All the reviews I’ve written are linked on this page and sorted by genre. Within the genre sections, the books are listed alphabetically by the author’s last name. If a book has more than one author, the book is only listed once based on the last name of the first author listed on the book cover.
Here’s a short key for notable elements of some of my reviews:
Key
- 🏳️🌈 = Queer MC
- 💎 = Five-star read
- 🚩 = Negative review
*Note: I don’t keep track of queer side characters, and some books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms might not have recognizably queer main characters, but they are set in queernormative worlds. I won’t add the emoji to these books, but I will clarify that the world is queernormative in the short descriptions I provide.
Fantasy
- Baldree, Travis – Legends & Lattes | Adult | Sapphic MC, cozy fantasy, light romance 🏳️🌈💎
- Bandele, Antoine – By Sea and Sky (The Sky Pirate Chronicles #1) | Adult | Pirate fantasy, unique magic system, and worldbuilding
- Chorn, Sarah – Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) | Trans and sapphic MCs, Old West-inspired world, hope mixed with tragedy 🏳️🌈
- Conway, Nicole – Savage (Dragonrider Legacy #1) | YA | Symbiotic possession trope
- Conway, Nicole – Harbinger (Dragonrider Legacy #2) | YA | Symbiotic possession trope
- Cordova, Zoraida – Incendiary (Hollow Crown #1) | YA | Amnesia, overthrowing a corrupt kingdom
- Jemisin, N.K. – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy #1) | Overthrowing a corrupt god, queernormative world
- King, Amanda & Swanson, Michael – Things They Buried | Adult | Pansexual MC, dark fantasy with sci-fi & horror elements 🏳️🌈🚩
- Kuang, R.F. – The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) | Adult | Historical fantasy, rivals to reluctant allies, two-part structure 💎
- Lee, Fonda – Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) | Adult | Gay MC, gangsters x family drama, lots of action 🏳️🌈💎
- McClung, Michael – The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids | Adult | Murder mystery, fast-paced, horror/thriller elements
- Monet, Ashia – The Black Veins | YA | Bisexual MC, ragtag team on a quest, queer found family 🏳️🌈
- Ostertag, Molly K. – The Girl from the Sea | YA | Lesbian MC, graphic novel, coming out, first love 🏳️🌈
- Pinguicha, Diana – A Curse of Roses | YA | Lesbian romantic fantasy, lesbian MC, religious trauma recovery 🏳️🌈
- Ross, Amanda – To Astera, With Love | YA | Novella, paranormal fantasy, vampires vs. witches
- Shapkowski, Andrzej – The Last Wish (The Witcher #1) | Adult | Translated work | Reluctant hero trope, disability rep
- Shaw, Silvia – Rand | Adult | Lesbian romantic fantasy, lesbian MC, portal fantasy 🏳️🌈
- Street, M. – Prophase (Mitosis #1) | YA | Insta-love trope
- Tahir, Sabaa – An Ember in the Ashes (series review) | YA | Enemies to lovers, Ancient Rome-inspired world
Romance
- Armas, Elena – The Spanish Love Deception | Adult | Fake dating, enemies to lovers 🚩
- Kaur, Gurpreet – Awkward | YA | Short read, romcom
- Lee, Emery – Meet Cute Diary | YA | Trans boy MC, romcom, fake dating trope 🏳️🌈
- Rogers, Morgan – Honey Girl | Adult | Lesbian Black woman in academia, burnout, perfectionism 🏳️🌈💎
Sci-Fi
- Adams, Douglas – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Adult | Absurd comedy
- Moore, Alan – Watchmen | Adult | Graphic novel, superhero genre critique 🚩
Horror
- Danforth, Emily M. – Plain Bad Heroines | Adult | Sapphic and lesbian MCs, historical fiction, slow-burn horror, haunted film set, time jumps between history and present 🏳️🌈
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis | “What if you woke up and you were a horrible vermin? WHAT THEN?!”, Sucky family trope
- Moreno-Garcia, Silvia – Mexican Gothic | Adult | Slow-burn horror, creepy mansion and family with a dark history, anti-colonialism 💎
- Stevenson, Robert L. – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Adult | Creepy, what if a good person had a dark side