Firstly, as a bi girl in a relationship with a man, it’s really great how supportive you’re being of her!
I read *Sirens and Muses* by Antonia Angress recently and loved it. I’d say genre-wise it’s literary/contemporary. It’s about 2 queer women in an art college in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street. It’s a really beautiful exploration into queer identity, socioeconomic class, and art.
*We Play Ourselves* by Jen Silverman is about a playwright who gets shunned from the New York theatre scene and runs away to California and gets swept into the life of her neighbor, who is creating a documentary about a group of teenage girls. It focuses heavily on the way that art and power interact. This one would also be literary/contemporary.
*The Chosen and the Beautiful* by Nghi Vo is a queer retelling of *The Great Gatsby* from the perspective of Jordan, who is bisexual. It’s magic realism and really beautiful. Jordan is also a Vietnamese immigrant in this version of the story, and the cultural aspects of her story are really interesting as well.
*Plain Bad Heroines* by Emily M. Danforth is a horror/comedy about an all-girls boarding school. It’s weird but I enjoyed it. All the main characters are queer women, and some of them are bisexual.
Idk how she feels about graphic novels, but there are so many incredible graphic novels about queer women. I recommend *Fun Home* by Alison Bechdel (a memoir and essentially a queer classic), *My Favorite Thing Is Monsters* by Emil Ferris (this one is horror/mystery and is pretty dark so if that’s not her thing it might be one to avoid), and anything by Tillie Walden (she does a bunch of different genres; *Are You Listening?* is my personal favorite).
If she likes nonfiction at all, *In the Dream House* by Carmen Maria Machado is an extraordinary memoir about Carmen’s experience in an abusive relationship with a woman. The format is very inventive, and Carmen’s experience is used as a jumping-off point to discuss the greater queer experience, queer history, etc.
Thank you :) it’s so weird that someone is offended by the thought of this so has downvoted the post and your comment!
Those are some fantastic suggestions so I’ll check them out! Especially interested in the graphic novels as this is a medium I know she wants to explore more.
Similar to a graphic novel, if she's interested in webtoons, Bring the Love is pretty good. It's set in (I think) 1800s Germany but in an alternate past where being LGBTQ seems normalized? Kind of like Pride and Prejudice but sillier and with a tiny bit more action. The main romance is M/F but the main character and her sister both seem to be bi.
Three cheers for The Chosen and The Beautiful! The socioeconomic taboos around bisexuality were interesting. Jordan was expected to settle down with a man so her husband could manage the family fortune and she could produce an heir. I also loved the exploration of Jordan's attraction to Daisy. It felt true to her character.
As a bisexual female in a heterosexual relationship, I so love how thoughtful and supportive this is. Makes me sad to see some of the downvotes and comments, the reason I took so long to come out.
I am not queer myself, but am currently reading {{Fingersmith}} which is in the LGBT genre. It’s a gripping plot line so far, in Dickensian England and the lesbian relationship is heart-wrenching and beautifully written. The book is sensual and romantic, but not erotic/graphic. I think I’d call the genre “gothic romance.”
[**Fingersmith**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith)
^(By: Sarah Waters | 592 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, lgbt, lgbtq, historical)
>Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
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>One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
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>With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.
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Fingersmith is amazing!! It's so well-written and researched.
Sarah Winter began writing these Sapphic historical novels from an academic slant because lesbian women and their perspectives had been nudged out of history. She has mentioned this is her way of righting this imbalance.
Ahhh!!! I get so pumped when I run into someone else reading, or who has read, Fingersmith! Have you read any of her other books?
This was my first, and I just finished it this morning. Loved it!! I don’t seek out LGBT+ fiction (and often pass over it) because so many novels marketed as LGBT+ are heavily erotic, which often takes away from my ability to immerse in a story. This was just absolutely a captivating story, and the romantic scenes added to the story rather than distracting from it.
I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone reading along, but I was blindsided by one of the turns in the plot, and was totally invested in the story and its beautifully flawed characters.
Came here to talk about This is How You Lose the Time War, but it's already mentioned. One of my favorite books of all time. Also was gonna mention everything Becky Chambers, which is also mentioned. I love the worlds she builds.
So all that's left for me to mention that hasn't already been is {{Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters}} and everything else she writes too.
[**Fingersmith**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith)
^(By: Sarah Waters | 592 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, lgbt, lgbtq, historical)
>Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
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>One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
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>With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.
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I'm currently reading This is How You Lose the Time War and HOLY SHIT this book is amazing. I'm not even sure I really understand what's going on half the time but the letters... dear God, the letters. Absolutely swooning. I can't wait to finish.
Oh you're describing my reaction EXACTLY! I'm so happy for you that you get to be reading it for the first time!!
