queer characters in stories not about queerness
mostly fantasy as that’s what i tend to read- if it’s a series, i only add the first book
created by eli-reads
last updated August, 2025
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RF Kuangs works are a good example of this, so is the Broken Blades by Mai Corland. Oh and Six of Crows. And all of VE Schwabs works! So many good books with queer characters, without it centering the queerness 😁
Oh oh!! Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims!! It's horror (more in the creepy style, not scary) and there's three queer characters and a trans character as well!! They're all clearly queer, but their sexuality isn't the focus of any of the stories. They just exist. (Two of them you only find out later, but that's a subplot thing).
The Final Strife by Saraa El-Afifi and Nevernight by Jay Kristoff are possible suggestions!
Would This Is How You Lose the Time War count for this?
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