sapphic: adjective
-relating to sexual attraction or activity between women.
We’re exploring the feet-kicking and swooning of sapphic romances! Here we’ve rounded up some of the best novels featuring the complicated relationships, amazing meet-cutes, and identity exploration celebrated in these books. Here are our most recommended books featuring sapphic love stories!
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Set in the 1980s, this is the story about Joan Goodwin, a female astronomer and professor at Rice University, who is one of the first female scientists to have the chance to visit space when she joins NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Joan joins pilot Hank Redmond, scientist John Griffin, mission specialist Lydia Danes, Donna Fitzgerald, and aeronautical engineer Vanessa Ford in training. As the group all become friends, Joan discovers a love she never imagined fueled by passion causing her to question her place in the universe.
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One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
August is twenty-three-years-old and already cynical when it comes to love. She believes living in New York City is all the proof she needs that magical love stories don’t exist and she’s better off alone. Then, August meets the beautiful Jane on the train and soon develops a crush. The only hold up? Jane is literally displaced from the 1970s and now August is the key to helping Jane.
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Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
Hardworking Grace not only exceeds expectations in school but has completed her PhD at twenty-eight. To celebrate, she decides to let loose a little on a girl’s trip to Vegas. This wild trip finds Grace waking up married to a woman she does not remember meeting. Taking this opportunity to escape her overbearing parents, Grace finds herself spending the summer in New York with her wife, Yuki, who she is beginning to develop real feelings for.
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Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
For a decade, Grace Henderson has been a star in the US Women’s National Team even though she’s only twenty-six. After an injury, she’s sidelined by twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Matthews, the complete opposite of Grace. Phoebe is a jokester who finds joy in the sport, a trait Grace lost a while ago. The last thing Grace expected was to find herself in a friends-with-benefits situation with a teammate who she sees as her main competition. As the World Cup approaches, the two women find themselves with completely different perspectives on their relationship.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amel El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Red and Blue are change agents who work for rivaling time traveling agencies. Red works for the Agency, a Technotopia, while Blue for the Garden, an organic consciousness. Traveling to different time periods to change history, the two begin to write each other letters that lead to sparks flying between them.
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Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Logan and Rosemary used to be best friends until the summer before high school turned them into enemies. After graduating, they didn’t speak for ten years. Now, in their thirties, they are both working as teachers at their alma mater and couldn’t be more different. When their former English teacher and mentor tells them he only has a few months to live, the two decide to set aside their differences to take him on his lifelong dream of a cross-country road trip.
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Outdrawn by Deanna Grey
Noah Blue clawed her way to the top with her own webcomic. Now, she’s earned full-time position at a comic company that is relaunching their cult classic, Queen Leisah, a comic they expect to be a bestseller with a movie deal already in the making. The only person to get in Noah’s way is artist Sage Montgomery, whose webcomic has been at the top of the charts for eight years. Sage was promised full creative control over Queen Leisah and has to share credit with Noah, the only person who is her true competition. Neither Noah nor Sage thought the most challenging part of working together would be trying to bury their feelings for one another.
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Fly With Me by Andie Burke
ER nurse Olive Murphy hates flying. On her first flight, the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency that causes Olive to jump into action and save a life. Now, she’s stuck in an airport hours away from the marathon she’s supposed to participate in to honor her brother. In a twist of fate, she finds herself in the presence of copilot Stella Soriano, who offers Olive a ride. A video of Olive’s life-saving efforts has gone viral which generated big sales for Stella’s airline. Stella comes up with the idea to have a fake romance with Olive so she can get a promotion in a male-dominated feel that overlooks her. The more time the two spend together, the more they find this love feeling more real than fake.
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The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
Nishat is torn between losing her family and hiding who she really is when a childhood friend comes back into her life. The gorgeous and charming Flavia is irresistible for Nishat and soon she finds herself falling for her. When a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, Flavia and Nishat soon become rival henna artists. As the competition becomes more intense, so do Nishat’s feelings for Flavia, which seem to be mutual.
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Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
Stevie and Nora had an epic romance that included plans to leave their small conservative town after graduation and move to California where they didn’t have to hide their love. When Stevie suffers from a terrible fall, she wakes up with no memory of the last two years, including her love for Nora and her own acceptance of her sexuality. Now Stevie is drifting away from her friends and family, lying about work, and on her way to a new future she’s unprepared for.
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