Your favorite author’s favorite sapphic book (Sapphic Reading Challenge #25)

For this week’s category of the Sapphic Reading Challenge, I’d like you to read a novel that is one of the favorite sapphic books of one of your favorite authors.

It doesn’t need to be your TOP favorite author or their TOP favorite book, just ONE of your favorites authors and ONE of their favorite books.

So, how do you find out your favorite author’s favorite books? Maybe you have heard them talk about their favorite books featuring queer women in an interview. Or you could just send them an email or reach out on social media and ask. Most author I know are avid readers too, and they’ll happily share some of their favorite books.

To make it a bit easier for you, I have also reached out to several popular authors of WLW and lesbian fiction who often get named as people’s favorite authors in my Facebook group for readers.

 

13 popular authors of sapphic fiction named their favorite books featuring women-loving women:

 

Jae’s favorite sapphic books:  

Ask, Tell by E.J. NoyesAnd Playing The Role Of Herself by KE LaneJericho by Ann McManFor a longer list of my favorite slow-burn romance novels, also check out this post.

 

Georgia Beers’s favorite sapphic books:

The Magician’s Assistant by Ann PatchettAnd Playing the Role of Herself by KE LaneAnything by Melissa Brayden, especially Heart Block, First Position, and Kiss the Girl

 

Harper Bliss’s favorite sapphic books:

Alone by EJ Noyes

 

Melissa Brayden’s favorite sapphic books:

And Playing the Role of Herself by KE LaneLetters Never Sent by Sandra MoranStarting From Scratch by Georgia Beers

 

Kris Bryant’s favorite sapphic books:

Life in Death by M. UllrichStrawberry Summer by Melissa BraydenAbove All, Honor by RadclyffeAll That Lies Within by Lynn AmesFear of Falling by Georgia BeersModern English by Rachel Spangler

 

Lise Gold’s favorite sapphic books:

Poppy Jenkins by Clare AstonYou’re My Kind by Clare LydonDisobedience by Naomi AldermanComing Home by KJ

 

Karin Kallmaker’s favorite sapphic books:

A Grave Talent by Laurie R. KingBeing Emily by Rachel GoldDreaming in Color by Fiona Zedde (writing as Fiona Lewis)Under the Southern Cross by Claire McNabCaptive in Time by Sarah DreherSay Jesus and Come to Me by Ann Allen Shockley

 

Erica Lee’s favorite sapphic books:

Hammers, Strings, and Beautiful Things by Morgan Lee MillerThen & Now by Monica McCallan

 

Clare Lydon’s favorite sapphic books:

Cow Girl by Kirsty Eyre And Playing The Role Of Herself by KE LaneIn At The Deep End by Kate DaviesAll The Little Moments by G BensonXX by Angela Chadwick

 

Ann McMan’s favorite sapphic books:

Slow River by Nicola GriffithAsh by Malinda LoThe Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia BrownriggWritten On the Body and Gut Symmetries by Jeanette WintersonAnd just about anything by Sarah Waters

 

Jamey Moody’s favorite sapphic books:

Neither Present Time by Caren J. WerlingerAll That Matters by Susan X MeagherCan You Hear Me by Geonn Cannon

 

EJ Noyes’s favorite sapphic books:

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonBreaking Character by Lee WinterWild by Meghan O’Brien

 

Ali Vali’s favorite sapphic books:

Fated Love by RadclyffeCourtship by Carsen TaiteCrescent City Confidential by Aurora Rey

 

Lee Winter’s favorite sapphic books:

The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn SinclairA Curious Woman by Jess Lea

 

More favorite sapphic books

Your favorite author of women-loving women fiction isn’t on the list above? Here are a few more additional resources to check:

Join my Facebook group for readers . Authors will share their favorite books this week, and readers who have already reached out to their favorite authors will report back and let us know what the answer was.Check the Ylva website for a list of favorite WLW novels of Ylva Publishing authors such as Andrea Bramhall, Cheyenne Blue, AL Brooks, Sacchi Green, Wendy Hudson, Quinn Ivins, Cori Kane, Lola Keeley, Catherine Lane, Jess Lea, Jenn Matthews, Faith Prize, Quinn Ivins, Roslyn Sinclair, Wendy Temple, Jane Waterton, Fiona Zedde & Chris Zett. LezReviewBooks has a series of interviews in which authors name their “Desert Island Books.” If you scroll down, you’ll find the Desert Island Books of authors such as Rachel Spangler, Haley Cass, Clare Ashton, and others.If you read in German, check out the German version of the Sapphic Reading Challenge with and scroll down to the reading suggestions (PDF) that lists several authors’ favorite German-language books.

 

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