thanks for curating this! so helpful to my tbr ❤️

Janelle, I love this! 🫶 Let me know if you want any more recs! :)

I'd also suggest "Sunburn"; (literary, sapphic) "Down Among the Sticks and Bones" (sapphic, but also mad scientists, vampires, and atmospheric. Read it!); Every Heart a Doorway (trans side character); "She Who Became the Sun" (fantasy, sapphic, possibly non-binary (?)); "A dowry of Blood" (queer vampires); "The raven Cycle (YA gay); "My Policeman" (gay, the movie has Harry Styles in it); "If We Were Villains" (dark academia and repressed gays. Which honestly describes most of the genre); "We Could Be So Good" (1950s New York, gay)

I loved Those who wait by Haley Cass and Whenever you're ready by Rachel Runya Katz, maybe they're a fit here! Thanks for the list <3

All of A.K Mulford books have LBGTQ+ rep It's one of my favorite things about them♡

Best Cat in Show by Sage Evergreen The Awakening of Lora Abernathy by MJ Anthony (this one is mine!) Pluralities by Avi Silver Of the Wild by E. Wambheim Radio Apocalypse by K. Gallagher The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto The Witch Who Chases the Sun by Dawn Chen The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum Icarus by K. Ancrum Accidental Demons by Clare Edge Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love by D.N. Bryn Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki everything by Al Hess, Andrew Joseph White, Tamara Jeree, Anna-Marie McLemore, Felix Graves, Dawn Chen, Alex Nonymous-- I have loads more if you want more recs!

A Sharp and Endless Need (literary, sapphic, coming of age) and Perfume and Pain (witty and sharp) knocked my socks off this year.

One of my top fave books: The Heart's Invisible Furies