Profiterole reads

LGBT SF/F. Check my "rec list" tag and feel free to ask for more recs. French, she/her.

[lgbtqreads]

Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Third Wish by T.E. Forest Today on the site I'm delighted to reveal the cover of The Third Wish by T.E. Forest, a suspenseful New Adult Urban Fantasy with a polyam romance between gay, pan, and demi-romantic gray-ace MCs releasing from Hamley Books on September 16, 2026!... https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/10/exclusive-cover-reveal-the-third-wish-by-t-e-forest/

Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Third Wish by T.E. Forest

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Sapphic Books Coming Out in 2026 - Part 2 💋

Which of these sapphic books coming out in 2026 are you excited to read?❓

Good afternoon, book lovers and bookish bats, and happy Pride Month. I LOVE seeing how many people are dedicated to reading more sapphic books this year, especially after all the wlw / bisexual discourse that happened on threads last month. Sapphic stories have a special place in my heart. As a bisexual woman in a long-term sapphic relationship, I know there are a dozen different ways these relationships can blossom. Whether it's sparked by the hot tension of arguing with a rival or slowly falling for a friend, sapphic books span genres and lifetimes. 💋

There are so many sapphic books coming out in 2026 that I had to break this guide into two parts (a first!). Here are a few of the amazing, sassy, sweet, captivating, and tantalizing sapphic books coming out in 2026 for you to read during Pride Month and beyond! Remember to read queer all year, my beloved book lovers and bookish bats! 💋

What's your favorite sapphic book?❓

Help! Insta is definitely suppressing my queer book guides during Pride Month (worse, my sapphic book guides get hit the most). Please help by sharing this. 💜

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Soccer/Football Romances This post is sponsored by Pat Voss in honor of his upcoming 2nd chance m/m love story, …... https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/10/fave-five-queer-soccer-football-romances/

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[free-queer-books]

Indie Author Collective Fantastical Escape SYKD - June 10-13, 2026

Fantastical Escape | Indie Author Collective

Find discounted and free fantasy books during this live stuf your kindle and ereader event!

A four-day event with free and discounted fantasy ebooks!

Free books tagged with LGBTQA+ representation include:

F/F

Souls Divided by Emily B. Rose - FF and FM (Amazon)

F/M

Paladin and Necromancer II by Adrienne Miller (Amazon)

Curse of Stolen Flame by Catarine Hancock (Amazon)

Souls Divided by Emily B. Rose - FF and FM (Amazon)

Bound by Fate and Blood by Jenna O'Malley (multiple stores)

Dragon Godsby Kiersten Michele (Amazon)

M/X

Another World's Stars by Kel E. Fox (Amazon)

Polyamory

Ophidian by Emily B. Rose - MFF (Amazon)

Sapphic

The Coffee House Witch & the Grumpy Catby Ariana Jade (multiple stores)

Trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse characters

Delusions of a False Goddess by Angeli Tejada - content warnings include implied transphobia (Amazon)

Another World's Stars by Kel E Fox - nonbinary protagonist

Others tagged LGBTQA+

Edge of the Breach by Halo Scot (multiple stores)

The Demon of Elderstay by I. Ribbon - queer protagonist (Amazon)

The Crusaders of Lukzander Shoals (Kobo now, likely also Amazon eventually)

The Last Griffin by K.L. Vincent (Amazon)

Greer Saint Wilder by Kennedy Cannon (Amazon)

City of Dust and Blood by S.J. Reid (Amazon)

The Healing Touch by Zofia von Huck (Amazon)

[turtlelady9]

Rating this one 4.75/5 Stars

This was a great story about recognizing found family in friendship, processing grief and growing into adulthood as much as it was an unexpectedly sweet romance.

During the engagement party, bachelorette weekend and pre-wedding planning, a slowburn love story developed between two bridesmaids: former rock star Alice and former theater actress Renee. They were both close friends of the bride, Gin. Alice was actually Gin's ex-girlfriend as well.

While Alice and Renee initially, butt heads and bodies, the rivals to lovers part was a very minimal piece and didn't last long before Alice and Renee built a new friendship instead. Eventually, their friendship spilled over into more. Still, they both weren't ready to immediately commit to each other with everything else going on in their individual lives.

