This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A sharp, genuinely original Norse-myth Little Mermaid with a bisexual mermaid, a lesbian shieldmaiden and Loki as the sea witch, let down by a 224-page length that leaves the romance and the characters underbuilt. … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A patient, beautifully observed queer coming-of-age novel with one of the best-drawn heroines in YA, held back by a first half that many readers find too long and an ending that stops rather than … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A haunted-house family novel about Black queer desire and the cost of silence, with a genuine emotional payoff and a Lambda-winning pedigree, held back by a slow first half and a romance that stays … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A darkly funny, unusually honest novel about hunger, desire and a mother’s voice in your head, with a charged sapphic affair at its centre, undercut by a love interest who … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A sharp, funny, genuinely strange coming-of-age novel about a girl raised for the pulpit who falls for another girl, held back for a sizeable minority of readers by the fable interludes that break up … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: One of the most quoted love stories in queer literature, with prose readers annotate by the page, undercut by a self-absorbed narrator and a deliberately unresolved ending that romance readers need to know about … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A Lambda Literary Award-winning novel about a Jamaican mother who chooses herself over her child, with some of the most complex characters in sapphic literary fiction, held back by a … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, funny, genuinely moving Southern classic with one of fiction’s most beloved sapphic couples at its heart, held back by a love story it never names and racial writing … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A tense, beautifully controlled three-day novel of a 1918 Dublin flu ward, with a sapphic love story at its heart that arrives late and ends in grief, held back for … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A landmark 1964 lesbian novel that treats two women’s love as something to think through rather than punish, intelligent and unexpectedly modern, but held back by a cerebral, talky style … Read more