WLW Reads
Use this page when you want fantasy first, but with sapphic, WLW, queer women, or lesbian discovery language kept visible. The list starts from books tagged for fantasy, then lets you narrow by age category, mood, ending, trope, spice level, audiobook format, and publication year before opening external references.
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30 matching books
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| Book | Author | Publication year | Genre | Age category | Ending | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Feast Makers | H. A. Clarke | 2024 | Fantasy | YA | unknown | readers finishing the Scapegracers trilogy |
| The Lotus Empire | Tasha Suri | 2024 | Fantasy | Adult | unknown | fans awaiting or reading the trilogy finale |
| A Day of Fallen Night | Samantha Shannon | 2023 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | epic fantasy readers and book clubs |
| The Faithless | C. L. Clark | 2023 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers continuing Magic of the Lost |
| The Siren, the Song, and the Spy | Maggie Tokuda-Hall | 2023 | Fantasy | YA | unknown | fans of sapphic nautical fantasy worlds |
| The Witch and the Vampire | Francesca Flores | 2023 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | YA readers wanting paranormal sapphic fantasy |
| Even Though I Knew the End | C. L. Polk | 2022 | Fantasy | Adult | happy | readers wanting short sapphic noir fantasy |
| Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2022 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | Locked Tomb readers |
| Spear | Nicola Griffith | 2022 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers wanting short sapphic mythic fantasy |
| The Oleander Sword | Tasha Suri | 2022 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers continuing The Burning Kingdoms |
| The Thousand Eyes | A. K. Larkwood | 2022 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers continuing The Serpent Gates |
| This Wicked Fate | Kalynn Bayron | 2022 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | readers continuing This Poison Heart |
| The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri | 2021 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | epic fantasy readers wanting sapphic leads |
| The Scratch Daughters | H. A. Clarke | 2021 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | fans of queer witch series |
| The Unbroken | C. L. Clark | 2021 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers of political sapphic fantasy |
| This Poison Heart | Kalynn Bayron | 2021 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | YA readers who like magical mysteries |
| Cinderella Is Dead | Kalynn Bayron | 2020 | Fantasy | YA | happy | teen readers wanting feminist fairy-tale retellings |
| Girl, Serpent, Thorn | Melissa Bashardoust | 2020 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | YA fantasy readers wanting Persian-inspired fairy tale vibes |
| Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2020 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers continuing The Locked Tomb |
| Iron Heart | Nina Varela | 2020 | Sci-fi | YA | happy | readers finishing the Crier's War duology |
| The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea | Maggie Tokuda-Hall | 2020 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | readers seeking sapphic pirate fantasy |
| The Once and Future Witches | Alix E. Harrow | 2020 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | book clubs and historical fantasy readers |
| The Scapegracers | H. A. Clarke | 2020 | Fantasy | YA | ambiguous | YA readers wanting queer coven energy |
| The Tyrant Baru Cormorant | Seth Dickinson | 2020 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | readers continuing the Masquerade series |
| The Unspoken Name | A. K. Larkwood | 2020 | Fantasy | Adult | ambiguous | fantasy readers wanting queer adventure |
| This Coven Won't Break | Isabel Sterling | 2020 | Fantasy | YA | happy | readers continuing a lesbian witch duology |
| Crier's War | Nina Varela | 2019 | Sci-fi | YA | ambiguous | YA readers who like science-fantasy romance |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2019 | Fantasy | Adult | sad | readers wanting weird science-fantasy horror |
| Magic for Liars | Sarah Gailey | 2019 | Mystery | Adult | ambiguous | readers wanting magic plus detective fiction |
| Mooncakes | Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu | 2019 | Fantasy | YA | happy | graphic novel readers and cozy fantasy fans |
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Fantasy · YA
The Feast Makers fits readers who want readers finishing the Scapegracers trilogy inside a fantasy frame with a dark, magical reading feel. Expect a unknown ending profile, no on-page heat, and coven, finale, with content notes around violence, supernatural peril.
Best for: readers finishing the Scapegracers trilogy
Fantasy · Adult
The Lotus Empire fits readers who want fans awaiting or reading the trilogy finale inside a fantasy frame with a epic, intense reading feel. Expect a unknown ending profile, mild on-page heat, and empire, gods, with content notes around war, violence, empire.
Best for: fans awaiting or reading the trilogy finale
Fantasy · Adult
A Day of Fallen Night fits readers who want epic fantasy readers and book clubs inside a fantasy frame with a epic, dramatic reading feel. Expect a ambiguous ending profile, mild on-page heat, and dragons, matriarchies, with content notes around war, plague, violence.
Best for: epic fantasy readers and book clubs
Fantasy · Adult
The Faithless fits readers who want readers continuing Magic of the Lost inside a fantasy frame with a tense, political reading feel. Expect a ambiguous ending profile, mild on-page heat, and political intrigue, war, with content notes around war, violence, colonialism.
Best for: readers continuing Magic of the Lost
Fantasy · YA
The Siren, the Song, and the Spy fits readers who want fans of sapphic nautical fantasy worlds inside a fantasy frame with a adventurous, political reading feel. Expect a unknown ending profile, no on-page heat, and sea adventure, spies, with content notes around violence, colonialism.
