The Holiday Trap
By: Roan Parrish
3.54
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
For fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Alexis Hall comes a charming, hilarious, and heartwarming LGB…
Want to Read $ 9.39"You don't hurt people by choosing yourself over them. They hurt themselves with what they think about it. It's not your job to fold yourself up so small that your edges never bump into anyone else. What kind of life is that?"-Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap
"How do you know if you'd be better off without your family?" she asked. [...] "I don't think it's so cut and dry. Like, I still talk to my parents. They love me. They just have lives that aren't the one I want." [...] "Yeah, it's about choosing how you want the people in your life to make you feel. You can decide you only want people in your life who make you feel respected, cared for, listened to. Then you communicate that to them, and if they repeatedly make you feel disrespected, neglected, or ignored instead, you stop giving them your time or energy." "Family's hard because it's rarely all bad. There's all those pretty memories of good times too. [...]" "And it feels like if you cut those people off from your future, then you lose the folks that knew that part of your past. But it's not true. You keep those memories no matter what because they're yours. They don't belong to the people you shared them with."-Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap
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1. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- adult
- queer
2. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
3. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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)
4. 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
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- romance
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
5. A Holly Jolly Ever After
By: Julie Murphy
3.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Kallum Liebermanis the funny one™. As the arguably lesser of the three former members of the boy ba… read more
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- romance
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. The Holiday Trap
By: Roan Parrish
3.54
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
For fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Alexis Hall comes a charming, hilarious, and heartwarming LGB… read more
Want to Read $ 9.39Similar categories in Roan Parrish's The Holiday Trap book and Roan Parrish's The Holiday Trap
- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"You don't hurt people by choosing yourself over them. They hurt themselves with what they think about it. It's not your job to fold yourself up so small that your edges never bump into anyone else. W…"-Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap
"How do you know if you'd be better off without your family?" she asked. [...] "I don't think it's so cut and dry. Like, I still talk to my parents. They love me. They just have lives that aren't the …"-Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap
7. A Merry Little Meet Cute
By: Julie Murphy
3.36
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sie… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
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- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. How to Excavate a Heart
By: Jake Maia Arlow
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicu… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I didn't use the word lesbian to describe myself until this year, though, which is when I chopped off all my hair and flirted with veganism"-Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart
9. You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince (Boy Meets Boy, #2)
By: Timothy Janovsky
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An "effervescent" (Rachel Lynn Solomon) stand-alone Christmas LGBTQIA+ New Adult RomCom, perfect fo… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I sigh, realizing that the boy I'm talking about is a different iteration of myself from a separate past life, removed from who I am here. All the previous me's have been chunked off, lopped into lit…"-Timothy Janovsky, You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince (Boy Meets Boy, #2)
10. Fly with Me
By: Andie Burke
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp b… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
11. Second Chances in New Port Stephen
By: T.J. Alexander
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only … read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Eli closed his eyes with a sigh. "Look, early aughts Elijah Wood was trans masc culture. When Lord of the rings -colon- The Fellowship of the Ring came out, it was the first time a short dude with gr…"-T.J. Alexander, Second Chances in New Port Stephen
12. 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)
By: Alexis Hall
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves―or, okay, likes―his job. Sure, man… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I don't think he'll be able to tell. Memory is peculiar. Worst comes to absolute worst, I'll just arrange to get whacked on the head again and say that's brought everything back." "That's not a thing…"-Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, #1)
13. Kiss Her Once for Me
By: Alison Cochrun
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The author of The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"I have Andrew, who walked back into my life and then kindly refused to walk back out again."-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me
"You're not my beard. Everyone knows my sexuality is like a Rorschach test." "What does that even mean?" "What you see when you look at me says a lot more about you than it does about me."-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me
"We are two queer women, and we're going to use this drive back to the cabin to do what queer women do." Blood pressure: rising. "And, uh, what's that?" "We're going to talk about our feelings" Well. …"-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me
"I'm demi," I say. Then stupidly, I clarify "-sexual. Not demiromantic or a demigirl or a demigod like Hercules." [...] "I didn't think you were coming out to me as the mythological hero Hercules." "S…"-Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me
14. Season of Love (Carrigan’s Christmasland, #1)
By: Helena Greer
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the pas… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"It was so freeing to have someone else be righteously indignant on her behalf. She'd never given herself the space to feel that anger. Somehow, Noelle doing it let her move out of the flashback into …"-Helena Greer, Season of Love (Carrigan’s Christmasland, #1)
15. Here We Go Again
By: Alison Cochrun
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
16. 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
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
17. It's a Fabulous Life
By: Kelly Farmer
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Ashley Herring Blake, this sapphic retelling of It’s a Wonde… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
18. The Christmas Swap
By: Talia Samuels
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
It's the perfect Christmas love story.Margot Murray is a newly single, high-flying businesswoman wi… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"A strange thing just happened involving a stranger and my tits… I’m feeling very strange about the strange thing with the strange stranger."-Talia Samuels, The Christmas Swap
19. In the Event of Love (Fern Falls, #1)
By: Courtney Kae
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexandria Bellefleur will adore this queer romcom that combines everyt… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Sometimes, mistakes are the beginning of something wonderful."-Courtney Kae, In the Event of Love (Fern Falls, #1)
20. Chef's Kiss (Chef's Kiss, #1)
By: T.J. Alexander
3.69
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition a… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
21. Behind the Scenes
By: Karelia Stetz-Waters
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fans of Abby Jimenez and Meryl Wilsner will fall in love with this hilarious and refreshingly authe… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