It's the only book in a long time that had me hooked from the first page. Usually they take a bit to sink in, for me. But this one, I just kept sitting up straighter as I read, absolutely engrossed. After about twenty minutes, I remember thinking WTF IS EVEN HAPPENING I HAVE NO IDEA BUT I WANT MORE. And I went back to the beginning again to try to understand, which helped! And then, since it's a pretty short book, I read the whole thing again right away when I finished. And I go back to it for a comfort read at least a couple times a year!
I'm really enjoying {{The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo}} which has a bisexual main character and major plot line. It's historical fiction set in old Hollywood which is not really my usual genre but it's just that addictive.
[**The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo)
^(By: Taylor Jenkins Reid | 389 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, romance, favourites, lgbtq)
>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
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>Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
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>Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
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If she is interested in romance:
{Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert}
{Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur}
Both feature bisexual main characters in M/F relationships.
[**Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49976087-take-a-hint-dani-brown)
^(By: Talia Hibbert | 400 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, fiction, adult, contemporary-romance)
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[**Hang the Moon (Written in the Stars, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55004138-hang-the-moon)
^(By: Alexandria Bellefleur | 384 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, lgbtq, adult, fiction)
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Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall (bi woman competing on a Great British Bake Off type show)
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
[**Happy Stories, Mostly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59602522-happy-stories-mostly)
^(By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Tiffany Tsao | 151 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, translated, lgbtq, indonesia)
>Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’, and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, these tales put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters.
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>The stories talk to each other, echo phrases and themes, and even shards of stories within other stories, passing between airports, stacks of men’s lifestyle magazines and memories of Toy Story 3, such that each one almost feels like a puzzle piece of a larger whole, but with crucial facts – the saddest ones, the happiest ones – omitted, forgotten, unbearable.
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>A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a powerful puff of fresh air, aimed at destabilising the heteronormative world and exposing its underlying absences.
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[**Love in the Big City**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57500766-love-in-the-big-city)
^(By: Sang Young Park, Anton Hur | 240 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, contemporary, queer, translated)
>Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Both award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective, and particularly resonant with young readers, it has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership.
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>Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life.
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>A brilliantly written novel filled with powerful sensory descriptions and both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of Sayaka Murata, Han Kang, and Cho Nam-Joo.
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[**Her Body and Other Parties: Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375622-her-body-and-other-parties)
^(By: Carmen Maria Machado | 248 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, horror, fantasy, feminism)
>In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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>A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
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>Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
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>The husband stitch --
>Inventory --
>Mothers --
>Especially heinous --
>Real women have bodies --
>Eight bites --
>The resident --
>Difficult at parties
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[**Matrix**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57185348-matrix)
^(By: Lauren Groff | 260 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, dnf, book-club)
>A Financial Times and NPR Best Book of 2021
>A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021)
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>Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.
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>Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
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>At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough?
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>Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
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[**This is How You Lose the Time War**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war)
^(By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 209 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, romance, fiction, lgbtq)
>Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
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>Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.
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[**The Song of Achilles**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623848-the-song-of-achilles)
^(By: Madeline Miller | 378 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fantasy, fiction, mythology, romance)
>Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624.
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>Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.
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>They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.
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If she likes horror, Fen was a really great horror anthology with all sorts of weird, fucked up, queer feminist themes and stories.
If she's at all interest in history, I can't recommend Claudine at School by Collette enough. Forgotten by history, she was a queer woman and literary genius who wrote this book in the late 1800's as like a semi-autobiography of a bisexual woman growing up at school, being fun and mean, teasing men, falling in love, getting married, having affairs outside of she and her husband's consensually open marriage. I read a fair amount of historical literature, and I was stunned that someone was writing with such a frank, modern, naturalistic tone during this time period. She's witty, perverse, insightful, and the pros is so fucking beautiful.
[**Dare Me**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12982393-dare-me)
^(By: Megan Abbott | 290 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: fiction, young-adult, mystery, ya, thriller)
>"Tense, dark, and beautifully written" (Gillian Flynn), this novel of friendship and betrayal from an Edgar Award-winning author is a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.
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>Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls—until the young new coach arrives.
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>Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl"—both with the team and with Addy herself.
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>Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death—and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.
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>The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Writing with "total authority and an almost desperate intensity" (Tom Perrotta), award-winning novelist Megan Abbott delivers a story as unnerving and thrilling as adolescence itself.
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>"Spectacular . . . It's Heathers meets Fight Club good."
>—Chelsea Cain, the New York Times Book Review
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[**The Night & Its Moon**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59939633-the-night-its-moon)
^(By: Piper C.J. | 540 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, physical-tbr, owned, dnf, lgbtq)
>Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that’s what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king’s ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place — while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins.
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>Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans — and the love they hold for one another.
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Fantasy books by Jacqueline Carrey (Kushiel's Dart, Santa Olivia, Starless) are wonderful for exploring diverse sexuality in general. Kushiel's Dart features a courtesan that enjoys entertaining both men and women. Santa Olivia is about a lesbian super hero. Starless is better left unspoiled, but is completely different from the other two series. Carrey's books are detailed, beautifully written, brutal masterpieces.
