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Regency time slips, subway ghosts in time and letters across a war.
8 books · all 8 with full LRR reviews · 6 adult · 2 YA · heat and endings marked
The best sapphic time travel books are One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, a time slip rom-com on a New York subway, Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott, a sweet YA trip to 1812, and This Is How You Lose the Time War, an award-winning love story between rival time agents.
Lesbian time travel romance goes in both directions, into the past and out of it, so each card says the setup, who it is for and how it ends.
All eight have full LRR reviews.
Sapphic Time Travel Books at a Glance
Sapphic time travel comes in three flavors: a modern woman dropped into the past, a woman from the past stuck in the present, and science fiction loops. Here is the setup and the ending for each.
| Book | Time travel setup | Audience | Heat | Ending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh | 2023 to Regency 1812 | YA | 1/5 | Happy, no sequel |
| One Last Stop | Woman stuck in time on a subway | Adult | 3/5 | HEA, standalone |
| This Is How You Lose the Time War | Rival time agents | Adult | 1/5 | Free and together |
| Time and Tide | Modern woman to 1805 | Adult | 3/5 | Happy ending |
| Scatter | Marshal thirty years back | Adult | 4/5 | Happy, by reader accounts |
| Time and Time Again | YA time loop | YA | 1/5 | Not confirmed in our review |
The Best Sapphic Time Travel Books
Six time travel books with a sapphic love story at the center.
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston · standalone
August keeps meeting the same girl on the Q train, and then learns Jane has been stuck there since the 1970s.
A warm, funny rom-com with one of the best found family casts in the genre.
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Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh
Rachael Lippincott
Audrey, an 18-year-old artist stuck in 2023 Pittsburgh, lands in 1812 England on the estate of Lucy Sinclair, an heiress whose father wants her married off.
Sweet, funny and kind. It is not a close Pride and Prejudice retelling, and the time travel has no rules.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone · novella
Two agents on opposite sides of a war across time start leaving each other letters.
It swept the novella awards of its year. Lyrical and strange, so read the first pages before you commit.
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Time and Tide
J.M. Frey
A modern bisexual woman crash-lands in 1805 and falls for the novelist she grew up reading.
Outlander energy in Austen’s England. The loud narrator divides readers, and a man gets page time before the sapphic romance does.
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Scatter
Molly J. Bragg
A supervillain fight strands a deputy marshal thirty years in the past with the superhero she has loved since she was a kid.
Queer joy and comic book energy. The time travel is loose by design.
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Time and Time Again
Chatham Greenfield
Phoebe Mendel has lived August 6th for nearly a month, desperate to reach the doctor who might take her IBS seriously.
A low-stakes YA rom-com with chronic illness representation. Readers finish it in a day.
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More Time Slip Romance
Sweet Paladin
Alex Washoe
A twelfth-century paladin lands in modern Seattle and falls for a chef.
Ending: The arc resolves. No cliffhanger reported.
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Mughal Mommy
Jaspreet K. Bajwa
A modern PhD student wakes in a Mughal emperor’s harem and clashes with the woman who rules it.
Ending: Not confirmed. One reader calls it beautiful after a sad middle.
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Into the Past or Out of It?
Most sapphic time travel sends a modern woman back: Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh and Time and Tide to Regency England, Mughal Mommy to the Mughal court. The reverse is rarer and often funnier: Jane in One Last Stop and the paladin in Sweet Paladin are the ones out of time. This Is How You Lose the Time War is pure science fiction.
For more Regency without the time machine, see Regency lesbian romance books. For more science fiction, see lesbian sci-fi books.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best sapphic time travel books?
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Is there a lesbian time travel romance with a happy ending?
Yes. One Last Stop has an HEA, Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh ends happily, and readers describe happy endings for Time and Tide and Scatter.
Is there a YA sapphic time travel book?
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh is a sweet, closed-door YA Regency time travel story. Time and Time Again is a YA time loop rom-com.
Is One Last Stop time travel?
It is a time slip. Jane is stuck out of time on a New York subway line since the 1970s, and August works out how to help her.
Is there a sapphic Outlander?
Time and Tide by J.M. Frey is the closest match: a modern bisexual woman lands in 1805 and falls for a Regency novelist.
Related Genres and Guides
Related speculative reads: sapphic superhero books, sapphic space opera and sapphic dystopian books. For history without the time machine, see historical sapphic romance.
How We Chose These Books
This selection uses our own full reviews wherever LRR has reviewed a book, plus author and publisher descriptions where a specific trope needs direct support. Every card says why the book fits this exact trope. Cards marked “LRR full review” link to a review where we went through Goodreads, StoryGraph, trade reviews and reader discussion before scoring it. Cards marked “Publisher description” or “Author description” are researched picks that we have not reviewed yet, and we say so rather than pretend otherwise. Ending notes come from our review or from an explicit promise in the book’s own description. Theme notes are not complete content warnings.
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