My Favorite F/F Books 🌈🌈
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↠Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (not specified, but probably both lesbians)
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↠Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta (Zara specifically says she is bisexual, Eli says she is a lesbian. Both are POV characters!)
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↠The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding (lesbian mc)
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↠Tell Me How You Really Feel by Amina Mae Safi (both girls are lesbians, word is never used)
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↠Final Draft by Riley Redgate (pansexual mc)
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↠Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (bisexual mc)
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↠How to Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (bisexual mc)
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↠Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (no labels used)
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↠The Color Purple by Alice Walker (lesbian mc)
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↠The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (bisexual mc)
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↠Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (lesbian mc, no labels used)
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↠The Poison Within by Rachel Marie Pearcy (labels aren't used, Rya is described as bisexual and Cam is only described having attraction to girls)
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↠Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (Denna is a lesbian and Mare is bisexual)
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↠Dreadnought by April Daniels (trans girl lesbian mc)
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↠This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (no labels used, seems like the future is probably a pretty pansexual place)
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↠On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (Pretty much all characters are lesbians, as this is pretty exclusively about girls who like girls. There's also a nonbinary side character)
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↠The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (again, seems like the future is a pretty pansexual place. No labels used for Sissix or Rosemary)
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↠Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (bisexual mc, and Abby will eventually have her own book and she's possibly demi)
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↠Axiom: The Last Hope by R.M. Pearcy (both girls are exclusively attracted to girls)
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↠Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (labels aren't used, but Jane is attracted to more than one gender as is another side character)
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her: so it's enemies to lovers but lesbian
me: say no more
nvm you added that neither of them is white aND THATS EVEN BETTER THANK
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the definition of "say less" 😩
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I'm bi 🙋🏻♀️ just sayin'
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"The falling in love montage"
4.4/5 on Goodreads
5/5 on Waterstones
Overview:
When 17-year-old Saoirse is dumped by her girlfriend and former best friend, she decides that dating isn’t worth the heartache, especially since she’s already dealing with her mother’s moving into a home due to dementia, and the revelation of her father’s affair. She doesn’t expect her electric attraction to Ruby, who is visiting her cousin’s family for the season, but when Ruby proposes a summer together modeled after a rom-com-all fun, and no hard feelings when it ends-Saoirse decides to bend her rules. From Ferris wheel rides with prolonged eye contact to skinny dipping at the beach late at night, the two embrace every romantic cliché, but feelings inevitably grow between them, and Saoirse struggles to let down the walls that keep her heart safe. The sweet love story is balanced with Saoirse’s fear of being vulnerable and struggles to accept that her father has found a love of his own, and though the girls never plan for forever, what they create together is special and precious to them both. An emotionally stirring queer romance with witty, playful dialogue
everyone here agrees i guess
Priory of the orange tree is just lurking in the background waiting to be mentioned
Eowyn Gordon OOF. FAIR.
thank you for this gay blessing
description is me.
i am description.
this is the video I REALLY NEEDED IN MY LIFE
yo tambien
and i need her hoodie!
Gideon the Ninth left me deceased and in awe: lesbians, necromancy and space. I can't recommend it enough.
forsakentale I cannot wait to read this one, wow wow wow. I’m thinking I’ll get to in December and I’m already dying.
Yeah I keep re reading, it's so bomb.
You are lucky...I was left confused.
Can you recommend other books like it please??
i loved this video!
because you asked for recs, heres some of my recent faves that you didnt mention:
middle grade:
star crossed by barbara dee (contemporary)
the mighty heart of sunny st james by ashley herring blake (contemporary)
drum roll please by lisa jenn bigelow (contemporary)
ya:
we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia
taking flight by siera maley (romance)
girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (fantasy)
her elysium by emmy engberts (romance)
the raven and the reindeer by t kingfisher (fantasy)
the truth about keeping secrets by savannah brown (mystery)
the stars and the blackness between them by junauda petrus (contemporary)
ice massacre by tiana warner (fantasy)
adult:
the ladys guide to celestial mechanics by olivia waite (romance)
marriage of unconvenience by chelsea m cameron (romance)
alice payne arrives by kate heartfield (time travel)
into the drowning deep by mira grant (horror)
fingersmith by sarah waters (historical)
passing strange by ellen klages (fantasy)
the tigers daughter by k arsenault rivera (fantasy)
the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon (fantasy)
in the vanishers palaca by aliette de bodard (fantasy)
kissing the witch by emma donoghue (fantasy)
This is an awesome list!!