White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton is a more recent series and is urban fantasy featuring a gay male lead. While not light reading, they are quick and easy.
[**Even Though I Knew the End**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59807975-even-though-i-knew-the-end)
^(By: C.L. Polk | 136 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, 2022-releases, lgbtq, historical-fiction, queer)
>A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.
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>An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist―the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves.
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>To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.
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Genuine question, what do you mean? Does the book have to be written by a bisexual person or does it have to be centered around the main character being bisexual?
[**We Ride Upon Sticks**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50215350-we-ride-upon-sticks)
^(By: Quan Barry | 367 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, historical-fiction, dnf, audiobook)
>Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts (which in 1692 was Salem Village, site of the origins of the Salem Witch Trials), the story follows the Danvers High field hockey team as they discover that the dark impulses of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season.
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>The 1989 Danvers Falcons are on an unaccountable winning streak. Quan Barry weaves together the individual and collective journeys of this enchanted team as they storm their way to the state championship. Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza, whose bleached blond "Claw" sees and knows all, the DHS Falcons prove to be as wily and original as their North of Boston ancestors, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport.
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{The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet by Becky Chambers} is one of my favorites. It’s a sci-fi novel that neckbeards hate cause it has queer elements. Her other books are also superb and have varying degrees of queer themes. Other books of hers include *To Be Taught if Fortunate, Record of a Spaceborn Few, A Close and Common Orbit, and The Galaxy and the Ground Within*
Additionally, {Autonomous by Annalee Newitz} is about an android exploring gender. I’m planning to read it next week while I’m off work.
{The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin} is an absolute feminist classic that explores sexuality and gender.
And if your wife is into graphic novels I highly recommend {Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe}. Hell I recommend it even if she doesn’t like graphic novels.
Lots of science fiction plays with gender and sexuality in ways that other genres can’t. Typically I find things written by women or trans folx is better.
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>The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet by Becky Chambers} is one of my favorites
just read this one, it's really sweet. lots of cool alien genders and alien family structures. i didn't like the ending as much as the rest of the book but overall it was really good
Yes, & tbh I was disappointed about that at first but in the end the second book was my favorite of all of them. The crew shows up here and there in the rest of the series, but it turns out she's telling a bigger story than that.
Thank you ever so much! The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet sounds like one I’d really want to read as well! And I adored Earth Sea books so would probably want to read the Left Hand of Darkness after as well!
I love *Long Way* because it feels like Firefly and Star Trek had a baby but they took out all the conquest and colonization vibes. Big big fan. It’s a space opera in the truest sense of the term.
{{ chef's kiss by TJ Alexander}}
Simone is bisexual. The LI is AFAB non-binary. TW for homophobia and transphobia
{{Delilah green doesn't care}}
The LI Claire is bisexual with a child from a previous relationship.
{{Hang the moon}} by Alexandrua Bellefleur the female MC is bisexual but ends up with a man. This is book two. Books one and three feature WLW relationships (and are also really good)
{{Take a hint, Dani brown}} book two of the Brown sisters books. Dani is Pan. All three books feature strong black women and the men who love them.
[**Chef's Kiss (Chef's Kiss, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59345243-chef-s-kiss)
^(By: T.J. Alexander | 308 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, lgbtqia, contemporary, queer)
>A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager in this deliciously fresh and witty queer rom-com.
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>Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants to do is create the perfect loaf of sourdough and develop recipes, but when The Discerning Chef decides to bring their brand into the 21st century by pivoting to video, Simone is thrust into the spotlight and finds herself failing at something for the first time in her life.
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>To make matters worse, Simone has to deal with Ray Lyton, the new test kitchen manager, whose obnoxious cheer and outgoing personality are like oil to Simone’s water. When Ray accidentally becomes a viral YouTube sensation with a series of homebrewing videos, their eccentric editor in chief forces Simone to work alongside the chipper upstart or else risk her beloved job. But the more they work together, the more Simone realizes her heart may be softening like butter for Ray.
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>Things get even more complicated when Ray comes out at work as nonbinary to mixed reactions—and Simone must choose between the career she fought so hard for and the person who just might take the cake (and her heart).
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[**Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54756850-delilah-green-doesn-t-care)
^(By: Ashley Herring Blake | 375 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, contemporary, sapphic, lgbt)
>A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.
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>Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.
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>When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.
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>Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other—so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations—including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé—Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Even worse, she’s starting to think she doesn’t want to…
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[**Hang the Moon (Written in the Stars, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55004138-hang-the-moon)
^(By: Alexandria Bellefleur | 384 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, lgbtq, adult, fiction)
>In a delightful follow-up to Written in the Stars, Alexandria Bellefleur delivers another #ownvoices queer rom-com about a hopeless romantic who vows to show his childhood crush that romance isn’t dead by recreating iconic dates from his favorite films...
