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Sapphic September book recs! 🌈💕
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items Fellow book lovers! Here are my recommendations for Sapphic September 🌈✨ queer books, lesbian love, lit fic, memoir, contemporary romance, gothic, dark romance, speculative, fantasy, sci fi 📚
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Contemporary romance
Gothic + dark romance
Speculative, fantasy, sci fi
Memoir + lit fic
Contemporary romance
For a happy ending 💕
I loved this lil sapphic YA romance. Sort of historical, sort of in a made up regency era, Hayley Kiyoko has created a unique concept here: a country that has no issue with homosexuality but still values the patriarchy above all. And in the name of t...<3
Where There's Room for Us
such a fun read, I couldn’t put it down! If you like bi rep and enemies to lovers, definitely give this a read. I cannot wait to read more of Sophie Gonzales' work. Thank you NetGalley, Sophie Gonzales, St. Martin's Press, and Wednesday Books for thi...
Never Ever Getting Back Together
Grace Porter, a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever, is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know...until she does exactly that 😱
Honey Girl
I loved this book! I know nothing about soccer, but thankfully Wilsner keeps the reader up to speed on what’s important, and not knowing soccer didn’t impede my enjoyment at all. This was a fun read and the spice was great 😮💨🥵 will definitely be ...
Cleat Cute
A college senior accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom.
Mistakes Were Made
This was such a cute read! If you like contemporary romance, with a few explicit scenes, and forced proximity, opposites attract, and virgin tropes, you’ll probably like this story. As always, Eddings has her signature inclusion of representation, th...
Late Bloomer
When Delilah's estranged stepsister pressures her into photographing her wedding, she finds herself back in the godforsaken town she used to call home. But when she and her stepsister's bestie are forced together during wedding preparations, she deci...
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
A first, Mille can't stand her new boarding school roommate-- an actual princess of Scotland - but before she knows it, she becomes her sort-of-best-friend/sort-of-girlfriend. Millie knows the chances of happily ever afters are slim... after all, rea...
Her Royal Highness
As a Domme, I see men and women come and go. But no one sticks around, and I like it that way.
So when Clay weasels his way into my heart, I push him away. A few months later, he shows up again, but this time with his new girlfriend. And she has a re...
Madame
Gothic + dark romance
For the girls who want teeth 🧛♀️
A sapphic dark academia Medusa retelling about a woman who was wronged by her idols and refused to pay the price without getting revenge.
Serpentine Valentine: A Medusa Retelling
A young woman is preyed upon by a lesbian vampire. Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.
Carmilla, Deluxe Edition
Saved from the brink of death by a
mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws an aristocrat and an artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that he is capable of ter...
A Dowry of Blood
If you liked Sierra Simone’s New Camelot series, then wait for a rainy day, snuggle under some covers, and dive right into this one. Just be warned: it ends on a cliffhanger, so it might be worth getting the whole series before you begin. I’m current...
A Lesson in Thorns
Good girl Clay torments Liv at their high school daily and thinks she won't fight back - at least not until Liv gets Clay alone and finds out she's hiding so much more than just what's underneath those pretty clothes. Liv told Clay to stay on her sid...
Tryst Six Venom
Speculative, fantasy, sci fi
For the world escapists ✨
The wajinru - water-dwelling descendants of pregnant
African slave women thrown overboard by slavers - live idyllic lives in the deep. Their historian flees to the surface, escaping the memories and the expectations and the responsibilities - and dis...
The Deep
Vern - pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what...
Sorrowland
Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit a king's consort. There, she does the unthinkable
Girls of Paper and Fire
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, and they've also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the ...
Wild Beauty
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now,...
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Wow. This book. One of my absolute favorites. I'm not surprised how many people who read this say they binge-read it until early in the morning, finishing it with a good cry. I wish I had had the time to read it all in one go, too. It was hard to put...
The Free People's Village
This is a tough book to rate. Like what did I just read? Do I hate the main character? Is there going to be a sequel? (honestly, I hope so but do not think so.)
Let me say I loooooooved The Light Pirate. Like obsessed. I recommend it all the time. S...
Ruins
Thank you Random House, NetGalley, and Kara A. Kennedy for a free copy of I Will Never Leave You in exchange for an honest review.
WOW. I’m going to be thinking about this book for awhile. I don’t usually like thrillers/mysteries but I really enjoye...
I Will Never Leave You
A sapphic be-careful-what-you-wish-for romance, where a demon unexpectedly falls for a human committed to winning back her ex-girlfriend. I loved both main characters, and I felt deeply for what Sam went through during this book. All the alternate ti...
The Devil She Knows
Memoir + lit fic
For reclaiming your story 📖
A legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long held secrets the public could never imagine.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s
Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.
The Mercies
Carmen Maria Machado's memoir about a same-sex abusive relationship. It is predominantly a second person narrative, referring to her victimized self as "you", and utilizes a different narrative trope for each chapter such as classic horror.
In the Dream House
Glennon Doyle's memoir about the moment she fell in love-at-first sight with her now-wife. This was the start of a journey of honoring her true self, and of listening to her inner voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, the ...
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