The last books I read are The Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melonda Lo and You Should be so Lucky by Cat Sebastian and I really liked them! I would like to read more queer historical fiction book if people have stuff to recommend!
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I really enjoyed “The Adventures of China Iron” by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. It’s a queer retelling of Argentina’s “Juan Fierro” supermacho gaucho epic. Kinda niche but really enjoyable and quick.
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Have you read the rest of Cat Sebastian’s works? She has several more queer historical romances.
A little on the historical fantasy but you can’t go wrong with Song of Achilles.
KJ Charles has a number of queer historical novels. For mystery Death in the Spires, for spy/thriller- the Will Darling Adventures starting with Slippery Creatures, for Regency The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen are all great.
*My Dear Henry* by Kalynn Bayron is a gay version of *Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*.
*She Who Became the Sun* by Shelley Parker-Chan – it is sometimes labelled as fantasy but the fantastical element is really minor. It reads like a historical novel set in 14th century China. It is an alternative, queer reading of the founding of the Ming dynasty. It is probably less light than the books you mentioned (which I haven’t read but Last Night is on my TBR!).
[Fortune Favors the Dead](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/eb8c7ae9-41b0-442b-b3f1-8e01870fe219) by Stephan Spotswood
When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill – retelling of the French Revolution set in 1800’s Montreal with young girls as all the main characters!
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall – friends-to-lovers historical romance featuring a trans woman character
Any book by KJ Charles – she writes queer historical romance
The Companion by EE Ottoman – historical romance with a polyamorous triad all of whom are trans
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo – retelling of The Great Gatsby featuring a magical element m
D.V. Bishop has a series of murder mysteries set in Renaissance Florence. The MC is a constable working for the city’s court. One of his colleagues finds out that he is gay and tries to blackmail him.
Ballad of Jacquotte Delahey by Briony Cameron
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Their Divine Fires by Wendy Chen
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
The Mercies by Kiran Milgrave Harwood
Disenchantment by Celia Bell
Confessions of Frannie Laughton by Sarah Collins
We could Be so good by Cat Sebastian
anything by Sarah Waters
Sweetness of water by Nathan Harris
Pulp by Robin Talley
Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Dead Dead Girls by Nefesa Akia
House of Doors by Tan Twang Eng
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Ballad of Jacquotte Delahey by Briony Cameron
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Their Divine Fires by Wendy Chen
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
The Mercies by Kiran Milgrave Harwood
Disenchantment by Celia Bell
Confessions of Frannie Laughton by Sarah Collins
We could Be so good by Cat Sebastian
anything by Sarah Waters
Sweetness of water by Nathan Harris
Pulp by Robin Talley
Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Dead Dead Girls by Nefesa Akia
House of Doors by Tan Twang Eng
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
You could try In Memoriam by Alice Winn 🙂
A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
– The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
– Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
– Devotion by Hannah Kent