Lesbian SFF Reading Challenge https://sapphicsff.daxmurray.com/ Add some Sapphic Science Fiction and Fantasy to Your TBR Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:48:39 +0000 Lesbian SFF Bingo! https://sapphicsff.daxmurray.com/lesbian-sff-bingo?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Pink - Orange gradient with Lesbian SFF Book Bingo written over it. In the background is a book with a crown on it. Welcome to the first week of Lesbian SFF Bingo! We’re starting off with a BANG—an Itchio bundle of 30 Sapphic SFF stories! All of which DO count for our Bingo Challenge! So you might be able to get all the books you need to win this thing in one fell swoop. If you haven’t grabbed a bingo card yet, you can grab one (or ten!) from the Google Drive or from the Canva Template We have a ton of prizes and a plethora of way to win them. One of the best ways to get points is by leaving a review when you’re done with a book. You will automatically get an additional point if you review the book you read to satisfy a square! The Deets If you haven’t checked the FAQ, on the 1st and 15th of the month, I’ll be drawing 3 tropes. You can read as many books in each trope as you want if you’re multi-carding, or you can read one book in each trope, or any other system you want to follow! It’s up to you how much or little you want to participate. I’ll be posting some books from each trope to help get you started, but you don’t have to only read the books listed here. At the end of the year, based on how many bingos you’ve got, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a grand prize. If you leave a review for a book, that gets you extra points without even needing to get a bingo. For our first week, I’ve drawn Rebellion and Revolution, Muscle Mommy, and I’ll Destroy the World To Save Her. The following books are organized into what category they fit (with some counting in at least two! Up to you if you want to check two boxes for one book)! I’ve included content warnings provided by the authors as well as spice levels so you can pick the books best suited to your needs. --- Rebellion and Revolution Lesbian SFF Book Bingo written in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. Rebellion and Revolution. Two rows of book covers showing the example books. Pacificas Defenders. The Powers the Be. Junker Seven. Revenge of Captain Vessia. Stars and Soi. The Reverse Tower. The Cradle of Eternal Night. Digging for Heaven. Little Nothing. The Potent Solution. Revenge of Captain Vessia Leslie Allen Indie Ink Awards Nominee Itchio || Amazon || Kobo || B&N || Hoopla || Elsewhere Also available in paperback. Swearing revenge against the noble woman that turned her into a vampyri, Claire Vessia will carve a blood-strewn path on her quest for vengeance. But when the perfect chance to strike takes the form of the child of her maker, Claire must ask herself how far she's willing to go for justice. Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content warnings: Death, Violence, Needles, Deadnaming and purposeful misgendering, Public hanging, Sexual content. Starvation, Descriptions of underfed people, Emotional abuse, Parental abuse, Drowning, Forced Confinement, Grief and depression around loss of loved ones, Firearm use, Recreational alcohol, smoking, and drug use, Dark spaces Blood, gore, and decapitation of various limbs, Descriptive scenes of biting and blood drinking, including in sexual scenarios, Poverty, Stabbing, Fire, burns, and burning buildings, Food restriction in the form of a vampire drinking rationed blood --- Little Nothing Dee Halloway - Join Dee’s Newsletter BSFA 2024 longlist As the Union and Confederacy plummet toward war, southern Florida remains remote, wild, and uninterested in the national struggle—until Confederate agents appear at the Nag’s Head, an inn known for the vicious water-born horses trained by one of its daughters, Jonnie Bruner... Direct Store Spice: Glimpses and Kisses Content Warnings: Period-typical anti-Black racism. --- Cradle of Eternal Night Ladz - Join Ladz Newsletter Nominated for the Indie Ink Awards A sapphic horror romantasy in which two heroic lesbians, a witch and a bard, fight to release the light from the theocracy that plunged their world into ceaseless darkness. Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Kobo \Plus\] || [Apple || Fable || Smashwords || Everand || Hoopla || Elsewhere Also available in paperback. Spice: Open door and explicit. Content Warning Body horror, cannibalism (both of self and others), vomiting, burning bodies, blood, gore, death of loved ones, depiction of a panic attack, trypophobia, explicit sexual content (including fingering, cunnilingus, massaging), and dubiously consensual monsterfucking. --- Powers that Be Temple Heart Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck. Clearly, they're meant for each other, but will the Department of Unnatural Powers let them be together? Or will they fight every Tuesday on television forever? Amazon || B&N || Kobo || Apple Also Available in Paperback Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content Warnings: Low-level sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault (thwarted), memory alteration and removal --- Junker Seven Olive J Kelly - Join Olive’s Newletter Finalist in two categories for Indie Ink awards Neutralist junker Castor Quasar is whisked into an epic race against time when famous trans influencer Juno Marcus hires them to smuggle her across the galaxy. Amazon - Kindle Unlimited Also available in paperback. Ko-Fi Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content Warning: Transphobia, including misgendering, systemic transphobic violence, and censored deadnaming; police brutality; gun violence and an attempted mass shooting; character death; child death (past, graphic); sexual content; ableism, including internalized ableism by a disabled character --- The Reverse Tower Fay Lanark Independent Book Review's "Best Books We Read in 2024" In the daily grind to survive within the impossible space of the gloombound Tower, a bone mage teams up with a sun mage in order to save her girlfriend from a shapeshifting killer. Itchio || Amazon Also available in paperback and hardcover. Spice: Glimpses and Kisses Content Warnings: Gore, body horror --- Pacifica’s Defenders: Meteor Impact Lavender Gooms It's 2043, the US has broken up, and