16 November Releases for Your TBR
Sixteen verified sapphic releases land in November 2026, and November is the month the genre’s supply chain shows itself. Half of them come from small LGBTQ+ presses — five from Bold Strokes alone, all dated the same day — while the big publishers arrive with two young adult books, a queer fairy-tale fantasy and the first sapphic title we have seen from Harlequin Medical Romance. The rest are self-published, including two of the month’s three Christmas romances.
Every date below was checked against the publisher and at least one retailer on 2 October 2026. The four Bold Strokes novels carry two real dates — 1 November direct from the publisher, 10 November at general retailers — and so does the Bella mystery. We show both rather than picking one. One title on our earlier preview has since moved out of November entirely, and we say which below.
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Last verified: 2 October 2026. Part of the Sapphic Release Radar, our running guide to upcoming sapphic books. Previous month: October 2026.
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Find Your November Read
Sixteen books is a manageable month, but they are not interchangeable — three are young adult, three are Christmas romances, and one is a whodunnit first and a love story second. Pick the reading experience you actually want and jump straight to it.
| If you’re looking for… | Start with |
|---|---|
| A midlife romance with an age gap | Kaleidoscope — Georgia Beers |
| Opposites attract in a small-town clinic | Doctor’s Orders — Ronica Black |
| A movie star and a closeted career choice | On Location — Sara Radley |
| Science fiction with a murder at its centre | The Last Good City — Ashley Bartlett |
| A short thriller romance you can finish tonight | For Love or Money — Jesse J. Thoma |
| Fairy-tale fantasy with a genderqueer knight | This Knight Topples Empires — Ry Herman |
| Slow-burn sci-fantasy, swords and geese | The Princess Thief — Spencer Rose |
| Cosy romantasy with a dark secret, for teens and up | Lavender and Hemlock — Lili Wilkinson |
| A laugh-out-loud rom-com | Sally Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club — Sienna Waters |
| A Christmas romance, small-town style | The Twelve Dates of Christmas — Claerie Kavanaugh |
| A Christmas romance with rivals and on-call rooms | A Very Merry ER Fling — Luana DaRosa |
| A classic country-house whodunnit | Murder in Morro Harbor — Alicia Gael |
| Dark, explicit and adults only | Malady: Saints — Mourning Star |
Romance or Sapphic Fiction?
We label this on every book, because it is the distinction release lists most often blur.
Sapphic romance means the relationship between women is central to how the book is built. Remove it and the plot collapses. The genre convention of an earned romantic resolution applies.
Sapphic fiction means sapphic characters and relationships matter, but the book is not structured as a genre romance. There may be no romantic payoff, or the relationship may run underneath a different engine.
November is a romance-heavy month: thirteen of the sixteen are genre romances with a central F/F couple. The other three each need a sentence of explanation. Murder in Morro Harbor is filed by its publisher as a mystery, with an attraction between the investigator and the client running through it. Ghosted is a YA rom-com whose publisher copy leads with revenge on a boy and puts the girl crush second. And This Knight Topples Empires is a queer romance whose lead, Jules, is genderqueer — so it belongs on a sapphic shelf with a note attached, not as a straightforward F/F book.
November 2026 Sapphic Release Calendar
Grouped by the earliest date we could verify. Where a publisher and its retailers disagree, both dates appear on the book — buying direct from Bold Strokes really does get you the book nine days before Amazon does, which is useful information rather than a data error.
November 1–7 · Direct from Bold Strokes
All five Bold Strokes titles carry a publisher date of 1 November. The four novels reach general retailers on 10 November; the novella is publisher-direct only. Both dates are real, and we mark the four novels Date Watch. Since our 26 September preview, two of them gained retailer listings we had not been able to find — On Location and The Last Good City both now show a 10 November street date on Amazon.
