It is no misfortune if you do not know where you are going; it is far worse when there is no longer anywhere to go. He who stands on the path of experience cannot step away from it, even when it has come to its end. For the path is without end.” Year published: 2012 Category: Adult… Continue reading

“Perhaps we were victims of one another.” Year published: 1967 Category: Dystopian/post-apocalyptic/sci-fi Summary: In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organization. There is destruction everywhere; great… Continue reading

Year published:  2019 Category:  Urban fantasy Representation: m/m main couple Summary:  The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on… Continue reading

“Blackest wish turn white like snow,Bloodiest wish like blood outflow.” Year published: 2001 Category: Adult fantasy (fairy tale retelling) Summary: Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord’s palace. Cold as winter, she has only one passion—for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. Coira is the princess raised… Continue reading

Year published: 2011 Category: Magical realism Summary:  Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment. Raised… Continue reading

Year published: 2019 Category: YA fantasy Summary:  For Maresi, like so many other girls, the Red Abbey was a haven of safety in a world ruled by brutal men. But now she is a young woman and it is time for her to leave. She must take all that she has learned from her sisters and return… Continue reading

Year published: 2021 Category: YA fantasy Representation: F/F, main characters, asexual, side character Summary: The jaw-dropping conclusion to Girls of Storm and Shadow left the fates of Lei and Wren hanging in the balance. There’s one thing Lei knows – she can never return to the Hidden Palace. The trauma and tragedy she suffered behind… Continue reading

Year published: 2022 Category: Adult fantasy Representation: F/f, one perspective character in a past relationship Summary:  In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel… Continue reading

Year published: 2021 Category: YA fantasy Representation: Two Wild Ones are lesbians who develop a tentative relationship (very minor element), one Wild One is a trans girl (only mentioned very briefly once) Summary:  Meet the Wild Ones: girls who have been hurt, abandoned, and betrayed all their lives. It all began with Paheli, who was once betrayed… Continue reading

Year published: 2020 Category: Grimdark fantasy Representation: Bi main character, m/m relationship Summary: Years after a harrowing war experience, ex-mercenary Jespar Dal’Varek has taken to drifting. It’s a lonely existence, but, barring the occasional bout of melancholia, he has found the closest thing to peace a man like him deserves. Life is “all right.” Or… Continue reading