This is part two of that really long adult lit rec list I promised you. Part one can be found here, and all the parts will be in this tag (eventually).
You might notice as this list goes on, some genres will have fewer recs. That’s just because there’s not a lot in those genres that I’ve been able to find (as of yet!).
Key:
lesbians & wlw relationships: ☀️
gays & mlm relationships: 🌿
bisexual characters: 💎
trans, genderqueer, non-binary, gnc characters: 🌷
LGBT authors: 🌈
Fantasy
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley 🌿
The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan ☀️🌈
Penhallow Amid Passing Things by Iona Datt Sharma ☀️
Dominion of the Fallen by Aliette De Bodard 🌿🌈
Tensorate by J. Y. Yang 🌷🌈
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan 💎🌈
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson ☀️
The True Queen by Zen Cho ☀️
Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks ☀️🌈
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear ☀️
Science Fiction
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant ☀️🌈
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling ☀️🌈
The Widening Gyre by Michael R. Johnston 🌿
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield ☀️🌈
The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ☀️
Contemporary
Among Other Things I’ve Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney ☀️🌈
Falling into Place by Sheryn Munir ☀️💎🌈
The Layover by Roe Horvat 🌿🌈
Lot by Bryan Washington 🌿🌈
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett 🌷🌈
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren ☀️🌈
Waves by Ingrid Chabbert ☀️🌈
Reverb by Anna Zabo 🌷🌈
I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif ☀️🌈
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn ☀️🌈
Nevada by Imogen Binnie 🌷🌈
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 🌿🌈
The Not Wives by Carley Moore ☀️🌈
A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian ☀️🌷
In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar 🌿🌈
Mystery
The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin ☀️🌈
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall 💎🌈
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 🌿💎
Coming Out Can Be Murder by Renee James 🌷🌈
Payback by Charlotte Mills ☀️
Historical
Band Sinister by K. J. Charles 🌿
The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements ☀️
The Doctor’s Discretion by E. E. Ottoman 🌿🌈
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite ☀️🌈
The Ming Storytellers by Laura Rahme ☀️
Besotted by Melissa Duclos ☀️
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg 🌷🌈
On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl 🌿🌈
Rughum & Najda by Samar Habib ☀️🌈
The Travelers by Regina Porter ☀️
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ☀️💎
Mrs Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan ☀️🌈
Vixen by Rosie Garland ☀️🌈
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai 🌿🌈
Fragile Wings by Rebecca S. Buck ☀️
That’s all for part two! What are some of your favourites?
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