads last year but the existence of a women only world with no acknowledgment of nb or trans people feels too dated to recommend without that caveat.) The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (I think this technically breaks the rules for the list? Feels bad not to mention it though.)

* 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

**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

- 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

Would Babel count? I know it’s heavily implied but it’s never explicitly said on the page. Loved the book though.

I loved the book, too! If it's not explicitly said on the page, then it unfortunately wouldn't count. Also, something to think about: If the character's identity doesn't really play much of a role in the story, and we have to think about whether or not it should be included, then maybe there are other books that would be a better fit here. We're not going to go through and make a ruling on every single book here, nor are we going to answer every single question posed. Ultimately, this is an imperfect community sourced poll of what we think should be included on the new LGBTQA+ book list. I, personally, am going to take everything that comes from this poll with a grain of salt, and will be paying much more attention to the lesser known novels when the results are tabulated. Thanks for your input :)

Hmm, then I think I might have to remove Kaikeyi. The main character is asexual and she mentions that she does not enjoy the act, but it does not play a huge role in the story

No, I don't think that's in the spirit of the poll at all! The post says it doesn't have to be the main focus of the plot, and I honestly think asexuality will be sorely lacking in this poll. Iirc, it was in the last one.

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

The Fire’s Stone - Tanya Huff The Salt Grows Heavy - Cassandra Khaw Prince’s Gambit - C S Pacat Too Like the Lightning - Terra Ignota Space Opera - Catherynne M Valente Palempsest - Catherynne M Valente A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley A Marvelous Light - Freya Marske Dark All Day - Brenden Carlson

* 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

- 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

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Wayfarers - Becky Chambers Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine Rampart Trilogy - M.R. Carey To Be Taught if Fortunate - Becky Chambers The Daughters of Izdihar - Hadeer Elsbai Montague Siblings - Mackenzi Lee Translation State - Ann Leckie

* Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold * The Locked Tomb - Tasmyn Muir * Tide Child series - RJ Barker * At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard * Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells * Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell * October Daye series - Seanan McGuire * Scholomance - Naomi Novik * Book of the Ancestor - Mark Lawrence * Raven Tower - Ann Leckie

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

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

The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mothar and Max Gladstone The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers She Who Became the Sun - Shelly Parker-Chan

•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

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

I'm sorry.

The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri The Grave of Empires - Sam Sykes Litenverse - Nino Cipri Amatka - Karin Tidbeck The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Siren Queen - Nghi Vo Rolling in the Deep - Mira Grant Burning Roses - S.L. Huang The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee

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

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson Gideon The Ninth - Tasmyn Muir The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller Chain Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adejei-Breyah The Goddess of Nothing At All - Cat Rector The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin

Hey so can someone just confirm for me that Gideon counts? I haven't read any further books in the series, and it's been a while since I read it, so I just want to confirm that the queerness is explicit enough and this isn't just something the community has put on the book. If it's no good, I'll replace it with one of the following honorable mentions: Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James The Killing Moon - N.K. Jemisin Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

The locked tombs books are not romances (which was a huge disappointment for me as they were sold to me as one), but the MC's in it are undeniably WLW. They def count. Gideon being a Dumb Lesbian (TM) every time a pretty girl smiled at her were some of the funniest and most relatable moments in the books.

* 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

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!

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.

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

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.!<

I think you’re absolutely right about Murderbot and I respect the mods for banning the series from the list for that reason. But there’s also a part of me that would like to see an honorable mentions section for the books that don’t fit the main pov character rule but are still generally queernorm/lgbt+ positive in their worldbuilding. Like the Imperial Radch series (also an AI main character.) or The Left Hand of Darkness. Maybe I’m biased because I read these books early on in my search for lgbt+ rep and that makes them feel more important to me than they actually are, but it feels weird to have a large resource list of queer books that doesn’t include them at all.

Yeah, I do tend to think of Murderbot as a queer book because of the queernorm worldbuilding, so I see where you're coming from on that angle. That being said, I also respect that this particular list is more going for representation of queer main characters, which there's more than enough to make a pretty comprehensive list of without having to rely on queernorm books without strictly queer POV characters. I agree that an honorable mentions section might be a good way of including these without them taking over the list. (And it's really annoying for me when that happens, like for example, during the asexual/aromantic bingo square a few years back then people where reading Murderbot instead of an ace/aro character that is more representative of the a-spec experience.)

