This February celebrate love NOT being a lie by reading a queer romance novel. Not sure where to begin? I’ve got you. Take this quiz, and it will match you with a great queer romance book. Maybe you’re destined for a royal romance between a long lost princess and the private investigator who has been hired to track her down. Or is an enemies to lovers teen romance between a basketball player and a cheerleader more your style? Perhaps a lesbian fairytale retelling set in the snowy winter wilderness? Or something else entirely? Play on to find out!
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Known in some internet circles as Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, Casey Stepaniuk is a writer, librarian, and new parent. She writes for Book Riot and Autostraddle about queer and/or bookish stuff. Ask her about cats, bisexuality, libraries, queer books, drinking tea, and her baby. Her website is Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian. Find her on Twitter, Litsy, Storygraph
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I loved all these questions!!
I got Delilah Green which tbh seems like a solid choice for me
Ashley Herring Blake writes great books for young people and I’m sure her adult debut will be the same. I’m very excited to read it!
Hi! I love this quiz! Can you list all the books so I can just read them all?? Lol
Ask and you shall receive!
The books are:
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
Femme Like Her by Fiona Zedde
Masquerade by Anne Shade
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
Thorn by Anna Burke
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
Ha! I got She Drives Me Crazy which is the only book in this list I’ve already read.
How to find a princess is *chef kiss* but also am really excited about the result I got! It’s YA which I haven’t read in years but looks adorbs
are the pussy chocolates Supposed to be an option twice?
I got “How to Find a Princess” which sounds fun
No, but I suppose they are great enough that they can be on the list twice!
I love these! Thank you Casey.
I got Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar – it’s been on my radar and sounds super cute.
Also, I just read D’Vaughn and Kris plan a Wedding by Chencia C Higgins and it is super cute! The FF fake fiancées to win a reality TV show, ridiculously over the top fluffy romance I didn’t know I needed. And the main couple have so much Niecy Nash / Jessica Betts energy.
Oh yes, I’ve heard that one is super cute!
the universe really wants me to read delilah greene! a publisher giveaway, my library newsletter, and now quiz results have all said to read it!
also thank you for the list of options! i’ve read fully half of them, love that for me
Obviously you have excellent taste!
Thorn by Anna Burke.
I really loved Thorn!
Such a good book
This was fun! Question for Casey (or other readers): do you have any recs for romances featuring butch characters? I’m only recently getting into reading romance so not really familiar with what’s out there or where to look. Thanks!
Here are few butch/femme pairings to get you started
D’Vaughn and Kris plan a Wedding by Chencia C Higgins
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
The Butch and the Beautiful by Kris Ripper
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
Love and other disasters by Anita Kelly, one of the MCs is a nonbinary butch :)
Here’s my two-cents’ :
Get it Right by Skye Kilaen
Looking for Trouble by Jess Lea
And I haven’t read it yet, but the title is promising ;-) : Butch Like Her by Fiona Zedde
All excellent suggestions so far! I think this might be a good question for a future lesbarian column actually! For now I’d also add:
Get It Right by Skye Kilean
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West
A couple more recs featuring butch/femme pairings!
– Matzo Match by Roz Alexander (completely darling romance novella)
– Spindrift by Anna Burke (same author as Thorn, which was on this quiz, and whose book Compass Rose is one of my all-time faves!)
Sneaking in to rec my own recently published book about 2 butches falling in love. https://books2read.com/StudLikeHer
Thank you for sharing Fiona! What a great compliment to Femme Like Her featured in this quiz!
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston has a fantastic butch love interest!
Roller Girl by Vanessa North features a butch woman (paired with a trans woman) in a super cute sports romance!
‘Having to share a bed before you and your crush have admitted your feelings for one another and then lying there feeling the mounting sexual tension’ oh this option TOOK me places
I got The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley! I’ve actually never consumed a piece of regency media in my life. Seems like a good enough start!
Hehehe!
I think The Perks of Loving a Wallflower is a great place to start!
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care !
Great recommendation. Also grateful for the full list, I’ve read a few but not all (rubs hands with glee)
Here I was literally pining away for a good wlw historical mystery thriller with costuming hijinks, AND YOU DELIVER!!! Seriously, I love regency rom com adventure tropes and now you give me one that has LESBIANS AND ALL MY FAVORITE TROPES. You are magic, and I love this website. Who needs to pay for psychics when autostraddle reads my mind like this?
@queergirl – comment award!
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Ooh. Got Femme Like Her by Fiona Zedde and the description looks intriguing.
Fiona just posted about a another book of hers called Stud Like Her that just came out too!
i got she drives me crazy which i read last year and it is still v on point
Very excited for my specific recommendation and for allll of these :D