The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older 🚝 Mossa goes to her ex, Pleiti, at Valdegeld University for help investigating a fall off a rail platform in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28380827/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #Mystery #BookRecs @sapphicbooks

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree ☕ A DnD coffeeshop AU - Mercenary orc Viv leaves the business to start a cafe and hires succubus Tandri to work in it. Gentle adventures ensue.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27661802/book/238624301 #QueerSFF2023
#SapphicBooks @lesfic

Tahou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall 🐟 These past, present and future stories of Aotearoa and Coastal Salish lands made proximate include several lesbian couples.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29414884/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #NZBooks #AlternateGeography #IndigiQueer #Takatāpui @sapphicbooks

The Stars Undying by Emery Robin 🦻 A Cleopatra and Julius Caesar retelling in space - with a genderbent Mark Anthony, and an uploaded Alexander the Great.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28265954/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon

We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo 🐙 In a magical city in the Mississippi Basin, Jack finds herself entangled in prophecy, along with a newcomer to town and the children of the previous king.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26911768/ #QueerSFF2023
#TransBooks #QueerFiction @lgbtqbookstodon

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Maria Crane 🦞 In a dystopia where wrongdoers are given extra shadows, Kris's wife dies in childbirth and the newborn receives a shadow.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28406205/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks @lesfic

Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin 💊 Noor, who works at a memory removal clinic whose treatments aren't as permanent as they promised, gets involved with a client, Elena. One of five viewpoint characters.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27143927/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht 👽 A nonbinary crime boss hires a ragtag band of mostly queer mercenaries to protect hidden indigenous aliens on a backwater planet. https://www.librarything.com/work/25042615/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lgbtqbookstodon

Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (1996) ♀️ political lesbian witchy mythology fiction: Mother Night (Death) is there when Jaqe and Laurie meet, and becomes their daughter's godparent.
https://www.librarything.com/work/308844/book/237610385 #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #QueerFantasy @sapphicbooks

Last Exit by Max Gladstone 🛣️ Ten years ago Zelda, Sal and their friends played with alternate realities and Sal was lost. Zelda has travelled the highways since, fighting the rot that still seeps in cracks to our reality.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26638159/ #QueerSFF2023
#AlternateRealities @bookstodon

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys 👽👶 Judy takes her wife and baby along to check out pollutants in the Potomac and finds herself in a First Contact with aliens who consider children an indispensable element of diplomatic talks.
https://www.librarything.com/work/26944302/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianFiction #SolarPunk #Hopepunk @bookstodon

The Valkyrie's Daughter by Tiana Warner 🐎 YA. Sigrid is a stable hand who yearns to be a valkyrie, when she captures Mariam during a raid on Vanaheim she starts to find out about her origins.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27704005/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #YABooks @sapphicbooks

Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai 👩‍🔬 Frankenstein and made families, from a non-binary SE Asian-American perspective.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28626545/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks #NonBinaryStories @lgbtqbookstodon

How to Get a Girlfriend When You're a Terrifying Monster by Marie Cardno 👾 A magic researcher ventures into the Endless, a bit of the Endless follows her back. Short and sweet.
https://www.librarything.com/work/28568460/ #QueerSFF2023
#WLWFiction #NZBooks @sapphicbooks

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske 🚢 A deft magical mystery aboard a steamship. I hadn't read the first m/m book in the series and didn't feel the lack.
https://www.librarything.com/work/27454047/ #QueerSFF2023
#QueerBooks @lesfic

The Red Scholar's Wake 🏴‍☠️ by Aliette de Bodard. Pirate morality may be less cruel than that of the society they prey on. Brain ships and a marriage of convenience in the Xuya Universe. Highly recommended.
https://www.librarything.com/work/29385133/ #QueerSFF2023
#LesbianBooks #BookRecs @sapphicbooks

Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi 🩸 A dark dystopia with a damaged but surprisingly hopeful bisexual protagonist who messes with the Chosen One trope. https://www.librarything.com/work/27103004/
#QueerSFF2023

Finally starting to document this again - here's my Every Speculative Fiction Book About Queer Women I read in 2023 thread. 📚 🤖 🌈 🦄 ‍👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Last year's:
https://mastodon.nz/@aquila1nz/109339725265843855

#QueerSFF2023 #LesbianFiction #WLWFiction #Booktodon #BookRecs, #books #WLWbooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #BookTwitter #SpeculativeFiction