Sapphic Romances, Literary Fictions, Fantasies, Horrors, Thrillers, and nonfictions to read during Pride Month and all year long :)
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Sapphic Books (non romance)
FF Romances
organized by contemporary romance, sports romance, historical romance, and fantasy romance
🏳️⚧️ sweet contemporary romance with a solid emotional punch! one of my favorites of the year so far 💕
Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao
two former friends turned bitter rivals are forced on a cross country road trip together
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
a bookseller and a romance cover model enter into a marriage of convenience in this spicy romcom
The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur
D'Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding - but their whole relationship is fake.
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins
so you agreed to a marriage of convenience with this guy but you go to meet his family over the holidays and turns out you fell in love with his sister last year
Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
two best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover that finding happily ever after can be as simple as asking
My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
a YA romp about kissing the most popular girl in school and your academic rival only for her to inconveniently disappear when you were supposed to beat her fair and square
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
a funny romcom between a small town mechanic and a city girl intent on going back home
The Relationship Mechanic by Karmen Lee
dating a woman from every astrological sign to see what signs you're most compatile with might but be the modern solution to dating woes
Looking for a Sign by Susie Dumond
a steamy opposite attracts romcom
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Read before the show comes out! A veteran soccer player and the new rookie gunning for her spot work out their difference in the bedroom
Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
two former Olympic hockey rivals are paired together for a morning show and shenanigans and shipping ensue
Wake Up, Nat & Darcy by Kate Cochrane
Willa and Sage fake a relationship on a bachelorette trip and ofc real feelings start forming
Never Mine by Bryce Oakley
a slow burn romance between a former Olympic gymnast and a single mom
Balancing Act by Cass Morgan
a cross dressing spy and a bluestocking team up in this swoon worthy romance
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
🏳️⚧️ a FFM t4t4t historical romance about finding yourself and the people who love you as you are
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
my book club's pick for pride month! a historical romance between two rival gothic novelists
Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
Manuela and Cora strike a deal for a summer of passion and art before Manuela's arranged marriage
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
a short and sweet novella about falling in love and getting revenge
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
a magical romance between a modern girl and the girl she sees on the subway who’s stuck in the 1970s
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
two women fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn’t end in disaster
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare
a woman makes a deal with a demon to win back her ex after a proposal gone awry, only to discover the girl of her dreams might be the devil she knows
The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur
a baker and a demon princess are thrown together - I've been told that the chocolate cake recipes in this book is real and amazing!
Mixing Up Mayhem by Heather Nix
An almost-mage discovers friendship—and maybe something more—in the unlikeliest of places
The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
A DARK and HOT sapphic romance about featuring Persephone
Currency in Flesh by Heather Nix
Sapphic Books (non romance)
horror, thriller, litfic, fantasy, and nonfiction recs
A Carmilla retelling but this time there's actual gay s*x - one of my favs of last year!
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
The Bachelor vs murderous lesbian bigfoot and her murderous lesbian cult
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
When Leah returns home after her submarine sunk, her wife knows something is fundamentally changed within her
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
a medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl
Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang
a gay conversions camp sent straight from hell
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
A young woman running from her past at the CIA falls in love with her beautiful landlord as her past threatens to catch up with her
Two is a Pattern by Emily Waters
I mean, do I even need to tell you?
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
a gripping, tender coming-of-age novel exploring identity, queerness, and historical upheaval set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the 1950s
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
this has been hailed as one of the greatest lesbian novels ever written
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
a historical noir fantasy novella where a woman races against time to save her soul
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
a romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
an epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls—one human, one Made—whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution.
Crier's War #1 - Nina Varela
A ruthless princess and a powerful priestess come together to rewrite the fate of an empire in this "fiercely and unapologetically feminist tale of endurance and revolution set against a gorgeous, unique magical world"
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor.
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
A nonfiction about 20th century queer women's history in america
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
a memoir about domestic abuse and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse