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50+ Queer Reads That Belong on Your Shelf
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Sapphic Literature | Romance
Sapphic Literature | YA
Gay Literature | YA
Sapphic Literature | Romance
Your go-to list for sapphic romance reads: from swoony slow burns to chaotic fake-dating disasters. All the WLW stories you didn't know you needed, curated with love. Whether you're a longtime sapphic lit fan or just starting your queer reading journ...
The grumpy one reluctantly comes home for her stepsister's wedding and falls for the uptight maid of honor. Enemies-to-lovers at its finest.
Ashley Herring Blake | Delilah Green Doesn't Care | Bright Falls Series (Book 1)
A perfectionist interior designer and a laid-back contractor clash on a home renovation show. Book 2 in the Bright Falls series.
Ashley Herring Blake | Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail | Bright Falls Series (Book 2)
A romance writer who's sworn off real love accidentally starts fake-dating a theater nerd. Chaotic and charming.
Ashley Herring Blake | Iris Kelly Doesn't Date | Bright Falls Series (Book 3)
A college student accidentally matches with her best friend's mom on a dating app. Messy, spicy, and surprisingly tender.
Meryl Wilsner | Mistakes Were Made
A Hollywood showrunner and her assistant get caught in a rumor spiral — and slowly realize maybe the rumors aren't totally wrong.
Meryl Wilsner | Something to Talk About
An optimistic astrology enthusiast and a cynical statistician fake-date for the holidays. Cozy, soft, and very swoony.
Alexandria Bellefleur | Written in the Stars
Childhood best friends who had a falling out reconnect years later. Second chance romance with all the feelings.
Alexandria Bellefleur | Count Your Lucky Stars
A down-on-her-luck woman makes a deal with a crafty demon to win back her ex-girlfriend after a proposal gone awry, only to discover the girl of her dreams might be the devil she knows.
Alexandria Bellefleur | The Devil She Knows
Two publicists clash when their superstar clients start dating, but things quickly escalate in this steamy rom-com.
Alexandria Bellefleur | Playing for Keeps
A steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience.
Alexandria Bellefleur | The Fiancée Farce
A broke woman agrees to a fake engagement, then discovers her fake fiancé's sister is the stranger she spent one magical Christmas Eve with.
Alison Cochrun | Kiss Her Once for Me
A musician's former personal assistant tries to rebuild her life, but the past isn't done with her yet. More emotional depth than your average rom-com.
Alison Cochrun | Every Step She Takes
A cynical girl falls for a woman who's been mysteriously stuck on a Chicago subway line since the 1970s. Magical, queer, and absolutely unhinged in the best way.
Casey McQuiston | One Last Stop
Dina is done. She's burn out after years in corporate London and now is working in her family's struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a football team of disadvantaged amateur players - or to say ye...
Adiba Jaigirdar | The Perfect Match
Two rivals on a women's soccer team navigate tension on and off the field. For everyone who wants sports romance with a sapphic twist.
Meryl Wilsner | Cleat Cute
Sapphic Literature | YA
Your ultimate reading list for sapphic YA. Stories that make you feel seen, the ones that make you wish you'd had them at sixteen, and the ones you'll press into someone else's hands the moment you're done. From first loves and fake dating to coming ...
Two girls with nothing in common fake-date to solve their very different problems. A sweet YA with great cultural depth.
Adiba Jaigirdar | Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
Named one of TIME's 100 Best YA Books of All Time, and for good reason. When Nishat's childhood crush Flávia walks back into her life, the timing couldn't be worse A story about first love, cultural identity, and finding the courage to be yourself. S...
Adiba Jaigirdar | The Henna Wars
Two girls who were both dumped by the same guy get cast on a teen reality show about second chances, except they end up falling for each other instead. Wickedly funny, delightfully dramatic, and a Taylor Swift title to boot. Peak sapphic chaos energy...
Sophie Gonzales | Never Ever Getting Back Together´
#1 New York Times bestseller based on Hayley Kiyoko's iconic song and viral music video. Seventeen-year-old Coley moves to rural Oregon after losing her mother, and meets Sonya. A tender, emotional coming-of-age story about first love, grief, and lea...
Hayley Kiyoko | Girls Like Girls
A queer Latina girl starts at a Catholic school with a secret: don't come out. Then she meets a girl who makes that very difficult. Funny, warm, and real.
Sonora Reyes | The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
A girl who doesn't believe in love agrees to a summer of rom-com tropes with a charming stranger, no feelings allowed. Reader, feelings happen.
Ciara Smyth | The Falling in Love Montage
A straight ally goes to visit her queer best friend at college and starts questioning… everything. Becky Albertalli doing what she does best.
Becky Albertalli | Imogen, Obviously
1950s San Francisco. A Chinese American girl discovers a lesbian bar and herself. Historical, gorgeous, and quietly devastating.
Malinda Lo | Last Night At The Telegraph Club
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Rei...
Kelly Quindlen | She Drives Me Crazy
A bi girl who quietly left her church gets sent to - of all places - church camp as punishment for defending her sister. What follows is a wry, chaotic, enemies-to-lovers story with a side of righteous rage and accidental sinning.
Jenna Voris | Say a Little Prayer
After losing both her fathers in a fire, Morgan moves to Portland and finds herself on a roller derby team, the last place she expected to start healing, or to fall in love. A Reese's Book Club pick that's equal parts gutting and hopeful. For anyone ...
Margot Fisher | Leave It on the Track
An openly gay track star transfers schools after being kicked out for being queer and promptly falls for the closeted bisexual beauty queen who fixes up old cars. Opposites in every way, but in the best possible way.
Jennifer Dugan | Some Girls Do
The sequel to Some Girls Do: Ruby and Morgan are still going strong, but now they're doing it long distance. One's at university on a track scholarship, the other stayed home chasing her passion for mechanics. A love story about what happens after th...
Jennifer Dugan | Girls Like Us
A queer second-chance romance with a D&D twist: Harper moves across the country after her grandpa's death and ends up joining a new campaign, only to find herself falling for someone she has history with, both in-game and in real life.
M.K. England | Roll for Love
A geeky overachiever determined to save the world through science meets a troublemaking Chosen One who's sick of her destiny, and they fall for each other in a magical coffeeshop between worlds
C.B. Lee | Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
Chloe Green has spent four years trying to be the top of her class at an Alabama Christian school. Then the prom queen kisses her out of nowhere and promptly disappears, leaving behind a trail of clues. Fierce, funny, and absolutely chaotic.
Casey McQuiston | I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Ophelia Rojas has always been a hopeless romantic with a long list of boy crushes, so when she starts developing feelings for a girl, it turns her whole self-image upside down. A California Book Award winner and NPR Best Book of the Year.
Racquel Marie | Ophelia After All