These are all such amazing recommendations. I have some on my tbr already but I’ll 100% be adding the rest!!
@@cherryactually the main pairing is f/f!
a crimson daisy marriage of unconvience is literally my favorite f/f book of all time
My wallet hates this. Thanks!
I just finished the 7 husbands of evelyn hugo. And now I am aching so greatly, I need time to recover. It is truly the best book I have ever read.
Iol!
I bought the book, " of Fire and Stars" right after this video. 10/10 recommend, I fell in love usually it takes me a lot of time to find interest in a book but I read this so fast, I was sad it ended so soon :( Thank you!
I recently came out to myself as bi like the day before my 25th birthday (it’s been 2 decades of being ashamed to admit to myself that I like girls & burying that shit down y’all) and I’ve been using good ole google to find some f/f books and of course the ones I found and wanted to read haven’t been released yet! 😩 They’re slowly going to be releasing over this month and next so I’m so glad I found your video to tide me over until then!
I’m excited to read them and embrace this other half of me that I’ve been denying myself for so long 💜
My favourite f/f books:
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe
Girl Hearts Girl by Lucy Sutcliffe
Beth Arnold omg yes I love Lies We Tell Ourselves !!
Thank you so much for this list, I'm new to f/f romance and I was searching recs. I've added a lot of the books you mentionned on my tbr :D
Thank you for giving so many interesting suggestions! I can't wait to check these out. Also completely relate to I LOVE GIRLS WOW.
Thank you SO MUCH for your f/f recommendations!
I’ve been looking for some f/f romance books for awhile.
Very excited to check these out!!
love the video 😊
Kierstin Belt so glad you liked it! 💖💖
I've added a bunch of these to my TBR, thank you! Tell Me How You Really Feel was bumped up my TBR when you mentioned it has Gilmore Girls vibes :- D Also, I love your sweater
Thank you so much for this! This is perfect 👌
Really like your books choices its so interesting like the cometary you r you r you are quiet entertaining thanks
read two of the books on your list in an attempt to get back into reading and I’m back for more lol
I can't wait to read these. Also if you have more, you should do like a part two!
Your amazing!
I have really enjoyed S.D Simpers books. They are easy reads but the romances in them are beautiful and her rewriting of Carmilla tore my heart out.
HI! i just discovered your channel, but we have so much book chemistry let me tell you. Everything Leads to You is my favorite, with We Are Okay. Most of these i’ve read or are on my unending TBR but i still found myself on the library website requesting echo after echo IMMEDIATELY in spite of having already been on the list for The Lost Coast.
I’m still diving into wlw books after being a late-blooming bi who didnt consider Queer Media as a Thing (beyond wondering why Buffy didnt just get with faith already, the emergence of many bis, i just happened to be watching on netflix in my early 20s) but I have found some great books (and also not great lbr)
since you like a good rainbow cover-who doesnt-Our Own Private Universe by Robyn Talley. Lies We Tell Ourselves also of hers. My personal favorite find that i dont hear talked about is The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer.
this one i just finished is harder to get to, it’s Australian, but it’s got a half-indigenous MC going to the city to study music in a foundation course for aboriginal students. she deals with her feelings about liking the city, about where home is, her guilt about leaving her family, and it shows some of the more difficult parts of life there without preaching-oh and she also gets a girlfriend along the way. a half-maori girl who clicks with her in many ways even though they have lives that look nothing alike in others. it’s a really sweet book despite dealing with some tough subjects
Nevernight is SUPER dark but the MC is bi. It takes a book for her to kiss a girl but from then on it’s hate-to-love
i keep saying finally ugh so many but ok who am i if i am not shrieking about ek johnston The Afterword seems particularly your still, though That Inevitable Victorian Thing also has contemporary-ish royals!
fire and stars is the best but ice and shadows may be the bestEST
One day the stuff I write will be in those lists, I have my MFA in writing for children and YA and my work is v. gay. i had medical problems for a while that slowed down my writing/subbing, but soon. it doesn’t help that the sudden burst that got there between me graduating in 2013 and now has upped the bar
anyway I didn’t wanna ramble around in your comments but like I said we have pretty similar taste it seems so I figure I will probably be a regular commenter!
