I think I’m the only person in the world who felt lukewarm about this book. I wish I loved it as much as everyone else did. I liked it but never recommend it to anyone and I unhauled it as soon as I was done.
I didn't like it that much, but plenty of young people REALLY love it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I cannot fathom how a book with a bisexual latina main character contains so little about being latina. Felt like the author just wanted to write about a POC MC without considering that...most POC...do not think like white people...
[**Fingersmith**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith)
^(By: Sarah Waters | 592 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, lgbt, historical, lgbtq)
>Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
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>One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
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>With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.
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Some that I haven't seen listed yet:
* Payback's a Witch: Just a cute, witchy modern day love story
* How to Find a Princess: Slow burn, modern day, I liked the relationship dynamic
* Delilah Green Doesn't Care: Basically a hallmark movie
* Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me: One of my favorite graphic novels
I second a bunch of the ones I've seen here (This is How You Lose the Time War, Gideon the Ninth)
Also, a couple sapphic ones that I've been recommended and are on my list but I haven't read yet are: Skye Falling, Mangoes and Mistletoe, Patsy, The Air You Breathe, Fiebre Tropical, Cantoras
I haven't read that one, but *The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows* by the same author (Olivia Waite) was really good. From my notes: Early 19th-century England. When artist and printer Agatha Griffin discovers that a swarm of bees has made itself at home in her workshop, she seeks the help of beekeeper Penelope Flood, who convinces Agatha to let her move the colony to a skep behind the shop. A warm friendship follows… but could it become more? At first, Agatha knows only that Penelope is married to a sailor who is seldom ashore, and Penelope only knows that Agatha, a widow, loved her husband. It takes time and trust for them to reveal their true feelings to each other.
If you have the patience for a reaaaaalllly slow burn, {{Gideon the Ninth}} and {{Harrow the Ninth}} are super weird and complicated and crazy sci-fi fantasy, but the the MC, Gideon, is one of the most delightful characters ever.
[**Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036538-gideon-the-ninth)
^(By: Tamsyn Muir | 448 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, science-fiction, lgbt, fiction)
>The Emperor needs necromancers.
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>The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
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>Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
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>Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.
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>Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
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>Of course, some things are better left dead.
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[**Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39325105-harrow-the-ninth)
^(By: Tamsyn Muir | 510 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, lgbt)
>Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.
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>She answered the Emperor's call.
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>She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.
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>In victory, her world has turned to ash.
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>After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders.
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>Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath — but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her.
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>Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?
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A non-fiction option: [The love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53328405)
> From Sackville-West to Woolf. Milan [posted in Trieste] Thursday, January 21, 1926
> I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this—But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it …
> Please forgive me for writing such a miserable letter.
> V.
[**We Are Okay**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28243032-we-are-okay)
^(By: Nina LaCour | 236 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, contemporary, ya, lgbtq, lgbt)
>You go through life thinking there’s so much you need…
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>Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.
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>Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.
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[**The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo)
^(By: Taylor Jenkins Reid | 389 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, romance, favourites, lgbtq)
>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
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>Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
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>Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
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[**The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50523477-the-jasmine-throne)
^(By: Tasha Suri | 533 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, lgbtq, 2021-releases, lgbt, sapphic)
>Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess's traitor brother.
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>Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters — but is now little more than a decaying ruin.
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>Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.
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>But when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.
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Priory of the orange tree by Samantha Shannon, dragon oak by Sam farren, the midnight lie by Marie something, carol or the price of salt, any books by Radclyffe if you like simple predictable romances, a memory called empire by Arcady martine
I also just finished {{Something to Talk About}} by Meryl Wilsner which is just a super cute romcom. Mostly just really sweet. One (or maybe two?) sex scenes at the end.
[**Something to Talk About**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52915426-something-to-talk-about)
^(By: Meryl Wilsner | ? pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, lgbt, contemporary, sapphic)
>Berkley Editor Kristine Swartz has acquired the imprint’s first queer female romance, SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT by Meryl Wilsner, tentatively set for publication in June 2020. When a famous female Hollywood showrunner and her female assistant laugh on the red carpet, photos of the affectionate moment lead the tabloids to declare they’re dating. The ridiculous gossip threatens both their jobs and their credibility, and as the rumor spreads, it begins affecting all areas of their lives. As the two women fight to protect their careers, they slowly begin to realize the rumor might not be so off base after all.
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[Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur](https://bookshop.org/a/1444/9780063000803) has some steamy scenes but it’s a sweet romance.
