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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 2025?
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 2025.
Here are Henriette’s top sapphic reads of 2025:
1. When DC Loved Iowa by Lee Winter
This book had me chuckling along from the start: High maintenance femme meets her butch, laid-back match. I loved the humor and that more serious topics are sprinkled in. A novella which ended far too soon.
2. No Man‘s Land by A.J. Fitzwater
This book was a wonderful find – the beautiful cover art matches the beautiful writing (the book got an award for both). It intertwines LGBTQ history from WW II in New Zealand with a bit of magic. The novella definitely deserves more readers to savor its beauty.
3. Discovering Nicola by Clare Ashton
Two main characters over 50, past mistakes, regrets, zest for life. Surprising your families all around and set in Oxford. I think it was the best book in Ashton‘s Oxford series and the bar was high!
4. Stirring Her Soul by Annie Wiest
This new author and her Sacred Peak series set on a ranch in Colorado won my heart with beautiful descriptions of nature intertwined with low angst romance. Stirring Her Soul is my personal favorite: you can‘t beat slow food while stirring two hearts.
5. A Season of Ashes by Maggie Brown
Books by this author have been on my reading pile for the longest time. This year I read three of her books The Shattered Path and Paying Her Price were excellent and then A Season of Ashes topped them all: It starts as your typical enemies-to-lovers Hollywood romance. But Maggie Brown transforms this subgenre in unexpected ways. Let’s just say: when the filming is moved to the Australian jungle brooding all bets are off.