women can get superpowers. A Seattle-based rock star now has to figure out how her powers fit into her life, how to manage her rocky relationships, and hopefully not cause too much property damage in the process. Itchio || ScribbleHub Spice: All. Yes. All of it. Content Warnings: Frequent explicitly described consensual sexual interactions, mind control and memory alteration, false identity, descriptions of natural disasters, building collapse, comic book-style action and combat involving direct intentions of harm, mentions of blood and injury, brief police misconduct, reference to prior misgendering, reference to prior parental neglect, frequent foul language. --- The Potent Solution Ashley Nova Distinction for Best Transfeminine Fiction TFR Readers Choice Award Shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Debut TFR Readers Choice Award Distinction for Outstanding Historical Fiction TFR Readers Choice Award Distinction for Outstanding Thriller/Suspense/Mystery TFR Readers Choice Award An alchemical gaslamp fantasy full of wisdom, wit, more than a dash of magic, and a joyous F/F romance. An apprentice alchemist with ADHD uncovers a deadly conspiracy in the search for her missing mentor. Amazon \[ Kindle Unlimited \] Also available in Paperback Spice: Open Door and Vague Content Warnings: Drug use/abuse, mildly graphic sex, violence, graphic description of wounds/dead bodies --- Digging for Heaven Jenna Jarvis Dragon rider Litz is forced to extradite the infamous dragon slayer Kella across miles and miles of dangerous desert. Unfortunately they find other attractive. This might ruin both their lives. Direct Store || Amazon || B&N Also available in paperback. Spice: All. Yes. All of it. Content Warnings: Fantasy violence and gore, grief, mild sexual violence threat --- Stars and Soil Dax Murray - Join Dax’s Newsletter for a free short story. 2024 Indie Ink Award Finalist The prince demands Caitlin's hand, but an earl's daughter claims her heart. With power at court ever-shifting, rebellion roiling in the streets, and ancient evils lurking in the shadows, will Caitlin be a pawn or a queen in this dangerous game? Itchio || Direct Store || Elsewhere Also available in paperback and hardcover. Spice: Open Door and Explicit Content Warnings: Consensual intercourse, Abortion, Infertility, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Violence, Murder, Execution, Revolution, Domestic violence, Arson, Assault, Torture, Blood, Religious abuse, Consumption of alcohol. --- Muscle Mommy Lesbian SFF Book Bingo. Two and a half rows of books featuring Muscle Mommies. She Who Brought the Storm. The Powers that Be. The Scale of Seduction. Valerin the Fair. The Hades Calculus. The Smith. She Who Earned Her Wings. Kiss of Death. The Sting of Victory. Pacifica Defenders. The Hades Calculus Maria Ying - Join Maria Ying’s Newsletter Shortlisted for the Transfeminine Review award for Best Transfeminine Fiction of 2024. A cyberpunk Hades/Persephone retelling with giant monsters and robots. Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Kobo \Plus\] || [Apple || Google Play Also available in paperback. Spice: All. Yes. All of it. Content Warnings: Cannibalism, parental abuse --- Scales of Seduction Rien Gray - Join Rien’s Newsletter A transfemme basilisk strikes a bargain for her true body, at the price of robbing a Medusa in exile. A blood-drenched, erotic rivalry ensues. Itchio || Amazon Also available in paperback. Ko-Fi Spice: All. Yes. All of it. Content Warnings: Descriptions of violence (including blood, gore, and injury), body horror, societal transmisogyny and lesbophobia, brief references to past sexual assault and suicidality, dysphoria, trauma around fertility and infertility, past acts of self-mutilation, and death of a family member by suicide (off-page). --- Valerin the Fair Rien Gray - Join Rien’s Newsletter An immortal butch warrior raised by druids is seduced by the same dark sorceress who empowers her eternal life. Itchio Spice: All. Yes. All of it. Content Warnings: Fantasy typical violence and explicit sexual content between two consenting adults. --- Name Her Holy Aubrey Ennis A sapphic trans space fantasy that travels across stars, planets and other planes. Featuring two divine disaster lesbians who team up to fight the coming end of the world and grapple with what it means to be chosen Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Ko-Fi Also available in paperback. Spice: No Spice. Content Warnings: Blood, injury, character death, mass death, grieving the death of a parent, mild substance abuse, discussion of past suicidal ideation, transphobia, difficult relationship with a parent centered around transitioning --- The Smith Marine St Jean Ama has been on the run from the people who destroyed her life. Detached and moving quickly is all you can expect as a woman with unnatural passions in 9th C France. Now a village wants her skills and a woman her heart. Can she love again without putting them all in danger? Amazon \[ Kindle Unlimited \] Also available in paperback. Spice: Open door and explicit. Content Warnings: Themes of racism, sexism, religious trauma, abuse abandonment, cultural estrangement. Moderate violence --- The Sting of Victory SD Simple - Join SD Simple’s Newsletter IAN Book of the Year: Finalist An ancient deity returns, hell-bent on restoring the world to its natural order, and Flowridia’s kingdom is tasked to stop him. Caught in the ensuing clash of gods, her loyalties will be tempted at every turn—by family, by fate, and by the woman whose claws grip her heart. Amazon - \[ Kindle Unlimited \] Also available in paperback and hardocver. Spice: Open door and explicit. Content Warnings: Standard horror genre norms (blood/gore/violence/etc), Animal Death, Infanticide, Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Minor Dub-con --- She Who Brought the Storm Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea - Join the newsletter! To hunt monsters, you have to understand them, and Rhi is more of a monster than they could ever let anyone know. Gifted with magic that disables them more than it helps, Rhi turns to none other than one of the secret dragon masters of Habitat Seventeen, the Lady of Ash. Itchio || Elsewhere || Ko-Fi Also available in paperback Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content Warnings: Storms, disaster, undeath, insects