Yesssss, youtube finally gets its recommendations right!!! Loved this video! Can't wait to look these up!
Thank you so much for this video! My ‘to read’ list is getting ridiculously long, but I’m excited to get into all these new recommendations. ❤️🌈
All these recommendations are really unique and a lot I haven’t heard of before, thank you!
Thank you for all those recs!!! ^^
this past summer I made a conscious effort to read nothing but cute summer F/F reads thanks to your rec of "Summer of Jordi Perez" in a video a bit ago and it was like the best decision I've ever made. I also read & really adored "Hot Dog Girl" and finishing up "Our Own Private Universe" right now.
Kelly S. I can’t wait to read Hot Dog Girl!! It looks so cute and summery.
literally THANK YOU!! You look up good lesbian books on google and they're all the same and uninteresting. Love this variety who knew that all I had to do was look it up on youtube. Definitely subscribing.
Thank you so much for this video! I feel like f/f romances aren’t talked about/ shown enough in media and this video helped me add books to my tbr!!
I just read This is How You Lose the Time War last week and I loved it. I agree it's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read as well!
I didn't know Dreadnought had disability rep! Thanks for the tip :) This video is fire, and thanks so much for making it!
adding to my tbr rn
Thanks for this video! A bunch added to my TBR now! :)
Ahh I loved Tell Me How You Really Feel!!! Two of my favorite F/F romances are: Sunset and Shades by Erica Lee and Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
Hnits was my gateway drug to f/f romance and lead me to read like 17 books one summer
I know this is super old but there’s a sequel to Fried Green Tomatoes that came out in 2020!! it’s called the Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop and it follows Ruth’s son through his life up to modern times. it’s really cute and you should read it
This is so well timed you have no idea haha thank you!! I plan on reading every single one😂
Yees thank you so much for this video! I need a lot more wlw books in my life there aren't nearly enough on my shelf!
I just finished Echo After Echo based on your recommendation - absolutely loved it!
I own My Brilliant Death and think it'll be high up on my tbr now - is it a stand alone or series? I struggle with reading a series if all the books aren't out. I end up forgetting too much about the first book so need to reread and adulting can ruin time for rereads!
Love this video :)
So I know this was posted a year ago, but.. some romance f/f novels I enjoyed that you might like are: breaking character by lee winter, her royal highness by rachel Hawkins, these witches don’t burn by Isabel sterling, and who’d have thought by g benson. If you read them let me know what you think!
I recommend Crier’s War by Nina Varela!
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden is still my favorite ever.
i love your sweater
Just followed you on Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for sharing these recommended reads, I am more than intrigued to check them out. Looking forward to watch more of your videos.
Thanks for this video! I've only come out pretty recently and i haven't read a lot of wlw or f/f books. I have read echo after echo, though, and i really liked it!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! it's been so hard to find F/F books!! I dont mind M/M but I really wanted to branch out and read something new.
I’m so excited to read some of these!! Fried green tomatoes is one of my all time favorite books! ❤️
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This is How You Lose the Time War is F/F? That's going to need a bump up the list. The Poison Within sounds great too.
Have you come across Juliet Takes A Breath yet? Looks amazing!!
Seeing Priory in the back immediately convinced me that this video would be up my alley.
Totally agree with everything you said about Amal El-Mohtar's TIHYLtTW, it is sublime, it is perfect!
Everything leads to you was one of my favorites last year. ❤️👍🏻
i’ve never seen anyone talk about echo after echo, it’s one of my favorites
I loved this list! Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers was a sweet contemporary romance novel.
