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  • Like a Calling by Lexa Luthor

    Like a Calling by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Sworne have returned to the Milky Way!The Sworne arrive in Kander's airspace and demand only one thing; the surrender of all Earthlings for termination. Upon Kal's refusal, fighting ensues and hostages are taken on both sides until Kal and Charlie win the skirmish, forcing a ceasefire...
  • Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor

    Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An F/F Omegaverse Sci-Fi Romance Any landing you can limp away from is a good one! Faced with news about the future, Kal determines she must prepare her planet for a possible war. But will Charlie be there to support her? Or will Charlie run back to the stars? Join Charlie and Kal as their story continues in Book 4 of The Alpha God series...
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  • Rhapsody by Molly J. Bragg

    Rhapsody by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Megan Harwood never wanted to be a hero. She just wanted to indulge the two great loves of her life, woodworking and music, and for the last few years, she’s done just that running a small guitar making business in Sun City Florida with her dad’s help...
  • This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne

    This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She's also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside her best friend, Quian. So, when Subarch Kessandra, Valkesh's favorite royal--and Nix's loathed ex--requests Nix's help investigating a masacre in the abyssal city of Fall, Nix refuses. Vehemently.She should have known Kessandra would fight back...
  • Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Evelyn enjoyed living a nice, quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry...
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    queer  science fiction  fantasy  f-f  length-long
  • Sea Wolf by Anna Burke

    Sea Wolf by Anna Burke

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them.Life aboard the mercenary ship Man o’ War is rarely dull as hurricanes, swarms of jellyfish, and man-eating squid pose daily doses of danger...
  • Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Evelyn's deeds are coming back to haunt her.Free to travel among the stars, the former warlord is enjoying her freedom, even if she’s occasionally exasperated by the women who’ve attached themselves to her. They accompany her as she encounters wonders, from dryad terraforming ships to the orcish arenas of Skaloth.Yet Evelyn has enemies, and they have not forgotten her...
    Categorized as:
    queer  science fiction  fantasy  f-f
  • The Sovereign of Psiere by K. Aten

    The Sovereign of Psiere by K. Aten

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Psiere is a world of intrigue where old ideology meets new. The Makers built massive pyramids on each continent and filled them with encrypted texts and advanced technology. The two suns, Archeos and Illeos shine down on a mostly undiscovered planet with a psionic race of people living on land, and violent sea people below the water...
  • Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 78 ratings
    Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits...
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 162 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 101 ratings
    Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  science fiction  f-f  mystery  magic  young adult  dark
  • Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

    Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet...
  • A Journey of the Heart by Catherine M. Wilson

    A Journey of the Heart by Catherine M. Wilson

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In Book II of the trilogy, Tamras’s apprenticeship as a warrior isn’t turning out quite the way she expected. Her unconventional choices lead to her crossing swords, almost literally, with Vintel, the war leader of Merin’s house. She finds herself embroiled in a power struggle she is doomed to lose, but the loss sends her on a journey that will change her destiny and decide the fate of her people...
  • Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 68 ratings
    Her city is under siege.The zombies are coming back.And all Nona wants is a birthday party.In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back...
  • Compass Rose by Anna Burke

    Compass Rose by Anna Burke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    In the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what’s at stake for those who sail them.Rose was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins...
  • Always Human by Ari North

    Always Human by Ari North

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amassed over 76,000 unique subscribers during its run. Now reformatted for a print edition in sponsorship with GLAAD, Always Human is a beautifully drawn graphic novel about a developing relationship between two young women in a near-future, soft sci-fi setting...
  • Elder by Audrey Faye

    Elder by Audrey Faye

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A note from Audrey: Some series can be read out of order - this isn’t one of them. Start with Alpha and welcome to Ghost Mountain!The Ghost Mountain pack has been waiting for their fancy new den building for months, but it won't be the only thing unloading off the trucks...
  • Sentinel by Audrey Faye

    Sentinel by Audrey Faye

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Newborns change everything—even when they haven’t arrived yet.The birth of a baby raven is expected any day now, and Ghost Mountain Pack is kind of falling apart, or at least their dominants are. A tiny ball of fluff calls on some of their most powerful instincts—and slices into their deepest wounds.Rio knows it’s his job as sentinel to walk alongside those dominants as they struggle...
  • The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

    The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 33 ratings
    The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa—has proven a blessing and curse. She is determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with the strength of the rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side, deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight...
  • Every Exquisite Thing by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson

    Every Exquisite Thing by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Anna Lightwood, eldest child of Gabriel and Cecily, is mad, bad and dangerously dapper. Every rake has an origin story, though: now under Brother Zachariah’s eye we see Anna’s doomed love story unfold...
  • If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

    If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental health at the end of the world-and the importance of saving yourself, no matter what tomorrow may hold.Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression...
  • Aether by Molly J. Bragg

    Aether by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    When Maggie Bennett agreed to take a break from her own research to be the test subject in an experiment, all she wanted to do was help her best friend Sierra secure grant funding for the new medical imaging machine she was developing...
  • My Everything by Lexa Luthor

    My Everything by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Holy Kal! Now what?Can an alliance be made between Kander and their enemies? And have the Sworne really left Kander's solar system? Join the duo as they face equal parts danger and love...
  • The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

    The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 60 ratings
    Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess's traitor brother...
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 166 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about...
  • The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi

    The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire's past. And the truth they find has the power to ignite a war in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by Africa and Arabia.Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil...
  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 91 ratings
    The Carls just appeared.Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life...
  • Mistress of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Mistress of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Evelyn wishes that her life would calm down.As if rescuing a former empress wasn’t enough of a problem, Evelyn has gotten herself involved in the affairs of dragons, something she doesn’t appreciate in the slightest. Even dealing with them might be easier than what comes afterward, as it seems that her luck is even worse than she thought it was...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Winter is coming. Having been attacked by a group that worshiped Satsuki Uruma, Sorawo and Toriko head to the cult's former base—the Farm in the Mountains. The other world is still chock full of all kinds of dangerous mysteries, but the allure of exploring the unknown is ever present...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo's kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura's house...
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