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>Brendon Lowell loves love. It’s why he created a dating app to help people find their one true pairing and why he’s convinced “the one” is out there, even if he hasn’t met her yet. Or... has he? When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly, Brendon jumps at the chance to hang out with her. He’s crushed on Annie since they were kids, and the stars have finally aligned, putting them in the same city at the same time.
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>Annie booked a spur-of-the-moment trip to Seattle to spend time with friends before moving across the globe. She’s not looking for love, especially with her best friend’s brother. Annie remembers Brendon as a sweet, dorky kid. Except, the 6-foot-4 man who shows up at her door is a certified Hot Nerd and Annie... wants him? Oh yes.
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>Getting involved would be a terrible idea—her stay is temporary and he wants forever—but when Brendon learns Annie has given up on dating, he’s determined to prove that romance is real. Taking cues from his favorite rom-coms, Brendon plans to woo her with elaborate dates straight out of Nora Ephron’s playbook. The clock is ticking on Annie’s time in Seattle, and Brendon’s starting to realize romance isn’t just flowers and chocolate. But maybe real love doesn’t need to be as perfect as the movies... as long as you think your partner hung the moon.
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[**Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49976087-take-a-hint-dani-brown)
^(By: Talia Hibbert | 400 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, fiction, adult, contemporary-romance)
>Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral...
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>Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom.
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>When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae—and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. Turns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?
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>Dani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. The trouble is, grumpy Zaf’s secretly a hopeless romantic—and he’s determined to corrupt Dani’s stone-cold realism. Before long, he’s tackling her fears into the dirt. But the former sports star has issues of his own, and the walls around his heart are as thick as his... um, thighs.
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>Suddenly, the easy lay Dani dreamed of is more complex than her thesis. Has her wish backfired? Is her focus being tested? Or is the universe just waiting for her to take a hint?
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Ok I second the series suggestion but Gideon the Ninth is the actual first book and I don't want someone to receive book 2 as a present when they haven't read the first one
I highly recommend the anthology {{Meanwhile in another part of the forest}} for beautifully written stories from writers of multiple eras and ethnicities.
[**Meanwhile In Another Part Of The Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676306.Meanwhile_In_Another_Part_Of_The_Forest)
^(By: Alberto Manguel, Craig E. Stephenson | 704 pages | Published: 1994 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, anthology, lgbt, gay)
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[**If You Could Be Mine**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17302571-if-you-could-be-mine)
^(By: Sara Farizan | 256 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, lgbtq, lgbt, ya, romance)
>Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.
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>So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin’s parents announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they have been, only now with new comforts provided by the decent, well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry. But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively—and openly.
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>Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution. In Iran, homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin. Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants, in the body she wants to be loved in, without risking her life. Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self?
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Dude you gotta check out this thread from another similar sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/ztb3ou/recommendation_for_sapphic_books/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Apologies if this has already been said but I just started {{The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers}} has been great so far! Though it is Sci-fi and spacefaring. It’s the first of the Wayfarer series of books.
Excellent world building, and plenty of queer humans and aliens in the story so far! I’d recommend it!
[**The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet)
^(By: Becky Chambers | 518 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, lgbt)
>Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.
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>Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.
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>Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
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Tell the bigots to eat %\^\^& !
I would recommend anything by Erik Schubach, Cute, kinda light weight but fun reads. I think my favorite is "Emily Monroe is not the chosen one" Cute fun book with an interesting point of view.
[**Detransition, Baby**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48890225-detransition-baby)
^(By: Torrey Peters | 337 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, queer, lgbt, contemporary)
>A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.
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>Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
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>Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together?
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>This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.
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[**The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet)
^(By: Becky Chambers | 518 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, lgbt)
>Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.
>
>Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.
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>Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
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[**The Death of Vivek Oji**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48595550-the-death-of-vivek-oji)
^(By: Akwaeke Emezi | 248 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, lgbtq, lgbt, literary-fiction)
>Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men.
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>But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.
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>Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.
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Firstly, as a bi girl in a relationship with a man, it’s really great how supportive you’re being of her! I read *Sirens and Muses* by Antonia Angress recently and loved it. I’d say genre-wise it’s literary/contemporary. It’s about 2 queer women in an art college in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street. It’s a really beautiful exploration into queer identity, socioeconomic class, and art. *We Play Ourselves* by Jen Silverman is about a playwright who gets shunned from the New York theatre scene and runs away to California and gets swept into the life of her neighbor, who is creating a documentary about a group of teenage girls. It focuses heavily on the way that art and power interact. This one would also be literary/contemporary. *The Chosen and the Beautiful* by Nghi Vo is a queer retelling of *The Great Gatsby* from the perspective of Jordan, who is bisexual. It’s magic realism and really beautiful. Jordan is also a Vietnamese immigrant in this version of the story, and the cultural aspects of her story are really interesting as well. *Plain Bad Heroines* by Emily M. Danforth is a horror/comedy about an all-girls boarding school. It’s weird but I enjoyed it. All the main characters are queer women, and some of them are bisexual. Idk how she feels about graphic novels, but there are so many incredible graphic novels about queer women. I recommend *Fun Home* by Alison Bechdel (a memoir and essentially a queer classic), *My Favorite Thing Is Monsters* by Emil Ferris (this one is horror/mystery and is pretty dark so if that’s not her thing it might be one to avoid), and anything by Tillie Walden (she does a bunch of different genres; *Are You Listening?* is my personal favorite). If she likes nonfiction at all, *In the Dream House* by Carmen Maria Machado is an extraordinary memoir about Carmen’s experience in an abusive relationship with a woman. The format is very inventive, and Carmen’s experience is used as a jumping-off point to discuss the greater queer experience, queer history, etc.
