Lesbian SFF Bingo!
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Also available in paperback.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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