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  • Strangers In Paradise, Pocket Book 3 by Terry Moore

    Strangers In Paradise, Pocket Book 3 by Terry Moore

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SiP Pocket Book 3 continues the Strangers In Paradise story with a brief glimpse at middle age for Katchoo and Francine. And with Katchoo's past buried with Darcy, things should be looking up for our trio, but will David soon follow in Darcy's footsteps? Don't miss the dramatic results of years of pushing back at the Parker organization!
  • Strangers In Paradise, Pocket Book 2 by Terry Moore

    Strangers In Paradise, Pocket Book 2 by Terry Moore

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The second Strangers In Paradise pocket book finds Katchoo following David to California where she comes face to face with Darcy Parker. When Darcy makes Katchoo an offer she can't refuse, Katchoo transforms from prey to predator and begins to spin a web of her own...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  bisexual  fantasy  length-medium
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  • Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    All Cameron Roberts and Blair Powell want is a small, intimate wedding, but the paparazzi and a domestic terrorist have other plans. First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts, newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic terrorism organization...
  • The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

    The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Following the death of her grandmother, reluctant heiress Madilyn Marak agrees to stay with her grandfather at the estate for the summer. While there, she finds a diary—The Apple Diary—written by her great-grandmother Isabel, telling the story of a long ago love affair with a woman named Lorah...
  • Pearly Gates by Bonnie Solomon

    Pearly Gates by Bonnie Solomon

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finalist – 2025 Readers' Favorite Awards. Finalist – 2025 American Fiction Awards. Meet Pearly Gates, the sassiest spirit guide in the afterlife—and maybe the least qualified. After dying and getting dumped by her supposedly eternal soulmate for being “emotionally unevolved,” Pearly—a former drag queen with a flair for drama—lands the worst gig in the beyond: cosmic sanitation...
  • Broken Wings by L.-J. Baker

    Broken Wings by L.-J. Baker

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a magical world where being different is the norm, why must Rye Woods fear for her life if the truth about her hidden identity is revealed? When Rye Woods, a fairy, meets the beautiful dryad Flora Withe, her libido, as squashed and hidden as her wings, reawakens along with her heart...
  • The Traitor And the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    The Traitor And the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tevi and Jemeryl, soldier and sorceress, must risk all in the race to uncover a traitor and retrieve the chalice that, in the wrong hands, could bestow dangerous powers. A dark presence is threatening to uncover long hidden secrets, and the future of the whole Protectorate is at stake...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  suspense  length-short
  • The High Priest and the Idol by Jane Fletcher

    The High Priest and the Idol by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jemeryl and Tevi's relationship is put to the test when the Guardian sends Jemeryl on a mission that lands her not only in harm's way, but also back into the sites of a previous lover. The Protectorate of Lyremouth promises liberty for all its citizens, but this does not mean that everyone is equal...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-medium
  • Sappho's Fables, Volume 1: Three Lesbian Fairy Tale Novellas (Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales) by Elora Bishop, Jennifer Diemer

    Sappho's Fables, Volume 1: Three Lesbian Fairy Tale Novellas (Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales) by Elora Bishop, Jennifer Diemer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Sappho's Fables series takes well-known, beloved fairy tales and retells them from a lesbian perspective. Volume One contains the first three novellas in the series: SEVEN (Snow White), BRAIDED (Rapunzel) and CRUMBS (Hansel and Gretel), compiled together in an enchanting omnibus edition. * SEVEN: A Lesbian Snow White...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  fantasy  f-f  length-short
  • A Pirate's Heart by Catherine Friend

    A Pirate's Heart by Catherine Friend

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one “thief of hearts” share a destiny beyond time. To foil a map thief, librarian Emma Boyd searches for a pirate's long-lost treasure map. She’s aided in her search by investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is beautiful...
    Categorized as:
    queer  pirates  historical  fantasy  f-f  contemporary  mystery  humor
  • Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 45 ratings
    Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret―but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they've needed to keep others out...
  • Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harper, Sword Maiden for the illustrious Goddess of the Open Sea, has returned to the fabled city of Griffon's Rock at the end of the Last Road to rest for the winter months after a disappointing year treasure hunting...
  • Watermark by Karin Kallmaker

