The most popular lesbian books of 2025

Books about lesbian women center their loves and lives. Romance, friendship, family and community run through these novels, memoirs and histories, from stories of hidden love in the past to bright contemporary romcoms. Their heroines love women, and the stories do them justice. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Hungerstone
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Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

2025 · 2026 edition

336 pages

Heap Earth Upon It
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Heap Earth Upon It

Chloe Michelle Howarth

2025 · 2026 edition

288 pages

Mere
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Mere

Danielle Giles

Published 2025

384 pages

Be Gay, Do Crime
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Be Gay, Do Crime

Venita Blackburn, Emily R. Austin, Anna Dorn, Temim Fruchter, Marisa Crane, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Myriam Lacroix, Maame Blue, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Alissa Nutting, Myriam Gurba, Priya Guns, S. J. Sindu, Aurora Mattia, Soula Emmanuel, Sam Cohen

Published 2025

261 pages

The Last Poem
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The Last Poem

Courtney Peppernell

2025 · 2026 edition

400 pages

Tarnished
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Tarnished

Erica Rose Eberhart

Published 2025

296 pages

Dust
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Dust

L. A. Warman

Published 2025

136 pages

The Stand-In
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The Stand-In

Linda Hill

Published 2025

190 pages

The Lamb
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The Lamb

Lucy Rose

Published 2025

336 pages