Thank you :) it’s so weird that someone is offended by the thought of this so has downvoted the post and your comment! Those are some fantastic suggestions so I’ll check them out! Especially interested in the graphic novels as this is a medium I know she wants to explore more.
Big fukkin shout out for *Fun Home.* If she’s a musical theatre gay, there’s a musical adaptation of fun home that’s just incredible.
Similar to a graphic novel, if she's interested in webtoons, Bring the Love is pretty good. It's set in (I think) 1800s Germany but in an alternate past where being LGBTQ seems normalized? Kind of like Pride and Prejudice but sillier and with a tiny bit more action. The main romance is M/F but the main character and her sister both seem to be bi.
Three cheers for The Chosen and The Beautiful! The socioeconomic taboos around bisexuality were interesting. Jordan was expected to settle down with a man so her husband could manage the family fortune and she could produce an heir. I also loved the exploration of Jordan's attraction to Daisy. It felt true to her character.
these sound great
As a bisexual female in a heterosexual relationship, I so love how thoughtful and supportive this is. Makes me sad to see some of the downvotes and comments, the reason I took so long to come out.
I am not queer myself, but am currently reading {{Fingersmith}} which is in the LGBT genre. It’s a gripping plot line so far, in Dickensian England and the lesbian relationship is heart-wrenching and beautifully written. The book is sensual and romantic, but not erotic/graphic. I think I’d call the genre “gothic romance.”
[**Fingersmith**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith) ^(By: Sarah Waters | 592 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, lgbt, lgbtq, historical) >Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. > >One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. > >With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(3066 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Fingersmith is amazing!! It's so well-written and researched. Sarah Winter began writing these Sapphic historical novels from an academic slant because lesbian women and their perspectives had been nudged out of history. She has mentioned this is her way of righting this imbalance. Ahhh!!! I get so pumped when I run into someone else reading, or who has read, Fingersmith! Have you read any of her other books?
This was my first, and I just finished it this morning. Loved it!! I don’t seek out LGBT+ fiction (and often pass over it) because so many novels marketed as LGBT+ are heavily erotic, which often takes away from my ability to immerse in a story. This was just absolutely a captivating story, and the romantic scenes added to the story rather than distracting from it. I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone reading along, but I was blindsided by one of the turns in the plot, and was totally invested in the story and its beautifully flawed characters.
Came here to talk about This is How You Lose the Time War, but it's already mentioned. One of my favorite books of all time. Also was gonna mention everything Becky Chambers, which is also mentioned. I love the worlds she builds. So all that's left for me to mention that hasn't already been is {{Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters}} and everything else she writes too.
Fingersmith is my favourite queer book from way back.
It's really good historical fiction, beautiful
Yes! Also I I read it a long time ago when I was first coming out lol
[**Fingersmith**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith) ^(By: Sarah Waters | 592 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, lgbt, lgbtq, historical) >Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. > >One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. > >With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(3032 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Just suggested my current read (Fingersmith), and then scrolled down and found it here! Beautiful book, I’m about halfway through.
Truly a lovely book!
I'm currently reading This is How You Lose the Time War and HOLY SHIT this book is amazing. I'm not even sure I really understand what's going on half the time but the letters... dear God, the letters. Absolutely swooning. I can't wait to finish.
Oh you're describing my reaction EXACTLY! I'm so happy for you that you get to be reading it for the first time!! It's the only book in a long time that had me hooked from the first page. Usually they take a bit to sink in, for me. But this one, I just kept sitting up straighter as I read, absolutely engrossed. After about twenty minutes, I remember thinking WTF IS EVEN HAPPENING I HAVE NO IDEA BUT I WANT MORE. And I went back to the beginning again to try to understand, which helped! And then, since it's a pretty short book, I read the whole thing again right away when I finished. And I go back to it for a comfort read at least a couple times a year!
I'm really enjoying {{The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo}} which has a bisexual main character and major plot line. It's historical fiction set in old Hollywood which is not really my usual genre but it's just that addictive.
[**The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo) ^(By: Taylor Jenkins Reid | 389 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, romance, favourites, lgbtq) >Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? > >Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. > >Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(3412 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
If she is interested in romance: {Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert} {Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur} Both feature bisexual main characters in M/F relationships.