I cannot wait to read Honey Girl!! I'm prepared to love it
Ooo I’ve had echo after echo since it was released and now I feel like I need to pick it up asap
Amazing content, as always👏👏👏
I reallly should get to Amy Rose Capetta's work, as I have many of her books on my TBR. And This Is How you Lose the Time War sounds absolutely beautiful wow 💕
hey great video! I have a friend who's birthday is coming up and she just came out so she is looking for some f/f stories. The problem is that she is not a native english speaker (although she enjoys reading english to learn). She needs books that are easy to understand. They don't have to be kids books or anything, but they just can't be overly complicated in the writing. i'm thinking of getting her Echo after Echo but I was wondering if you think its an advanced read?
Hoping to see Cool For The Summer, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, and It Goes Like This on the list
I'm so happy I found your channel and this video!
Welcome!! I'm so glad you found this video too :)
This is a really good rec list and I can't wait to read some of them! I don't... read nearly enough f/f even though I read a lot of queer books. A lot of it is dysphoria, as an enby person who is often perceived as a girl (I'm not. I'm neutral.) who is dating a girl, I tend to project and end up really dysphoric and frustrated when reading f/f. But that's not the fault of the book and I need to work through it better, because it's not a healthy way to read. ...That was probably tmi and a little "huh?" but it's 2am and I am a little shaky. Thank you for the list and continuing to be a rad person.
LacePendragonReads I completely understand this 💖 there’s never any reason to pressure yourself to read things if it is going to negatively impact your mental health. If you haven’t read it already, I would really recommend Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore, as there’s a non-binary character who dated a girl. The book alternates between him and her pronouns as that’s what Page, the character, prefers and it’s really lovely. Page does deal with some confusion from others regarding her gender, but it’s all written perfectly and I think he’s an incredible character.
@@ProblemsofaBookNerd I actually have Blanca & Roja on my shelves! I should really pick it up. Thank you for your response.
I really loved “When Sparks Fly” by Kristen Zimmer. Amazing lesbian romance
This video was such a joy and gift 👌🏼😫💕
Ok, if y’all want one more Lqbtq+ book reccommendation I got you. Its called Redwood and Ponytail (I forgot the authors name) Its sort of an enemies to lovers type of thing, but they werent really enemies in the first place. This book has romance, humor, ext. If you like to read a book in one night till 3 am crying because you never want it to end, here is your book. Bye!
I've never clicked on a video so fast. 🙃 Thank you so much for all these lovely sapphic recs! The gay gods are pleased. 💖
I’m mostly a silent a viewer but I need to say that I love your channel! I love how much queer lit you read. thank you so much for the recs!
I have no idea how I missed this video when, to quote your description, "I LOVE GIRLS WOW" Thank you for so many excellent recs! I read Jane, Unlimited years ago because of your recommendation. It's so much fun.
I've red most of these as a long time viewr of your channel. I recently read Going off Script by Jen Wilde. Didn't read Queens of Geek because I'm not into conventions but Going off Script was wonderful.
Amy L I’m hoping to get to Going Off Script soon! I have a copy that’s just waiting to be read.
@@ProblemsofaBookNerd Danika recommended it in a video she did about Jen wilde's books.
perfect video & I love your sweater 😍🌈
Can you please do a favorite m/m video too?
Recommendation: Annie on my mind
Immediately clicked on this when I saw it. Definitely going to be checking some of these out. BTW, if you haven't read the Avatar Kyoshi book that came out a little while back, definitely recommend it! Well written and a cute f/f romance.
QueenInTheNorth a f/f romance??? Wow we are truly blessed omg
@@ProblemsofaBookNerd Yeah I kept questioning if it was actually happening or not at first, because even after the Korra comics revealed her as being not straight, I didn't think it would be in her book, but it was!
Thank you for this video! I have been trying to find more books with women loving women and it is so hard to find good representation. I can't wait to pick some of these up!
My favorite ya contemporary f/f romance is tell me again how a crush should feel by sara farizan, its perfect and since I read a lot of the books you just recomended on this vid I think you'll like it
Make favourite MM romance books next pleeaaassseeee😍😍🤗
Second gosh i need all thes
i love everything leads to you
I'm 4m in and this is fantastic.
Evelyn Hugo was the push I needed to stop pretending I was straight just because my parents (super strict Catholics) insisted I was just confused.