    Watermark by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Teresa Mandrell's first encounter with advertising executive Rayann Germaine begins badly and goes downhill from there. Within minutes of their meeting, Rayann dubs Teresa a "bumbling amateur. " The event changes the course of Teresa's life -- she abandons the corporate world for what she hopes is a more satisfying career in Fine Arts Management...
  • Making Up for Lost Time by Karin Kallmaker

    Making Up for Lost Time by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When three love-starved lesbians decide to make up for lost time, the recipe is romance. And with Karin Kallmaker cooking, you know the result will be hot, spicy and mouth-wateringly delicious! Master Chef Jamie Onassis has used every penny she has to buy a beautiful country inn she plans to turn into a five-star restaurant...
  • Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    Earth * Air * Water * Fire. These elements have sustained the peaceful people of Shaftal for generations, with their subtle powers of healing, truth, joy, and intuition. But now, Shaftal is dying. The earth witch who ruled Shaftal is dead, leaving no heir. Shaftal's ruling house has been scattered by the invading Sainnites...
  • The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan

    The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world. • On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends – but can they resist their unique connection? • In an alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  contemporary  f-f
  • How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

    How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Venita Blackburn's characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They're hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In "Biology Class," they torment a teacher to the point of near insanity, while in "Bear Bear Harvest(TM)," they prepare to sell their excess fat and skin for food processing...
  • Learning Curve by Rachel Spangler

    Learning Curve by Rachel Spangler

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Genre: Lesbian romance. Ashton Clarke, a local Casanova with a long history of falling into bed with a different woman every night, is perfectly content with her free and easy existence until she gives in to her best friend’s request to spend an evening helping out at the local gay and lesbian youth center...
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    queer  f-f  fantasy  contemporary  length-short  audiobook
  • Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker

    Embrace in Motion by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation. .. or her ruin! Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things...
  • The Pyramid Waltz by Barbara Ann Wright

    The Pyramid Waltz by Barbara Ann Wright

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    To most, Princess Katya Nar Umbriel is a rogue and a layabout; she parties, she hunts and she breaks women’s hearts. But when the festival lights go down and the palace slumbers, Katya chases traitors to the crown and protects the kingdom’s greatest secret: the royal Umbriels are part Fiend...
  • Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

    Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France...
  • Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu

    Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love. But this is a world where a woman’s role is defined by religion and class. To make a life together means defying their families, the law, and the Church. The closer they become, and the more they refuse the roles assigned to them, the more sacrifices they have to make...
  • Only Her by N. Slater

    Only Her by N. Slater

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Daniela has stolen my heart, my body, and my soul. She’s mine. Even if she’s the soon-to-be Queen of Kusovania. Unfortunately, as a mere noble and the Kusovania’s royal seamstress, my chances at remaining by her side are slim to none. Until I somehow find myself standing before the King, competing against other royals for Daniela’s hand. I have nothing to offer except for my heart...
  • It's a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer

    It's a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Ashley Herring Blake, this sapphic retelling of It’s a Wonderful Life will make the yuletide gay. After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City...
  • You'll Never Forget Me by Isha Raya

    You'll Never Forget Me by Isha Raya

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this captivating cat-and-mouse thriller, a struggling actress is only just beginning to enjoy the life she's always wanted after inadvertently killing her rival—but now she must contend with the woman who threatens to take it all away. Struggling actress Dimple Kapoor wouldn’t call herself a murderer, per se—she’d prefer the term “opportunist...
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff

    Matrix by Lauren Groff

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 59 ratings
    One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies...
  • Not Exactly What I Had in Mind by Kate Brook

    Not Exactly What I Had in Mind by Kate Brook

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An irresistible, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family--and love--find you in the most unexpected places. Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as roommates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake or the best decision of their lives--they aren't quite sure yet...
    Categorized as:
    queer  contemporary  f-f  fantasy  humor  audiobook
  • The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

    The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistable" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven--and their world--from tearing apart forever. Niamh Kelly is dead...
  • Thieves by Lucie Bryon

    Thieves by Lucie Bryon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger’s mansion, and she sure as heck doesn’t know why she’s woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie’s nest of objects that aren’t her own...
  • Proud by Juno Dawson

    Proud by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020. Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzling new edition of the anthology, featuring a brand-new story and artwork. A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride...
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