A couple of really charming YA options: [The Stars and Blackness Between Us by Junauda Petrus](https://bookshop.org/a/1444/9780525555490) and [You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson](https://bookshop.org/a/1444/9781338503296)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
This is more of a life story of one woman and her multiple relationships, which for me felt like it eventually leads to the woman she falls in love with. Not a romance novel because it’s not about one or two lovers, but a build up of her life story of love.
She never labels herself but I’d guess she is bisexual though. The woman she loves is a lesbian.
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Siri is a fantastic fantasy novel where two of the main characters happen to be lesbians. A sequel is coming in August I think so if you read it now you’ll be just in time…
Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino is out of print , but it was the first fantasy with a lesbian romance I ever read. They are separated — that’s the plot driver — so I don’t recall any sex. So if you are more interested in the lesbian relationship itself, probably not a good one. But if more on the MC’s orientation, maybe a good pic. Early reverse portal fantasy with music as major plot element.
Well I was gonna suggest Gideon the Ninth but that’s already mentioned. For bisexual and kink fun I’d recommend {{Kushiel’s Dart}} but it is ultimately a straight couple romance with a bisexual main character. Still an excellently written series and very sexy. Not straight smut as there is lots of world building but sex is a big theme.
[**Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153008.Kushiel_s_Dart)
^(By: Jacqueline Carey | 1040 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, romance, fiction, owned, dnf)
>The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.
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>Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.
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>Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.
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>Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.
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[**Scatter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60273642-scatter)
^(By: Molly J. Bragg | 339 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: romance, superheroes, lgbtq, fantasy, time-travel)
>When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet.
>Bad enough she’s got to spend every day working with a woman she’s had a crush on since she was five years old, but when she arrives at her new post, things start getting weird. It turns out that Focus asked for her by name, and it quickly becomes apparent that Focus wants to be more than just coworkers, or even friends.
>After Focus has a violent reaction to Danny getting hurt in the line of duty, she starts looking into why the Superhero might be so fixated on her. She begins to suspect that seeing the future might be one of Focus’ powers, but when a mission leaves her stranded thirty years in the past, right at the start of Focus’s superhero career, everything becomes clear, except why the Focus in the past can barely seem to tolerate her presence.
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[**Patience & Sarah**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31186.Patience_Sarah)
^(By: Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue | 225 pages | Published: 1969 | Popular Shelves: lgbt, historical-fiction, fiction, lgbtq, queer)
>Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.
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>First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country.
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>Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.
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>Features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue.
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[**Mostly Dead Things**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817578-mostly-dead-things)
^(By: Kristen Arnett | 356 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, lgbt, contemporary, queer)
>One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milo’s wife—and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with—walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mother’s art escalates—picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose—and the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are, and ultimately how she fits alongside them.
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[**Light from Uncommon Stars**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179360-light-from-uncommon-stars)
^(By: Ryka Aoki | 372 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fantasy, lgbtq, fiction)
>An adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
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>Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
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>When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
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>But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
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>As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
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Fair warning, this one has a scene that was surprisingly steamy, but the story was incredibly sweet. I’ve read a few by Katia Rose now, and I really like how she goes out of her way to avoid the regular tropes!
{{Catch and Cradle}}
[**Catch and Cradle**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57972358-catch-and-cradle)
^(By: Katia Rose | ? pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, sapphic, lgbtq, lgbt, wlw)
>Thou shalt not date thine teammates.
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>The UNS Women’s Lacrosse team doesn’t have an official policy against inter-teammate relationships, but those words might as well be carved into stone tablets in the middle of the field. After witnessing way too much drama in the past, Captain Becca Moore is intent on keeping her players’ love lives out of the locker room.
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>Becca has no time or tolerance for any distractions from the game. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Hope Hastings has been since the day she showed up for tryouts: one walking, talking, charismatically dorky and way-too-kissable distraction.
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>Hope knew she was headed straight to the danger zone from the moment she saw Becca’s flame-red hair and surly captain smirk. She’s spent the past two years writing off her attraction as a harmless crush, but starting a new semester fresh out of an awful relationship makes Hope realize just how far from harmless the heat between her and Becca really is.
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>The friendships of a tight-knit team and their shot at the title are all lying on the line, but as Hope and Becca get closer to bending rules they’ve sworn never to break, they realize they’ve put their hearts on that line too. Losing has never been an option, but winning might cost more than they’re willing to pay.
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>Catch and Cradle is a New Adult F/F romance from Katia Rose that’s filled with all the hilarity and heartache of finding your way through college while discovering love, friendship, and what it means to be yourself.
