As part of writing the Our Queerest Shelves newsletter for Book Riot, I keep a running list of upcoming queer book releases. Since we’re at the halfway point of the year, I wanted to share with you my list of 300+ sapphic books out in the first half of 2025, sortable and searchable by genre, release date, and representation. (Because no, not every sapphic book is an F/F romance: a sapphic book is any book with a sapphic main character. This list also includes some books about queer history broadly.)
This isn’t a complete list, of course. It’s impossible for me to keep track of all the self-published books that come out, for example, and I’m sure I’ve missed even big releases or gotten some details wrong; this is just the notes I’ve been working with to create lists on Our Queerest Shelves.
So, without further ado, here is the link to my spreadsheet of the sapphic books of 2025 so far. Feel free to make a copy and filter it however you’d like (for example, to only show the sci-fi books).
