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i love criers war and i'm reading afterlove rn!

* Wild and Wicked Things (Got an ARC of this and its AMAZING)
*Girl, Serpent, Thorn (haven't read but is sapphic)
*Lady Hotspur (haven't read but is sapphic)
*The Dark Tide (haven't read but says in blurb is sapphic enemies to lovers)
*This Poison Heart (haven't read but is supposed to be sapphic. also POC rep)
*The Jasmine Throne (haven't read but is sapphic)
*The Mask of Mirrors (haven't read but I believe MC is bi.)
*Rule (super good, has a sapphic relationship)
*The Priory of the Orange Tree (pls my beloved)
I'm so sorry for the long list lol

Basically its a science-fiction book, with a bisexual main character, a woman. Its like end of the world book with robots and all !! Its a series of two books, really good and i recommend highly !



You might want to give Survived by Her Longtime Companion a try. It's similar to TSHOEH in that two of the MCs are actresses, one bigger than the other, there's jealousy, hurt, etc. It's an underhyped sapphic book, but I think it deserves more recognition.

- Her royal highness - Rachel Hawkins (normal person falls for princess-trope +in general super-cute, "falling in love with your royal classmate in boarding school BUT MAKE IT GAY" quotes it very well)
- The dark tide - Alicia Jasinska (slow-burn, opposites attract, love-reforms-villain-trope, grumpy x sunshine, but trigger warning: it has some passages regarding mental health: there's a reason the villain turned a villain, duh, a bad person is not always bad...)
- The ones we burn - Rebecca Mix (publishing in November, 2022) (she falls for the prince....'s sister, that's literally all you need to know :D)
- Malice (Malice Duology) - Heather Walter (haven't read it yet but it's a sapphic retelling of “Sleeping Beauty")
- Girls of paper and fire - Natasha Ngan (haven't read it yet but only heard good stuff about it, BUT huge trigger warning!)
Apart from all those enemies-to-lovers-trope books i am (patiently-unpatiently) planning to read:
- Anyone but her - Erica Lee; Colorblind - Siera Maley anddd am currently reading We set the dark on fire - Tehlor Kay Mejia
i'd love to see some more recommendations!
it makes it so much easier to find a new amazing book to read :)

if you love pirates, gay girls, and Chinese culture this book will tear you apart. im actually in love with it


It's Not Like It's A Secret- This book is awonderful path of self discovery
Odd One Out- This book has 3 different perspectives (one of which being a lesbian) I read it about 3 years about so I don't remember much but it's an amzing book.

I just bought that book but it won't be here for a while so I was wondering if you liked it and what POV it was written in like first perosn or third person?


One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Under the Sitka Sky by Violet Morley

Also because I feel guilty for the self promo, here's a list of all the sapphic books I love! They all either have a sapphic lead or a sapphic POV character.
The falling in love montage
Three dark crowns
I hope you’re listening
Girls of paper and fire
Clap when you land
Crier’s war
Throwaway girls
The art of saving the world
Music from another world
Wench
We are okay
The midnight lie
The stars and the blackness between them
The girl of hawthorn and glass
The year shakespeare ruined my life
Fire with fire
When we were magic
Pulp
These witches don’t burn
Laurel everywhere
The scapegracers
6 angry girls
Ruinsong
Never kiss your roommate
The mermaid, the witch, and the sea
Bruised
Wilder girls
Laura dean keeps breaking up with me
The never tilting world
Not my ruckus
The priory of the orange tree
Written in the stars
This is how you lose the time war
Giant days
Perfect on Paper
mercurial
We set the dark on fire
Cool for the summer
Lumberjanes
The love curse of melody mcintyre
Before we were blue
The girls I’ve been
The dead and the dark
Cheer Up
Like Other Girls
Honey Girl
One Last Stop
Victories Greater than Death
Sweet and Bitter Magic
Rising Out
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist
The one true me and you
The girl from the sea
Summer in the city of roses
Echo after echo
Sisters of shadow
Last night at the telegraph club
The chosen and the beautiful
Still stace
Goldie vance
Some girls do
She gets the girl
Two winters
The seven husbands of Evelyn hugo
Reclaim the stars
Summer of salt
The helheim princess
Ghost wood song
Every variable of us
Silhouette of a sparrow
The queen of junk island
My dearest darkest
Primal animals
Baby teeth
Let’s talk about love
Ramona Blue
This Vicious Grace
Labyrinth Lost
When Katie Met Cassidy
Tell Me How You Really Feel
The Last True Poets of the Sea
Yerba Buena
As I Descend
Love is for losers
When you get the chance
Princess princess ever after
Fun Home

Read Between the Lines -- Rachel Lacey
Wrong Number, Right Woman -- Jae
Gillette Park -- Gerri Hill (more of a paranormal WLW romance. Psychic who helps solve a serial killer case by talking to the victims. Check trigger warnings for this book before reading.)
Breaking Character, Hotel Queens, The Red Files -- Lee Winter
Ask, Tell -- E.J. Noyes (Takes place during Don't Ask, Don't Tell military policy held by the US until 2011.)

It's such an underground read tbh. It's about 2 women with an age gap, in showbusiness. Kinda a slow burn but that's what kept me going to finish this read.
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