For this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category, read a sapphic book featuring a main character whose sexual orientation or gender identity differs from your own. For example, if you are cis, pick a book about a trans, intersex, or nonbinary character. If you are a lesbian, pick a book about a bisexual, pansexual, or asexual character, etc.

This week’s post is one of the longest I’ve put together for the Sapphic Book Bingo because I wanted to include recommended reading lists for all of the identities within the LGBTQIA+ community. I hope you find it helpful–not just for the reading challenge, but also to read more diversely and to find a few new favorite books!

 

15 recommended books with a lesbian main character: 

• Just for Show by Jae
• The Delicate Things We Make by Milena McKay
• Big London Dreams by Clare Lydon
• No Rings Attached by Rachel Lacey
• If I Don’t Ask by E.J. Noyes
• Misfit Christmas by Anne Hagan
• What the Heart Sees by KC Luck
• Fool For Love by Rachael Sommers
• Good Spin by Monica McCallan
• Maverick by Max Ellendale
• Winter Calling by Lynn Galli
• The Last Days of Autumn by Donna K. Ford
• Thundering Pines by Rita Potter
• Spin My Heart Around by Abby Crofton
• Seashells and Sleigh Bells by Jennie Davids

 

15 recommended sapphic books with a bisexual main character: 

• Paper Love by Jae
• For the Long Run by Cheyenne Blue
• Back to September by Melissa Brayden
• The Awkward Truth by Lee Winter
• Honey in the Marrow by Emily Waters
• Full of Promise by Kate Gavin
• Dark Horse by A.L. Brooks
• Stop and Go by Elizabeth Andre
• The Light of the World by Ellen Simpson
• Love Detour by Allie McDermid
• Broken Beyond Repair by Emily Banting
• Love and Lotus Blossom by Anne Shade
• Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
• In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae
• Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

 

15 recommended sapphic books with a pansexual main character: 

• Just a Touch Away by Jae
• Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler
• Stability by Emily Alter
• The Loudest Silence by Olivia Janae
• Stone’s Mistake by Adrian J. Smith
• Strange Attractors by Ana K. Wrenn
• The Bodyguard Affair by Anna Stone
• Final Draft by Riley Redgate
• In the Ravenous Dark by A.M. Strickland
• Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
• Who’d Have Thought by G Benson
• If I Were a Weapon by Skye Kilaen
• Swipe Right by Tagan Shepard
• Love, Nature by Jenn Matthews
• Not Guilty by Brit Ryder

 

15 recommended books with an intersex main character: 

• The Queen Has a Cold by Jane Kolven
• An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
• Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, translated by Ruth Diver
• That Inevitable Victorian Thing by  E.K. Johnston
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• Double Exposure by Bridget Birdsall
• Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman
• In Between by Jane Hoppen
• Pantomime by Laura Lam
• The Names We Take by Trace Kerr
• Lum by Libby Ware
• A Proper Young Lady by Lianne Simon
• Trans Liberty Riot Brigade by L.M. Pierce
• None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

 

15 recommended sapphic books with an asexual main character or a main character on the asexual spectrum: 

• Perfect Rhythm by Jae
• The Love Project by TB Markinson and Miranda MacLeod
• Under the Sitka Sky by Violet Morley
• Unexpected Goals by Kelly Farmer
• Rising from Ash by Jax Meyer
• Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed
• The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton
• Moving On by Sage Donnell
• An Unfortunate Incident by KT Brodland
• The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell
• The Art of Growing by Jacqueline Ramsden
• The Sting of Victory by S D Simper
• Do It for the Glory by Kaya LaSalle
• Posterity by Jess Newton
• It’s Always Been You by Elin Annalise

 

15 recommended sapphic books with a trans main character: 

• Fake It by Lily Seabrooke
• Blackpoint by Kate Hershberger
• The Seep by Chana Porter
• Tengoku by Rae D. Magdon
• Cinder Ella by S.T. Lynn
• Being Emily by Rachel Gold
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Knowing Her by Raquel De Leon
• Dreadnought by April Daniels
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• The Weight of Living by M.A. Hinkle
• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
• Grey Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian
• Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia & Anna-Marie McLemore
• Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton

 

15 recommended books with a nonbinary main character: 

• The Art of Growing by Jacqueline Ramsden
• Plain English by Rachel Spangler
• The One True Me and You by Remi K. England
• Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
• In the Silences by Rachel Gold
• Ignis by KJ
• The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel
• Love Bleeds Deep by Rien Gray
• The Holiday Detour by Jane Kolven
• The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
• Christmas Inn Maine by Chelsea M. Cameron
• Dithered Hearts by Chace Verity
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander
• Simply Connected by Alex Washoe

 

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