13 Gloriously Queer Witch YA Fantasy Books

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Yadriel didn’t mean to summon the shade of Julian Diaz, his school’s (former) nonmigratory atrocious boy. He was conscionable trying to beryllium himself arsenic a existent brujo to his family, who person been dilatory to judge his sex identity. But present Yadriel’s stuck with the incorrect shade and gets drawn into Julian’s quest to find retired what happened to him and necktie up escaped ends earlier moving on. The much clip they walk together, though, the little Yadriel wants him to leave.

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Alex whitethorn beryllium the astir almighty witch of her generation, but she hates being a bruja. She hates it truthful much, successful fact, that she makes 1 past ditch effort to escaped herself of her powers completely. But alternatively of erasing her powers, she erases her household from existence. Now, successful bid to marque things right, she indispensable descend into the depths of Los Lagos, a benignant of underworld, alongside a brooding brujo she can’t spot but mightiness beryllium her lone anticipation of redeeming her family.

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

This YA caller from 1 of my favourite writer features not one, not two, not three, but six teenage witches figuring retired their powers and their relationship aft 1 of their own, Alexis, accidentally kills a boy. As if hiding a assemblage weren’t stressful enough, present their powers are besides each connected the fritz, and Alexis’s crush connected a chap person is getting harder and harder to deny. It’s much astir relationship than magic, but that’s benignant of the quality of this story.

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The Witchery by S. Isabelle

The Red Three are renowned passim the halls of Mesmortes, wherever each their chap witches privation to beryllium them, one-up them, oregon day them. But it’s Logan, a babe witch with lone a tenuous grasp connected her powers, who they determine to invitation into their ranks. Iris, Jailah, and Thalia are hoping she mightiness beryllium the cardinal to helping them halt the curse that has haunted their municipality — and near a way of dormant bodies successful its aftermath — for generations. Though it’s not arsenic prominently queer arsenic a batch of the books connected this list, 1 of the main characters has an ex-girlfriend and is attracted to different girls. Another POV character, 1 of the Hammersmitt boys who teams up with them, is besides queer.

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker

This adorable graphic caller follows a hard of proceeding witch and a nonbinary werewolf who are reunited aft years isolated lone to observe that their puerility relationship mightiness beryllium morphing into thing more. And with a unsafe demonic tone haunting the woods, they’ll person to enactment unneurotic successful bid to prevention their New England town. Mooncakes is simply a wonderfully cozy and atmospheric work afloat of magic and feel-good moments.

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

Hannah is an elemental witch surviving successful Salem, Massachusetts, trying to debar her ex and support her magic a concealed from Regs. But erstwhile a humor ritual interrupts extremity of twelvemonth bonfire astatine school, Hannah is convinced it’s the enactment of a deadly Blood Witch. Unfortunately, the lone idiosyncratic who believes her is the past 1 she’d ever privation to squad up with: her ex-girlfriend, Veronica. If they tin acceptable speech their differences for agelong enough, possibly they tin prevention the day. Or maybe, they’ll uncover thing adjacent much terrifying down the attacks connected Salem’s witches.

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

An imperial girl shipped disconnected to an arranged matrimony with her coffin successful tow and a genderfluid orphan turned pirate determine to alteration their fates aft being thrown unneurotic aboard the Dove. Along the way, they assistance escaped a captured mermaid, conscionable an opportunistic witch, and are hunted — on with the remainder of the unit — by the Pirate Supreme. It’s a small spot witchy, a bully spot queer, and a full batch of swashbuckling phantasy romance.

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

Once upon a clip Wyatt Croft was betrothed to the fae prince — and his champion person — Emyr North. Now, he’s surviving successful concealed successful the quality world. One unspeakable night, his magic spiraled retired of power and helium near his beingness and his aboriginal behind. Or did he? Emyr isn’t astir to fto him spell truthful easily. And erstwhile the fae prince tracks him down, helium insists they indispensable wed successful bid prevention the throne. But Wyatt is bushed of however witches are treated successful the fae world, and, successful a hopeless effort to enactment among the humans, helium makes a woody with the enemy. Staying distant mightiness not beryllium that easy, though — particularly erstwhile traces of the Emyr helium erstwhile loved statesman to highest done and he’s faced with choosing betwixt his radical and himself.

How to Succeed successful Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

An overachieving witch vies for a assistance to the schoolhouse of her dreams successful this modern phantasy caller afloat of witchy girls, precocious schoolhouse crushes, and societal commentary. Junior Shay Johnson is determined to bash immoderate it takes to impressment the assistance committee and triumph a full-ride to the magical assemblage of her dreams — adjacent if that means starring successful this year’s schoolhouse philharmonic alongside her main contention for the scholarship, Ana Alvarez. And Ana isn’t precisely that atrocious witch Shay thought she was. In fact, Shay could spot them becoming friends oregon adjacent more. But erstwhile the theatre director’s attentions go a small excessively nonstop and inappropriate, Shay volition person to determine whether to talk retired adjacent erstwhile her imagination assistance and her aboriginal could beryllium connected the line.

B*WITCH by Paige McKenzie and Nancy Ohlin

Iris has ne'er met different witch IRL, but aft moving to a caller schoolhouse — and readying to support her magic a concealed — she’s taken successful by a coven of 3 teenage witches. But Greta, Ridley, and Binx aren’t the lone witches astatine this school. There’s different coven, the Triad, who dabble successful acheronian magic and origin chaos passim the school. When 1 of their ain successful murdered, though, the rival covens volition person to enactment unneurotic successful bid to halt the anti-witch sentiment that has led to a deadly transgression earlier immoderate of the remainder of them are next.

Coven by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton

Fire elemental Emsy is much funny successful spending clip with her woman than honing her craft. But erstwhile a bid of suspicious murders among her family’s coven backmost eastbound enactment her ain beingness successful danger, Emsy and her household indispensable instrumentality to upstate New York to hunt a almighty killer. With a enigma to lick and a slayer to find, Emsy volition person to yet maestro her occurrence powers and accelerated if she wants to support herself and her household from becoming the adjacent victims.

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Did idiosyncratic accidental magical bakery? I can’t ideate a cuter mounting for a witchy phantasy novel. At the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery successful Austin, a teen baker accidentally causes a wide question of breakups aft baking a batch of brownies post-breakup that origin everyone other who eats them to, well, breakup. Now there’s a question of queer heartbreak passim the Austin assemblage and adjacent the owners of the Proud Muffin aren’t spared. But the cute motorcycle messenger, Harley, believes that if Syd’s magic started this question of breakups past Syd’s magic is the 1 happening that tin hole it, too.

The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan (January 24, 2023)

A hedgewitch determined to combat immoderate acheronian unit is making the fae successful her Massachusetts’s municipality much assertive than usual, a cursed teen who’s mislaid each his memories of his existent love, and a lad who accidentally signed his beingness distant to a acheronian magical carnal that eats radical find their paths intertwining successful this YA phantasy caller that blends unneurotic magic and the existent world.