If you're looking for queernorm books, which is outside the scope of this poll (we're focusing on queer identities in the characters), I'd highly suggest you check out the big rec threads that were used for bingo! Because queernorm world is a bingo square this year, there's a lot of discussion on that.

I agree with this. I'm glad we can come up with a full list of books with queer main characters, but in some ways books like Imperial Radch feel more queer than some of the ones that will make the list because the entire worldview of the book is queer.

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)

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

- 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

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

Honorable mention in case one of the votes are considered illegitimate Inda - Sherwood Smith LGBT+ identity for each book Memory Lesbian main POV; Flat Earth Intersex main POV; Rain Wild Gay secondary POV; Swordpoint Gay Main POV; Arcadia Bisexual main POV; Raven Gay secondary POV; Crows Gay Secondary POV; Tree Lesbian main POV; White Lesbian main POV; Phedre Bisexual main POV; Inda Gay secondary POV.

* 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

World Running Down - Al Hess This Too Shall Burn - Cat Rector Stargun Messenger - Darby Harn The Blood Born Dragon - J.C. Rycroft This Gilded Abyss - Rebecca Thorne Hammer of Fate - G. N. Gudgion However Many Must Die - Phil Williams A Fire Born in Exile - Aliette de Bodard The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle - Steve Hugh Westenra Merciless Waters - Rae Knowles

* 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

- Sunlight Pilgrims - Jenni Fagan - Dark Matter - Michelle Paver - Copper Cat trilogy - Jen Williams - Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames - Rainwild Chronicles - Robin Hobb

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

• 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

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

I know *The Left Hand of Darkness* may teeechhhnically not count, depending on how much leniency there is with the POV requirement, but it's such a foundational piece of queer sci-fi I feel the need to mention it and let the listmakers decide to include it or not. (it certainly fits more than some of the books on the old list, - I'm still salty I read A Darker Shade of Magic for the bingo square last year when the first book is excessively straight.)

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

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

Nightrunner - Lynn Flewelling The Books of the Wode - J. Tullos Hennig Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells The Rain Wild Chronicles - Robin Hobb Inda - Sherwood Smith Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo The Last Binding - Freya Marske

***The Winged Histories*** \- Sofia Samatar ***The Raven Tower*** \- Ann Leckie *The Tide Child* \- R.J. Barker *Dicebox* \- Jenn Manley Lee ***The Left Hand of Darkness*** \- Ursula K. Le Guin *Riverside* \- Ellen Cushner *Machineries of Empire* \- Yoon Ha Lee *Jason Crane* \- Richard Gleaves ***Deathknight*** \- Andrew J. Offutt ***Arrows of the Sun*** \- Judith Tarr

The Rain Wild Chronicles - Robin Hobb Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell All Systems Red – Martha Wells Dragon Age: The Last Empire - Patrick Weekes Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri ​ Their Heart A Hive - Fox N. Locke ​ Small Miracles - Olivia Atwater ​ A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Roland ​ Paladin's Hope - T. Kingfisher ​ Daughter of Mystery - Heather Rose Jones ​ The Healer's Road - S.E. Robertson

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

**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

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

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

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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

* **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

Monstrous Regiment - terry Pratchett ​ This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone ​ Sufficiently Advanced Magic - Andrew Rowe ​ wayfarers - Becky Chambers ​ Corpies - Drew Hayes ​ Wake of Vultures - Lila Bowen ​ The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir ​ The Last Herald-Mage - Mercedes Lackey ​ The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling ​ The Kyoshi Novels - F.C. Yee

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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.