My faves:
- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant: has a lesbian main character and a bisexual main character who wind up together, they're both total badasses and the lesbian is also autistic, which means a lot to me bc I am also autistic. Plus it's about killer mermaids and the ocean and has a whole cast of great characters so it's honestly one of my favorite books, HIGHLY recommend I so want her to get picked up to do a sequel
- Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan: has lesbian main character and LI, set in an Asian-inspired fantasy world where the people are separated into castes by how demonic they are and the MC is a paper girl who is sent to the king and she meets a girl there and they fall in love. It's a really sweet love story in a book that deals with tough topics and I cannot wait for the sequel
Echo after Echo sounds really good for a spooky time of year, gonna have to try and get my hands on that one. Plus I read Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo bc of you and LOVED it.
Victoria Johnson YES, Girls of Paper and Fire is so stunning!
Star Trek and firefly !
This is sooo helpful, thank you so much for this video! I’ve just added another 9 books to my lesbian tbr - so excited to read them all :)
Thank you for all these recommendations! Definitely some new ones that I have never heard of.
I wanted to bring up a couple important things to note:
-Tell Me How You Really Feel does have some Own Voices criticism for white-washing comments from one partner to another.
-Fried Green Tomatoes.... that book is racist as hellllllllll. Also, I think the relationship between Ruth and Idgie is inappropriate. There's an inappropriate age gap for the age Idgie is when they meet. As well, there is some physical abuse and toxic communication early on in that relationship.
One of my favorites is 'Princess of Dorsa' by Eliza Andrews. A high fantasy with complex characters, rich world building and an excellent slow burn romance. I highly recommend the audio book.
You should totally read The griefkeeper by Alexandra Villasante! It’s a contemporary (kind of) and it features an f/f romance and the main character is latinx :)
read girls of paper and fire, please,thanks.
I want to read more about girls love and boys' love so I want to get into reading
This is the content I'm here for yes yes yes need all the f/f books ❤️
You should read her royal highness
17:17 Realities of superhero lives 😂
Heard about this before, I very much want to read this now. Hope there is a translation into my first language.
Check out:
"The falling in love montage"
4.4/5 on Goodreads
5/5 on Waterstones
Overview:
When 17-year-old Saoirse is dumped by her girlfriend and former best friend, she decides that dating isn’t worth the heartache, especially since she’s already dealing with her mother’s moving into a home due to dementia, and the revelation of her father’s affair. She doesn’t expect her electric attraction to Ruby, who is visiting her cousin’s family for the season, but when Ruby proposes a summer together modeled after a rom-com-all fun, and no hard feelings when it ends-Saoirse decides to bend her rules. From Ferris wheel rides with prolonged eye contact to skinny dipping at the beach late at night, the two embrace every romantic cliché, but feelings inevitably grow between them, and Saoirse struggles to let down the walls that keep her heart safe. The sweet love story is balanced with Saoirse’s fear of being vulnerable and struggles to accept that her father has found a love of his own, and though the girls never plan for forever, what they create together is special and precious to them both. An emotionally stirring queer romance with witty, playful dialogue
On a Sunbeam is confusing 😅
Tell Me How You Really Feel made me cry because of how cute it was
My phantom of the opera ass: BROADWAY? DEAD BODY? ROManCE iNa TheatEr. **HUSH NOW I MUST BUY THIS BOOK**
The priory of the orange tree??
I've been writing about a girl named Clair who is a jock and falls in love with an average rich girl who is very awkward but cute. They both have bad parents so they decide to run away and one gets in a fight with a drunk that sends her to the hospital where she finds out she has brain cancer and she's terminal so she lives out the rest of her days with Mallory. Its told in both POV it switches
Omg that's amazing! That story sounds so interesting and I hope you have a great time writing it!
I've never read a F/F romance book, i'm here looking for the first one:)
I just finished star-crossed by barbara dee. And now here I am, wanting morreeeeee✨ thanks so muchhh
This video is a gift ❤
If anyone here is into graphic novels I'd recommend "The 100 Nights of Hero" by Isabel Greenberg. It's basically a gay retelling of "1001 Nights" with it's own little spins.
This is how you lose the time war is my favorite book of all time thank you so much
I love you for this video.