Kaleidoscope
Georgia Beers
🟠 Date watch
Why It’s on Our Radar
Readers keep asking for women over forty who are not written as ice-queen CEOs, and Beers has been writing them for two decades. Maddie Bishop is a dentist who raised her daughter mostly alone and did everything right, and the publisher copy is unusually honest about where that leaves her: lonely, and out of the habit of wanting anything. Evan Dawson is younger, a therapist who pours herself into a food charity and does not do complicated. The complication the book chooses is the interesting part — Maddie’s daughter Zoe arrives with career plans and an awkward crush of her own, so the age gap is a family problem rather than just a number.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a midlife heroine rediscovering desire, a romance that starts in text messages, and an age gap the book actually has to negotiate. The safest pick in November from the most established name on this page.
Doctor’s Orders
Ronica Black
🟠 Date watch
Why It’s on Our Radar
Willow Foster runs the medical clinic in Meadowbrook, Colorado, and thinks holistic medicine is reckless. Poppy McCoy has come home to look after her grandmother and open a holistic clinic down the road. The appeal is that their disagreement is professional rather than temperamental — both women are treating the same town, and the publisher copy puts a shared patient crisis at the centre — so the friction has something real to grind against. An audiobook listed this far ahead of release is uncommon for a small-press title, and it is the only November Bold Strokes book with one.
Add it to your TBR if… you like opposites-attract with a professional argument underneath it, a guarded heroine who uses the mountains to avoid people, and small-town romance that has an actual job in it. A good pick for audiobook listeners.
On Location
Sara Radley
🟠 Date watch
Why It’s on Our Radar
Avery Mitchell hides out in the New Hampshire mountains after a tabloid breakup and falls for El Walsh on shared hikes — and then lands the lead in a film adaptation of an acclaimed novel whose anonymous author turns out to be El. That reveal is a strong engine on its own, but the conflict the publisher copy actually builds toward is better: Avery’s publicist steers her toward a safer romance with her co-star, Avery goes along with it, and El refuses to be anyone’s secret. A celebrity romance where the obstacle is the heroine’s own cowardice is more honest than most of the subgenre manages.
Add it to your TBR if… you like celebrity romance, a writer heroine with something to lose, and a third-act conflict about visibility rather than misunderstanding.
The Last Good City
Ashley Bartlett
🟠 Date watch
Why It’s on Our Radar
The last city on Earth survives on a single rule — the publisher’s copy puts it more bluntly, but the gist is be decent to each other — and celebrates its peace with Wargames, a week-long festival that parodies humanity’s violent past with flowers and drinking. Apprentice philosopher Ellas Harding witnesses an act of real violence in the middle of it, and the woman she has just started falling for may be part of it. A utopia forced to ask what it means to be good is a sharper premise than most dystopias. One correction to our own preview: we filed this as sapphic fiction in September, but Bold Strokes classifies it under Romance as well as Speculative Fiction, and we follow the publisher on that.
Add it to your TBR if… you want speculative fiction with ideas in it, a mystery that threatens a whole society rather than one household, and a love interest who might be the problem.
For Love or Money
Jesse J. Thoma
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Frankie Sender makes her money betting against companies, until one she is researching frames her for a crime. Her only chance of staying alive is Dakota “Oz” Osborne, who has a million-dollar reason to hand her over. Forced trust with a cash incentive running in the opposite direction is a cleaner conflict than many full-length romantic suspense novels manage, and the finance setting is a natural fit for the Hot Hires line’s job-driven premises. At novella length and ebook only, it is the cheapest way into a Bold Strokes series this month.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a short, fast romantic thriller with money at stake, or you enjoyed last month’s Hot Hires novella and want the next one.
November 1–7 · Everyone else
Three more books in the first week: a Penguin Random House fantasy sequel and two self-published titles, one of them the first of the month’s three Christmas romances.
This Knight Topples Empires
Ry Herman
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Why It’s on Our Radar
The publisher pitches it as a tongue-in-cheek spin on the folktale The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, and the choice of source is the point: a story about a girl who passes as a knight, rewritten around Jules, who uses they/them pronouns and can make flowers bloom slightly more than they intend. Jules stumbles onto a rival kingdom’s plot, tries to stop an invasion, and falls for the princess everybody else wants too. The publisher’s own line is that happy endings are possible even if you are not quite Prince Charming. One correction to our earlier preview, which missed it: Amazon lists this as the second Minor Character Chronicles book.
