Sedating Elaine
By: Dawn Winter
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking …
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1. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
2. The Adult
By: Bronwyn Fischer
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance. In the wet grass… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
3. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
4. Vacuum in the Dark
By: Jen Beagin
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voic… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
5. We Play Ourselves
By: Jen Silverman
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast to start over, where she is dra… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"And all the parts of me that are ugly and lonely and horrible and sad will be the parts of me that other people hold close to themselves and fine a secret resonance with, and about which they say to …"-Jen Silverman, We Play Ourselves
6. Interesting Facts about Space
By: Emily R. Austin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettif… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It’s actually sort of soothing to think of how massive the universe is, and how I could be snuffed out at any minute. I guess I like tricking my brain into disarming things."-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I hate my voice. I hate the words I choose. I hate my instincts and the way I think. I hate that I am self-absorbed enough to hate myself in detail. I think I am a bad person. I feel self-loathing so…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I doubt it's possible to have a baby and not imagine what you want for it. If I were to ever fall pregnant, I would wonder what the sex of the baby is. Celebrations that center expectations around ge…"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
"I wear the mask of a well mannered distant relative. A young lady who crosses her legs at the ankles and laughs at banal jokes. That is a new character for me however. I have not mastered her yet. I …"-Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space
7. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
8. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
9. Waiting for Ted
By: Marieke Bigg
3.23
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
“After all these years, I was surprised to find that we were still in the process of trying to asse… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
10. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
11. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
12. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
13. We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
14. Milk Fed
By: Melissa Broder
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
15. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
16. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
17. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
18. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
19. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
20. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
21. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
22. Oh Honey
By: Emily R. Austin
3.92
Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition
“Hello, my name is Esther. I am calling on behalf of Krippler Incorporated, a market research insti… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mental health
"As it turns out, my acceptance of the heroin addict’s invitation to party may have been a case of poor judgement."-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
"She is deluded enough to assume that I could feel romantically for a person with a badly drawn dog tattooed to their arm."-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
"I have to share a room. I am expected to sleep mere meters from a woman whose mental ailment is unknown to me. For all I know she might be a cannibal."-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
"Her teeth and lips are tinted purple from the Kool-Aid. Mine are probably purple too, but I can’t see them. You can’t see your own face from within it. This is something I have always struggled with"-Emily R. Austin, Oh Honey
23. Experienced
By: Kate Young
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
24. A World Between
By: Emily Hashimoto
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In 2004, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Leena pulled Eleanor back to her, and this kiss was the one to ruin empires and build cathedrals and change the universe, with flashes of yearning that went beyond kissing, with a passion first honed…"-Emily Hashimoto, A World Between
25. Body Grammar
By: Jules Ohman
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
26. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
27. Vagablonde
By: Anna Dorn
3.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a wom… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
28. I Want You More
By: Swan Huntley
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
29. Sedating Elaine
By: Dawn Winter
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking … read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- audiobook
- gay
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
30. Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
By: Alana Saab
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arr… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender."-Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