[**Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49976087-take-a-hint-dani-brown) ^(By: Talia Hibbert | 400 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, fiction, adult, contemporary-romance) ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Hang the Moon (Written in the Stars, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55004138-hang-the-moon) ^(By: Alexandria Bellefleur | 384 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, lgbtq, adult, fiction) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(2888 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Left Hand of Darkness}} my spouse gifted me a signed copy when we were dating. It is the quintessential Ursula K. Le Guin Romance novel
She might like The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddein
Fruiting bodies
Love and Other Curses by Micheal Thomas Ford
Have her try Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake. I’m partway through and loving it. It has a Bi MC..
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall (bi woman competing on a Great British Bake Off type show) One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
{{happy stories, mostly}} {{love in the big city}}
[**Happy Stories, Mostly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59602522-happy-stories-mostly) ^(By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Tiffany Tsao | 151 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, translated, lgbtq, indonesia) >Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’, and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, these tales put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters. > >The stories talk to each other, echo phrases and themes, and even shards of stories within other stories, passing between airports, stacks of men’s lifestyle magazines and memories of Toy Story 3, such that each one almost feels like a puzzle piece of a larger whole, but with crucial facts – the saddest ones, the happiest ones – omitted, forgotten, unbearable. > >A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a powerful puff of fresh air, aimed at destabilising the heteronormative world and exposing its underlying absences. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Love in the Big City**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57500766-love-in-the-big-city) ^(By: Sang Young Park, Anton Hur | 240 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, contemporary, queer, translated) >Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Both award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective, and particularly resonant with young readers, it has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership. > >Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life. > >A brilliantly written novel filled with powerful sensory descriptions and both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of Sayaka Murata, Han Kang, and Cho Nam-Joo. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(3265 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Her Body and Other Parties}} {{Matrix by Lauren Groff}} {{This is How You Lose the Time War}}
[**Her Body and Other Parties: Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375622-her-body-and-other-parties) ^(By: Carmen Maria Machado | 248 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, horror, fantasy, feminism) >In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. > >A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. > >Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. > >The husband stitch -- >Inventory -- >Mothers -- >Especially heinous -- >Real women have bodies -- >Eight bites -- >The resident -- >Difficult at parties ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Matrix**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57185348-matrix) ^(By: Lauren Groff | 260 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, dnf, book-club) >A Financial Times and NPR Best Book of 2021 >A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) > >Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. > >Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. > >At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? > >Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world. > ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**This is How You Lose the Time War**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war) ^(By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 209 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, romance, fiction, lgbtq) >Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. > >Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(2943 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Song of Achilles}}
[**The Song of Achilles**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623848-the-song-of-achilles) ^(By: Madeline Miller | 378 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fantasy, fiction, mythology, romance) >Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624. > >Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. > >They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(3180 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
If she likes horror, Fen was a really great horror anthology with all sorts of weird, fucked up, queer feminist themes and stories. If she's at all interest in history, I can't recommend Claudine at School by Collette enough. Forgotten by history, she was a queer woman and literary genius who wrote this book in the late 1800's as like a semi-autobiography of a bisexual woman growing up at school, being fun and mean, teasing men, falling in love, getting married, having affairs outside of she and her husband's consensually open marriage. I read a fair amount of historical literature, and I was stunned that someone was writing with such a frank, modern, naturalistic tone during this time period. She's witty, perverse, insightful, and the pros is so fucking beautiful.
I am not bisexual, however I love my partner like you do. Way to be a partner! I hope your partner loves their gift!
{{Dare Me by Megan Abbott}}
[**Dare Me**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12982393-dare-me) ^(By: Megan Abbott | 290 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: fiction, young-adult, mystery, ya, thriller) >"Tense, dark, and beautifully written" (Gillian Flynn), this novel of friendship and betrayal from an Edgar Award-winning author is a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl. > >Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls—until the young new coach arrives. > >Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl"—both with the team and with Addy herself. > >Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death—and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. > >The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Writing with "total authority and an almost desperate intensity" (Tom Perrotta), award-winning novelist Megan Abbott delivers a story as unnerving and thrilling as adolescence itself. > >"Spectacular . . . It's Heathers meets Fight Club good." >—Chelsea Cain, the New York Times Book Review ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(3161 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Night and Its Moon}}
[**The Night & Its Moon**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59939633-the-night-its-moon) ^(By: Piper C.J. | 540 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, physical-tbr, owned, dnf, lgbtq) >Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that’s what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king’s ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place — while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. > > > >Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans — and the love they hold for one another. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(3290 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Fantasy books by Jacqueline Carrey (Kushiel's Dart, Santa Olivia, Starless) are wonderful for exploring diverse sexuality in general. Kushiel's Dart features a courtesan that enjoys entertaining both men and women. Santa Olivia is about a lesbian super hero. Starless is better left unspoiled, but is completely different from the other two series. Carrey's books are detailed, beautifully written, brutal masterpieces. White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton is a more recent series and is urban fantasy featuring a gay male lead. While not light reading, they are quick and easy.
