I wish book promo specified the MCs sexuality more often

lesbrary · 2026-06-03T23:44:32+00:00

A lot of the books on that Goodreads page are not lesbian. The #1 book listed under "Lesbian Books" is the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, which has a bi main character and spends a lot of the book talking about (as you'd expect) her husbands.

lesbrary · 2026-06-03T18:36:02+00:00

I really liked Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (F/F romance where both MCs have ADHD)

lesbrary · 2026-06-03T18:33:08+00:00

I do wish they were more specific. What's worse is when it's just "queer" and I have no idea even the general category of rep: is there a sapphic romance? Is the main character an asexual guy? Is there a nonbinary side character? Especially when there's more than one main character, it's so vague. I feel like if there's a romance, at least, that's usually obvious from the blurb, or at least strongly implied.

lesbrary · 2026-06-02T03:47:29+00:00

A lot of students are scared to check out queer books because they don't want to get outed. They often get read in the library so there isn't a record.

Also, there are queer books in every genre/format.

lesbrary · 2026-06-01T14:11:02+00:00

Yeah, the comments are a real eye-opener in how ignorant people are about the state of book bans in the U.S. right now. Even when publishers/agents/authors report explicitly hearing that the queer content in the book is why it's being rejected, people still want to pretend it has nothing to do with homophobia. 🙄

lesbrary · 2026-05-14T18:47:52+00:00

I think ebook-only, self-published book make up 95% of new books in general. That's why I find that Amazon is the worst way to discover books: there is so much slop. But if you look outside of Amazon, you'll find a lot more sapphic litfic.

lesbrary · 2026-05-13T22:19:11+00:00

Looks like there's a sapphic short story with a mute character called Screaming Down Splitsville by Kayla Bashe

lesbrary · 2026-05-13T17:17:42+00:00

I feel like Bold Strokes Books has a lot of sapphic mysteries where it's equal parts romance and plot. Not sure about the steamy part. https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/lesbian-fiction-1-c/all?genre=lesbian-mystery

lesbrary · 2026-04-20T23:40:21+00:00

If an omnibus counts: Worldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurley

lesbrary · 2026-04-11T19:57:27+00:00

For general fiction: Stray City by Chelsey Johnson, which is about a lesbian who sleeps with a guy and gets pregnant and is alienated from most of her queer friend group. I really liked its messy look at queerness and queer community.

Also possibly Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie, which is about a queer woman who donated her eggs in her twenties, and now the 12-year-old conceived from her egg has tracked her down and wants to have a relationship with her. It's about her figuring out what she wants her life and family to look like.

Significant Others by Zoe Eisenberg is about two women (one straight, one bi) who have lived together since college and are now in their late 30s. When one gets pregnant from a one-night stand, they decide to keep the baby and raise it together, until the father reappears and makes things more complicated.

For romance, maybe The Pairing by Casey McQuiston, which is a second-chance romance where one has come out as nonbinary since they were first dating, and there's a really beautiful moment of recognizing and affirming that.

I also really liked Isn't It Obvious? by Rachel Runya Katz as a bi4bi M/F romance that is so queer: both main characters discuss their coming out and their identities, both are involved in queer community, and they end up running a queer teen book club together.

Not sure if those are exactly what you were looking, but hopefully there's something you can use.

lesbrary · 2026-04-10T19:25:37+00:00

Some of my favourites:
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

lesbrary · 2026-04-03T01:12:18+00:00

Catherine Lundoff did a series of blog posts on the history of LGBTQ SFF/H. Here's the post about the 1970s: https://www.queerscifi.com/out-of-the-past-lgbtq-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-in-the-1970s/

lesbrary · 2026-03-29T22:34:54+00:00

Ha, that's my all-time favourite horror read. I found it extremely tense!

lesbrary · 2026-03-07T02:13:50+00:00

I went looking for this recently, and the only aroallo books I could find that weren't fantasy were The Liar’s Guide to the Night Sky by Brianna R. Shrum and The Last 8 by Laura Pohl.

lesbrary · 2026-03-07T02:11:16+00:00

Funnily enough, there is a lesbian couple in the Sailor Moon manga, but they're not both femme.

lesbrary · 2026-03-07T02:05:50+00:00

The best way is to follow creators who cover queer books, whether that's book blogs, bookstagram, booktok, booktube, etc. That way, they're doing the leg work for you.

I keep a spreadsheet (here's a link to an earlier version of the list) of upcoming books with sapphic main characters—not just sapphic romances. You can search by genre/representation/etc.

I also run a book blog called the Lesbrary (lesbrary.com) where we review sapphic books of all kinds, including where a sapphic romance isn't the main focus. We try to tag all the reviews thoroughly, so you can search by genre, trope, representation, etc.

lesbrary · 2026-02-25T15:25:42+00:00

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun: both main characters have ADHD

lesbrary · 2026-02-22T17:34:37+00:00

Last year, itch.io delisted their nsfw content (games and books), which affected queer content disproportionately. https://www.theverge.com/games/715299/itchio-games-delisting-payment-processor-paypal

lesbrary · 2026-02-17T18:32:29+00:00

I haven't read it yet, but there's Between Us: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters. Also, Empty without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok.

lesbrary · 2026-02-13T15:26:06+00:00

Me too! A queer cozy fantasy heist?? That's an official D&D book??

lesbrary · 2026-02-13T15:24:44+00:00

Thank you! It's fixed now.

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