and decay, murder, blood and bloodletting, mentions of gaslighting and manipulation, fantasy violence, devouring by animals, snakes, death and death of loved ones, complex and complicated relationships, character pushing past their disabilities to the detriment of their health --- She Who Earned Her Wings Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea - Join the newsletter! When stars fall on her territory, a dragon strikes a begrudging deal with her former lover to protect them. In the end she must protect what’s hers—even at the cost of her own heart. Itchio Spice: Open door and vague Content Warnings: Flirting, kissing and innuendo; romantic and sexual entanglements; trauma; knife and fantasy violence; complex and complicated relationships; biting; blood, bloodletting and blood consumption; body horror; monsters and monstrosity; necromancy, radiation and mutation; gore; death; insects, parasites and rot; emetophobia; burning; pregnancy; torture (non-graphic); and mentions of kidnapping, cannibalism, environmental disaster, death of loved ones, and parental abandonment. --- Powers that Be Temple Heart Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck. Clearly, they're meant for each other, but will the Department of Unnatural Powers let them be together? Or will they fight every Tuesday on television forever? Amazon || B&N || Kobo || Apple Also Available in Paperback Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content Warnings: Low-level sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault (thwarted), memory alteration and removal --- Pacifica's Defenders: Meteor Impact Lavender Gooms It's 2043, the US has broken up, and women can get superpowers. A Seattle-based rock star now has to figure out how her powers fit into her life, how to manage her rocky relationships, and hopefully not cause too much property damage in the process. Itchio || ScribbleHub Spice: All. Yes. All of it. Content Warnings: Frequent explicitly described consensual sexual interactions, mind control and memory alteration, false identity, descriptions of natural disasters, building collapse, comic book-style action and combat involving direct intentions of harm, mentions of blood and injury, brief police misconduct, reference to prior misgendering, reference to prior parental neglect, frequent foul language. --- Kiss of Death Bryony Rosehurst When the goddess of Helheim mistakes Maeve, an ordinary woman, for a shield-maiden, her afterlife gets a little more complicated. Direct Store || Elsewhere Also available in audiobook and paperback. Spice: Open door and explicit. Content Warnings: Medium to high heat, blood, death, violence, strong language --- I’ll Destroy The World If It Will Save Her Books that meet the Lesbian SFF Book Bingo Criteria for the trope I Will Destroy the World if it will Save Her. The Powers that Be. The Reverse Tower. Chrysopoeia. The Curling Vines. How To Get a Girlfriend When You're A Terrifying Monster. She Who Earned Her Wings. The Gift of Blood. Kiss of Death. Little Nothing. The Sting of Victory. Junker Seven. The Revenge of Captain Vessia. First Comes Death. Ink Stains. Name Her Holy. Revenge of Captain Vessia Leslie Allen Indie Ink Awards Nominee Itchio || Amazon || Kobo || B&N || Hoopla || Elsewhere Swearing revenge against the noble woman that turned her into a vampyri, Claire Vessia will carve a blood-strewn path on her quest for vengeance. But when the perfect chance to strike takes the form of the child of her maker, Claire must ask herself how far she's willing to go for justice. Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content warnings: Death, Violence, Needles, Deadnaming and purposeful misgendering, Public hanging, Sexual content. Starvation, Descriptions of underfed people, Emotional abuse, Parental abuse, Drowning, Forced Confinement, Grief and depression around loss of loved ones, Firearm use, Recreational alcohol, smoking, and drug use, Dark spaces Blood, gore, and decapitation of various limbs, Descriptive scenes of biting and blood drinking, including in sexual scenarios, Poverty, Stabbing, Fire, burns, and burning buildings, Food restriction in the form of a vampire drinking rationed blood --- Name Her Holy Aubrey Ennis A sapphic trans space fantasy that travels across stars, planets and other planes. Featuring two divine disaster lesbians who team up to fight the coming end of the world and grapple with what it means to be chosen Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Ko-Fi Also available in paperback. Spice: No Spice. Content Warnings: Blood, injury, character death, mass death, grieving the death of a parent, mild substance abuse, discussion of past suicidal ideation, transphobia, difficult relationship with a parent centered around transitioning --- Chrysopoeia Zel Howland Faith messed up. She was caught and convicted of witchcraft, and worse, the alchemy she attempted to save her Lady didn’t even work. Now the town has walled her into a cave rumored to lead to Hell, and it’s quickly become clear that she isn’t alone… Direct Store Spice: No spice Content Warnings: Horror, blood, witchcraft, ghosts, Christianity, CompHet narrowly avoided, death, mentions of animal death, hauntings --- Little Nothing Dee Halloway - Join Dee’s Newsletter BSFA 2024 longlist As the Union and Confederacy plummet toward war, southern Florida remains remote, wild, and uninterested in the national struggle—until Confederate agents appear at the Nag’s Head, an inn known for the vicious water-born horses trained by one of its daughters, Jonnie Bruner... Direct Store Spice: Glimpses and Kisses Content Warnings: Period-typical anti-Black racism. --- The Sting of Victory SD Simple - Join SD Simple’s Newsletter IAN Book of the Year: Finalist An ancient deity returns, hell-bent on restoring the world to its natural order, and Flowridia’s kingdom is tasked to stop him. Caught in the ensuing clash of gods, her loyalties will be tempted at every turn—by family, by fate, and by the woman whose claws grip her heart. Amazon - \[ Kindle Unlimited \] Also available in paperback and hardocver. Spice: Open door and explicit. Content Warnings: Standard horror genre norms (blood/gore/violence/etc), Animal Death, Infanticide, Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Minor Dub-con --- The Gift of Blood Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea - Join the