Add it to your TBR if… you want funny fairy-tale fantasy with genderqueer representation at its centre and a princess love interest — and you are comfortable with a queer romance rather than a strictly F/F one.
The Princess Thief
Spencer Rose
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Sian is sent to steady a planet whose royal family has just been wiped out, with a marriage as her cover story — and on the way, her girlfriend steals her identity and leaves her stranded with nothing. The princess becomes the goose keeper everyone ignores, which turns out to be the best possible position from which to see a conspiracy. Retelling The Goose Girl as science fiction keeps the fairy tale’s best idea, that being overlooked is a kind of power, and the author’s own copy promises sword fighting, a slow-burn romance with the knight investigating the plot, and too many geese. Rose has been shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, per the listing.
Add it to your TBR if… you grew up on Tamora Pierce, you like a heroine who has to rebuild herself from nothing, and you want sci-fantasy with the romance on a long fuse.
Crashing into Christmas
Mara Lovelle
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Morgan Gatlin finishes a gruelling ER shift in the worst snowstorm New York has seen in years and hits a pedestrian with her car. Guilt sends her to the hospital with Elena, and the storm shuts Elena’s way home, so Morgan offers her a place to stay. The author’s own tagline — she hit me with her car, we’re taking it slow — tells you the tone, and the setup gives guilt something to do beyond the opening chapter. Billed as cosy, with grief under it. It is also the first sapphic Christmas book of November.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a short Christmas read with a ridiculous meet-cute and a real wound underneath it, and you liked Dana Hawkins’s Meet Cute in Minnesota books, which the author names as a comparison.
November 8–14
Two young adult books from major publishers on 10 November, and the four Bold Strokes novels above reach general retailers the same day.
Lavender and Hemlock
Lili Wilkinson
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Tansy keeps house for old Lady Aster in a charming cottage by the sea and cannot remember when she arrived or the last time she left. Then Merit, a Carrion Knight raised to be a monster, stumbles through a door into the Oubliette wounded, and the perfect façade cracks. The publisher’s own phrase is cosy romantasy with a dark heart, and that is the appeal: a cottagecore setting that is functioning as a trap, with the romance as the thing that lets the heroine see it. Wilkinson has a long YA backlist, and this is one of only two big-publisher YA sapphic books in November.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a gentle romance in a setting that turns out to be sinister, you buy fantasy for a teenage reader, or you like your cosy fantasy with a twist in it.
Ghosted
Talia Tucker
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Keziah is used to ghosts — a sleep paralysis demon has been her closest companion for years — and used to being ghosted. When a new boy does it too, and then messes with her favourite food truck, she decides to haunt him right back, with help from a cute girl. The premise is a very good joke with a supernatural engine. We have filed it as sapphic fiction rather than romance because the publisher’s copy leads with the boy and the revenge, and mentions her first serious girl crush as one of the things competing for her attention. If the finished book centres that crush more than the copy suggests, we will update this line.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a funny, unhinged YA comedy for a teenage reader and you are happy for the sapphic thread to share the stage with a revenge plot.
November 15–21
The month’s busiest week for indie and small-press books: a Bella mystery, two self-published romances, and an explicit dark romance from Saphly Books.
Murder in Morro Harbor
Alicia Gael
🟠 Date watch
Why It’s on Our Radar
Gloria Lancaster dies of what everyone agrees are natural causes, except her niece Sydney. After the will is read and the family turns on itself, Sydney hires private investigator Taylor Lewis, who is immediately attracted to the one woman she cannot afford to get involved with. That is a classic country-house setup with a sapphic investigator at its centre. In our September preview we said we could not verify a romance; Bella’s copy now names the attraction and says the two are drawn closer together, so we have updated the entry — but Bella files it as a mystery, and so do we.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a whodunnit with a contested will and a house full of suspects, with a slow attraction on the side rather than at the centre.
