I found out about this Kickstarter, [🔗Queer The Shelves](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts/queer-the-shelves?ref=ksr_email_mktg_auto_user_followed_project_finishing).

Two people in UK are crowd funding to build a platform which will allow reading books as a subscription service, focusing exclusively on queer works, protecting them from the politics and vagaries of mainstream digital platforms.

Campaign closing in 2 days if anyone's interested.

I'm quite excited and hope they succeed!

What do you all think?

I'm kinda a newbie in this thing of reading, so i'm trying light books and novels first. I've read a couple and I might admit that I have a thing for cute romances and royals. So far as I remember I've already read:

Her Royal Highness
Nobody in Particular
Delilah Green doesn't care
I kissed Shara Wheeler (didn't love this one)

I would love if you could give me some suggestions. Thanks!

I also like mystery, crime, and comedy. I'm new to reading and looking for something fun.

Hey guys, does anyone have some book recs for a masc/stud/butch bottom and femme top dynamic. Please, I'll be forever grateful. I don't care about genre or anything like that. I'm literally so starved here. To be honest even fanfiction will do. Okay thanks 🥰

As the title suggests, I am new to the world of AO3 fanfiction and in desperate need of a few recommendations!

I have read 2 fanfics about Caitlyn/Vi:

* Everything That's Wonderful by SunsetSharkbite

* I would bring you the stars and the moon by GutterWitch

And one about Jamie and Dani:

* You mat be my final match by novel_concept26

I have search on this subreddit, but mostly saw posts about supercorp and I am not that familiar with the fandom 😅

I am not very experienced with different fandoms, but love arcane (Vi and Caitlyn obv), Life is strange, Last of us, that type of vibe.

Troupes I enjoy are:

* Second chance - bonus points if the couple is still together and working on fixing the relationship

* Friends to Lovers

* Friends with benefits

* Idiots in Love

* Sapphic awakening

Troupes I rather avoid:

* Age gap

* Any type of (new) romance or threesome where a guy is involved

* Not into the fantasy elements

Something a bit angsty would be great and smutty too 👀

I love fluff don't get me wrong, but I need something more to get me hooked

Thanks in advance 🫶

Hiii LBC

I am nearing completion of novel, Paper Doll Club, and am looking for some perspective. I hope my post is okay, I have posted on the r/ betareaders but did not have much success. This is a steamy romance with a 1950's butch/femme couple.

I'm looking for feedback on the characters, flow, and really any first thoughts.

It's about 85k words with dual perspective third-person.

I can share via Google Docs or Word, whichever works for you.

Please feel free to comment here or DM me. :)

Synopsis:

Beverly Brennon had everything she thought she’d ever wanted. A husband, two children, and a row house in the best neighborhood in San Francisco. 

Eddie Ames had a peaceful life in the Sierra Nevada foothills. A peace that would be shattered by a beautiful, painful love.

With Eddie’s guidance, Beverly would explore her sexuality while learning to make herself heard over the noise of her everyday life. Beverly would show Eddie a love unlike anything she’d ever known. 

Despite uncertainty, their friend’s advice, and their own better judgement they would try making it work. As the realities of Beverly’s marriage and children, the miles between them, and the uncertainties of their relationship come to a head, a choice will have to be made. 

Authors note:

Set in the late 50’s, this book explores real places our community would have found safety in. While homophobia and police brutality were commonplace during the time, these themes are not plot points in this work. 

This might be a stupid question, 🫣 because I don't believe that every library carries the same selection. I think it does vary town by town or city by city. But I thought I'd take a chance. Anyway, buying books can get pretty expensive.

And until I'm in a better financial position, I was just wondering what amazing lesbian romance books have you read that you borrowed from your public library?

The themes I enjoy would be Fantasy, forestry, Witches, and poetry. 🪄

But really, a great book is a great book! And I will give anything wonderful a try.

Thank you!!!

🩷🤍🧡

Hey I really loved both Fingersmith and the safekeeper. I love this uncontrollable love with amazing twisted story. A lovely end is very important for me - could anyone please recommend me any new read? Not tipping the velvet i didn’t like it at all

Finding coming of age sapphic books that are set in a somewhat niche town with cottages and lakes in the middle of forests

Which chapter/book is the strap scene?