newsletter! Monsters are real, and Ryann is one of them. Chosen as a weapon in a war that is not her own, she’ll take back control, whatever the cost—or make her enemies fear the hunger they’ve roused in her. For when all that you are is stripped away, all that remains is Hunger and teeth. Itchio Spice: No Spice Content Warnings: Blood, bloodletting and consumption; gore and neck gore; violence (physical, knife, gun); trauma, anger and self destructive behaviour; darkness; teeth; body horror; monsters and monstrosity; death; death of loved ones; housing insecurity; romance and flirting; complex and complicated relationships; and mentions of cannibalism, pandemic, murder, automobile accident, kidnapping, trafficking and adoption; --- She Who Earned Her Wings Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea - Join the newsletter! When stars fall on her territory, a dragon strikes a begrudging deal with her former lover to protect them. In the end she must protect what’s hers—even at the cost of her own heart. Itchio Spice: Open door and vague Content Warnings: Flirting, kissing and innuendo; romantic and sexual entanglements; trauma; knife and fantasy violence; complex and complicated relationships; biting; blood, bloodletting and blood consumption; body horror; monsters and monstrosity; necromancy, radiation and mutation; gore; death; insects, parasites and rot; emetophobia; burning; pregnancy; torture (non-graphic); and mentions of kidnapping, cannibalism, environmental disaster, death of loved ones, and parental abandonment. --- Ink Stains & Ill-Fated Lies Kellie Doherty - Join Kellie Doherty’s Newsletter Finalist in the 2024 Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Awards Science Fiction/Fantasy category When disgraced wandering scribe is kidnapped, she’s forced to record the cult's side of history. After meeting a snarky painter-prisoner, Adaris conforms to the worshippers’ ways while looking for an escape for them both. Amazon || B&N || Smashwords Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door --- Curling Vines & Crimson Trades Kellie Doherty - Join Kellie Doherty’s Newsletter Imadjinn Award Finalist 2021 Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards 2021 Orenda Silverstone needs to finish some nearly impossible tasks in order to save her kidnapped wife. But then, her best friend tries to kill her. Battling at every turn, she must come up with a plan to save them all before the sun rises on her wife’s final day. Amazon || B&N || Smashwords Spice: Glimpses and Kisses --- Powers that Be Temple Heart Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck. Clearly, they're meant for each other, but will the Department of Unnatural Powers let them be together? Or will they fight every Tuesday on television forever? Amazon || B&N || Kobo || Apple Also Available in Paperback Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content Warnings: Low-level sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault (thwarted), memory alteration and removal --- Junker Seven Olive J Kelly - Join Olive’s Newletter Finalist in two categories for Indie Ink awards Neutralist junker Castor Quasar is whisked into an epic race against time when famous trans influencer Juno Marcus hires them to smuggle her across the galaxy. Amazon - Kindle Unlimited Also available in paperback. Ko-Fi Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door Content Warning: Transphobia, including misgendering, systemic transphobic violence, and censored deadnaming; police brutality; gun violence and an attempted mass shooting; character death; child death (past, graphic); sexual content; ableism, including internalized ableism by a disabled character --- The Reverse Tower Fay Lanark Independent Book Review's "Best Books We Read in 2024" In the daily grind to survive within the impossible space of the gloombound Tower, a bone mage teams up with a sun mage in order to save her girlfriend from a shapeshifting killer. Itchio || Amazon Also available in paperback and hardcover. Spice: Glimpses and Kisses Content Warnings: Gore, body horror --- Kiss of Death Bryony Rosehurst When the goddess of Helheim mistakes Maeve, an ordinary woman, for a shield-maiden, her afterlife gets a little more complicated. Direct Store || Elsewhere Also available in audiobook and paperback. Spice: Open door and explicit. Content Warnings: Medium to high heat, blood, death, violence, strong language --- First Comes Death, Avrah C Baren — Join Avrah Baren’s Newsletter When a black hole anomaly brings Dina and Ivy back from the dead, both women find themselves navigating strange new powers, a powerful attraction that spans continents, and a monster hunting down all of the Resurrected. Amazon || B&N Also available in paperback Spice: Open door and vague Content Warnings: Death and dying; emotional manipulation from a guardian; drowning; a car crash from a bridge; mentions of homophobia; mention of nonconsensual touching; generational trauma; murder; revenge; being buried “alive”; consumption of alcohol; use of guns and knives; sex between consenting adults; blood and gore --- How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) Marie Cardno - Join Marie Cardno’s Newsletter Winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella Dating's tough when you're an eldritch abomination. Can Trillin escape her world-dominating roots long enough to figure out how to flirt? Direct Store || Amazon || B&N || Kobo \[ Plus \] || Apple || Google Play || Smashwords || Elsewhere Also available in paperback and hardcover. Spice: Glimpses and Kisses Content Warnings: Swearing, generic fantasy violence_ --- If you want to share what you are reading with friends on social media, I have made this graphic here that you are welcome to modify as needed: Lesbian SFF Book Bingo. It has a blank space for putting a "currenlty reading" and a space to include the tropes the book fits into. Did you miss the original deadline to submit to have your book featured? No worried! Fill out this form to get your book included in future features!! I’m working on a Notion database for all the entrees so far and for future ones, too, so people can easily peruse at their leisure. I’ll be sure to keep you updated once it’s finished! !--more-- ]]> Pink - Orange gradient with Lesbian SFF Book Bingo written over it. In the background is a book with a crown on it.