Sally Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Sienna Waters
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Sally Pepper has never finished anything: dog grooming, tanning salons, relationships. Violet Weaver has never done anything unplanned, until her husband calls her boring and she leaves. Violet walks into Sally’s new lonely hearts club by mistake instead of her French class, and they strike a deal — Sally teaches spontaneity, Violet brings organisation. The obstacle is the oldest one in the sapphic rom-com book, and the author knows it: Sally thinks Violet is straight, and Violet thinks Sally is not interested. Waters has a sizeable sapphic backlist, and her own listing promises a very happy ending.
Add it to your TBR if… you want an out-and-out comedy, a heroine leaving a marriage later in life, and a romance where both women think they are the one who has misread the other.
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
Claerie Kavanaugh
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Why It’s on Our Radar
Ramona Baines needs to sell the B&B her grandmother left her to save her failing startup — but the will says she must first complete Hollyvale’s Twelve Dates of Christmas, a matchmaking tradition her grandmother helped create. Juliette Dunn, the town carpenter, has loved Iris House for years and dreamed of restoring it, and Ramona is about to sell it to an outsider. A will with conditions is a familiar holiday device, but tying it to a house the love interest wants to save gives the romance a real cost. Kavanaugh has a substantial holiday backlist, and this is the fifth book in her series.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a full-length small-town Christmas romance with festival set pieces, a heroine in the wrong shoes, and a love interest who fixes things for a living.
Malady: Saints
Mourning Star
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Why It’s on Our Radar
The listing is written in the narrator’s own voice and refuses to behave like a blurb: Malady is a vigilante who answers to no one, is despised by the official superheroes, and hates Zeta Russo along with every other CEO and corrupt politician in the city. That is enemies-to-lovers with class war as the engine, from a dedicated sapphic press. At 450 pages it is a big book for a small press, and the only November title that is unambiguously adults only.
Add it to your TBR if… you want dark, explicit superhero romance with a morally grey heroine and you are comfortable checking content warnings before you start. Skip it if you want something cosy — November has plenty of that.
November 22–30
One book in the last week of the month, and it is a first for its imprint.
A Very Merry ER Fling
Luana DaRosa
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Why It’s on Our Radar
The publisher’s own copy calls this a sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance at Christmas, which is not a sentence Harlequin Medical Romance has printed often. Carla has had to work for everything; Nikki is heir to a medical dynasty; they were frenemies in medical school, and now Nikki has been assigned to Carla’s emergency department for the holidays. A resentment rooted in class rather than personality gives the rivalry somewhere to go, and a category romance line putting a sapphic book inside a multi-author Christmas series is the kind of quiet infrastructure the genre needs.
Add it to your TBR if… you want a short, steamy Christmas romance with rivals, a hospital setting, and the reliable shape of a category romance.
November · Exact day not announced
The Weight of the Fall
Sabrina Blaum
⚪ Date TBA
Why It’s on Our Radar
Twenty-seven years ago Francesca Greco walked away from the one person she could not live without, and built an empire on discipline and never looking back. Then Valentina Varnelli turns up at her door bleeding and hunted. Second-chance romance with twenty-seven years of history behind it, and a suspense plot forcing them into the same house, is a combination readers ask for and rarely get. Ylva’s tags add slow burn and found family to the mix.
Add it to your TBR if… you want an older second-chance couple, romantic suspense with real danger, and a heroine who has built her whole life around not looking back.
Our November Watchlist
Five editorial picks. These are our selections, not a ranking and not a measure of reader attention — we have not read any of these books yet, so none of this is a verdict on quality. It is a note on which concepts we find most worth watching.
Kaleidoscope — a midlife heroine, a younger love interest and a grown daughter in the middle of it, from the most experienced romance writer publishing this month.
The Last Good City — a utopia that throws a festival to mock violence, and then has to deal with the real thing. The rare post-apocalyptic book that is about goodness rather than survival.
A Very Merry ER Fling — a category romance line printing the word sapphic on a Christmas medical romance, with class-based rivals and a hospital rota. Small, specific and overdue.
Lavender and Hemlock — a cottagecore setting that turns out to be a trap, and a romance with a monster-in-training that lets the heroine see it.
The Princess Thief — The Goose Girl rebuilt as slow-burn sapphic sci-fantasy, self-published by an award-shortlisted writer. The kind of book no catalogue would have shown you.
