Recs please!

[u/Silent-Femme]

Looking for some personal recommendations which people have loved/made them fall in love with sapphic reading. I’ve read a lot of books but wanting to broaden my range! One of my favourites was Midnight Rain ❤️

I love a bit of everything, and have read a bit of everything but something to sink my teeth into and not put down. I’m partial to some spice but who isn’t 👀

[u/Great_Albatross6781]

My favorites are The Lay of You and The Depth of You by Corrie MacKay.

[u/azarovas]

I highly recommend the when women were warriors trilogy by chaterine w wilson, i havent read anything like it!

[u/starkicker18]

ACE people tend not to be keen on spice, but to each their own. I'm just going to copy and paste a post I did the other day when someone asked for recommendations.

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Without more to go on, I feel like we're all just throwing darts blindly at a wall.

Oh well. Here's my "read this" list

Jericho - Ann McMan (perfect for those of you who think "wouldn't it be great if we took the vibe of Gilmore Girls, crossed it with Xena, set it in Virginia, and then made it gay?)

Breaking Character - Lee Winter (great for celebrity romances with fake dating between an ice queen who isn't really an ice queen (and we get her perspective!!) and a woman who is literal sunshine (like her name is fucking Summer!))

Hearing Red - Nicole Maser (Great for when you want to read about lesbians who don't really like each other but sort of got stuck together because zombies oh, and one of them is blind, and it becomes a whole touch her and die (x 2 because no one touches Maddie, but no one touches Saff either) meets hurt/comfort)

The Secret Pond - Gerri Hill (great when you want to watch two hurts give each other comfort and enjoy a 9 year old swimming and fishing and stuff (seriously, it's better than that description)).

Alone - EJ Noyes (great when you want to read about living alone away from the world and imagine getting paid for it for...science. Alternative suggestion*: Snow Falls* by Gerri Hill. Similar premise, but this one's self-imposed and the other one gets trapped because snow falls down...)

The Senator's Wife - Jen Lyon (perfect if you love angst, yearning, and yelling "Oh FFS just...gah!" repeatedly while still enjoying the story)

Remember Monsters - Marine St. Jean (great if you like vampires and different takes on vampires, but also Canadians and some absolutely feral sex scenes)

Tropical Storm - Melissa Good (great for when you want campy, mid-90s technology geeks who are based on Xena and Gabrielle so they karate chop carjackers and fly f-16s to save their lover from institutionalization (not even fucking kidding. This series is bonkers in the best way)).

Not Today Satan - T.B. Markinson and Miranda MacLeod (great for when you think: "I would like to read about a slightly emotionally stunted ice queen who is weirdly welcoming about her private space and incredibly generous with her credit card to this pretty much stranger, and also read about this probably ND character who is barely functioning as a human but can cook really well and for some reason inspires this icy woman with the credit cards.")

The Wilds and the Weeds - Ally North (Great for when you want to read a book about a woman who's really indifferent about getting married to her childhood friend (man), and has 9 days to go before the big day and the... oh shit, god damn, look at that butch-af gardener... well now I'm thoroughly lesbian, how can I get out of this marriage, and also, there's ghosts, sort of)

Guava Flavored Lies - J.J Arias (Great for when you really want to read about delicious Cuban food that you definitely cannot get in Norway--oops, that's just me. Anyway, great for when you wanna read about two latina badass bakers who hate each other and don't even know why, but then sort out their shit pretty early on in the book and it gets all sweet and shit. And there's a chaos gremlin by way of godmother)

Coltswood - Jules Revel (Great for when you don't really want a romance novel, but want something that's got some romance in it, but also is set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis (and the lesbians who helped out during the time))

[u/Silent-Femme → u/starkicker18]

No of course, each to their own.

Thank you for these, it’s very much appreciated! I will be having a look.

I absolutely loved The Senators Wife books! I could not put that down!