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As the year comes to a close, we have one burning question for book lovers everywhere: What were your top 5 sapphic reads of 2024?
Luckily our readers like to share! We look forward to passing along these recommendations to you daily into the new year.
It’s not too late to submit your own top reads and get in on the fun. Click here for the form. Our only rules are that authors may not submit their own books and your list needs to be new-to-you books that were read (not necessarily published) in 2024.
Here are Cheyenne Blue’s top sapphic reads of 2024:
1. The Piano in the Tree by Jo Havens
A gorgeously written book that is Aussie through and through: in the descriptions of the landscape, the house, and the characters. The darker themes in this story are not usually my favourite thing, but I love it when a book is so wonderful it transcends my comfort zones. This is such a book.
2. The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
Wow, my top YA/fantasy read of the year, and it’s sapphic. Witches, a sinking island that can only survive if there’s a sacrifice on the full moon, and the slowest of slow burns between the sacrifice, Lia, and the queen who must choose between saving the woman she loves, and saving her city. Great stuff.
3. Love Is…? by K.J. Wrights
The author formerly known as KJ can always be relied upon for warm and gorgeous romances that wrap you like a fleecy blankie on a winter’s night. Love Is…? is the perfect low-angst read for troubled times, when you want to believe there are good people in the world, doing good things, treating people with kindness, and falling in love with other good people. All wrapped up in humour and KJ’s unique style.
4. Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter
A crazy-ass plot that is just so much fun. Muffins, penguins, an old VW, and two mismatched women bumbling their way through a revenge plot, all wrapped up in Lee Winter’s clever writing.
5. Aubrey McFadden Is Never Getting Married by Georgia Beers
A “Four Weddings and a Funeral” structure brought to the page, but there’s no funeral. And it’s sapphic. Great fun. I read it in one sitting.