Reader Anticipation in November
We report pre-release reader attention only where public evidence actually exists, and we keep it separate from both the release facts above and our own editorial picks. Unknown is not low. Eleven of November’s sixteen books have no Goodreads ratings at all yet, which is entirely normal a month out for small-press and self-published titles and tells you nothing about how good they are. All figures below were read on Goodreads on 2 October 2026; small samples are shown as small samples.
- Lavender and Hemlock — Building. 67 advance ratings at a 4.15 average, the most of any November title.
- This Knight Topples Empires — Building. 34 advance ratings at 3.97, helped by a first book in the same series.
- Ghosted — Early. 23 advance ratings at 3.96.
- Crashing into Christmas — Early. 14 advance ratings at 4.29, a strong showing for a self-published novella a month before release.
- Malady: Saints — Early. 9 ratings, all five stars. Nine is too few to read anything into the average.
- The other eleven — no public signal found, apart from a single rating on The Princess Thief. Bold Strokes, Bella and Ylva titles typically generate visible reader activity in the fortnight around release rather than before it.
How We Verified November’s Releases
Every date on this page was checked on 2 October 2026 against the publisher’s own product page and at least one retailer. Where dates disagree, both appear on the book and it is marked Date Watch — five of the sixteen are in that position, in every case because a small press sells direct on one date while general retailers list a later street date.
Four of November’s books are self-published or from an author’s own imprint. For those, the retailer listing is the primary source, so their entries say so rather than implying a second confirmation we do not have. Their descriptions, content notes and heat indications come from the authors’ own listings.
Two titles — For Love or Money and The Weight of the Fall — had no retailer listing at all and are publisher-direct only; their covers come from the publishers’ own product pages. Release dates in the future can and do move; we will run a full recheck before 1 November.
Classification as sapphic romance or sapphic fiction follows what the publisher states, not what a cover implies. On Kindle Unlimited: two self-published titles, The Princess Thief and Sally Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, show a Kindle Unlimited badge on their preorder pages, but neither shows a $0.00 Kindle Unlimited price yet. That is not enough for us to make a KU claim, so no book on this page carries one. We will check again on release day.
What changed since our September preview, and what we left off
- Sweet Til It Burns — L.M. Bennett. A Friendsgiving romance we had dated to 6 November. Amazon now lists it for 20 October 2026, which makes it an October book, and it will be added to the October guide on its next pass rather than filed twice.
- The Last Good City moves from sapphic fiction to sapphic romance, because Bold Strokes files it under Romance.
- Murder in Morro Harbor now has a verified attraction between its leads in the publisher’s copy. It stays a mystery.
- This Knight Topples Empires is book two of a series, which our preview did not say.
- On Location and The Last Good City now have retail listings, both dated 10 November.
- Crashing into Christmas and A Very Merry ER Fling were already on our Christmas guide and are added here so this month is complete.
The full methodology, including how books get onto the Radar and how we treat paid promotion, lives on the Sapphic Release Radar hub. If you have verified information that contradicts anything here — a moved date, a changed title, a cover reveal, a book we have miscategorised — tell us and we will correct it.
November 2026 Sapphic Books: FAQ
What sapphic books are coming out in November 2026?
Sixteen sapphic titles are verified for November 2026. Bold Strokes Books publishes five on 1 November direct from the publisher, four of which reach retailers on 10 November: Kaleidoscope by Georgia Beers, Doctor’s Orders by Ronica Black, On Location by Sara Radley, The Last Good City by Ashley Bartlett, and the novella For Love or Money by Jesse J. Thoma. This Knight Topples Empires by Ry Herman follows on 3 November, The Princess Thief by Spencer Rose and Crashing into Christmas by Mara Lovelle on 4 November, and Lavender and Hemlock by Lili Wilkinson and Ghosted by Talia Tucker on 10 November. Later in the month come Murder in Morro Harbor by Alicia Gael (19 or 24 November), Sally Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club by Sienna Waters (19 November), The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Claerie Kavanaugh and Malady: Saints by Mourning Star (20 November), and A Very Merry ER Fling by Luana DaRosa (24 November). The Weight of the Fall by Sabrina Blaum is due from Ylva in November with no day announced.
