Looking for more woman-centric adult books, preferably with a mostly female cast too (and female friendships PLEASE). Female authors are preferred. Also, I'd like as little romance as possible – if it's sapphic that's fine, but no romance with men, please. I like fantasy the most but do suggest some sci-fi and horror too!
Here are my favourite books/series:
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere as a whole, but especially The Stormlight Archive. It's not THAT woman-centric but the theme and plot are right up my alley
The Roots of Chaos by Samantha Shannon
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
Teixcalaan by Arkady Martine
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
by Sufficient_Energy
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Carmilla comes to mind as does Gideon the Ninth.
I liked Carmilla but did not finish Gideon the Ninth so I can’t attest to how it is.
there’s a new book coming out in june by VE schwab called bury our bones in the midnight soil. it has a mostly female cast, sapphic themes, and is a fantasy iirc! all of VE schwabs books i’ve read are amazing, you should check her out
*The Red Tree* by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Tasha Suri’s Burning Kingdom, beginning with *The Jasmine Throne*
Some recent reads with FMCs I’ve enjoyed:
The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
Circe – Madeline Miller
Blood Over Bright Haven – M.L. Wang
She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan
If you’re interested in more YA Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta is pretty good (there is romance but it is sapphic)
Similarly YA graphic novel On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (similarly sapphic romance)
All sapphic:
The Radiant Emperor by Shelley Parker Chan — Historical fantasy duology
The Masquerade by Seth Dickinson — Dystopian fantasy series
The Burning Kingdom by Tasha Suri — High fantasy trilogy
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone — Time travel sci-fi novel
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson — Dystopian sci-fi novel
Slow River by Nicola Griffith — Cyberpunk novel
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield — Magical realism / horror novel
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden — Cozy sci-fi graphic novel
Some great suggestions here! I’m also going to shout out r/ FemaleGazeSFF as a place for more recs and some interesting discussion of the topic.