1Pigeon.in.a.shelf
Hello! I have just started searching for fantasy novels with lesbians as their MC but I can't seem to find any! Help os needed jsjsjs, thank you for your time! and sorry for my english
2reconditereader
Upright Women Wanted or Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones.
Ummm.... Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear.
Ummm.... Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear.
3lorax
Does it have to be fantasy, or is SF okay too? Subject line says one, post says the other.
I thought the MC of Magic for Liars was straight? I know she has a relationship with a man. That doesn't rule out that she might be bi, but I don't remember one way or the other.
Heartily seconding Upright Women Wanted, which I have sold to a couple people as "Queer librarians on horseback fight fascism", and Gideon the Ninth.
Also in recent releases are A Memory Called Empire and This is How you Lose the Time War.
That's just from a quick look at my Recently Read collection - there's a lot of queer SF out there right now.
I thought the MC of Magic for Liars was straight? I know she has a relationship with a man. That doesn't rule out that she might be bi, but I don't remember one way or the other.
Heartily seconding Upright Women Wanted, which I have sold to a couple people as "Queer librarians on horseback fight fascism", and Gideon the Ninth.
Also in recent releases are A Memory Called Empire and This is How you Lose the Time War.
That's just from a quick look at my Recently Read collection - there's a lot of queer SF out there right now.
4reconditereader
>3 lorax: I guess I misremembered Magic for Liars, my bad. It's her sister. Whoops.
I've heard good things about A Memory Called Empire and I think we even have This is How You Lose the Time War around the house, so I might get around to those soon! (Along with Floodtide, which is the latest in the Alpennia series that begins with Daughter of Mystery)
I've heard good things about A Memory Called Empire and I think we even have This is How You Lose the Time War around the house, so I might get around to those soon! (Along with Floodtide, which is the latest in the Alpennia series that begins with Daughter of Mystery)
5Aquila
Last year was excellent for quality lesbian sff, as well as several of those above (I cannot over recommend Gideon the Ninth and I loved A Memory Called Empire) there were:
City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders - set on a tidally locked planet, an amazing book.
Stormsong by CL Polk - Edwardian fantasy, sequel, first book was m/m but the women in this one were in that one too.
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinkser - about what happens to live music when the world locks down following a pandemic (yes, really).
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas - a group of British women develop time travel in the 1950s; several different perspectives, but the lesbian one is pretty central.
The Outside by Ada Hoffmann - shades into lovecraftian style horror, autistic lesbian protagonist.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - Epic fantasy with dragons, multiple viewpoints, but again the lesbian storyline is central.
And in the last few years:
A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell - Gender and raceswapped Sherlock Holmes in a near future new civil war America.
Barbary Station by RE Stearns - Girlfriends join up with space pirates.
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley - All female generation worldships.
And a few older ones:
The Exile and the Sorcerer by Jane Fletcher this fantasy series and her Rangers at Roadsend scifi romance series are good reads.
The Telling by Ursula Le Guin - science fiction.
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith - classic and excellent, scientist lands on an all women planet.
May the growth continue exponentially.
I've tried to keep to lesbian or presumably lesbian MCs here, there are some other great books about bisexual or queer characters in f/f relationships I could also recommend.
City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders - set on a tidally locked planet, an amazing book.
Stormsong by CL Polk - Edwardian fantasy, sequel, first book was m/m but the women in this one were in that one too.
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinkser - about what happens to live music when the world locks down following a pandemic (yes, really).
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas - a group of British women develop time travel in the 1950s; several different perspectives, but the lesbian one is pretty central.
The Outside by Ada Hoffmann - shades into lovecraftian style horror, autistic lesbian protagonist.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - Epic fantasy with dragons, multiple viewpoints, but again the lesbian storyline is central.
And in the last few years:
A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell - Gender and raceswapped Sherlock Holmes in a near future new civil war America.
Barbary Station by RE Stearns - Girlfriends join up with space pirates.
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley - All female generation worldships.
And a few older ones:
The Exile and the Sorcerer by Jane Fletcher this fantasy series and her Rangers at Roadsend scifi romance series are good reads.
The Telling by Ursula Le Guin - science fiction.
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith - classic and excellent, scientist lands on an all women planet.
May the growth continue exponentially.
I've tried to keep to lesbian or presumably lesbian MCs here, there are some other great books about bisexual or queer characters in f/f relationships I could also recommend.
6Pigeon.in.a.shelf
amazing lists!!! thank you very much
7stephiewonder
All of these are fantasy!
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers - this is a series and I cannot recommend these books enough!
When Women were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson - another great series!
Fires of the Faithful by Naomi Kritzer
The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers - this is a series and I cannot recommend these books enough!
When Women were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson - another great series!
Fires of the Faithful by Naomi Kritzer
The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
8ScarletBea
I've just finished The tiger's daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera, a great lesbian love story set in an alternate ancient China, very much recommend it.
I also second The unspoken name and The priory of the orange tree.
I also second The unspoken name and The priory of the orange tree.
9Aquila
I keep meaning to read The Tiger's Daughter!
So far this year I've enjoyed:
Soulstar (third in a trilogy, first one is m/m, second is f/f)
Mother of Souls the third Alpennia novel,
Lady Hotspur, genderswapped fantasy Prince Hal, baroque and wordy and all in.
A Desolation Called Peace scifi, sequel to the award winning A Memory Called Empire.
Dealbreaker sequel to Gamechanger.
Unbroken colonial fantasy, first in a trilogy.
Jasmine Throne handmaiden and exiled princess, also probably first in a trilogy.
Black Water Sister Malaysian urban fantasy
The Scapegracers YA witches
So far this year I've enjoyed:
Soulstar (third in a trilogy, first one is m/m, second is f/f)
Mother of Souls the third Alpennia novel,
Lady Hotspur, genderswapped fantasy Prince Hal, baroque and wordy and all in.
A Desolation Called Peace scifi, sequel to the award winning A Memory Called Empire.
Dealbreaker sequel to Gamechanger.
Unbroken colonial fantasy, first in a trilogy.
Jasmine Throne handmaiden and exiled princess, also probably first in a trilogy.
Black Water Sister Malaysian urban fantasy
The Scapegracers YA witches
11ScarletBea
>9 Aquila: Oooh how could I have forgotten The unbroken, second that one as well :)