Best for: fans of sapphic nautical fantasy worlds
Fantasy · YA
The Witch and the Vampire fits readers who want YA readers wanting paranormal sapphic fantasy inside a fantasy frame with a dark, romantic reading feel. Expect a ambiguous ending profile, no on-page heat, and Rapunzel retelling, witch and vampire, with content notes around captivity, violence, blood.
Best for: YA readers wanting paranormal sapphic fantasy
Fantasy · Adult
Even Though I Knew the End fits readers who want readers wanting short sapphic noir fantasy inside a fantasy frame with a noir, romantic reading feel. Expect a happy ending profile, mild on-page heat, and detective, deal with the devil, with content notes around violence, demons, past trauma.
Best for: readers wanting short sapphic noir fantasy
Fantasy · Adult
Nona the Ninth fits readers who want Locked Tomb readers inside a fantasy frame with a weird, tender reading feel. Expect a ambiguous ending profile, mild on-page heat, and found family, identity mystery, with content notes around violence, war, body horror.
Best for: Locked Tomb readers
Fantasy · Adult
Spear fits readers who want readers wanting short sapphic mythic fantasy inside a fantasy frame with a mythic, lyrical reading feel. Expect a ambiguous ending profile, mild on-page heat, and Arthurian retelling, quest, with content notes around violence, battle.
Best for: readers wanting short sapphic mythic fantasy
Fantasy · Adult
The Oleander Sword fits readers who want readers continuing The Burning Kingdoms inside a fantasy frame with a dramatic, political reading feel. Expect a ambiguous ending profile, mild on-page heat, and war, power couple, with content notes around war, violence, betrayal.
Best for: readers continuing The Burning Kingdoms
Fantasy · Adult
The Thousand Eyes works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, epic, dark mood, and readers continuing The Serpent Gates.
Best for: readers continuing The Serpent Gates
Fantasy · YA
This Wicked Fate works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, adventurous, magical mood, and readers continuing This Poison Heart.
Best for: readers continuing This Poison Heart
Fantasy · Adult
The Jasmine Throne works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, lush, political mood, and epic fantasy readers wanting sapphic leads.
Best for: epic fantasy readers wanting sapphic leads
Fantasy · YA
The Scratch Daughters works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, dark, rebellious mood, and fans of queer witch series.
Best for: fans of queer witch series
Fantasy · Adult
The Unbroken works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, political, intense mood, and readers of political sapphic fantasy.
Best for: readers of political sapphic fantasy
Fantasy · YA
This Poison Heart works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, mysterious, lush mood, and YA readers who like magical mysteries.
Best for: YA readers who like magical mysteries
Fantasy · YA
Cinderella Is Dead works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, defiant, romantic mood, and teen readers wanting feminist fairy-tale retellings.
Best for: teen readers wanting feminist fairy-tale retellings
Fantasy · YA
Girl, Serpent, Thorn works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, lush, dark mood, and YA fantasy readers wanting Persian-inspired fairy tale vibes.
Best for: YA fantasy readers wanting Persian-inspired fairy tale vibes
Fantasy · Adult
Harrow the Ninth works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, strange, gothic mood, and readers continuing The Locked Tomb.
Best for: readers continuing The Locked Tomb
Sci-fi · YA
Iron Heart works well for readers weighing sci-fi scope, romantic, adventurous mood, and readers finishing the Crier's War duology.
Best for: readers finishing the Crier's War duology
Fantasy · YA
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, adventurous, dark mood, and readers seeking sapphic pirate fantasy.
Best for: readers seeking sapphic pirate fantasy
Fantasy · Adult
The Once and Future Witches works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, epic, feminist mood, and book clubs and historical fantasy readers.
Best for: book clubs and historical fantasy readers
Fantasy · YA
The Scapegracers works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, witchy, rebellious mood, and YA readers wanting queer coven energy.
Best for: YA readers wanting queer coven energy
Fantasy · Adult
The Tyrant Baru Cormorant works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, dark, strategic mood, and readers continuing the Masquerade series.
Best for: readers continuing the Masquerade series
Fantasy · Adult
The Unspoken Name works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, epic, wry mood, and fantasy readers wanting queer adventure.
Best for: fantasy readers wanting queer adventure
Fantasy · YA
This Coven Won't Break works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, tense, romantic mood, and readers continuing a lesbian witch duology.
Best for: readers continuing a lesbian witch duology
Sci-fi · YA
Crier's War works well for readers weighing sci-fi scope, romantic, political mood, and YA readers who like science-fantasy romance.
Best for: YA readers who like science-fantasy romance
Fantasy · Adult
Gideon the Ninth works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, gothic, irreverent mood, and readers wanting weird science-fantasy horror.
Best for: readers wanting weird science-fantasy horror
Mystery · Adult
Magic for Liars works well for readers weighing mystery scope, snarky, melancholy mood, and readers wanting magic plus detective fiction.
Best for: readers wanting magic plus detective fiction
Fantasy · YA
Mooncakes works well for readers weighing fantasy scope, cozy, sweet mood, and graphic novel readers and cozy fantasy fans.
Best for: graphic novel readers and cozy fantasy fans
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