13 must-read lesbian books coming in 2025
(PinkNews)
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Good news, bookworms: there are so many great lesbian books still to come this year!
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From romance to historical fiction, fantasy to lit-fic, the lesbian offerings from authors this year look amazing. We’ve taken a look at the books that are still to come before the end of 2025 so you know what to add to your pre-order lists.
Here are 13 lesbian books that you should be aware of in 2025.
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil – V.E. Schwab
Toxic lesbian vampires. Do I really need to say more?
From the writer of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil separately follows three lesbian vampires across centuries, cultures and continents in a stunning sapphic fever dream. Exploring obsession, longing and loss, all wrapped in V.E. Schwab’s stunningly poetic prose, this is a book to really sink your teeth into.
Nav’s Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love – Jessica Lewis
If you love a good YA romantic comedy, Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love is going to be right up your street.
Nav knows how to flirt but has seen up close how messy love can be, thanks to her best friend’s failing love life. Gia on the other hand, is terrible at flirting so enlists Nav’s help to get better. Happy to help if it means her best friend can date someone nice for a change, Nav takes Gia on a pretend date to kick lessons off, but soon finds that she might feel more for Gia than she expected.
With some sapphic love triangle vibes, this cute, feel-good romance will have you turning pages.
A Sharp Endless Need – Marisa Crane
A contemporary coming of age story, A Sharp Endless Need follows Mack Morris as she enters her senior year of high school, deals with the death of her father and faces the chemistry she has with new girl Liv.
The tensions they feel on the basketball court soon spill over as they fall into something that is more than friendship but entirely new. Balancing their feelings with their small town existence and Mack’s grief, this book encompasses growing up, longing, and the impulses of amition and self destruction.
Fate’s Bane – C.L. Clark
Award-winning author C.L. Clark has brought us a tragic sapphic adventure that you won’t be able to put down.
A tenuous peace is in place between the clans of the fens, maintained by Agnir who lives as a ward and hostage among her enemy. As she grows up, she realises that the love for the chieftain’s daughter is also growing.
The two meet at a hidden spring, where magic awakens. Their love could unite the clans under one banner or destroy the any hope of lasting peace. With greedy enemiies trying to claim the clans from outside and their fathers’ growing ambitions, can the couple survive and ensure their clans do as well?
Dream On Ramona Riley – Ashley Herring Blake
Ashley Herring Blake has does it again with Dream On, Ramona Riley. A beautiful sapphic romance from the author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date, a Hollywood star and a small-town waitress’ worlds collide when a big-budget rom-com comes to town to film.
Ramona, previously a student at a prestigious art school who gave up her place to come home to care for her younger sister 12 years ago, meets Dylan, who is desperately trying to prove she’s more than a nepo baby. But have the two met before and can they flan the spark between them into something more?
The first book in Ashley Herring Blake’s new Clover Lake series, this book is everything you want from a romance.
One Of The Boys – Victoria Zeller
This beautiful YA coming of age story follows Grace Woodhouse as she tries to find her place while also in the early stages of her transition. As her senior year begins, Grace is coming to terms with new social circles and a life without football.
But her skills on the field are soon needed and her old friends convince her to rejoin the team, despite Grace thinking that she had left that life forever. She now has decide just how much of her true self she can give up in order to play the game she loves.
The Maiden and Her Monster – Maddie Martinez
Combining history, folklore and sapphic romance, this debut novel is a reimagining of the Jewish myth of the golem.
Malka has witnessed how the cursed woods have plagued her village, with people warning the clergy who come to collect their tythes. Not heeding the warnings about the monster lurking in the trees, a clergy girl wanders too close and Malka’s mother is accused of her murder.
To spare her mother from execution, Malka makes a deal with a priest – if she brings him the monster, her mother will be set free. But upon entering the forest, the monster Malka finds isn’t the one she expected and she soon has to deal with her growing fears for the monster she was taught to fear.
The Starving Saints – Caitlin Starling
If historical fiction and horror is more your vibe, you can’t go wrong with The Starving Saints. Even the synopis has me creeped out in the best way.
Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months and supplies are running low. There has been no sign of rescue when suddenly the stores are replenished, the sick are suddenly healed and the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived despite the barricades. All they want in return for their help is adoration.
Soon the castle falls sway to the saviours and its inhabitants begin to fall to hedonistic ecstasy. But where did their new masters come from and what do they really want?
Alchemy and a Cup of Tea – Rebecca Thorne
The final installment of Rebecca’s Thorne’s Tomes and Tea series is coming this year, so it will soon be time to say farewell to Reyna and Kianthe (but not the queer-normative world created in these books, as Rebecca told us).
The last book in the cosiest of cosy fantasies, Alchemy and a Cup of Tea picks up from the shock cliffhanger ending of Tea You at the Altar. With multiple issues to address while trying to rule the Queendom, can Kianthe and Reyna hold onto the little slice of heaven they created for themselves in their book shop?
If you’re looking for an adorable sapphic fantasy with low stakes but lots of laughs, this is the series for you.
Every Step She Takes – Alison Cochrun
A European adventure, forced proximity and sapphic love – what more do you want from a romance? Alison Cochrun has absolutely done it again with this sexy and insightful book for all the 30-something lesbians out there.
Desperate to escape her monotnous routines and unexpected gay panic, Sadie Wells jumps at the chance to take her injured sister’s place on a tour in Portugal. After enjoying some wine on the plane, Sadie spills all her secrets to her seatmate Mal – only to find later that Mal is on the tour too.
Mal agrees to help Sadie live the queer adolescence she missed out, helping her to develop a newfound confidence. But is the end of the tour the end of their budding relationship?
A Circle Outside – Linda Rosewood
Set in the early 1990s in a lesbian commune established by eight women in a Californian redwood forest, A Circle Outside is a warm and funny look back at a more idealistic era.
On the outside, the commune looks like the perfect place to get back to the land and give the finger to the Patriarchy – but everything can’t always run smoothly. With jealousies arising, so does tension and people’s agendas start to become more apparent.
A Treachery of Swans – A. B. Poranek
You had me at ‘sapphic retelling of Swan Lake’.
In a land where magic has been outlawed, Odie has spent years preparing for the heist that will restore magic to the kingdom. All she has to do is impersonate a princess, get into the palace and steal the king’s enchanted crown. What could go wrong?
Maybe the murder of the king, which forces Odie to enlist the help of the real princess. The two work together to unravel a web of lies that leaves Odie unsure of who to trust. Plus, there’s the problem of the growing feelings she has for the princess.
From the author of Where The Dark Stands Still, A Treachery of Swans is a stunning and atmospheric romantasy that you won’t be able to put down.
Palm Meridian – Grace Flahive
Set in a Florida retirement home for queer women in 2062, Palm Meridian deals with lost love, friendship and saying goodbye to a life well lived.
Long-term resident Hannah is getting ready to say goodbye following a terminal cancer diagnosis, but she’s not going out without a bang. Her friends have planned the end of life party to end all parties, with Hannah inviting two important people – one of whom just happens to be the love of her life who she hasn’t spoken to in 40 years.
Covering the span of a single day and also seventy years of living, Palm meridian is a vibrant story featuring incredible characters who will stay with you long after you finish the book.