Alice was on a journey of sobriety and grieving her father's recent death and uncertainty about what to do next in her life. Renee lost an important job and was at a similar crossroads in her own life. They supported each other through some ups and downs. They worked together with family and friends to give their friend Gin the perfect wedding at a predictable and meaningful venue after original plans fell apart. Gin nudged both Alice and Renee to kiss and makeup and they did.

Told in first person from only Alice's POV. While there was tons of mutual pining and yearning between the ladies, there was only one steamy scene that was medium spice.

This might be a stupid complaint, but this book needed a different cover. The bride was a white girl with auburn/red hair. She looked tanned on this cover or almost Indian like her fiance. The bridesmaids to lovers were a woman with short brown hair and a woman with flowy long blonde, not red hair. The other bridesmaid had dark hair. I think the cover might have been commissioned when an earlier draft of the story described the women differently. It kept taking me out of the story when the women were described in ways that didn't match the book cover. I know, I'm weird.

[transbookoftheday]

To Be A Girl by Alexandra Hamer

In 1874, at the age of four-and-a-half, Thomas Stanton realises that ‘Thomas’ is a boy’s name and that everyone, even her mother, thinks she’s a boy.

So begins the extraordinary journey of a transgender girl who must not only try to understand what it means to be a girl inside the body of a boy, a century before there was even a name for it, but she must soon find some way to change her body before the horror of puberty casts her as a man forever.

This is one girl’s breathtaking fight to survive as herself, and to be loved for who she is.

[graphicpolicy]

Beloved anthology Monsters In Love turns romance comics on their ogre-sized head with 10 swoon-worthy stories by fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ creators #comics #comicbooks #lgbt #lgbtqai https://graphicpolicy.com/2026/06/10/preview-monsters-in-love-a-pride-anthology/

Preview: Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology

[afemmesarchive]

🌈 happy pride!!! 💐 these are all the books i posted on my book ig [x] on june 1st!

sapphic & trans books are sooooo important for representation, knowledge, comfort and are always necessary reads! if you're not picking up these kinds of books On The Regular, what are you doing ???? get it together pleaseeee

to help get you started or help you find some more niche + diverse books/recent releases, here are the books i hope to read this month!!

read more sapphic & trans today and always ⭐️

[fancysmudges]

"Welcome to the Lillian Hotel. Where the service is hands-on"

cover illustration/design for Checked Out by Kellen Tucker!

[franticvampirereads]

This was so much fun! Blaise and Royal are absolute menaces in the best way possible. Their enthusiasm for all things nerdy and dinosaur was so infectious and fun and made this book an absolute joy to read! I loved that Blaise was a dino themed drag queen and that got to use his drag persona as a disguise. It was also really fun that he also got to put Royal, Dalton, and Simon in drag too! I loved it! I keep saying it, but this book was just so much fun and it had me giggling and laughing my ass off on more than one occasion. Royal and Blaise were just so sweet together and I loved that they bonded over TMNT and nerding out over dinosaurs and fossils. King & Queen is getting five stars!

2026 Reading Challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: K & Q

[dkafterdark]

Pride Reads 2026, Day 9: Under the Surface by N. R. Walker

Set in Australia! Detective Douglas Sawyer has an unexplainable experience while on the job, something that could be paranormal. When he refuses to lie about the experience, he is asked to report to a remote fishing village and investigate the area and its inhabitants. What he finds is a tiny town and a handful of gorgeous men, especially Ciaran Brenner, the unfriendly owner of an antiques shop. But Ciaran and the men are more than they seem, and something odd is happening in Tenebrae Cove...

Two words: OCTOPI SHIFTERS!! I loved it! I really enjoyed the setting, the fish out of water vibes, the mystery, and the romance. Get ready for tentacle porn 🐙

[lemme-read-yuri]

The Jinn's Bargain really got

- an emotionally repressed lesbian

- an annoying but lovable lesbian

- grumpy x sunshine lesbians

- lesbians with a height difference (6 ft vs 5’4 smthng)

and is inspired by Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, and Persian folklore.

go read it rn

[profiterole-reads]

I've just added it to my TBR! <3

[monomatica]

Type Maps for The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher 🖤

A portrait of Briar Jones in his tartan blazer and a portrait of Bastian Wolfe wearing his cloak. This book is so good and is out today! One of my favorites this year.

