Recs if you like Girl's Girl...

every struggled to find actual lesbian/sapphic books when at the library or bookstore? so did I!

bc of said struggle, I started to curate a personal list of books that either has lesbian MCs and/or featured a primary sapphic romance.

i haven't read all of these, but I do try my diligence in confirming that they meet the above perimeters, since many books claim to be sapphic when they're not. this is an ever updating list, only fiction for now!

Basically, a huge list of books from all genres featuring sapphic characters, whether bisexual, lesbian, butch, femme, or anything in between.

Includes fiction and nonfiction. Books with spice, and books with very little romance alike. You may find epic lady knights, pirates, ancient vampires or just weird girl adventures, heartbreaking stories or cozy books of found family and queer joy. Memoirs, historical fiction, instruction manuals, maybe even a poem or two.

Welcoming suggestions<3

litfic and historical fiction with the sapphic yearning turned allll the way up!

suggestions welcome 🫡

We should all be reading queer, all year, but this list is full of upcoming queer books of all makes and models coming out in 2026. If you have a rec to add, just please keep in mind we’re looking for 2026 releases!

an oddly specific trend i’ve noticed, mostly in genres like horror, weird girl, feminine rage, etc. (but there are some others here, too).

collecting all 2026 releases featuring sapphic romance!!

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

Literary fiction where one or both of the sapphic characters are pining or obsessing to great extremes

I need suggestions pls, trying to stick to literary fiction rather than romance!

Hopefully some you haven't heard of

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

books by sapphic authors and/or with sapphic main characters

Women loving women! In literature!

"Weird girl literature" featuring sapphic characters

💜 yarnandbooks

this list features upcoming books that feature sapphic MCs or romance and are releasing in 2026!

All the 2026 Aardvark book club picks

This list features books with covers designed by New York-based, Houston-born designer Cassie Vu. She is a Senior Designer for Penguin Random House's art department. Her covers boast loud, bold lettering and striking colour gradients. Her website features a "cover graveyard", showcasing different iterations of covers that were ultimately chosen, which I highly recommend perusing.

characters are confirmed or suspect sapphics - plots are not necessarily romantic