Read Queer All Year!
Looking for books with queer representation? Check out the following lists of books I’ve reviewed, and add your own recommendations in the comments!
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WLW Books
Ashley Herring Blake | Make The Season Bright
Love holiday books? Check out my holiday book master list, or my lists of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 holiday book releases.The Plot (from Goodreads):Two exes find themselves stuck at the same house for Christmas in this holiday romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date.It’s been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay. Sure, her single…
Rachel Runya Katz | Whenever You’re Ready
The Plot (Goodreads): After reconnecting on a road trip, two friends must decide if love is the ultimate risk worth taking in this funny, emotional sapphic romance. Nia and Jade had been inseparable ever since their best friend, Michal, introduced them at her tenth birthday party. But now it’s been three years since Michal died of cancer— since the brutal fight Nia and Jade had in the weeks after— and they’re barely on speaking terms….
Karelia Stetz-Waters | Second Night Stand
The Plot (from Goodreads): A burlesque performer and a professional ballerina fall in love while competing on a reality TV talent show. Izzy Wells—aka burlesque superstar Blue Lenox—doesn’t have time for anything more than a hookup. She has a theater to renovate, and turning it into a safe space for queer performers costs money. Money she doesn’t have. With the mortgage overdue, the only way she’ll save the theater is to win the prize money…
Andie Burke | Fly With Me
The Plot (from Goodreads): A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it. A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead? Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. Olive leaps into action and saves…
Meryl Wilsner | Cleat Cute
The Plot (from Goodreads): Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t—a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become friends with benefits with this class clown she…
Mazey Eddings | Late Bloomer
The Plot (from Goodreads): Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin’s’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can’t seem to stop saying yes. With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, which to her…
Helena Greer | Season of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom. Thanks to her thriving art career, Miriam Blum finally has her decoupaged glitter ducks in a row—until devastating news forces her to a very unwanted family reunion. Her beloved great-aunt Cass has passed and left Miriam part-owner of Carrigan’s, her (ironically) Jewish-run…
Courtney Kae | In The Event of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Offering a steamy, queer spin on the feel-good tropes of a Hallmark movie, this sweet, funny #OwnVoices rom-com is perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexandria Bellefleur! Morgan Ross can plan world-class events, but she didn’t plan on returning to the hometown that broke her heart seven years ago—and re-discovering the girl of her dreams . . . With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a…
Karelia Stetz-Waters | Satisfaction Guaranteed
The Book: Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-WatersPublished June 1st 2021 by ForeverDate read: July 18, 2021 The Characters: CadeSelena Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out. Only “professional talk” has become her default mode, relationships are nonexistent, and don’t even mention the word “orgasm.” All work and no play makes Cade a dull human. But when she inherits a…
Morgan Rogers | Honey Girl
The Plot (from Goodreads): With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has…
Wendy Heard | She’s Too Pretty To Burn
The Plot (from Goodreads): The summer is winding down in San Diego. Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They’re artists first, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate, lonely, magnetic Mick: the perfect subject, and Veronica’s dream girl. The days are long and hot―full of adventure―and soon they are falling in love. Falling so hard, they never imagine what…
MLM Books
Timothy Janovsky | The Merriest Misters
The Plot (from Goodreads): Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a year, but their passionate romance is cracking under the pressures of domestic life and a cumbersome mortgage. That’s until Christmas Eve when Patrick wakes Quinn up ‘I think I’ve killed a man.’ Quinn realizes the ‘burglar’ Patrick knocked out is none other than Mr. Claus himself. Instructed by a harried elf to don the red suit and take the…
TJ Alexander | Second Chances in New Port Stephen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he’ll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the…
Casey McQuiston | Red, White, & Royal Blue
The Plot (Goodreads): First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan…
Timothy Janovsky | You’re A Mean One, Matthew Prince
The Plot (from Goodreads): Bring a little joy to the world? Not today, Santa. Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he exists and the press is totally obsessed with him? He’s on top of the world. But one major PR misstep later, and Matthew is cut off and shipped away to spend the holidays in his grandparents’ charming small town hellscape. Population: who cares? It’s bad…
Alexis Hall | Husband Material
The Plot (from Goodreads): Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose. But it’ll take more than…
Timothy Janovsky | Never Been Kissed