Welcome to the first week of Lesbian SFF Bingo! We’re starting off with a BANG—an Itchio bundle of 30 Sapphic SFF stories! All of which DO count for our Bingo Challenge! So you might be able to get all the books you need to win this thing in one fell swoop.

If you haven’t grabbed a bingo card yet, you can grab one (or ten!) from the Google Drive or from the Canva Template

We have a ton of prizes and a plethora of way to win them. One of the best ways to get points is by leaving a review when you’re done with a book. You will automatically get an additional point if you review the book you read to satisfy a square!

The Deets

If you haven’t checked the FAQ, on the 1st and 15th of the month, I’ll be drawing 3 tropes. You can read as many books in each trope as you want if you’re multi-carding, or you can read one book in each trope, or any other system you want to follow! It’s up to you how much or little you want to participate. I’ll be posting some books from each trope to help get you started, but you don’t have to only read the books listed here.

At the end of the year, based on how many bingos you’ve got, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a grand prize. If you leave a review for a book, that gets you extra points without even needing to get a bingo.

For our first week, I’ve drawn Rebellion and Revolution, Muscle Mommy, and I’ll Destroy the World To Save Her. The following books are organized into what category they fit (with some counting in at least two! Up to you if you want to check two boxes for one book)! I’ve included content warnings provided by the authors as well as spice levels so you can pick the books best suited to your needs.

Rebellion and Revolution

Lesbian SFF Book Bingo written in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. Rebellion and Revolution. Two rows of book covers showing the example books. Pacificas Defenders. The Powers the Be. Junker Seven. Revenge of Captain Vessia. Stars and Soi. The Reverse Tower. The Cradle of Eternal Night. Digging for Heaven. Little Nothing. The Potent Solution.

Revenge of Captain Vessia

Leslie Allen

Indie Ink Awards Nominee

Itchio || Amazon || Kobo || B&N || Hoopla || Elsewhere

Also available in paperback.

Swearing revenge against the noble woman that turned her into a vampyri, Claire Vessia will carve a blood-strewn path on her quest for vengeance. But when the perfect chance to strike takes the form of the child of her maker, Claire must ask herself how far she's willing to go for justice.

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content warnings:

Death, Violence, Needles, Deadnaming and purposeful misgendering, Public hanging, Sexual content. Starvation, Descriptions of underfed people, Emotional abuse, Parental abuse, Drowning, Forced Confinement, Grief and depression around loss of loved ones, Firearm use, Recreational alcohol, smoking, and drug use, Dark spaces Blood, gore, and decapitation of various limbs, Descriptive scenes of biting and blood drinking, including in sexual scenarios, Poverty, Stabbing, Fire, burns, and burning buildings, Food restriction in the form of a vampire drinking rationed blood

Little Nothing

Dee Halloway – Join Dee’s Newsletter

BSFA 2024 longlist

As the Union and Confederacy plummet toward war, southern Florida remains remote, wild, and uninterested in the national struggle—until Confederate agents appear at the Nag’s Head, an inn known for the vicious water-born horses trained by one of its daughters, Jonnie Bruner...

Direct Store

Spice: Glimpses and Kisses

Content Warnings:

Period-typical anti-Black racism.

Cradle of Eternal Night

Ladz – Join Ladz Newsletter

Nominated for the Indie Ink Awards

A sapphic horror romantasy in which two heroic lesbians, a witch and a bard, fight to release the light from the theocracy that plunged their world into ceaseless darkness.

Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Kobo [Plus] || Apple || Fable || Smashwords || Everand || Hoopla || Elsewhere

Also available in paperback.

Spice: Open door and explicit.

Content Warning

Body horror, cannibalism (both of self and others), vomiting, burning bodies, blood, gore, death of loved ones, depiction of a panic attack, trypophobia, explicit sexual content (including fingering, cunnilingus, massaging), and dubiously consensual monsterfucking.

Powers that Be

Temple Heart

Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck. Clearly, they're meant for each other, but will the Department of Unnatural Powers let them be together? Or will they fight every Tuesday on television forever?

Amazon || B&N || Kobo || Apple

Also Available in Paperback

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content Warnings:

Low-level sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault (thwarted), memory alteration and removal

Junker Seven

Olive J Kelly – Join Olive’s Newletter

Finalist in two categories for Indie Ink awards

Neutralist junker Castor Quasar is whisked into an epic race against time when famous trans influencer Juno Marcus hires them to smuggle her across the galaxy.

Amazon – Kindle Unlimited

Also available in paperback.

Ko-Fi

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content Warning:

Transphobia, including misgendering, systemic transphobic violence, and censored deadnaming; police brutality; gun violence and an attempted mass shooting; character death; child death (past, graphic); sexual content; ableism, including internalized ableism by a disabled character

The Reverse Tower

Fay Lanark

Independent Book Review's “Best Books We Read in 2024”

In the daily grind to survive within the impossible space of the gloombound Tower, a bone mage teams up with a sun mage in order to save her girlfriend from a shapeshifting killer.

Itchio || Amazon

Also available in paperback and hardcover.

Spice: Glimpses and Kisses

Content Warnings:

Gore, body horror

Pacifica’s Defenders: Meteor Impact

Lavender Gooms

It's 2043, the US has broken up, and women can get superpowers. A Seattle-based rock star now has to figure out how her powers fit into her life, how to manage her rocky relationships, and hopefully not cause too much property damage in the process.

Itchio || ScribbleHub

Spice: All. Yes. All of it.

Content Warnings:

Frequent explicitly described consensual sexual interactions, mind control and memory alteration, false identity, descriptions of natural disasters, building collapse, comic book-style action and combat involving direct intentions of harm, mentions of blood and injury, brief police misconduct, reference to prior misgendering, reference to prior parental neglect, frequent foul language.

The Potent Solution

Ashley Nova

Distinction for Best Transfeminine Fiction TFR Readers Choice Award Shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Debut TFR Readers Choice Award Distinction for Outstanding Historical Fiction TFR Readers Choice Award Distinction for Outstanding Thriller/Suspense/Mystery TFR Readers Choice Award

An alchemical gaslamp fantasy full of wisdom, wit, more than a dash of magic, and a joyous F/F romance. An apprentice alchemist with ADHD uncovers a deadly conspiracy in the search for her missing mentor.

Amazon [ Kindle Unlimited ]

Also available in Paperback

Spice: Open Door and Vague

Content Warnings:

Drug use/abuse, mildly graphic sex, violence, graphic description of wounds/dead bodies

Digging for Heaven

Jenna Jarvis

Dragon rider Litz is forced to extradite the infamous dragon slayer Kella across miles and miles of dangerous desert. Unfortunately they find other attractive. This might ruin both their lives.

Direct Store || Amazon || B&N

Also available in paperback.

Spice: All. Yes. All of it.

Content Warnings:

Fantasy violence and gore, grief, mild sexual violence threat

Stars and Soil

Dax Murray – Join Dax’s Newsletter for a free short story.