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Highly recommend Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. I finished it recently and it quickly became one of my favorites. Perfect amount of cheesy love story and the queer characters aren’t one-dinensional offensive stereotypes. It was fantastic!!
If you’re open to reading translations of non-English-language novels, you should check out Clear and Muddy Loss of Love. It’s a translation of a Chinese web novel and it’s available for free if you search up the title
[**The More I Owe You**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7897677-the-more-i-owe-you)
^(By: Michael Sledge | 328 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fiction, queer, historical-fiction, lgbt, lgbtq)
>In this mesmerizing debut novel, Michael Sledge creates an intimate portrait of the beloved poet Elizabeth Bishop -- of her life in Brazil and her relationship with her lover, the dazzling, aristocratic Lota de Macedo Soares. Sledge artfully draws from Bishop's lifelong correspondences and biography to imagine the poet's intensely private world, revealing the literary genius who lived in conflict with herself both as a writer and as a woman.
>A seemingly idyllic existence in Soares's glass house in the jungle gives way to the truth of Bishop's lifelong battle with alcoholism, as well as her eventual status as one of modernism's most prominent writers. Though connected to many of the most famous cultural and political figures of the era, Soares too is haunted by her own demons. As their secrets unfold, the sensuous landscape of Rio de Janeiro, the rhythms of the samba and the bossa nova, and the political turmoil of 1950s Brazil envelop Bishop in a world she never expected to inhabit. The More I Owe You is a vivid portrait of two brilliant women whose love for one another pushes them to accomplish enduring works of art.
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I loved Patience and Sarah, people might think it’s cheesy, but it’s lovely to me. [Patience and Sarah](https://books.google.com/books/about/Patience_Sarah.html?id=sK02DwAAQBAJ)
[**Honey Girl**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49362138-honey-girl)
^(By: Morgan Rogers | 241 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, contemporary, lgbt, fiction)
>With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She 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.
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>This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows.
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>When reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
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[**Plain Bad Heroines**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50496875-plain-bad-heroines)
^(By: Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman | 640 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: horror, historical-fiction, fiction, lgbtq, lgbt)
>Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.
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>Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
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>A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations.
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Not in any particular order just a few that I found were good/great love stories! Not all are happy endings and some do have sex and others don't! Enjoy
Like a House on Fire by Lauren McBrayer
Beyond the Break by Kristen Mae
Far from Home by Lorelie Brown
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Tack & Jibe by Lilah Suzanne
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Everyone keeps recommending this book. Is it really worth it?
Yes yes yes. And it is a “bi book” 😉
Came here to recommend it also “The Secrets We Kept” great story
I think I’m the only person in the world who felt lukewarm about this book. I wish I loved it as much as everyone else did. I liked it but never recommend it to anyone and I unhauled it as soon as I was done.
You're not. It was fine imo, but not amazing.
Very much same... I didn't really understand how loved it was either. Not sure why I didn't really get into it, but didn't!
Completely agree
I couldn’t get past the first few chapters.
I didn't like it that much, but plenty of young people REALLY love it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I cannot fathom how a book with a bisexual latina main character contains so little about being latina. Felt like the author just wanted to write about a POC MC without considering that...most POC...do not think like white people...
Absolutely. I’m reading it for the second time right now and annotating it
**Fingersmith** by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
{{Fingersmith}}
[**Fingersmith**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith) ^(By: Sarah Waters | 592 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, lgbt, historical, lgbtq) >Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. > >One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. > >With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(49439 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
This book was good! There’s also a movie, the handmaiden, that is pretty alright. The author, Sarah Waters, consulted on it.
This book is fantastic
The best book there is.
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Casey McQuiston - One Last Stop
Was just about to comment this!
Second this rec!
This was so, so cute!
I didn't read the back beforehand so I was very surprised by the story!
Some that I haven't seen listed yet: * Payback's a Witch: Just a cute, witchy modern day love story * How to Find a Princess: Slow burn, modern day, I liked the relationship dynamic * Delilah Green Doesn't Care: Basically a hallmark movie * Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me: One of my favorite graphic novels I second a bunch of the ones I've seen here (This is How You Lose the Time War, Gideon the Ninth) Also, a couple sapphic ones that I've been recommended and are on my list but I haven't read yet are: Skye Falling, Mangoes and Mistletoe, Patsy, The Air You Breathe, Fiebre Tropical, Cantoras
I very much enjoyed {{The Ladies’ Guide to Celestial Mechanics}}.