The Book: Never Been Kissed by Timothy JanovskyPublished May 3rd 2022 by Sourcebooks CasablancaDate read: April 28, 2022 The Characters: Wren and Derick Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. Morning brings the inevitable Oh…
Kosoko Jackson | I’m So (Not) Over You
The Plot (from Goodreads): It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a café. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love. . . But no, Hudson has a favor to ask–he wants Kian to pretend to be his boyfriend while his parents are in town, and Kian reluctantly agrees. The dinner doesn’t go…
Alison Cochrun | The Charm Offensive
The Plot (from Goodreads): Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is…
Kacen Callender | Felix Ever After
The Plot (from Goodreads): Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending…
Books with Transgender Representation
TJ Alexander | Second Chances in New Port Stephen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he’ll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the…
Roan Parrish | The Holiday Trap
The Plot (from Goodreads): Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, even if they don’t always understand what it’s like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. She desperately needs space to figure out who she is. Truman Belvedere has just had his heart crushed into a million pieces when he learned that his boyfriend of almost a year has a secret life that includes a husband and a…
TJ Alexander | Chef’s Kiss
The Plot (from Goodreads): Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants to do is create the perfect loaf of sourdough and develop recipes, but when The Discerning Chef decides to bring their brand into the 21st century by pivoting to video, Simone is thrust into the spotlight and finds herself failing at something for the first…
Anita Kelly | Love & Other Disasters
The Plot (from Goodreads): Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef’s Special. Too bad the first memorable move she makes is falling flat on her face, sending fish tacos flying—not quite the fresh start she was hoping for. Still, she’s focused on winning, until she meets someone she might want a future with more than she needs the prize money….
Kacen Callender | Felix Ever After
The Plot (from Goodreads): Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending…
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Queer Romance
Ashley Herring Blake | Make The Season Bright
Love holiday books? Check out my holiday book master list, or my lists of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 holiday book releases. The Plot (from Goodreads): Two exes find themselves stuck at the same house for Christmas in this holiday romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date. It’s been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay….
Timothy Janovsky | The Merriest Misters
The Plot (from Goodreads): Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a year, but their passionate romance is cracking under the pressures of domestic life and a cumbersome mortgage. That’s until Christmas Eve when Patrick wakes Quinn up ‘I think I’ve killed a man.’ Quinn realizes the ‘burglar’ Patrick knocked out is none other than Mr. Claus himself. Instructed by a harried elf to don the red suit and take the…
Rachel Runya Katz | Whenever You’re Ready
The Plot (Goodreads): After reconnecting on a road trip, two friends must decide if love is the ultimate risk worth taking in this funny, emotional sapphic romance. Nia and Jade had been inseparable ever since their best friend, Michal, introduced them at her tenth birthday party. But now it’s been three years since Michal died of cancer— since the brutal fight Nia and Jade had in the weeks after— and they’re barely on speaking terms….
Karelia Stetz-Waters | Second Night Stand
The Plot (from Goodreads): A burlesque performer and a professional ballerina fall in love while competing on a reality TV talent show. Izzy Wells—aka burlesque superstar Blue Lenox—doesn’t have time for anything more than a hookup. She has a theater to renovate, and turning it into a safe space for queer performers costs money. Money she doesn’t have. With the mortgage overdue, the only way she’ll save the theater is to win the prize money…
Andie Burke | Fly With Me
The Plot (from Goodreads): A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it. A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead? Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. Olive leaps into action and saves…
Meryl Wilsner | Cleat Cute
The Plot (from Goodreads): Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t—a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become friends with benefits with this class clown she…
Mazey Eddings | Late Bloomer
The Plot (from Goodreads): Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin’s’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can’t seem to stop saying yes. With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, which to her…
TJ Alexander | Second Chances in New Port Stephen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he’ll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the…
Casey McQuiston | Red, White, & Royal Blue
The Plot (Goodreads): First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan…
Helena Greer | Season of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom. Thanks to her thriving art career, Miriam Blum finally has her decoupaged glitter ducks in a row—until devastating news forces her to a very unwanted family reunion. Her beloved great-aunt Cass has passed and left Miriam part-owner of Carrigan’s, her (ironically) Jewish-run…
Roan Parrish | The Holiday Trap