2024 Indie Ink Award Finalist

The prince demands Caitlin's hand, but an earl's daughter claims her heart. With power at court ever-shifting, rebellion roiling in the streets, and ancient evils lurking in the shadows, will Caitlin be a pawn or a queen in this dangerous game?

Itchio || Direct Store || Elsewhere

Also available in paperback and hardcover.

Spice: Open Door and Explicit

Content Warnings:

Consensual intercourse, Abortion, Infertility, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Violence, Murder, Execution, Revolution, Domestic violence, Arson, Assault, Torture, Blood, Religious abuse, Consumption of alcohol.

Muscle Mommy

Lesbian SFF Book Bingo. Two and a half rows of books featuring Muscle Mommies. She Who Brought the Storm. The Powers that Be. The Scale of Seduction. Valerin the Fair. The Hades Calculus. The Smith. She Who Earned Her Wings. Kiss of Death. The Sting of Victory. Pacifica Defenders.

The Hades Calculus

Maria Ying – Join Maria Ying’s Newsletter

Shortlisted for the Transfeminine Review award for Best Transfeminine Fiction of 2024.

A cyberpunk Hades/Persephone retelling with giant monsters and robots.

Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Kobo [Plus] || Apple || Google Play

Also available in paperback.

Spice: All. Yes. All of it.

Content Warnings:

Cannibalism, parental abuse

Scales of Seduction

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A transfemme basilisk strikes a bargain for her true body, at the price of robbing a Medusa in exile. A blood-drenched, erotic rivalry ensues.

Itchio || Amazon

Also available in paperback.

Ko-Fi

Spice: All. Yes. All of it.

Content Warnings:

Descriptions of violence (including blood, gore, and injury), body horror, societal transmisogyny and lesbophobia, brief references to past sexual assault and suicidality, dysphoria, trauma around fertility and infertility, past acts of self-mutilation, and death of a family member by suicide (off-page).

Valerin the Fair

Rien Gray – Join Rien’s Newsletter

An immortal butch warrior raised by druids is seduced by the same dark sorceress who empowers her eternal life.

Itchio

Spice: All. Yes. All of it.

Content Warnings:

Fantasy typical violence and explicit sexual content between two consenting adults.

Name Her Holy

Aubrey Ennis

A sapphic trans space fantasy that travels across stars, planets and other planes. Featuring two divine disaster lesbians who team up to fight the coming end of the world and grapple with what it means to be chosen

Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Ko-Fi

Also available in paperback.

Spice: No Spice.

Content Warnings:

Blood, injury, character death, mass death, grieving the death of a parent, mild substance abuse, discussion of past suicidal ideation, transphobia, difficult relationship with a parent centered around transitioning

The Smith

Marine St Jean

Ama has been on the run from the people who destroyed her life. Detached and moving quickly is all you can expect as a woman with unnatural passions in 9th C France. Now a village wants her skills and a woman her heart. Can she love again without putting them all in danger?

Amazon [ Kindle Unlimited ]

Also available in paperback.

Spice: Open door and explicit.

Content Warnings:

Themes of racism, sexism, religious trauma, abuse abandonment, cultural estrangement. Moderate violence

The Sting of Victory

SD Simple – Join SD Simple’s Newsletter

IAN Book of the Year: Finalist

An ancient deity returns, hell-bent on restoring the world to its natural order, and Flowridia’s kingdom is tasked to stop him. Caught in the ensuing clash of gods, her loyalties will be tempted at every turn—by family, by fate, and by the woman whose claws grip her heart.

Amazon – [ Kindle Unlimited ]

Also available in paperback and hardocver.

Spice: Open door and explicit.

Content Warnings:

Standard horror genre norms (blood/gore/violence/etc), Animal Death, Infanticide, Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Minor Dub-con

She Who Brought the Storm

Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea – Join the newsletter!

To hunt monsters, you have to understand them, and Rhi is more of a monster than they could ever let anyone know. Gifted with magic that disables them more than it helps, Rhi turns to none other than one of the secret dragon masters of Habitat Seventeen, the Lady of Ash.

Itchio || Elsewhere || Ko-Fi

Also available in paperback

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content Warnings:

Storms, disaster, undeath, insects and decay, murder, blood and bloodletting, mentions of gaslighting and manipulation, fantasy violence, devouring by animals, snakes, death and death of loved ones, complex and complicated relationships, character pushing past their disabilities to the detriment of their health

She Who Earned Her Wings

Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea – Join the newsletter!

When stars fall on her territory, a dragon strikes a begrudging deal with her former lover to protect them. In the end she must protect what’s hers—even at the cost of her own heart.

Itchio

Spice: Open door and vague

Content Warnings:

Flirting, kissing and innuendo; romantic and sexual entanglements; trauma; knife and fantasy violence; complex and complicated relationships; biting; blood, bloodletting and blood consumption; body horror; monsters and monstrosity; necromancy, radiation and mutation; gore; death; insects, parasites and rot; emetophobia; burning; pregnancy; torture (non-graphic); and mentions of kidnapping, cannibalism, environmental disaster, death of loved ones, and parental abandonment.

Powers that Be

Temple Heart

Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck. Clearly, they're meant for each other, but will the Department of Unnatural Powers let them be together? Or will they fight every Tuesday on television forever?

Amazon || B&N || Kobo || Apple

Also Available in Paperback

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content Warnings:

Low-level sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault (thwarted), memory alteration and removal

Pacifica's Defenders: Meteor Impact

Lavender Gooms

It's 2043, the US has broken up, and women can get superpowers. A Seattle-based rock star now has to figure out how her powers fit into her life, how to manage her rocky relationships, and hopefully not cause too much property damage in the process.

Itchio || ScribbleHub

Spice: All. Yes. All of it.

