30 must-read romance books like I Fall in Love Once A Year by Emely Gottwald

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I Fall in Love Once A Year

By: Emely Gottwald

3.42

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Chloe attends Cologne pride every year – it’s a place and time where she can express herself and ex…

"She sighed a mocking “seriously?"

-Emely Gottwald, I Fall in Love Once A Year

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1. When You Least Expect It

By: Haley Cass

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition Caroline Parker knows three things to be true. First, she is… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's When You Least Expect It book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"No one has ever looked at me the way she does."

-Haley Cass, When You Least Expect It

"I like the idea that you’d come to me at the end of a hard day and know that I want to be there for you. And that it doesn’t have anything to do with taking anything away from your independence becau…"

-Haley Cass, When You Least Expect It

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2. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

By: Emma R. Alban

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more

Similar categories in Emma R. Alban's Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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3. Those Who Wait

By: Haley Cass

4.45

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition Sutton Spencer’s ideas for her life were fairly simple: fini… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's Those Who Wait book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Welcome, my beautiful, bright ray of redheaded sunshine!"

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

"I’m in love with you, Sutton. Terrifyingly, irreversibly, life-alteringly in love with you."

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

"Charlotte swallowed hard, forcing her spine up straight and clasping her hands together tighter to make them stop shaking. “That I’m a lesbian."

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

"I’ve learned that love is about finding someone who pulls you to them even when reason might tell you otherwise. Someone who pushes you out of your comfort zone, not because of them doing or saying a…"

-Haley Cass, Those Who Wait

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4. Late to the Party

By: Kelly Quindlen

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out to… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Quindlen's Late to the Party book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I think saying what you're afraid of makes you brave."

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

"And I think being friends with someone should be like the concept of infinity—like you truly believe that person has no limits, and you just want to keep counting upward with them to see where they g…"

-Kelly Quindlen, Late to the Party

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5. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. Love at First Set

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sometimes true love takes a little heavy lifting The gym is Lizzie's life--it's her passion, he… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Love at First Set book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in thi… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Sexuality is complicated. It’s not static. People change and sexuality can change too."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

"Astrid Parker was loved, no matter what her mother thought of her. No matter what choices she made. And that love gave her the courage to choose herself."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

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8. On the Same Page

By: Haley Cass

4.40

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Riley Beckett met Gianna Mäkinen – drop-dead gorgeous influencer, trilingual, daughter of world-fam… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's On the Same Page book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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9. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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10. Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its comp… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"And Delilah had gotten through life by putting herself first, only concentrating herself with what she knew was true, because she’d learned a long time ago that she couldn’t control anyone but hersel…"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

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11. Mistakes Were Made

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Something To Talk About comes a sharp and sexy rom-com abou… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Tempting Olivia (Oxford Romance #2)

By: Clare Ashton

4.39

Format: 404 pages, None

Olivia Sachdeva’s life is flawless. With a first from Oxford and as the youngest partner at Bentley… read more

Similar categories in Clare Ashton's Tempting Olivia (Oxford Romance #2) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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13. That Secret Something

By: Emily Wright

4.01

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebecca Lawson is off-limits. Jess knows this, but Rebecca has captured her heart for as long as… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wright's That Secret Something book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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14. Down to a Science (I Heart Sapphfic Pride Collection, #1)

By: Haley Cass

4.17

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Ellie Beckett’s life is simple and uncomplicated; she’s on track to become a leading expert in biom… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's Down to a Science (I Heart Sapphfic Pride Collection, #1) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Being your friend and knowing that you're happy, even if it's with someone else, even if my heart is breaking, is worth it. But if you love me? If you love me Mia, then be brave and love me."

-Haley Cass, Down to a Science (I Heart Sapphfic Pride Collection, #1)

"Because I love you, Mia Sharpe. You are my route to happiness. All of my routes to happiness lead to you, and I haven’t ever found anyone else that has even come close. I love that you are willing to…"

-Haley Cass, Down to a Science (I Heart Sapphfic Pride Collection, #1)

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15. No Rings Attached (Ms. Right, #2)

By: Rachel Lacey

3.96

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes the second installment in the Ms. Right series: a capt… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lacey's No Rings Attached (Ms. Right, #2) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Her heart was a delicate thing. Instead of toughening her up, each loss or heartbreak only seemed to make her more fragile."

-Rachel Lacey, No Rings Attached (Ms. Right, #2)

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16. A Game of Hearts and Heists (Girl Games #1)

By: Ruby Roe

3.97

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Two enemies, one goal: steal each other's hearts. Scarlett Grey, disgraced assassin, is determin… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Roe's A Game of Hearts and Heists (Girl Games #1) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Better Than Expected

By: Haley Cass

4.23

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah Dalton had a lot of expectations in her life. Growing up watching her mother struggle for ev… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's Better Than Expected book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Anything you want, within my power, is yours."