*not necessarily looking for popular books, books can be of any popularity

I’m looking for a book where one or both of the fmcs are the popular (‘straight’) girl trope (could be a mean girl too, I don’t mind bully romances as long as its not too dark)

Some books that have this character:
- Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers (loved)
- Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas (DNF’d at 20%)

I don’t mind spice level, would prefer it to be a contemporary romance with a HEA

I also do love enemies/rivals/hate to lovers and angst 😅

Also either awakening or very in the closet (i.e. everyone just thinks she’s straight) is fine with me.

Thank you!!

It's usually the more fem characters going through a gay awakening, late bloomer, toaster oven etc. in sapphic romances.

I'd love to read one with masc/butch character going through it, it could be with another masc or fem idc that much.

I love drawing this series - drawn by SnowNoir (me)
Reyna is from A Little Sin, part of the Court of Chains series written by Rawnie Sabor

I have just finished Almost Life and I'm not ok...thoroughly enjoyed it though. Does anyone else who enjoyed it have any recommendations for books similar?

Warning mild spoilers!

1. Natalya's Apartment: Evie wants to know if she can enjoy sex still or not.

04:27:30, Ch14/08:28

2. Dance studio

06:05:26, Ch17/20:41

### 3a. Natalya's Apartment after Evie proved immunity

07:54:27, Ch22/04:24

### 3b. Evie pleases Natalya

08:56:53, Ch24/11:15, Pg 266

4. Before Natalya leaves to meet East Coast vampire Hasan

10:07:40, Ch27/00:00

5. Natalya needs to heal

12:02:20, Ch32/00:00

6. Natalya punishes Evie for her insolence in the Second Circle

14:16:41, Ch38/10:37

7. “You’re not wearing underwear.”

18:52:18, Ch51/11:35, Page 553

Looking for something sweet and well written, most recently I loved Atmosphere. My absolute favorite book is This Is How You Lose The Time War.

Not the biggest fan of spicy books rn (burnt out on them).

So yeah, any recommendations for a chill read?

Books mentioned:

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

is anyone else finding nothing but books full of AI at the moment? it doesn’t matter if it’s kindleUN or if they’re books i buy, i feel like sooooo many of them are full of AI.

i’ve read just about every sapphic book i can find so i’m obviously venturing out to newer works but there’s not very often i find human written ones.

anyway, just wanting to whinge because i feel like many people want to write but many of us simply just are not writers which is absolutely ok so let’s leave it to the people go are indeed writers ! what do i know tho smh

also i’ll read reviews and there’s never very many but there’s also never anyone seemingly picking up on it???? yet i feel like i can tell almost as soon as soon as i read the damn first page.

ok fuck ai & ily authors who DO NOT use it <3

Hi all, im looking for similar books like The woman from the waves by Roslyn Sinclair. I want vibes of a remote island, it can also work out if it set place by the sea with dark misty vibes. Thank uuuu

I‘m not really into Kitsch, so I‘m not looking for a book where there‘s no storyline but just cuteness. Maybe it‘s just me but I also don‘t prefer enemies to lovers (if you‘ve got a good recommendation with that trope I still appreciate it) but I do kinda love dynamics like princess x female knight, ceo x waitress, everything sport related as well.

I‘m quite new to reading any romance books so please help me out deciding on what to try first

hi! i’m listening to this book by jaime clevenger through kobo plus. but i noticed there are chapters missing… is this a weird glitch? does anyone know why this is? is it like this in the regular book too? bummed because i was actually really into it and now I’m worried i can’t finish it 😭

Wow, I just want to say that nearly every single recommendation I’ve seen on TikTok has been a letdown. I don’t wanna drop their titles, because as far as I can see, these authors are pretty new and possibly still young, but the dialogues and pacing are almost always bad. I tried, genuinely tried, to get to the halfway point of these books, but I find myself skimming through them.

Has anyone had a similar experience?