Content Warnings:

Frequent explicitly described consensual sexual interactions, mind control and memory alteration, false identity, descriptions of natural disasters, building collapse, comic book-style action and combat involving direct intentions of harm, mentions of blood and injury, brief police misconduct, reference to prior misgendering, reference to prior parental neglect, frequent foul language.

Kiss of Death

Bryony Rosehurst

When the goddess of Helheim mistakes Maeve, an ordinary woman, for a shield-maiden, her afterlife gets a little more complicated.

Direct Store || Elsewhere

Also available in audiobook and paperback.

Spice: Open door and explicit.

Content Warnings:

Medium to high heat, blood, death, violence, strong language

I’ll Destroy The World If It Will Save Her

Books that meet the Lesbian SFF Book Bingo Criteria for the trope I Will Destroy the World if it will Save Her. The Powers that Be. The Reverse Tower. Chrysopoeia. The Curling Vines. How To Get a Girlfriend When You're A Terrifying Monster. She Who Earned Her Wings. The Gift of Blood. Kiss of Death. Little Nothing. The Sting of Victory. Junker Seven. The Revenge of Captain Vessia. First Comes Death. Ink Stains. Name Her Holy.

Revenge of Captain Vessia

Leslie Allen

Indie Ink Awards Nominee

Itchio || Amazon || Kobo || B&N || Hoopla || Elsewhere

Swearing revenge against the noble woman that turned her into a vampyri, Claire Vessia will carve a blood-strewn path on her quest for vengeance. But when the perfect chance to strike takes the form of the child of her maker, Claire must ask herself how far she's willing to go for justice.

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content warnings:

Death, Violence, Needles, Deadnaming and purposeful misgendering, Public hanging, Sexual content. Starvation, Descriptions of underfed people, Emotional abuse, Parental abuse, Drowning, Forced Confinement, Grief and depression around loss of loved ones, Firearm use, Recreational alcohol, smoking, and drug use, Dark spaces Blood, gore, and decapitation of various limbs, Descriptive scenes of biting and blood drinking, including in sexual scenarios, Poverty, Stabbing, Fire, burns, and burning buildings, Food restriction in the form of a vampire drinking rationed blood

Name Her Holy

Aubrey Ennis

A sapphic trans space fantasy that travels across stars, planets and other planes. Featuring two divine disaster lesbians who team up to fight the coming end of the world and grapple with what it means to be chosen

Itchio || Amazon || B&N || Ko-Fi

Also available in paperback.

Spice: No Spice.

Content Warnings:

Blood, injury, character death, mass death, grieving the death of a parent, mild substance abuse, discussion of past suicidal ideation, transphobia, difficult relationship with a parent centered around transitioning

Chrysopoeia

Zel Howland

Faith messed up. She was caught and convicted of witchcraft, and worse, the alchemy she attempted to save her Lady didn’t even work. Now the town has walled her into a cave rumored to lead to Hell, and it’s quickly become clear that she isn’t alone…

Direct Store

Spice: No spice

Content Warnings:

Horror, blood, witchcraft, ghosts, Christianity, CompHet narrowly avoided, death, mentions of animal death, hauntings

Little Nothing

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BSFA 2024 longlist

As the Union and Confederacy plummet toward war, southern Florida remains remote, wild, and uninterested in the national struggle—until Confederate agents appear at the Nag’s Head, an inn known for the vicious water-born horses trained by one of its daughters, Jonnie Bruner...

Direct Store

Spice: Glimpses and Kisses

Content Warnings:

Period-typical anti-Black racism.

The Sting of Victory

SD Simple – Join SD Simple’s Newsletter

IAN Book of the Year: Finalist

An ancient deity returns, hell-bent on restoring the world to its natural order, and Flowridia’s kingdom is tasked to stop him. Caught in the ensuing clash of gods, her loyalties will be tempted at every turn—by family, by fate, and by the woman whose claws grip her heart.

Amazon – [ Kindle Unlimited ]

Also available in paperback and hardocver.

Spice: Open door and explicit.

Content Warnings:

Standard horror genre norms (blood/gore/violence/etc), Animal Death, Infanticide, Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Minor Dub-con

The Gift of Blood

Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea – Join the newsletter!

Monsters are real, and Ryann is one of them. Chosen as a weapon in a war that is not her own, she’ll take back control, whatever the cost—or make her enemies fear the hunger they’ve roused in her. For when all that you are is stripped away, all that remains is Hunger and teeth.

Itchio

Spice: No Spice

Content Warnings:

Blood, bloodletting and consumption; gore and neck gore; violence (physical, knife, gun); trauma, anger and self destructive behaviour; darkness; teeth; body horror; monsters and monstrosity; death; death of loved ones; housing insecurity; romance and flirting; complex and complicated relationships; and mentions of cannibalism, pandemic, murder, automobile accident, kidnapping, trafficking and adoption;

She Who Earned Her Wings

Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea – Join the newsletter!

When stars fall on her territory, a dragon strikes a begrudging deal with her former lover to protect them. In the end she must protect what’s hers—even at the cost of her own heart.

Itchio

Spice: Open door and vague

Content Warnings:

Flirting, kissing and innuendo; romantic and sexual entanglements; trauma; knife and fantasy violence; complex and complicated relationships; biting; blood, bloodletting and blood consumption; body horror; monsters and monstrosity; necromancy, radiation and mutation; gore; death; insects, parasites and rot; emetophobia; burning; pregnancy; torture (non-graphic); and mentions of kidnapping, cannibalism, environmental disaster, death of loved ones, and parental abandonment.

Ink Stains & Ill-Fated Lies

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Finalist in the 2024 Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Awards Science Fiction/Fantasy category

When disgraced wandering scribe is kidnapped, she’s forced to record the cult's side of history. After meeting a snarky painter-prisoner, Adaris conforms to the worshippers’ ways while looking for an escape for them both.