-Haley Cass, Better Than Expected

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18. How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3)

By: Anita Kelly

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's How You Get the Girl (Love & Other Disasters, #3) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Following Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur… read more

Similar categories in Alexandria Bellefleur's Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Do you have somewhere you can stay?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

"You do realize I could be anybody, right?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

"The right person shouldnt complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you are too much or not enough…"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

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20. Some Girls Do

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Dugan's Some Girls Do book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

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21. House of Crimson Hearts (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #1)

By: Ruby Roe

4.22

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Once upon a time, a vampire corrupted a hunter. Octavia Beaumont, one of the original three vamp… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Roe's House of Crimson Hearts (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #1) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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22. The Falling in Love Montage

By: Ciara Smyth

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother woul… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's The Falling in Love Montage book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I love you. But I’m not in love with you."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NINE!" I yelled the famous line from Imagine Me & You"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

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23. A Short History of Queer Women

By: Kirsty Loehr

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren’t ‘just … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Loehr's A Short History of Queer Women book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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24. That Summer Feeling

By: Bridget Morrissey

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Turns out you're never too old for a summer camp romance. Or a change of heart. When a divorced wom… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Morrissey's That Summer Feeling book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Signs didn't just exist to tell me where to go. Sometimes signs reminded me of what I needed to avoid."

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

"That's who I was to my core---a person who believed in magic. Who found secrets tucked into the fabric of the universe. Who wished on shooting stars and took leaps of faith based on nothing but feeli…"

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

"I'd always known to my parents, love meant suffering. It meant enduring everything, no matter how bad. Only something publicly shameful was worth splitting up over. Even then, a case could be made fo…"

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

"Ethan sat besides me, watching as he always did. An observer of life not unlike my sister. A lot of the time, I'd felt it was up to me to be the one who shimmered enough for the both of us. And I did…"

-Bridget Morrissey, That Summer Feeling

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25. Forever and a Day - A Those Who Wait story (Those Who Wait, #1.5)

By: Haley Cass

4.43

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN B08FTF1C4W moved to the more recent edition Good things come to those who wait and now Sutt… read more

Similar categories in Haley Cass's Forever and a Day - A Those Who Wait story (Those Who Wait, #1.5) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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26. Shameless Expectations

By: Adrian J. Smith

4.14

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Escaping the past is hard. Living in the present is harder. Monti Schroeder is on a quest for pe… read more

Similar categories in Adrian J. Smith's Shameless Expectations book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
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27. Something to Talk About

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a… read more

Similar categories in Meryl Wilsner's Something to Talk About book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"They kissed slowly. Gently. Like they couldn't believe they were allowed to."

-Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

"Jo called her preferred coffee shop the next morning, the one where Emma picked up her latte every day. She added an iced chai to her standing order. It was something she did sometimes, after late-ni…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

"She hadn’t had to apologize out loud then, because her apology was changed behavior, never letting anything like that happen again. Jo needed to do the same. Emma has forgiven too many people in her …"

-Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

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28. House of Crimson Kisses (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #2)

By: Ruby Roe

4.50

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

Once upon a time, a vampire fell in love with a hunter… The trials for the heir of the city have… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Roe's House of Crimson Kisses (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #2) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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29. I Fall in Love Once A Year

By: Emely Gottwald

3.42

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Chloe attends Cologne pride every year – it’s a place and time where she can express herself and ex… read more

Similar categories in Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
"She sighed a mocking “seriously?"

-Emely Gottwald, I Fall in Love Once A Year

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30. Make the Season Bright

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two exes find themselves stuck at the same house for Christmas in this holiday romance by Ashley He… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Herring Blake's Make the Season Bright book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer
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31. House of Crimson Curses (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #3)

By: Ruby Roe

4.56

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the thrilling conclusion to Red and Octavia's steamy vampire romance. Find out what happens… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Roe's House of Crimson Curses (Kingdom of Immortal Lovers #3) book and Emely Gottwald's I Fall in Love Once A Year

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer

31 must-read lgbt books like I Fall in Love Once A Year by Emely Gottwald

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When You Least Expect It

Haley Cass

4.33

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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Emma R. Alban

3.82

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Those Who Wait

Haley Cass

4.45

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Late to the Party

Kelly Quindlen

4.02

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Home Field Advantage

Dahlia Adler

3.84

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Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko

3.74

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Late to the Party

Kelly Quindlen

4.02

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Cleat Cute

Meryl Wilsner

3.77

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