Recs if you like The Court of Broken Knives (Empires of Dust, #1)...

no dude bro fantasy books on this list

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

No fairy-tale endings, no tender interludes, just morally ambiguous anti-heroes clawing their way through betrayal, war, and chaos.

Grimdark is about the dirt, the blood, and the crushing weight of reality in a world where "might is right." The genre takes its name from the tagline of 'Warhammer 40,000': "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." Here is a list of 100 essential Grimdark works including standalone novels, series starters, and graphic novels.

Great, enjoyable, and/or interesting fiction books featuring queer characters of all kinds!

With a couple nonfiction books thrown in as well, for flavor.

There are a few in here for which people might, hypothetically, argue over whether they're queer enough for the queer list, but which I've included anyway because vibes/because I personally interpret them as queer. For example: older books that were originally intended or most commonly regarded as feminist but not queer, but which many queer people may relate to or find meaning in regardless (e.g. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, or The Song of Mavin Manyshaped by Sheri S. Tepper).