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WLW Duologies

Gearbreakers Zoe Hana Mikuta
Cyberpunk Mecha Lesbians!
WLW
City of Shattered Light Claire Winn
Cyberpunk Bisexuals!
WLW BI
Crier's War Nina Varela
Court intrigue! Princesses and servant girls! Alchemy!
WLW enemies-to-lovers princess x servant

Women's Wrongs


Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao
I support women's wrongs, especially when they're piloting mechs
BI POLYAM graphic abuse enemies-to-lovers women's wrongs
The Scapegracers Clarke
Angry Teenage Lesbian Witches. Beautiful, poetic prose.
WLW women's wrongs
Ruinsong Julia Ember
Violent song magic
WLW women's wrongs
Girl, Serpent, Thorn Melissa Bashardoust
Princesses and monsters and princesses that might be monsters.
WLW enemies-to-lovers princess x prisoner women's wrongs
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir
Lesbian space necromancers, gothic boarding school mysteries, girls with swords, comedy horror, fucking phenomenal prose, I laughed, I cried, what more do you want.
WLW enemies-to-lovers necromancer x cavalier women's wrongs
In the Ravenous Dark A.M. Strickland
Disaster bisexual blood mages. This book is fun.
WLW BI POLYAM women's wrongs
Wrath Goddess Sing Maya Deane
The Illiad if Achilles was a really angry trans woman.
TRANS BI graphic violence women's wrongs
She Who Became The Sun Shelley Parker-Chan
Sapphic gender-fucky military conquest with transmasc themes.
TRANS WLW? women's wrongs

Sapphic SF&F

This is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Time-travelling enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance epistolary novella! A quick read, and possibly my favorite book. The prose is pure poetry.
WLW enemies-to-lovers
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry C.M. Waggoner
Disaster bisexual fire mage gets in over her head with both murder mysteries and romance.
WLW BI
A Dark and Hollow Star Ashley Shuttleworth
Urban Fantasy with queer Fae and lesbian Furies.
WLW
The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon
Epic Fantasy (this book is a brick) with dragons, queens, alchemists, witches, and lesbians.
WLW enemies-to-lovers princess x servant
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri
Epic Fantasy (this book is a brick) with plant magic, royalty, and many competing factions.
WLW enemies-to-lovers princess x servant
Light from Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki
Deals with the devil, violins, refugees from intergalactic war, and donuts. Zany and cute.
TRANS WLW
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Becky Chambers
Cozy found-family space opera.
WLW

Gay SF&F

Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas
Urban Fantasy romance mystery between a transmasc Brujx and a ghost boy.
TRANS MLM
The House in the Cerulean Sea TJ Klune
Urban Fantasy with a cozy found family of supernatural misfit kids.
MLM

Miscellaneous Queer SF&F

Firebreak Nicole Kornher-Stace
Aro-ace dystopian cyberpunk.
ACE
Three Parts Dead Max Gladstone
What if gods and magic functioned liked law and software? Despite being penned by a cis white man, The Craft Sequence has really solid representation of queer women, and a transfem POV in later books. These books are super fun.
TRANS WLW
The Perfect Assassin K. A. Doore
This trilogy features assassins and undead camels. The first book features a mlm ace relationship, the second a wlw relationship, the third a non-binary character.
ACE MLM WLW TRANS
The Once and Future Witches Alix E. Harrow
Women's suffrage and witchcraft, beautifully written. Three POVs for three sisters, one of which involves a lesbian romance.
WLW
The Ten Thousand Doors of January Alix E. Harrow
Chasing lost family through the doors between worlds. Imperialism, rebellion, gorgeous prose. There are queer side characters, but queerness does not feature prominently.
The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin
Racial oppression, the end of the world, geology magic. Excellent trilogy, and very dark. Queer side characters exist, but for the most part are not the focus.
MLM POLYAM
Magic For Liars Sarah Gailey
A school for magical teens, except the POV isn't magical or a teen. She's the estranged sister of a faculty member, hired to investigate a murder. There isn't much actual queerness in the book; the POV's romance arc is quite straight, but her sister is a lesbian.

Transfem Fiction

A Safe Girl to Love Casey Plett
Short story collection of the sorts of experiences trans girls have. Funny, sad, and everything in-between.
TRANS
A Dream of a Woman Casey Plett
More short stories about trans girls.
TRANS
Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters
A very dark and melancholy story about womanhood and motherhood.
TRANS

Lesbian Romance

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics Olivia Waite
Historical fiction romance between a wealthy widow and an astronomer. Steamy.
WLW
I Kissed a Girl Jennet Alexander
Romance between a makeup artist and an actor.
WLW

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in reply to @gwenverbsnouns's post:

This v plainly reminds me that most book covers look abysmal to me ahaha!

Ofc there is the saying to not judge a book by its cover. I'm sure even tho almost all of these looks repulsive, the stories themselves are amazing and if you're recommending them, I might as well give em a shot.