The Plot (from Goodreads): Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, even if they don’t always understand what it’s like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. She desperately needs space to figure out who she is. Truman Belvedere has just had his heart crushed into a million pieces when he learned that his boyfriend of almost a year has a secret life that includes a husband and a…
TJ Alexander | Chef’s Kiss
The Plot (from Goodreads): Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants to do is create the perfect loaf of sourdough and develop recipes, but when The Discerning Chef decides to bring their brand into the 21st century by pivoting to video, Simone is thrust into the spotlight and finds herself failing at something for the first…
Georgia Clark | Island Time
The Plot (from Goodreads): The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common…except for the fact that their daughters are married. When a nearby volcano erupts during their short vacation to a remote tropical island off the coast of Queensland, the two families find themselves stranded together for six weeks. With only two island employees making up the rest of their party, everyone is forced…
Timothy Janovsky | You’re A Mean One, Matthew Prince
The Plot (from Goodreads): Bring a little joy to the world? Not today, Santa. Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he exists and the press is totally obsessed with him? He’s on top of the world. But one major PR misstep later, and Matthew is cut off and shipped away to spend the holidays in his grandparents’ charming small town hellscape. Population: who cares? It’s bad…
Courtney Kae | In The Event of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Offering a steamy, queer spin on the feel-good tropes of a Hallmark movie, this sweet, funny #OwnVoices rom-com is perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexandria Bellefleur! Morgan Ross can plan world-class events, but she didn’t plan on returning to the hometown that broke her heart seven years ago—and re-discovering the girl of her dreams . . . With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a…
Alexis Hall | Husband Material
The Plot (from Goodreads): Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose. But it’ll take more than…
Timothy Janovsky | Never Been Kissed
The Book: Never Been Kissed by Timothy JanovskyPublished May 3rd 2022 by Sourcebooks CasablancaDate read: April 28, 2022 The Characters: Wren and Derick Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. Morning brings the inevitable Oh…
Kosoko Jackson | I’m So (Not) Over You
The Plot (from Goodreads): It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a café. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love. . . But no, Hudson has a favor to ask–he wants Kian to pretend to be his boyfriend while his parents are in town, and Kian reluctantly agrees. The dinner doesn’t go…
Anita Kelly | Love & Other Disasters
The Plot (from Goodreads): Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef’s Special. Too bad the first memorable move she makes is falling flat on her face, sending fish tacos flying—not quite the fresh start she was hoping for. Still, she’s focused on winning, until she meets someone she might want a future with more than she needs the prize money….
Alison Cochrun | The Charm Offensive
The Plot (from Goodreads): Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is…
Karelia Stetz-Waters | Satisfaction Guaranteed
The Book: Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-WatersPublished June 1st 2021 by ForeverDate read: July 18, 2021 The Characters: CadeSelena Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out. Only “professional talk” has become her default mode, relationships are nonexistent, and don’t even mention the word “orgasm.” All work and no play makes Cade a dull human. But when she inherits a…
Alexis Hall | Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All #1)
The Plot (from Goodreads): Following the recipe is the key to a successful bake. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rules—well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter, Amelie. Now, with a paycheck as useful as greaseproof paper and a house crumbling faster than biscuits in tea, she’s teetering on the edge of financial disaster. But where there’s a whisk there’s a way . . . and Rosaline has…
Morgan Rogers | Honey Girl
The Plot (from Goodreads): With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has…
Wendy Heard | She’s Too Pretty To Burn
The Plot (from Goodreads): The summer is winding down in San Diego. Veronica is bored, caustically charismatic, and uninspired in her photography. Nico is insatiable, subversive, and obsessed with chaotic performance art. They’re artists first, best friends second. But that was before Mick. Delicate, lonely, magnetic Mick: the perfect subject, and Veronica’s dream girl. The days are long and hot―full of adventure―and soon they are falling in love. Falling so hard, they never imagine what…
Kacen Callender | Felix Ever After
The Plot (from Goodreads): Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending…
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Winter Holiday Books with Queer Representation
TJ Alexander | Second Chances in New Port Stephen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the…
Julie Murphy | A Merry Little Meet Cute
The Plot (from Goodreads): Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t…
Helena Greer | Season of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty,…
Timothy Janovsky | You’re A Mean One, Matthew Prince
The Plot (from Goodreads): Bring a little joy to the world? Not today, Santa. Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he…
