Need book recs!

[P]

I’m craving sapphic books that represent non cisgender characters so much. Any recommendations? It would be great if they were fantasy. Thank you so much.

[maya]

P wrote: "I’m craving sapphic books that represent non cisgender characters so much. Any recommendations? It would be great if they were fantasy. Thank you so much."

I recommend The Spy and Her Serpent by Maria Ying. Not fantasy, but like post-war crime infested world set in Singapore... ? The authors of Maria Ying will have a book coming out that's about society mages, an urban fantasy called The Grace of Sorcerers.

For fantasy, The Hatchling by Vyria Durav might interest you.

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These are both graphic novels:

Mooncakes has nonbinary representation and a sapphic relationship

Stage Dreams has trans woman representation and a sapphic relationship

[Fiona]

i know " these violent delights " by Chloe Gong has a trans woman side-character ( who also has her own pov but less frequent than the two main characters)

[Claire]

Off the top of my head (and a quick scan of my shelves):

-Light from Uncommon Stars
-Upright Women Wanted
-Singing Hills Cycle

With the caveat that these books are fairly dense political sci-fi and fantasy respectively depending on what you normally read:

-the second two Baru Cormorant books

-Machineries of Empire (there’s like one cishet character in the entire trilogy and they’re very minor and technically not canonically confirmed as straight)

*with Baru gender and sexuality are explored as major factors in how these characters live their lives; Machineries really just decided to go for cishet erasure with a side of the kind of gender dysphoria that comes from having the ghost of a 400 year old madman shoved into your brain with you. Both of them are mostly about the evils of imperialism though.

[Eva]

Here's some with non-cis characters but they're probably not SFF. Also, some are books where the non-cis character is a love interest and others are ones that just have non-cis characters and sapphic characters in the same book.
- Dreadnought by April Daniels: the MC is a lesbian trans girl, although there is a lot of transphobia (condemned obviously, but it can still be hard to read)
- Spin With Me by Ami Polonsky: the MC is pansexual and her love interest is nonbinary
- Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore: one of the MCs is pansexual and one of the side characters is a trans boy
- The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski: from what I've heard, it's confirmed in the second book that Sid is nonbinary (or maybe genderfluid?)
- Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor: the MC is arospec and bi, and she has a QPR with a character who's a nonbinary trans man
- Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire: Kade, a frequent character in the books, is a trans boy and Jack, another frequent recurring character, is pansexual and has a girlfriend
- Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake: MC is bisexual (iirc?) and her love interest is genderqueer
- Cosmoknights by Hannah Templar: MCs are all sapphic, and one of the side characters is a trans woman
- The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez: the MC is a trans boy and there's a sapphic side couple (one person in the couple comes out as a demigirl during the story as well!)
- Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller: one of the MCs is a sapphic asexual woman and has a relationship with another woman, and the other MC's love interest is a trans man
- Perfect on Paper: the MC is bisexual, her best friend is a lesbian, and her older sister is a trans woman
- Finna by Nino Cipri: the MC is pansexual (iirc?) and her love interest is nonbinary
- Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner: one of the MCs is sapphic and asexual and has a woman for her love interest, and one of the side characters is a nonbinary trans girl
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden: almost all of the MCs are sapphic, and the one character in the book who isn't a woman is nonbinary
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon: the MC is sapphic and intersex, and all of the other merpeople are intersex. There's also a nonbinary SC
- The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin: the MC is sapphic and so are some SCs; there's a nonbinary SC and a trans woman SC
- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey: the MC is sapphic and her love interest is nonbinary. There's also a polyamorous sapphic side relationship
- Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff: the MC realizes she's bi or pan during the story; she initially has a crush on her nonbinary friend and ultimately ends up with a trans boy. Her dad is a trans man and there's a few other nonbinary SCs
- How To Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby: the MC is sapphic and her love interest is still actively figuring out her identity and I think she's meant to be nonbinary (but uses she/her pronouns)
- Lumberjanes by ND Stevenson: one of the MCs is a trans girl and others (including her I think?) are sapphic
- Cheer Up: Love and Pom-Poms by Crystal Frasier: the MC is a lesbian and her love interest is a trans girl
- It doesn't come out until next year, but Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby and AJ Sass has two MCs: one is sapphic and the other is a nonbinary person who uses e/em/eirs pronouns
- The Pants Project by Cat Clarke: the MC is a trans boy and he has two moms
- It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland: the MCs are sapphic, and one of the MCs is nonbinary
- Middletown by Sarah Moon: the MC is a nonbinary lesbian
- Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A.F. Venable: the MC is sapphic and a big part of the story is related to her grandfather, who was a trans man. There's a lot of heavy stuff in this one though.
- Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake: the MC is sapphic and her love interest is nonbinary. The MC's mom is also sapphic.
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall: one of the MCs is genderfluid (from what I've heard, I haven't read it yet) and the other is sapphic
- Everything Grows by Aimee Herman: I also haven't read this one, but from what I've heard, the MC is a lesbian and realizes that they're nonbinary during the story
- Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller: the MC is genderfluid and their love interest is a woman
- Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore: one of the MCs is bi/pan and her love interest is a nonbinary trans boy
- The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta: the MC is sapphic, as are most of the other leads. One is nonbinary.
- The Girl of Hawthorne and Glass by Adan Jerreat-Poole: MC is sapphic, one of the side characters (and the MC of the sequel) is nonbinary
- The Brilliant Death by A.R. Capetta: the MC is nonbinary (I believe she's meant to be read as a demigirl?) and her love interest is genderfluid
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan: MC is a nonbinary lesbian
- Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore: MC is bisexual, as are all of her sisters, and a SC is nonbinary
- Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May: the MC is sapphic and her love interest is a nonbinary lesbian