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Beautifully written sapphic book.
Sunburn: Exclusive American Edition with Additional Material|Paperback
This book is a coming of age story about a lesbian who grows up in an English Pentecostal community. The key themes of this book are transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, same-sex relationship, organised religion and the c...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit|Paperback
Sapphic Dark Academia vampire book, inspired by Dracula by Bram Stoker!
Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that inspired Dracula|Paperback
Sapphic Dark Academia Medusa Retelling
Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling
Sapphic Book! The Haunting Season for Love and Witches is a story about the thin line between love, deceit, obsession, and one’s perpetual cost of being true to oneself. It's a young adult sapphic soft gothic cottagecore with a tragic romance plotlin...
The Haunting Season for Love and Witches by Isabelle Larken
Dark Academia Sapphic retelling of Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, which is the classic vampire book which inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula!
An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires, on the run from the Church. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and, most importantly, be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an i...
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic school''s code of conduct. There, she meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby b...
Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan
Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos'' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos'' backroom seances, and the two strike up a con...
My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy''s twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband''s grand estate.
The doctor has diagnosed her with tem...
Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen
Across a bridge, in view of seasonal cherry blossom lies the Marble Cafe where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favourite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this...
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
gay / mlm books!
This book is beautifully written and heartbreaking. I have never cried more from reading a book. Truly incredible
Lie With Me: A Novel by Philippe Besson, Paperback
Mlm book!
This book is a beautifully written gay love story set in early 1980’s communist Poland. It follows the relationship between the two young men, Ludwik and Janusz.
Swimming in the Dark: A Novel|Paperback
mlm book
Tin Man: A Novel|Paperback
mlm book
Young Mungo|Paperback
mlm book
Open, Heaven: A Novel|Hardcover
A queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.
Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herakles, a golden young man, who deserts him at the peak...
Autobiography of Red
Set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2013, Blessings is an elegant and exquisitely moving story that asks how to live freely in a country that forbids one’s truest self, and what it takes for love t...
Blessings: A Novel
Dark Academia YA Queer book, two boys as main characters, great book for fall!
Don't Let the Forest In
Queer book, Bisexual MC. Mlm!
Hazelthorn
MLM! Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost.
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart...
A History of Fear by Luke Dumas