Amazon || B&N || Smashwords

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Curling Vines & Crimson Trades

Kellie Doherty – Join Kellie Doherty’s Newsletter

Imadjinn Award Finalist 2021 Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards 2021

Orenda Silverstone needs to finish some nearly impossible tasks in order to save her kidnapped wife. But then, her best friend tries to kill her. Battling at every turn, she must come up with a plan to save them all before the sun rises on her wife’s final day.

Amazon || B&N || Smashwords

Spice: Glimpses and Kisses

Powers that Be

Temple Heart

Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck. Clearly, they're meant for each other, but will the Department of Unnatural Powers let them be together? Or will they fight every Tuesday on television forever?

Amazon || B&N || Kobo || Apple

Also Available in Paperback

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content Warnings:

Low-level sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault (thwarted), memory alteration and removal

Junker Seven

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Finalist in two categories for Indie Ink awards

Neutralist junker Castor Quasar is whisked into an epic race against time when famous trans influencer Juno Marcus hires them to smuggle her across the galaxy.

Amazon – Kindle Unlimited

Also available in paperback.

Ko-Fi

Spice: Fade to Black / Closed Door

Content Warning:

Transphobia, including misgendering, systemic transphobic violence, and censored deadnaming; police brutality; gun violence and an attempted mass shooting; character death; child death (past, graphic); sexual content; ableism, including internalized ableism by a disabled character

The Reverse Tower

Fay Lanark

Independent Book Review's “Best Books We Read in 2024”

In the daily grind to survive within the impossible space of the gloombound Tower, a bone mage teams up with a sun mage in order to save her girlfriend from a shapeshifting killer.

Itchio || Amazon

Also available in paperback and hardcover.

Spice: Glimpses and Kisses

Content Warnings:

Gore, body horror

Kiss of Death

Bryony Rosehurst

When the goddess of Helheim mistakes Maeve, an ordinary woman, for a shield-maiden, her afterlife gets a little more complicated.

Direct Store || Elsewhere

Also available in audiobook and paperback.

Spice: Open door and explicit.

Content Warnings:

Medium to high heat, blood, death, violence, strong language

First Comes Death,

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When a black hole anomaly brings Dina and Ivy back from the dead, both women find themselves navigating strange new powers, a powerful attraction that spans continents, and a monster hunting down all of the Resurrected.

Amazon || B&N

Also available in paperback

Spice: Open door and vague

Content Warnings:

Death and dying; emotional manipulation from a guardian; drowning; a car crash from a bridge; mentions of homophobia; mention of nonconsensual touching; generational trauma; murder; revenge; being buried “alive”; consumption of alcohol; use of guns and knives; sex between consenting adults; blood and gore

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster)

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Winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella

Dating's tough when you're an eldritch abomination. Can Trillin escape her world-dominating roots long enough to figure out how to flirt?

Direct Store || Amazon || B&N || Kobo [ Plus ] || Apple || Google Play || Smashwords || Elsewhere

Also available in paperback and hardcover.

Spice: Glimpses and Kisses

Content Warnings:

Swearing, generic fantasy violence

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Did you miss the original deadline to submit to have your book featured? No worried! Fill out this form to get your book included in future features!! I’m working on a Notion database for all the entrees so far and for future ones, too, so people can easily peruse at their leisure. I’ll be sure to keep you updated once it’s finished!

]]> https://sapphicsff.daxmurray.com/lesbian-sff-bingo Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:27:22 +0000 Once upon a time, lesbians https://sapphicsff.daxmurray.com/once-upon-a-time-lesbians?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Welcome to YEAR ONE of the Lesbian SFF Reading Challenge. Yes, it’s the second to last day of January, and yes, we are still getting things set up, but it’s better to be late than to never do it! As I explained on my personal blog, I felt that many of the sapphic / lesbian reading challenges this year focused a lot on contemporary romance with many lesbian / sapphic spec fic authors feeling like they had to wedge themselves into categories that didn’t quite fit if they wanted their books to count and many lesbian / sapphic spec fic readers feeling like it would be impossible to win any of the challenges by just sticking to their preferred genre. !--more-- I’ve decided to do something about that and so, without further ado, the Lesbian SFF Reading Challenge, Year One! Submissions to have your books featured are still open, and we aren’t just limiting it to books you can find on Amazon. Itchio, Campfire, ScribbleHub, Kobo, and more are all included! You can find the bingo cards here if you prefer to do it bingo style, but I’m still coming up with the rules and regulations, so things might change a little bit. I definitely plan on doing physical and digital book giveaways at the end of the year to those who read (and reviewed!) sapphic / lesbian science fiction and fantasy books! Please see the FAQs for more information, including a full list of the categories / tropes! I’ll be sure to keep y’all updated. !--emailsub--]]> Welcome to YEAR ONE of the Lesbian SFF Reading Challenge. Yes, it’s the second to last day of January, and yes, we are still getting things set up, but it’s better to be late than to never do it! As I explained on my personal blog, I felt that many of the sapphic / lesbian reading challenges this year focused a lot on contemporary romance with many lesbian / sapphic spec fic authors feeling like they had to wedge themselves into categories that didn’t quite fit if they wanted their books to count and many lesbian / sapphic spec fic readers feeling like it would be impossible to win any of the challenges by just sticking to their preferred genre.

I’ve decided to do something about that and so, without further ado, the Lesbian SFF Reading Challenge, Year One! Submissions to have your books featured are still open, and we aren’t just limiting it to books you can find on Amazon. Itchio, Campfire, ScribbleHub, Kobo, and more are all included!

You can find the bingo cards here if you prefer to do it bingo style, but I’m still coming up with the rules and regulations, so things might change a little bit.

I definitely plan on doing physical and digital book giveaways at the end of the year to those who read (and reviewed!) sapphic / lesbian science fiction and fantasy books! Please see the FAQs for more information, including a full list of the categories / tropes! I’ll be sure to keep y’all updated.

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