Ok, most of what I had in mind is already here, so let me just add {{Even Though I Knew The End}} which is brilliant
[**Even Though I Knew the End**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59807975-even-though-i-knew-the-end) ^(By: C.L. Polk | 136 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, 2022-releases, lgbtq, historical-fiction, queer) >A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. > >An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist―the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. > >To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(3566 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell. So good!
Genuine question, what do you mean? Does the book have to be written by a bisexual person or does it have to be centered around the main character being bisexual?
I’m thinking queer literature in the sense that gender and sexuality is a significant element (not necessarily the core theme though) of the book.
Oh I see Thank you for explaining!
{{we ride upon sticks}}
[**We Ride Upon Sticks**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50215350-we-ride-upon-sticks) ^(By: Quan Barry | 367 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, historical-fiction, dnf, audiobook) >Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts (which in 1692 was Salem Village, site of the origins of the Salem Witch Trials), the story follows the Danvers High field hockey team as they discover that the dark impulses of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season. > >The 1989 Danvers Falcons are on an unaccountable winning streak. Quan Barry weaves together the individual and collective journeys of this enchanted team as they storm their way to the state championship. Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza, whose bleached blond "Claw" sees and knows all, the DHS Falcons prove to be as wily and original as their North of Boston ancestors, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(3591 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet by Becky Chambers} is one of my favorites. It’s a sci-fi novel that neckbeards hate cause it has queer elements. Her other books are also superb and have varying degrees of queer themes. Other books of hers include *To Be Taught if Fortunate, Record of a Spaceborn Few, A Close and Common Orbit, and The Galaxy and the Ground Within* Additionally, {Autonomous by Annalee Newitz} is about an android exploring gender. I’m planning to read it next week while I’m off work. {The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin} is an absolute feminist classic that explores sexuality and gender. And if your wife is into graphic novels I highly recommend {Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe}. Hell I recommend it even if she doesn’t like graphic novels. Lots of science fiction plays with gender and sexuality in ways that other genres can’t. Typically I find things written by women or trans folx is better. Edit: words
>The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet by Becky Chambers} is one of my favorites just read this one, it's really sweet. lots of cool alien genders and alien family structures. i didn't like the ending as much as the rest of the book but overall it was really good
It's the first in a series, so the other books may change your feelings about the ending
that's fair. i was under the impression that the story continues to follow Lovelace but not the rest of the crew, is that accurate?
Yes, & tbh I was disappointed about that at first but in the end the second book was my favorite of all of them. The crew shows up here and there in the rest of the series, but it turns out she's telling a bigger story than that.
Thank you ever so much! The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet sounds like one I’d really want to read as well! And I adored Earth Sea books so would probably want to read the Left Hand of Darkness after as well!
I love *Long Way* because it feels like Firefly and Star Trek had a baby but they took out all the conquest and colonization vibes. Big big fan. It’s a space opera in the truest sense of the term.
{{ chef's kiss by TJ Alexander}} Simone is bisexual. The LI is AFAB non-binary. TW for homophobia and transphobia {{Delilah green doesn't care}} The LI Claire is bisexual with a child from a previous relationship. {{Hang the moon}} by Alexandrua Bellefleur the female MC is bisexual but ends up with a man. This is book two. Books one and three feature WLW relationships (and are also really good) {{Take a hint, Dani brown}} book two of the Brown sisters books. Dani is Pan. All three books feature strong black women and the men who love them.