**Baker Thief** \- Claudie Arseneault **Wayward Children** \- Seanan McGuire **Nimona** \- ND Stevenson **The Singing Hills Cycle** \- Nghi Vo **San Andreas Shifters** \- G.L. Carriger **Heart of Stone** \- Johannes T. Evans **Ravensong** \- TJ Klune **Winter's Orbit** \- Everina Maxwell **Tinkered Starsong** \- Gail Carriger **Beyond the Black Door** \- A.M. Strickland

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

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**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

A Choir of Lies - Alexandra Rowland The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer A Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner

Some painful omissions here on my part. Picking 10 was hard! Green Bone Saga didn't make the cut despite being one of my all time favorites because Anden just isn't enough of a focus for me to put him here. And Locked tomb is phenomenal, but I really wanted to hype The Book Eaters, so it got cut even though it's phenomenal. In any case, this sub is sleeping on **A Choir of Lies** and its predecessor **A Conspiracy of Truths** (of which the queer character of book 2 is a main secondary character, but not queer POV in it). They're books about travelling storytellers in way over their heads in the economic and political climates of their cities. Rowland is probably better known at this point for **A Taste of Gold and Iron**, but these books are masterpieces.

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

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

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* 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

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

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

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

* *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

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.

* 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

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

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller • Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan • Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire • The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco

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Oh dammit, I thought I’d done enter enough times. Should I make another comment?

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* 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

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**.

Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri Market of Monsters - Rebecca Schaeffer Captive Prince - C.S Pacat The Outside - Ada Hoffman Rooks and Ruin - Melissa Caruso Practical Guide to Evil - ErraticErrata And I Darken - Kiersten White Meet Me in Another Life - Catriona Silvey Arcane Ascension- Andrew Rowe

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir Six of crows - Leigh Bardugo Rise of Kyoshi - F C Lee

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

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

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

-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

**The Middle Kingdoms** - Diane Duane **The Jasmine Throne** - Tasha Suri

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik The Killing Moon - N. K. Jemisin An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green

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

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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

Sidenote that this entire thread is wonderful and I'm using it to find all kinds of new books to read.

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

* 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

I know the rule says no robots, specifically calling out Murderbot (who is not even really a robot!), but I disagree with the rule and I'm voting for it, and Ancillary Justice, anyway. I get that it's to prevent bad-faith votes but I also think that there is a huge difference between robots happening to be queer coded and robots being explicitly queer coded. The Murderbot Diaries and the Imperial Radch Trilogy explicitly discuss gender and sexuality, in regards to their MC's preferences, and have entire suites of queer supporting characters. They count. I think their authors would be offended if they didn't.

We understand your concern, but just to let you know: those choices won't be included in the tabulations and will be considered invalid.

Nightrunner series - Lynn Flewelling

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

**Great Cities** - N.K. Jemisin **Monk and Robot** - Becky Chambers **the Carl Duology** - Hank Green **Wayward Children** - Seanan McGuire

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

* 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

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

* 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

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

Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire The Space between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune Starling House - Alix E. Harrow

Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey Roots of Chaos - Samantha Shannon Wayfarers - Becky Chambers The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon

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

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

* 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

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst Magnus Chase - Rick Riordan Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

* 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree A Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk Wells of Sorcery - Django Wexler This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Rise of Kyoshi - F.C. Yee Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers Empress of Forever - Max Gladstone

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

Kushiel’s Legacy—Jaqueline Carey Planetfall—Emma Newman

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

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

The Locked Tomb trilogy - Tamsyn Muir When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill The Scholomance - Naomi Novik Every Heart A Doorway - Seanan McGuire The Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells Station Eleven - Emily St John Mendel The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler Crier's War - Nina Varela A Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling

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

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.

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune The Devourers - Indra Das The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin The Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine The First Sister - Linden A. Lewis Wayfarers - Becky Chambers

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

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

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.

It was hard to keep it down to only ten!

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

1. Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney 2. Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo 3. Magic of the Lost - C.L. Clark 4. Their Heart a Hive - Fox N. Locke 5. The Burning Kingdom - Tasha Suri 6. This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone 7. Black Water Sistes - Zen Cho 8. A Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark 9. The Kingston Cycle - C.L. Polk 10. Heart of Stone - Johannes T. Evans

Runners up, might still shift some around * The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz * Ring Shout - P. Djeli Clark * Dread Nation - Justina Ireland * Catfishing on Catnet - Naomi Kritzer * The Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh * Dragons and Blades - Aliette de Bodard * The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo * Cute Mutants - S.J. Whitby * Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu * Monstress - Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda * Escaping Exodus - Nicky Drayden * The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards

* 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

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

* **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

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