The Sapphic Squad discussion

does anyone know any good sapphic stories that don't look like sapphic stories?? my parents don't really support my reading sapphic stories :( any ideas?

thank you! :)

- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Girls of Paper and Fire
- Clap When You Land
- We Are Okay
- Wilder Girls
- We Set the Dark on Fire
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
- The Priory of the Orange Tree
- This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Goldie Vance comic series
- Labyrinth Lost
- Radio Silence
- Not My Problem
- Belle Revolte
- My Calamity Jane

I have the same issue and I found that using ebooks is alot easier to hide but if you are looking for an actual book I'd say these books would probably pass the radar:

Hot Dog Girl; Jennifer Dugan
Far from you; Tess Sharpe
She Who Became The Sun; Shelley Parker-Chan
Wilder Girls; Rory Power
Crier's War; Nina Varela
The Midnight Lie; Marie Rutkoski

There's alot more out there these are just a few recs I can think of off the top of my head. I hope you can figure it out with your parents I know it can't be easy

the dark tide
honey girl

you can check the "sapphic" tag on my profile, i have a lot of sapphic books with discreet covers there !! :)

Might have some repeats from other ppl's recs bc these are just some sapphic stories I can think of that I really enjoyed but I think they all have pretty discreet covers
-Priory of the Orange Tree
-This Is How You Lose The Time War
-The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
-Last Night at the Telegraph Club
-The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
-Juliet Takes A Breath (maybe a little queer-coded bc the cover is the back of a woman's head w an undercut, but nothing revealing sapphic relationships)
- Gearbreakers (kinda discreet? Cover has 2 women but it's not overtly sapphic looking)
-One Last Stop (prob less discreet, again it has 2 women but not overtly sapphic)

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, the grimrose girls, the midnight lie, last night at the telegraph club, girl made of stars, when we were magic, the cybernetic tea shop, ironspark, dark tide, on a sunbeam, this poison heart, gideon the ninth, and a lesson in vengeance

Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter - loved this one!

The Next Life by Lise Gold

most of my suggestions have already been said but also Girl, Serpent, Thorn and When We Were Magic :)

thank you guys so much!! this is definitely helpful :)

Found some more:
- She's Too Pretty To Burn
- In the Role of Brie Hutchins...
- The Midnight Lie
- Beyond the Ruby Veil
- Love Is For Losers
- Poison Ivy: Thorns
- Witchy
- Girl Made of Stars
- You Should See Me In a Crown
- The Weight of the Stars
- Six Angry Girls
- This Poison Heart
- The Last True Poets of the Sea
- All the Bad Apples
- The Tea Dragon Society
- The Chosen and the Beautiful
- Paper Girls
- Heavy Vinyl
- The Girls I've Been
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones
- We Are Okay
- The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
- Not Your Problem
- Middletown
- The Bone Spindle
- In the Ravenous Dark
- Girls Made of Snow and Glass
- Reign of the Fallen
- The Athena Protocol

Fingersmith? Jk? But I feel like those who haven't read it don't know how sapphic it is

it's already been said but " sweet and bitter magic" is really really good. other than that, there's " her name in the sky " by Kelly Quindlen ( contemporary, check the TWs), this is how you lose the time war ( SF ), the mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave ( sad ending, check the tws), girl serpent thorn by Melissa Bashardoust !!!! ( it's like really really good, it's fantasy with morally grey characters, inspired by Persian mythology )

the truth about keeping secrets, the jasmine throne, plain bad heroines

again, thank you all so much!! i'm gonna try some of these, see if they don't land me in trouble :)