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a (ongoing) sapphic masterlist! (600+ books!)
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!
an ongoing sapphic masterlist of books (1600+)
in progress
Basically, a huge list of every book I ever heard features sapphic characters.
I have not read all of these, so I cannot be sure of the amount of the time on page of the sapphic characters or of the quality of the books.
Some of these I do not plan to read at all, since they are not my style. If you feel like a book doesn't belong here, let me know.
For my favs / read, check out my other lists & shelves.
Open to suggestions for more titles.
Don't shoot the messenger.
the monstrous-feminine
in the first edition of βthe monstrous-feminineβ, barbara creed challenges the dominant representation of women in horror films as victims, arguing that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous because of their sexuality (or lack thereof).
later, creed reinterprets the monstrous-feminine as a being who embraces her body and reclaims her otherness. in line with this contemporary vision, these are books which use horror to redefine notions of βwomanhoodβ.
recommendations welcome!
weird βgirlβ lit for dirtbag queers
these books are both aligned with and offer a queering of βweird girl literatureβ, a genre that manipulates horror, dark comedy, and/or surrealist elements to excavate the internal world of complex and unconventional characters. they are deviant, daring, and perverse reads for the weird queers among us.
*girl in quotation marks to allow this list to extend beyond the binary. recommendations welcome!
unbury your gays
as an antidote to the βbury your gaysβ trope, here are queers who defy death; who are reincarnated, immortalised, or escape death by the skin of their teeth. these characters may die at some point following this, but are allowed well-rounded arcs before that point.
please note that due to the nature of the list, spoilers may follow. enter at your own risk.
recommendations welcome!
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
rising waters
climate fic set in worlds impacted by rising water levels
recommendations welcome, as always!
queer speculative short story collections
what it says on the tin! queer short story collections (including novels broken into standalone short stories) with a speculative bent; tinges of horror, fantasy, sci-fi, dystopia and the otherwise spiritual. attempting to keep the list quite curated, but recommendations are always welcome!
unfamiliar tides
books set in drowned or drowning worlds
dreamy whimsical listless
in which nothing happens or a lot happens, but sometimes it feels like nothing at all.
also known as: lit fic that feels like a dream or a nightmare or a hallucination.
Fantasy WLW
Collected lists of Fantasy themed WLW, both suggested by other Pagebound readers and myself! βΊοΈ
body-horror book recs
this is not my body
body horror as a metaphor for autonomy, mental health & identity
alphabet soup group
Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks, who is no longer curating lists on Pagebound. You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Literary Sapphics
When you want to read something a step above trash
A long list of short story collections
seaside gothic
or lakesideβ¦or pondsideβ¦books that immerse us in a haunting, strange, beautiful, decadent, or unsettling coastal or waterside atmosphere
Weird Little Tales
Anthologies of short stories in the horror or speculative fiction genre! Tales will be spooky, thrilling, and maybe more than a little weird!
weird girlhood(s)
the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose βgirlhoodβ are we talking about? iβm thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.