[actuallesbiansreddit]

The Girl Who Bit Me finally has an audiobook omg

Just saw this on Valerie Hunter’s insta!!

I already read the book on kindle unlimited and it changed my life lol, but I’m picking up the audiobook now too just to support the author / listen again before the sequel drops next month (and because I have so many audible credits that are just sitting there so why not). I saw a lot of people here asking about an audiobook for this one, so thought I’d share this. It seems to unfortunately be audible exclusive right now? I’m not sure if that’s temporary or if its permanent, but I couldn’t find it anywhere else. She only mentions audible in her post.

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Originally shared by Noonda on r/LesbianBookClub on June 9th, 2026 at 6:44 PM UTC.

[katmajik]

₊⁺☀︎₊⁺⋆✮ 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋 ✮₊⁺☀︎₊⁺⋆

💜 illustration by: @itsdancingquen

🩷 design by: @redbelles

(both artists are open for commissions!)

WHAT’S YOUR VIBE?: an adult store slice-of-life romcom

coming june 2026 (release date TBA)

(bct under the cut)

ᴡʜᴀᴛ’ꜱ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴀᴛ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ꜱɪɢʜᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴄʀɪꜱɪꜱ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟ ɪᴅᴇɴᴛɪᴛʏ?

Milo Lamoree is livin’ the glamorous life of a sex shop sales rep, forever explaining to grown adults what they should and should not be sticking inside of themselves and/or others. He’s not doing any sticking himself—his demisexuality hasn’t exactly enticed any “hot young singles in your area.” Considering his clientele’s wackadoo misconceptions about anatomy, etc., it’s not like Milo has the leftover energy to fall in love, anyway.

…Well, too bad.

Stevie Hart has heard it said that being bisexual means you have more options, meanwhile she’s experienced that not at all. Her love life is all unsolicited—ahem—pics (you know the ones) and straight couples looking for an experimental third. No thanks. When you’re already managing your own agoraphobia, who has time to deal with whatever’s going on with those people? Falling in love isn’t worth the mess.

…Until it is.

Along with their meddling mutual friends, Possibly The Worst Ex In The World, and a totally bangin’ soundtrack, Stevie and Milo hit every major identity crisis (sexual, spiritual, existential, you get it) on their way to finding each other—and themselves.

(And if they happen to also find the best title of an adult film while they’re at it? That’s just the rainbow sprinkles on top.)

𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧’𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚-𝙤𝙛-𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚, 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙭 𝙩𝙤𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚/𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨—𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙛𝙛 𝙪𝙥.

[amysbooksnthings]

romance book recs for PRIDE

Happy Pride Month! Add these romance books to your TBR and read queer all year

[vqueerbooks]

You're Ours by D.C. Emerson

I wanted to like this book. Sadly, I did not. The book drags, and that says something when it’s only around 100 pages. It also tries to do too much. There is a trans character that doesn’t get the focus it should, and there is an aromantic character that doesn’t get the focus it maybe should. The conflicts are shallow as hell; the ‘major fight’ seems constructed and left me shaking my head. The characters seem strangely flat and interchangeable.

So what is this about? Tyler and Jackson work at the same company and are ‘work husbands.’ One day Tyler ends up at Jackson’s place, and he and his real husband, Sky, proposition him. He says yes, and they start fucking, but Sky and Jackson want more.

This is, I guess, where the conflict should come in, as Tyler never felt love for anyone ‘that way,’ and all his previous partners left him because of that.

There is a lot of exposition in this one; constantly we’re told things that happened somewhere off-page, and there is not a lot of dialogue. Also, in my opinion, there are too many side characters. It feels very crowded and like they’re there so the story has some meat on the bones, because the romance isn’t enough to keep the book interesting. Frankly, this one bored me, but it was only 100 pages, so I finished it.

Would I recommend it? No, I don’t think so. I’ve tried two other stories by the author, and while the short story was fine, the longer one had the same problem of nothing really happening and too much exposition, and honestly, it feels like the author is on a mission to lecture the reader about all the queer identities that are out there. And I am not interested in that when I want to get lost in a romance.