Sapphic Book Recs in Every Genre

it is just beautifully done. I also love how it incorporates ancient Egyptian mythology into a 20th century setting.

This is one of my favorite collections of short stories. I love the structure of it. I think it really adds a sense of like emotion to the overall reading experience.

And it's just it's just adorable and happy and romantic and lovely and cozy and about acceptance and figuring yourself out and being happy and confident in yourself. And I love it. It's just lovely.

This is a nice little short one. You could probably read this in a day or two, but it packs a punch for being so short.

This is the first book in a duogy which very much for me hearkens back to very traditional like highstakes intricate political worldbuilding fantasy of like the 80s and '9s.

It was such a relatable series for me. Like obviously it's a comedy. It's slightly silly. It's slightly exaggerated, but there were certain elements of it, particularly regarding the experience of going to university in the UK, that I was just like, I'm I'm taken back there.

And it was just so much fun. Listen, I listened to this on audiobook and I just kept thinking, 'Oh my god, I remember that.'

This is actually an incredibly like impactful, dark, gritty series which explores trauma and sexual violence and empire and patriarchy.

So, one of my top tier favorites, like favorite horror books of all time, is The House of Hunger.

including another favorite of mine, which is The Vanisher's Palace.

So they're linked in that way, but they are also just really enjoyable as individual stories which center the women of these original tales.

It's really entertaining, like really comical and again a really lovely like demonstration of found family and friendship and also like coming of age and also coming of age and figuring out your sexuality in the case of some of the characters.

She also has a famous novel called Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is semi-autobiographical. So, it's interesting when you read those two together and see what was real and what wasn't in the novel. And both are fantastic to be honest.

it's definitely not like super duper scary, but is mysterious and intriguing and a little bit horrifying.

This is a historical romance and it's basically like a sappic Agatha Christie. It's like Agatha Christie meets safic romance.

it is a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Uritysy, and it is stunning.

It is a found family narrative and within that there are of course sappic relationships and it's just beautiful. Like it's stunning.

And this is just a really fun version of that NT King Fisher's like quintessential slightly humorous, clever, fantastical writing.

I have loved this graphic novel ever since it first came out. It's by one of my favorite graphic novelists, Isabelle Greenberg. Her art, her story lines, her writing, everything is perfection.

A lot of her poetry is fragmentaryary, but even in those fragments, you can find such beautiful terms of phrase, such relatable moments in Safo's life.

This book is the most beautiful like musing on love I have ever read. This is philosophy in fiction. It is stunning.

And both are fantastic to be honest. But I just wanted to mention the autobiography here in the non-fiction section.

And it's a ton of fun. It would also make a fantastic film.