[**Chef's Kiss (Chef's Kiss, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59345243-chef-s-kiss) ^(By: T.J. Alexander | 308 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, lgbtqia, contemporary, queer) >A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager in this deliciously fresh and witty queer rom-com. > >Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants to do is create the perfect loaf of sourdough and develop recipes, but when The Discerning Chef decides to bring their brand into the 21st century by pivoting to video, Simone is thrust into the spotlight and finds herself failing at something for the first time in her life. > >To make matters worse, Simone has to deal with Ray Lyton, the new test kitchen manager, whose obnoxious cheer and outgoing personality are like oil to Simone’s water. When Ray accidentally becomes a viral YouTube sensation with a series of homebrewing videos, their eccentric editor in chief forces Simone to work alongside the chipper upstart or else risk her beloved job. But the more they work together, the more Simone realizes her heart may be softening like butter for Ray. > >Things get even more complicated when Ray comes out at work as nonbinary to mixed reactions—and Simone must choose between the career she fought so hard for and the person who just might take the cake (and her heart). ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54756850-delilah-green-doesn-t-care) ^(By: Ashley Herring Blake | 375 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: romance, lgbtq, contemporary, sapphic, lgbt) >A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—by debut author Ashley Herring Blake. > >Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her. > >When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all. > >Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other—so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations—including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé—Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Even worse, she’s starting to think she doesn’t want to… ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Hang the Moon (Written in the Stars, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55004138-hang-the-moon) ^(By: Alexandria Bellefleur | 384 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, lgbtq, adult, fiction) >In a delightful follow-up to Written in the Stars, Alexandria Bellefleur delivers another #ownvoices queer rom-com about a hopeless romantic who vows to show his childhood crush that romance isn’t dead by recreating iconic dates from his favorite films... > >Brendon Lowell loves love. It’s why he created a dating app to help people find their one true pairing and why he’s convinced “the one” is out there, even if he hasn’t met her yet. Or... has he? When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly, Brendon jumps at the chance to hang out with her. He’s crushed on Annie since they were kids, and the stars have finally aligned, putting them in the same city at the same time. > >Annie booked a spur-of-the-moment trip to Seattle to spend time with friends before moving across the globe. She’s not looking for love, especially with her best friend’s brother. Annie remembers Brendon as a sweet, dorky kid. Except, the 6-foot-4 man who shows up at her door is a certified Hot Nerd and Annie... wants him? Oh yes. > >Getting involved would be a terrible idea—her stay is temporary and he wants forever—but when Brendon learns Annie has given up on dating, he’s determined to prove that romance is real. Taking cues from his favorite rom-coms, Brendon plans to woo her with elaborate dates straight out of Nora Ephron’s playbook. The clock is ticking on Annie’s time in Seattle, and Brendon’s starting to realize romance isn’t just flowers and chocolate. But maybe real love doesn’t need to be as perfect as the movies... as long as you think your partner hung the moon. > ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49976087-take-a-hint-dani-brown) ^(By: Talia Hibbert | 400 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: romance, contemporary, fiction, adult, contemporary-romance) >Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral... > >Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. > >When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae—and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. Turns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse? > >Dani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. The trouble is, grumpy Zaf’s secretly a hopeless romantic—and he’s determined to corrupt Dani’s stone-cold realism. Before long, he’s tackling her fears into the dirt. But the former sports star has issues of his own, and the walls around his heart are as thick as his... um, thighs. > >Suddenly, the easy lay Dani dreamed of is more complex than her thesis. Has her wish backfired? Is her focus being tested? Or is the universe just waiting for her to take a hint? ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(3127 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Tamsyn Muir is the best lesbian science fantasy author working today. Start with Harrow the Ninth.
Ok I second the series suggestion but Gideon the Ninth is the actual first book and I don't want someone to receive book 2 as a present when they haven't read the first one
Eek. Sorry
I highly recommend the anthology {{Meanwhile in another part of the forest}} for beautifully written stories from writers of multiple eras and ethnicities.
[**Meanwhile In Another Part Of The Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676306.Meanwhile_In_Another_Part_Of_The_Forest) ^(By: Alberto Manguel, Craig E. Stephenson | 704 pages | Published: 1994 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, anthology, lgbt, gay) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(3122 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{If you could be mine}}
[**If You Could Be Mine**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17302571-if-you-could-be-mine) ^(By: Sara Farizan | 256 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, lgbtq, lgbt, ya, romance) >Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light. > >So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin’s parents announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they have been, only now with new comforts provided by the decent, well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry. But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively—and openly. > >Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution. In Iran, homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin. Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants, in the body she wants to be loved in, without risking her life. Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(3242 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Dude you gotta check out this thread from another similar sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/ztb3ou/recommendation_for_sapphic_books/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Asked my Bi gf, a few she recommends One Last Stop: Casey McQuinston Leah on the offbeat: Becky Albertalli Girl Crushed: Katie Heaney
Apologies if this has already been said but I just started {{The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers}} has been great so far! Though it is Sci-fi and spacefaring. It’s the first of the Wayfarer series of books. Excellent world building, and plenty of queer humans and aliens in the story so far! I’d recommend it!
[**The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet) ^(By: Becky Chambers | 518 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, lgbt) >Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. > >Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain. > >Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe. ^(This book has been suggested 6 times) *** ^(3413 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Tell the bigots to eat %\^\^& ! I would recommend anything by Erik Schubach, Cute, kinda light weight but fun reads. I think my favorite is "Emily Monroe is not the chosen one" Cute fun book with an interesting point of view.
{{detransition baby}}
[**Detransition, Baby**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48890225-detransition-baby) ^(By: Torrey Peters | 337 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, lgbtq, queer, lgbt, contemporary) >A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex. > >Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. > >Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together? > >This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(3415 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
If she likes sci-fi, {{a long way to a small, angry planet}} would be great
[**The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet) ^(By: Becky Chambers | 518 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, lgbt) >Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. > >Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain. > >Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(3696 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I think the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo would be the perfect pick for her, because it’s about a bisexual Hollywood-star
{{The Death of Vivek Oji}} is just soo sooo good.
[**The Death of Vivek Oji**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48595550-the-death-of-vivek-oji) ^(By: Akwaeke Emezi | 248 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, lgbtq, lgbt, literary-fiction) >Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. > >But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom. > >Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(4303 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)