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🌈Queer All Year🌈 (queer romance reads)
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items Sometimes it feels like a chore to find a new queer book to read - so let me do some of the work for you. I can’t say they’re all 5-star, top of my list reads - but I did enjoy them all and hope you will too.
I tend to stray away from mainstream best-sellers because I don’t think they usually live up to the hype.
This one? This one lived up to the hype. It might be my fascination with space, it might be my deep connection to the main character, it might...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I didn’t know how I’d feel about this book at first (I struggle with YA sometimes) but IM SO GLAD I READ IT. In the days following my read, I missed the characters so much - and that is always a good sign for me.
Lover Birds by Leanne Egan
Okay but what if your celebrity crush is actually the same person who you shared your first kiss with… except she doesn’t know it was you? Small town romance with a little dose of putting your dreams on hold for your family (relatable). Time to hit p...
Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake
I guess it’s not really a romance per se, but I would argue it’s a lesson on falling back in love with life after loss. Filled with laughs and tears and facing your fears, and the guncle rules we should probably all live by. TW: substance abuse, deat...
The Guncle by Steven Rowley, Paperback
When I tell you I LOVED this book… I keep finding myself wishing I could crawl back into the story and see more of the characters.
Imagine a world where each holiday had a ruling kingdom, fae hidden within the real world. An arranged marriage to joi...
The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
The follow-up to Nightmare Before Kissmas - filled with more enemies to lovers and holiday magic 😍 when I tell you that these romances are swoon worthy, I MEAN IT. gorgeous. Obsessed. Must-read.
Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch
A WLW YA hockey/figure skating romance? YES PLEASE. Enemies to lovers, forced-ish proximity, slow burn DELIGHT. Loved it.
Love, Skate, and Relationship by Carli J. Corson
Two women who people see as “going no-where” meet and discover each other - each learning who they are and what they want, addressing their pasts and the assumptions and insecurities they bring into the present, and choosing themselves even when it’s...
At Her Service by Amy Spalding, Paperback
Spooky season stamp of approval for this queer romcom! What happens when the ghost of your ex girlfriend is tasked with helping you move on? 👀
Pumpkin Spice and Poltergeist by Ali K Mulford and K Elle Morrison
A forbidden lovers, if you will. A glance behind the scenes of a reality dating show, where two women are dating the same man but they just might fall for each other instead.
Hot Summer by Elle Everhart
SO CUTE AND COZY I just want to wrap it up in my arms and read it again. A bookstore owner and an author have an off-chance meeting that turns into working together, in ways neither could have anticipated.
Novel Problems: A Sapphic Small-Town Summer Romance by Elizabeth Luly ...
Did someone say friends to enemies to lovers? For those raised in small towns, whether they wanted to stay forever or couldn’t wait to leave - you’ll see both sides as these two opposites attract.
In the Long Run by Haley Cass, Paperback
A spicy sapphic love story with “willed” forced-proximity (two people are left property by their late aunt/friend) and fake dating tropes.
Two women are forced into each others lives after the death of someone they both loved - and must work togeth...
Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-Waters, Paperback
A cutie little autumn sapphic romance! Small town doctor reunites with her high school crush who is laying low after some online hiccups… anything could happen!
Not Just Gal Pals by Elizabeth Luly
So you kiss a stranger in a bar, and you don’t think you’ll ever see her again. But then… she shows up at a wine tasting you’re hosting, and she applies for the open job at your winery.
Forbidden-ish love story.
It Started With A Kiss by Clare Lydon