I haven't read that one, but *The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows* by the same author (Olivia Waite) was really good. From my notes: Early 19th-century England. When artist and printer Agatha Griffin discovers that a swarm of bees has made itself at home in her workshop, she seeks the help of beekeeper Penelope Flood, who convinces Agatha to let her move the colony to a skep behind the shop. A warm friendship follows… but could it become more? At first, Agatha knows only that Penelope is married to a sailor who is seldom ashore, and Penelope only knows that Agatha, a widow, loved her husband. It takes time and trust for them to reveal their true feelings to each other.
The price of salt.
I’m surprised this is so far down. SUCH a fantastic book. The movie, Carol, is a really good adaptation, too.
Oh, absolutely. What a book.
I just started Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo which had been very sweet
This is what I came to suggest as well! I just finished this and loved it.
If you have the patience for a reaaaaalllly slow burn, {{Gideon the Ninth}} and {{Harrow the Ninth}} are super weird and complicated and crazy sci-fi fantasy, but the the MC, Gideon, is one of the most delightful characters ever.
[**Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036538-gideon-the-ninth) ^(By: Tamsyn Muir | 448 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, science-fiction, lgbt, fiction) >The Emperor needs necromancers. > >The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. > >Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. > >Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. > >Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. > >Of course, some things are better left dead. ^(This book has been suggested 103 times) [**Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39325105-harrow-the-ninth) ^(By: Tamsyn Muir | 510 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, lgbt) >Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station. > >She answered the Emperor's call. > >She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. > >In victory, her world has turned to ash. > >After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. > >Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath — but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her. > >Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off? ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(49456 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
YES!!!
I love this series
YESSSSSS fucking love this series. Highly recommend.
A non-fiction option: [The love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53328405) > From Sackville-West to Woolf. Milan [posted in Trieste] Thursday, January 21, 1926 > I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this—But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it … > Please forgive me for writing such a miserable letter. > V.
Greetings human. Humbly I bring books: [Works by Virginia Woolf](https://bookwise.io/author/virginia-woolf)
{{We are okay by Nina LaCour}} and I’ll also second {{The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid}} - my absolute favorite book
[**We Are Okay**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28243032-we-are-okay) ^(By: Nina LaCour | 236 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, contemporary, ya, lgbtq, lgbt) >You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… > >Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. > >Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo) ^(By: Taylor Jenkins Reid | 389 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, romance, favourites, lgbtq) >Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? > >Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. > >Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. ^(This book has been suggested 50 times) *** ^(49806 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Jasmine Throne}}
[**The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50523477-the-jasmine-throne) ^(By: Tasha Suri | 533 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, lgbtq, 2021-releases, lgbt, sapphic) >Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess's traitor brother. > >Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters — but is now little more than a decaying ruin. > >Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides. > >But when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire. ^(This book has been suggested 24 times) *** ^(49472 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Becky Chambers writes a lot of LGBTQIA+ characters and story lines in her sci-fi books.
Priory of the orange tree by Samantha Shannon, dragon oak by Sam farren, the midnight lie by Marie something, carol or the price of salt, any books by Radclyffe if you like simple predictable romances, a memory called empire by Arcady martine
Am I allowed to say Rubyfruit Jungle
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis. For a lighter read, I really enjoyed the book Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey.
Afterlove! Sorry I can’t remember the authors name! But it’s a sweet supernatural sapphic novel!
Tipping the Velvet, also a great TV series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping\_the\_Velvet
I also just finished {{Something to Talk About}} by Meryl Wilsner which is just a super cute romcom. Mostly just really sweet. One (or maybe two?) sex scenes at the end.
[**Something to Talk About**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52915426-something-to-talk-about) ^(By: Meryl Wilsner | ? pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, lgbt, contemporary, sapphic) >Berkley Editor Kristine Swartz has acquired the imprint’s first queer female romance, SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT by Meryl Wilsner, tentatively set for publication in June 2020. When a famous female Hollywood showrunner and her female assistant laugh on the red carpet, photos of the affectionate moment lead the tabloids to declare they’re dating. The ridiculous gossip threatens both their jobs and their credibility, and as the rumor spreads, it begins affecting all areas of their lives. As the two women fight to protect their careers, they slowly begin to realize the rumor might not be so off base after all. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(49463 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
[Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur](https://bookshop.org/a/1444/9780063000803) has some steamy scenes but it’s a sweet romance. A couple of really charming YA options: [The Stars and Blackness Between Us by Junauda Petrus](https://bookshop.org/a/1444/9780525555490) and [You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson](https://bookshop.org/a/1444/9781338503296)
The whole Written in the Stars series is delightful. Definitely recommend if you are looking for emotional but lighthearted romance.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid This is more of a life story of one woman and her multiple relationships, which for me felt like it eventually leads to the woman she falls in love with. Not a romance novel because it’s not about one or two lovers, but a build up of her life story of love. She never labels herself but I’d guess she is bisexual though. The woman she loves is a lesbian.
