I want books with wlw or bisexual women to read. Any genre is fine and I don't really mind the type of plot either. Honestly I don't even care if it's a happy ending or not. So far I have read carmilla and blood on her tongue but I can't think of any other right now. Any suggestions welcome
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A restless truth by Freya marske
[Of Friction by S.J.Lee](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1a4bdaee-1052-4692-af1e-6ec5d8ff711f) is a sci-fi novel about a kickass military woman in an elite unit trying to uncover a rebellion. Oh, and she falls for one of the other women in the unit.
Sci-fi
Novis by Rachel Tonks Hill: Lesbian mercenaries fight alien monsters. F/F/F
Xuya books by Aliette de Bodard: Space opera in a Vietnamese space empire, stories range from mystery to drama, as best I recall all protagonists are lesbians, one I think we don’t learn her orientation in the story.
The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz: Hard to summarize this one, but it involves a genetically engineered terraformer and her friend the talking flying moose, deep ecology and fighting immortal space capitalists
Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine
Space Opera about a woman from a small space station that practices a sort of cybernetic ancestor worship is sent as ambassador to the massive empire, accompanied by a malfunctioning personality imprint of her predecessor.
Chronicles of Alsea-Fletcher DeLancey
Space opera about a planet of empathic aliens under threat by a space empire, and their defenders from the not!Federation.
Empress of Forever-Max Gladstone**
Modern woman falls through time into a space future that seems strangely familiar
This Is How You Lose the Time War- Max Gladstone and
Malka Older’s *Infomocracy* (near future political thriller) and *Mossa and Pleiti* (Detective stories on Jupiter) series
*Arctic Rising* by Tobias Buckell**
Near-future spy thriller in the newly-thawed Northwest Passage
Ocean Binman Jasmin Joachims
Post apocalypse garbage collecter gets caught up in politics
*Upright Women Wanted* by Sarah Gailey
Traveling librarians in the post apocalyptic American Southwest
Sapphic fantasy
Historical/modern
Longshadow -Olivia Atwater
Regency lesbian faerie YA romance
Gatekeeper trilogy by Layla Lawlor- Art student acquires a magic sword and faerie mentor while realizing she’s not as straight as she told the roommate she’s now crushing on. F/F/F, very slow burn, mostly not romance as such. Modern
Complementary* by Celia Lake, (sapphic, midwife and magicican are sent to an artist’s colony for a magical mystery, 1940s)
Of Socialites and Prizefights – Arden Powell
Cursed dancer meets boxing mechanic. Butch/femme romance, 1920s
A Restless Truth*- Freya Marske – Young magician searches steamship for magical McGuffin and a way into her attractive shipmate’s knickers. 1920s IIRC
When the Angels Left the Old Country – Sascha Lamb A Heartwarming tale of angels, demons, lesbians, and labor organizing, early 20th Century
A Haunting at Hartwell Hall -Rachel Bowdler
Spiritualist is called to investigate a haunting, the owner’s beautiful daughter is a sceptic. Early 20th century
Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott Carpenter inherits Baba Jaga’s cottage. Modern
The Undetectables- Courtney Smyth Disabled detective and her friends seek to solve a series of magical murders. Modern
Spear- Nicola Griffith Peredur goes to join the Companions of King Arthur. She’s a lesbian disguised as a man. Post-Roman Britain
When Women Were Warriors Catherine M Wilson. Maybe historical fiction really. Coming of age in prehistoric Britain.
A Dead Djinn in Cairo/A Master of Djinn – P. Djeli Clark.** Dapper lesbian investigates supernatural crimes in an early-20th Century Cairo where the return of Djinni and magic some decades previous drove out the colonizers and made Egypt a world power
My Heart’s in the Highlands- Amy Hoff
Outlander but sapphic.
Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
Secondary world
Legends and Lattes- Travis Baldree** Orc warrior leaves adventuring to open a coffeeshop
Tomes and Tea – Rebecca Thorne. Warrior leaves the tyrannical Queen’s guard to open a tea/bookshop with her archmage girlfriend
Swan’s Braid – Tanya Huff: Sapphic thief adventures in a sword and sorcery setting
A Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry: queernormative pseudo-Victorian setting, gutter witch meets butch aristo on a bodyguard job, sparks happen literally and figuratively
Burningblade and Silvereye series – Django Wexler** Science fantasy where the class war is fought with magical rayguns and strange biotechnology
Dark Lord Davi by Django Wexler battle, dies, and starts back over. After a few hundred times around, she tries something different.
The Water Outlaws- S.L. Huang Based on the Chinese classic, but really queer.
Rosewood Penny-JS Fields All the dragons are gone, and the magic too. Today the island is a grim and shabby place, where bandits like Morgan haunt the roads. Until, that is, the noblewoman she’s robbing is wearing her mother’s dragonscale comb and addresses her by name.
Singing Hills series- Nghi Vo A monk and their memory bird companion collect stories, most of which are sapphic.
In the Vanishers’ Palace-Aliette de Bodard
Sapphic rendition of Beauty and the Beast in a magical Vietnamese setting, with a dragon playing Beast
The Warden series-Daniel M Ford**
D&D style fantasy world, Necromancer gets the job of protecting a village by the wastelands
Gardener’s Hand series by Felicia Davis
Telepathy, long distance travel, polyamory
*The Mountain God Sleeps on its Back* by Sam Farren
Laslin is a young god, wandering the world looking for ways to help people, but no great deeds seem to need done.
*The Keeper of Magical Things* by Julie Leong
A mage with a particular talent is assigned to deal with storing magical artifacts in the least magical place in the world, accompanied by an overachieving prodigy in mysterious disgrace.
*Part of a series that isn’t all sapphic
**Written my a man, if that matters to you
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid!! My favourite book of the year