What lesbian romance books release in November 2026?
Thirteen of the sixteen are genre romances with a central F/F relationship: Kaleidoscope, Doctor’s Orders, On Location, The Last Good City, For Love or Money, The Princess Thief, Crashing into Christmas, Lavender and Hemlock, Sally Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Malady: Saints, A Very Merry ER Fling and The Weight of the Fall. This Knight Topples Empires is a queer romance with a genderqueer lead.
Are there sapphic Christmas books coming out in November 2026?
Three. Crashing into Christmas by Mara Lovelle is a self-published novella set in a New York snowstorm (4 November). The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Claerie Kavanaugh is a full-length small-town romance built around a matchmaking tradition (20 November). A Very Merry ER Fling by Luana DaRosa is a Harlequin Medical Romance with rival doctors in an emergency department at Christmas (24 November). For every sapphic holiday book of the year, see our sapphic Christmas books guide.
Are there young adult sapphic books in November 2026?
Yes, two from major publishers on 10 November. Lavender and Hemlock by Lili Wilkinson (Delacorte Press) is a cosy romantasy with a dark secret and a central F/F romance. Ghosted by Talia Tucker (Feiwel & Friends) is a paranormal comedy about revenge on a boy who ghosted the heroine, with a girl crush running underneath it. This Knight Topples Empires is published for adults but will suit older teens who like comic fantasy.
Why do some November books have two release dates?
Because they genuinely have two. Bold Strokes Books sells direct from its own site on 1 November while general retailers list its four November novels on 10 November, and Bella Books publishes the Murder in Morro Harbor ebook on 19 November while the paperback reaches Amazon on the 24th. Neither is an error — buying direct from the publisher really does get you the book earlier.
Are any November 2026 sapphic books on Kindle Unlimited?
Not that we can confirm yet. The Princess Thief and Sally Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club show a Kindle Unlimited badge on their preorder pages, but neither shows a $0.00 Kindle Unlimited price, which is the test we use before making a KU claim. We will recheck both on release day.
Where can I find December 2026 sapphic releases?
December is covered in the December section of our Sapphic Release Radar hub, which tracks upcoming sapphic books through the rest of 2026 and into 2027. December is a small-press month, led by Bold Strokes titles from Karis Walsh and Carsen Taite and two Bella releases on the same day. A dedicated December guide is being built.
Keep Exploring
November is one month. The rest of the shelf is already here:
- Sapphic Christmas & holiday books 2026 — every sapphic Christmas, winter and holiday book first published this year.
- Upcoming Sapphic Books 2026 & 2027 — the full Sapphic Release Radar, with December and the 2027 watchlist.
- New sapphic books coming in October 2026 — the month immediately before this one, verified on its own cycle.
- New sapphic books coming in September 2026 — the start of the autumn.
- New sapphic romance books — what has already published and is available today.
- The Library — every review and guide on the site.
Publishing a Sapphic Book?
Lesbian Romance Reads is building structured release discovery for sapphic books from independent authors, small presses and traditional publishers alike. Twelve of November’s sixteen titles come from outside the Big Five, and four have no traditional publisher at all — finding those is the point of the exercise.
Author & Publisher Submissions — Coming Soon. We are developing a structured submission system that will let eligible authors and publishers provide verified release information for consideration on the Sapphic Release Radar. It is not open yet. Paid promotion, if offered, will never determine editorial ratings, reviews, rankings or Reader Buzz assessments, and Lesbian Romance Reads will continue to discover books independently through editorial research.
Submission news goes to the newsletter first, and the contact page is open in the meantime.
Last verified 2 October 2026. Sources for this guide: publisher pages at Bold Strokes Books, Bella Books and Ylva Publishing; retailer listings at Amazon for every title with one; publisher copy from Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Saphly Books as carried on those listings; and Goodreads for pre-release reader activity. Reddit was not reachable from our research environment and nothing on this page is sourced from it. Part of the Sapphic Release Radar. This page contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you.