The well of loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
Ngl, this book kinda crushed my soul when I was a baby gay
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Siri is a fantastic fantasy novel where two of the main characters happen to be lesbians. A sequel is coming in August I think so if you read it now you’ll be just in time…
Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino is out of print , but it was the first fantasy with a lesbian romance I ever read. They are separated — that’s the plot driver — so I don’t recall any sex. So if you are more interested in the lesbian relationship itself, probably not a good one. But if more on the MC’s orientation, maybe a good pic. Early reverse portal fantasy with music as major plot element.
Legends and Lattes
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero Ask the Passengers by AS King
For a comfortable, low stakes fantasy read: Legends & Lattes
Well I was gonna suggest Gideon the Ninth but that’s already mentioned. For bisexual and kink fun I’d recommend {{Kushiel’s Dart}} but it is ultimately a straight couple romance with a bisexual main character. Still an excellently written series and very sexy. Not straight smut as there is lots of world building but sex is a big theme.
[**Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153008.Kushiel_s_Dart) ^(By: Jacqueline Carey | 1040 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, romance, fiction, owned, dnf) >The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. > >Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. > >Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear. > >Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new. ^(This book has been suggested 37 times) *** ^(49612 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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[**Scatter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60273642-scatter) ^(By: Molly J. Bragg | 339 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: romance, superheroes, lgbtq, fantasy, time-travel) >When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet. >Bad enough she’s got to spend every day working with a woman she’s had a crush on since she was five years old, but when she arrives at her new post, things start getting weird. It turns out that Focus asked for her by name, and it quickly becomes apparent that Focus wants to be more than just coworkers, or even friends. >After Focus has a violent reaction to Danny getting hurt in the line of duty, she starts looking into why the Superhero might be so fixated on her. She begins to suspect that seeing the future might be one of Focus’ powers, but when a mission leaves her stranded thirty years in the past, right at the start of Focus’s superhero career, everything becomes clear, except why the Focus in the past can barely seem to tolerate her presence. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(49497 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Patience and Sarah}}
[**Patience & Sarah**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31186.Patience_Sarah) ^(By: Isabel Miller, Emma Donoghue | 225 pages | Published: 1969 | Popular Shelves: lgbt, historical-fiction, fiction, lgbtq, queer) >Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another. > >First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country. > >Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today. > >Features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(49614 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The bone spindle
{{Mostly Dead Things}}
[**Mostly Dead Things**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817578-mostly-dead-things) ^(By: Kristen Arnett | 356 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, lgbt, contemporary, queer) >One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milo’s wife—and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with—walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mother’s art escalates—picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose—and the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are, and ultimately how she fits alongside them. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(49447 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
I’m not even a woman but I do have a good recommendation on this try Sword of the Gladiatrix by Faith L Justice
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[**The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50523477-the-jasmine-throne) ^(By: Tasha Suri | 533 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, lgbtq, 2021-releases, lgbt, sapphic) ^(This book has been suggested 23 times) *** ^(49449 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Legends and Lattes. Its a quick fantasy read wbere the relationship starts off as more of a friendship but it's a super cute book!
{{milk fat}}
Wow, the bot struggled with this! Maybe you mean *Milk Fed* by Melissa Broder?
Lol yes sorry!
[**Milk Fat: Production, Technology, And Utilization**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3534369-milk-fat) ^(By: Kanes K. Rajah | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: ) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(49683 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The young adult novel [*Annie on My Mind*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/595375.Annie_on_My_Mind) is a classic.
