Editor's Pick: Sapphic Books to Read

Boy meets girl. A cynic who works in HR meets a helpless romantic all too versed in rom-com movies. Which one is which, though? Hang the Moon is an adorable role reversal novel. In addition, there’s a sweet subplot of girl meets girl happening here!...

"Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone... There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason...

A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, a hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by author Racquel Marie.Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food,...

A chance to rewrite their ending is worth the risk in this swoony romantic comedy from Kosoko Jackson.It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a café...

Cat Sebastian’s books have quietly populated our bookshelves for a couple of years now. Sebastian has been steps ahead in portraying LGBTQIA+ romance in a historical setting. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb is your perfect introduction to two...

(Available after 3-20 days)Bloomington High School Lions’ star goalie Sebastian Hughes should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing, and he’s got a coach who doesn’t ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged...

Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in Reputation, a Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice, Lex Croucher.Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana...

(Available after June 30th, 2022)Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush,   It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't stop thinking about the time we almost... Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more...

(Available after 3-20 days) The room is dark, except for the streetlights coming through the blinds. I can barely see her, but I feel her. She pushes me up against the wall and we kiss harder than we ever have before. I've been waiting so long for it to...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)High school sucks. Especially for the undead.“This is the lesbian vampire boarding school story I've always needed, but it's smarter, nastier, and more fun than I ever could have dreamed." —Kylie Schachte, author...

Dickinson meets Booksmart with a dash of Little Women in Infamous, a Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from Lex Croucher, the author of Reputation.Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (“Eddie”) Miller and her best friend...

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.“Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it.”—Laini TaylorA magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine...

This house eats and is eaten . . ."A riveting debut from a remarkable new voice! Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jade's father is determined to restore a decrepit home to its former glory and Jade is the only person who...

A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last summer in ZR Ellor's contemporary YA debut.Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his...

When tech scavenger Xích Si is captured and imprisoned by the infamous pirates of the Red Banner, she expects to be tortured or killed. Instead, their leader, Rice Fish, makes Xích Si an utterly incredible proposition: an offer of marriage.Both have...

(Available after February 28th, 2023)An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com by debut author Taleen Voskuni. When Nareh Bedrossian’s non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on...

This irresistible adult debut from beloved YA author Jennifer Dugan is a queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care and Written in the Stars, in which a woman gives a drunken bathroom pep talk to a hot stranger, only to find out it’s the...

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience... Tansy Adams’...

(Available after 3-20 days) Can The Posh Student Win The Uptight Professor? Helen Swift is almost fifty and tired of her day job as a professor at Oxford University. She prefers to write cozy mysteries under a well-hidden pen name in her Cotswolds...

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh’s...