Courtney Kae | In The Event of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Offering a steamy, queer spin on the feel-good tropes of a Hallmark movie, this sweet, funny #OwnVoices rom-com is perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and…
Books Featuring Polyamorous Relationships
Andrea Bartz | The Spare Room
The Plot (from Goodreads): Staying with a friend and her husband is sexier—and deadlier—than anyone could have imagined, in this provocative domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here. Kelly’s new life in Philadelphia has turned into a nightmare: She’s friendless and jobless, and the lockdown has her trapped in a tiny apartment with the man she gave up everything for, who’s just called off their…
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General LGBTQIA+ Representation
Ashley Herring Blake | Make The Season Bright
Love holiday books? Check out my holiday book master list, or my lists of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 holiday book releases. The Plot (from Goodreads): Two exes find themselves…
Timothy Janovsky | The Merriest Misters
The Plot (from Goodreads): Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a year, but their passionate romance is cracking under the pressures of domestic life and…
Rachel Runya Katz | Whenever You’re Ready
The Plot (Goodreads): After reconnecting on a road trip, two friends must decide if love is the ultimate risk worth taking in this funny, emotional sapphic romance. Nia and Jade…
Andie Burke | Fly With Me
The Plot (from Goodreads): A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one”…
Meryl Wilsner | Cleat Cute
The Plot (from Goodreads): Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an…
Steven Rowley | The Guncle Abroad
The Plot (from Goodreads): Patrick O’Hara is finally in a league of his own…professionally. Inspired by his stint as Grant and Maisie’s caretaker after their mother’s passing, Patrick has “un-stalled”…
Mazey Eddings | Late Bloomer
The Plot (from Goodreads): Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin’s’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people…
TJ Alexander | Second Chances in New Port Stephen
The Plot (from Goodreads): Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the…
Jessica Knoll | Bright Young Women
The Book: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll September 19, 2023 by S&S/ Marysue Rucci BooksDate read: May 23, 2023 The Characters: PamelaRuth Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon This…
Kimmery Martin | The Antidote for Everything
The Plot (from Goodreads): Georgia Brown’s profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked men, but her romantic prospects have fizzled. The most important person in…
Casey McQuiston | Red, White, & Royal Blue
The Plot (Goodreads): First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the…
Julie Murphy | A Merry Little Meet Cute
The Plot (from Goodreads): Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t…
Helena Greer | Season of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty,…
Roan Parrish | The Holiday Trap
The Plot (from Goodreads): Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, even if they don’t always understand what it’s like to be a lesbian living in such…
TJ Alexander | Chef’s Kiss
The Plot (from Goodreads): Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning Chef, a venerable cookbook publisher in New York City. All she wants…
Georgia Clark | Island Time
The Plot (from Goodreads): The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common…except for the fact that their daughters are…
Timothy Janovsky | You’re A Mean One, Matthew Prince
The Plot (from Goodreads): Bring a little joy to the world? Not today, Santa. Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he…
Courtney Kae | In The Event of Love
The Plot (from Goodreads): Offering a steamy, queer spin on the feel-good tropes of a Hallmark movie, this sweet, funny #OwnVoices rom-com is perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and…
Alexis Hall | Husband Material
The Plot (from Goodreads): Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell…
Timothy Janovsky | Never Been Kissed
The Book: Never Been Kissed by Timothy JanovskyPublished May 3rd 2022 by Sourcebooks CasablancaDate read: April 28, 2022 The Characters: Wren and Derick Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The…
Kosoko Jackson | I’m So (Not) Over You
The Plot (from Goodreads): It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a café. Maybe…
Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Echo
The Plot (from Goodreads): Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are…
Marie Rutkoski | Real Easy
The Plot (from Goodreads): It’s 1999 and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. She’s not used to mixing work and friendship―after all, between her jealous…
Anita Kelly | Love & Other Disasters
The Plot (from Goodreads): Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef’s Special. Too bad the…
Alison Cochrun | The Charm Offensive
The Plot (from Goodreads): Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show…
Caitlin Wahrer | The Damage
The Plot (from Goodreads): Tony has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when he’s called to a hospital bed where Nick is lying battered and bruised after…
Karelia Stetz-Waters | Satisfaction Guaranteed
The Book: Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-WatersPublished June 1st 2021 by ForeverDate read: July 18, 2021 The Characters: CadeSelena Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (from Goodreads): When…
Alexis Hall | Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All #1)
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