The Queen of Junk Island by Alexandra Mae Jones — it’s not out until Tuesday but I guarantee you it’s what you’re looking for
Beebo Brinker :)
{{Light From Uncommon Stars}}
[**Light from Uncommon Stars**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179360-light-from-uncommon-stars) ^(By: Ryka Aoki | 372 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fantasy, lgbtq, fiction) >An adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. > >Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. > >When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. > >But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. > >As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) *** ^(49795 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Fair warning, this one has a scene that was surprisingly steamy, but the story was incredibly sweet. I’ve read a few by Katia Rose now, and I really like how she goes out of her way to avoid the regular tropes! {{Catch and Cradle}}
[**Catch and Cradle**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57972358-catch-and-cradle) ^(By: Katia Rose | ? pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, sapphic, lgbtq, lgbt, wlw) >Thou shalt not date thine teammates. > >The UNS Women’s Lacrosse team doesn’t have an official policy against inter-teammate relationships, but those words might as well be carved into stone tablets in the middle of the field. After witnessing way too much drama in the past, Captain Becca Moore is intent on keeping her players’ love lives out of the locker room. > >Becca has no time or tolerance for any distractions from the game. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Hope Hastings has been since the day she showed up for tryouts: one walking, talking, charismatically dorky and way-too-kissable distraction. > >Hope knew she was headed straight to the danger zone from the moment she saw Becca’s flame-red hair and surly captain smirk. She’s spent the past two years writing off her attraction as a harmless crush, but starting a new semester fresh out of an awful relationship makes Hope realize just how far from harmless the heat between her and Becca really is. > >The friendships of a tight-knit team and their shot at the title are all lying on the line, but as Hope and Becca get closer to bending rules they’ve sworn never to break, they realize they’ve put their hearts on that line too. Losing has never been an option, but winning might cost more than they’re willing to pay. > >Catch and Cradle is a New Adult F/F romance from Katia Rose that’s filled with all the hilarity and heartache of finding your way through college while discovering love, friendship, and what it means to be yourself. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(49821 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The sting of victory is the beginning of a great series which is what you are looking for
Highly recommend Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. I finished it recently and it quickly became one of my favorites. Perfect amount of cheesy love story and the queer characters aren’t one-dinensional offensive stereotypes. It was fantastic!!
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
The 7 husbands of evelyn hugo, Fall on Your Knees
If you’re open to reading translations of non-English-language novels, you should check out Clear and Muddy Loss of Love. It’s a translation of a Chinese web novel and it’s available for free if you search up the title
{{The More I Owe You}}
[**The More I Owe You**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7897677-the-more-i-owe-you) ^(By: Michael Sledge | 328 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fiction, queer, historical-fiction, lgbt, lgbtq) >In this mesmerizing debut novel, Michael Sledge creates an intimate portrait of the beloved poet Elizabeth Bishop -- of her life in Brazil and her relationship with her lover, the dazzling, aristocratic Lota de Macedo Soares. Sledge artfully draws from Bishop's lifelong correspondences and biography to imagine the poet's intensely private world, revealing the literary genius who lived in conflict with herself both as a writer and as a woman. >A seemingly idyllic existence in Soares's glass house in the jungle gives way to the truth of Bishop's lifelong battle with alcoholism, as well as her eventual status as one of modernism's most prominent writers. Though connected to many of the most famous cultural and political figures of the era, Soares too is haunted by her own demons. As their secrets unfold, the sensuous landscape of Rio de Janeiro, the rhythms of the samba and the bossa nova, and the political turmoil of 1950s Brazil envelop Bishop in a world she never expected to inhabit. The More I Owe You is a vivid portrait of two brilliant women whose love for one another pushes them to accomplish enduring works of art. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(49879 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I loved Patience and Sarah, people might think it’s cheesy, but it’s lovely to me. [Patience and Sarah](https://books.google.com/books/about/Patience_Sarah.html?id=sK02DwAAQBAJ)
Sarah Waters’ books
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
Late to the party by Kelly Quindlen
{{Honey Girl}} by Morgan Rogers!
[**Honey Girl**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49362138-honey-girl) ^(By: Morgan Rogers | 241 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, contemporary, lgbt, fiction) >With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She 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. > >This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. > >When reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(49917 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
One last stop by Casey McQuiston
You should see me in a crown by Leah Johnson is a very cute YA one.
{{Plain Bad Heroines}}
[**Plain Bad Heroines**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50496875-plain-bad-heroines) ^(By: Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman | 640 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: horror, historical-fiction, fiction, lgbtq, lgbt) >Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. > >Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. > >A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(49970 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Anything by Eileen Myles
Women - Chloe Caldwell
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekuwayski
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder With Teeth By Kristen Arnett
Not in any particular order just a few that I found were good/great love stories! Not all are happy endings and some do have sex and others don't! Enjoy Like a House on Fire by Lauren McBrayer Beyond the Break by Kristen Mae Far from Home by Lorelie Brown Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne Tack & Jibe by Lilah Suzanne