On the Lesbrary’s list of favorite 2025 releases, I named The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri as both my most anticipated 2025 release and my favorite sapphic read of the year. As said in that post, the author’s clear yet lyrical writing delivers an aching star-crossed romance, a high-stakes adventure, and ever-relevant anti-colonial commentary. InRead More
Fake Dating Roommates: The Snowball Effect by Haley Cass, Narrated by Lori Prince
Regan Gallagher and Emma Bordeaux share a mutual friend, Sutton Spencer, and an apartment, but they are NOT friends. Ever since getting off on the wrong foot two years before their living arrangement, Emma has shown nothing but disdain for Regan. Unrelenting and hopeful, Regan is determined to change the nature of their relationship andRead More
650 Sapphic Books That Came Out in 2025
I made a spreadsheet of 650 books with sapphic main characters that came out in 2025! Here are my caveats: You can make a copy of this and filter by genre, identity, or both! I hope it’s helpful.
The Lesbrary’s Favorite Sapphic Reads of 2025
Earlier this month, the Lesbrary reviewers shared our picks for the best sapphic books of 2025. But we also discovered plenty of new-to-us favorites that weren’t published this year. So, here are eight of our top sapphic reads of the year that didn’t come out in 2025—though they are all relatively recently published. (And oneRead More
A Collection Beyond My Grasp: Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang Review
Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (she/her) won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and was hailed as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Described as “[v]isceral stories that center the bodies, memories, myth, and relationships of Asian American women” (back cover) and “unapologetically queer” (The Guardian), I wasRead More
Wrangling Chaos and Grief: Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Review
Recently, I was complaining to my sister about one of my pet peeves in fiction: stories featuring an academic or student that is vague about that character’s area of interest or research. Get specific about it! Include some nerdy tangents! Don’t just have a character vaguely be described as an art historian or a classicistRead More
Reaching Across Generations: Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto
In Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Next Time Will Be Our Turn, sixteen-year-old Izzy is shocked, along with the rest of her family, when her glamorous grandmother, Magnolia, walks into the family’s New Year’s celebration with a woman on her arm. In the midst of the fallout from this shocking revelation, Magnolia sits Izzy down to share herRead More
A Queer and Feminist Murder Ballad: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Review
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a modern sapphic classic, but I somehow I ended up reading El-Mohtar’s new novella first. It did not disappoint—in fact, it was the final push I needed to finally pick up This is How You Lose the Time War, andRead More
A Beautifully Melancholic Read: Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Briefly, A Delicious Life has been on my radar for years—a literary novel with a sapphic ghost main character? I’m listening. But it made its way to the top of my TBR after I read and loved Nell Stevens’s 2025 release, The Original. This one follows Blanca, who died when she was 14 years oldRead More
Moving the Goalposts: It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson
Charlie Porter is a force to be reckoned with on and off the ice. After accidentally starting a brawl, she’s suspended from school, meaning no hockey this season—and no chance to play in front of college scouts. Alexa Goldstein’s pairs skating partner was hurt in the fight, and with only four months until their nextRead More