50 Books like The Companion

Disappoint Me

by Nicola Dinan

A trans poet resolves not to die alone. Her new boyfriend's past makes her question it.

3.97

9k+

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Protagonist 🤍 Trans Body 🗝️ Buried Secret 💔 Choosing To Stay 🫂 Chosen Family

Disappoint Me 90%

A trans poet resolves not to die alone. Her new boyfriend's past makes her question it.

by Nicola Dinan 2025

3.97

9k+ ratings

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Protagonist 🤍 Trans Body 🗝️ Buried Secret 💔 Choosing To Stay 🫂 Chosen Family

A Lady for All Seasons

by T.J. Alexander • 2026

She weds a tailor to survive, but a genderfluid poet threatens her scheme and her heart.

3.88

1k+

🎩 Queer Regency Romance 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Historical 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🎭 Secret Identity 🏡 Found Family

A Lady for All Seasons 93%

She weds a tailor to survive, but a genderfluid poet threatens her scheme and her heart.

by T.J. Alexander 2026

3.88

1k+ ratings

🎩 Queer Regency Romance 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Historical 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🎭 Secret Identity 🏡 Found Family

Peaches & Honey

by R. Raeta • 2023

A burned witch rises immortal, saved by a shapeshifting god whose love defies the creator.

4.24

14k+

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🌿 Healer Protagonist 📜 Witness To History 🎭 Hidden Identity

Peaches & Honey 92%

A burned witch rises immortal, saved by a shapeshifting god whose love defies the creator.

by R. Raeta 2023

4.24

14k+ ratings

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🌿 Healer Protagonist 📜 Witness To History 🎭 Hidden Identity

We Could Be So Good

by Cat Sebastian • 2023

A guarded reporter and his boss's gentle son risk everything for love in 1950s New York.

4.26

21k+

🕯️ Slow-Burn Romance ☀️ Grumpy Meets Sunshine 🏠 Found Family 📰 Workplace Romance 🗽 1950s New York

We Could Be So Good 91%

A guarded reporter and his boss's gentle son risk everything for love in 1950s New York.

by Cat Sebastian 2023

4.26

21k+ ratings

🕯️ Slow-Burn Romance ☀️ Grumpy Meets Sunshine 🏠 Found Family 📰 Workplace Romance 🗽 1950s New York

Hild

by Nicola Griffith • 2013

In Anglo-Saxon England, a girl sees the patterns others miss. The king calls it prophecy.

3.85

13k+

🌿 Anglo-Saxon England 👑 Court Intrigue 🖤 Sapphic Love 📜 Lyrical Historical 🔮 Seer Protagonist

Hild 91%

In Anglo-Saxon England, a girl sees the patterns others miss. The king calls it prophecy.

by Nicola Griffith 2013

3.85

13k+ ratings

🌿 Anglo-Saxon England 👑 Court Intrigue 🖤 Sapphic Love 📜 Lyrical Historical 🔮 Seer Protagonist

Woodworking

by Emily St. James • 2025

A closeted trans teacher in South Dakota meets a defiant trans teen. Hiding can't last.

4.23

16k+

📖 Trans Literary Fiction 🏠 Chosen Family 🏡 Small-Town America 🧵 Unlikely Mentorship 💔 Bittersweet Ending

Woodworking 91%

A closeted trans teacher in South Dakota meets a defiant trans teen. Hiding can't last.

by Emily St. James 2025

4.23

16k+ ratings

📖 Trans Literary Fiction 🏠 Chosen Family 🏡 Small-Town America 🧵 Unlikely Mentorship 💔 Bittersweet Ending

Courageous Hearts

by Emmy Sanders • 2023

A cabaret bartender falls for its nonbinary star and must rethink everything he believed about love.

4.36

2k+

🫂 Found Family 🌈 Queer Awakening ✨ Nonbinary Protagonist 🧲 Opposites Attract 🔥 Tender Slow Burn

Courageous Hearts 91%

A cabaret bartender falls for its nonbinary star and must rethink everything he believed about love.

by Emmy Sanders 2023

4.36

2k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 🌈 Queer Awakening ✨ Nonbinary Protagonist 🧲 Opposites Attract 🔥 Tender Slow Burn

The Binding

by Bridget Collins • 2019

Apprenticed to a binder of memories, a farm boy finds the book holding his lost love.

3.85

89k+

🔮 Memory Magic 🕰️ Alternate Victorian 💭 Erased Memories 🖤 Gothic Romance ⚖️ Class Divide

The Binding 91%

Apprenticed to a binder of memories, a farm boy finds the book holding his lost love.

by Bridget Collins 2019

3.85

89k+ ratings

🔮 Memory Magic 🕰️ Alternate Victorian 💭 Erased Memories 🖤 Gothic Romance ⚖️ Class Divide

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

by Rachael Lippincott • 2023

A magical coin flings an artist into 1812, where a repressed heiress becomes her forbidden muse.

3.94

12k+

✨ Time Travel Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance 🎩 Regency Era 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Forbidden Love

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh Summary

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh 90%

A magical coin flings an artist into 1812, where a repressed heiress becomes her forbidden muse.

by Rachael Lippincott 2023

3.94

12k+ ratings

✨ Time Travel Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Romance 🎩 Regency Era 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Forbidden Love

Tell It to the Bees

by Fiona Shaw • 2009

Through a boy's bees, his mother falls for a woman doctor, scandalizing a small postwar town.

4.10

4k+

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💌 Clandestine Love 🐝 Beekeeping Metaphor ⚖️ Custody Battle 🏡 Small Town Scandal

Tell It to the Bees 90%

Through a boy's bees, his mother falls for a woman doctor, scandalizing a small postwar town.

by Fiona Shaw 2009

4.10

4k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💌 Clandestine Love 🐝 Beekeeping Metaphor ⚖️ Custody Battle 🏡 Small Town Scandal

The Honey Witch

by Sydney J. Shields • 2024

Her honey magic heals the land. Its price: she can never love. A skeptic moves in.

3.54

29k+

🏡 Cottagecore Fantasy 💔 Cursed Love 🐝 Nature Magic ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌿 Pastoral Fantasy

The Honey Witch 90%

Her honey magic heals the land. Its price: she can never love. A skeptic moves in.

by Sydney J. Shields 2024

3.54

29k+ ratings

🏡 Cottagecore Fantasy 💔 Cursed Love 🐝 Nature Magic ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌿 Pastoral Fantasy

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

by Beth Brower • 2019

Banished to her own attic, a penniless heiress keeps a journal her scheming cousin should fear.

4.05

69k+

📖 Epistolary Novel 💪 Plucky Heroine ⚖️ Inheritance Battle 🫖 Cozy Historical 🕯️ Gothic Undertones

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Summary

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion 91%

Banished to her own attic, a penniless heiress keeps a journal her scheming cousin should fear.

by Beth Brower 2019

4.05

69k+ ratings

📖 Epistolary Novel 💪 Plucky Heroine ⚖️ Inheritance Battle 🫖 Cozy Historical 🕯️ Gothic Undertones

Human, Animal

by Seth Insua • 2025

A genderqueer child's coming out fractures a dairy farming family under siege from activists.

4.07

345

📜 Generational Saga 🦋 Coming Out 🔐 Family Secrets ⚧️ Genderqueer Identity 💌 Forbidden Wartime Love

Human, Animal 91%

A genderqueer child's coming out fractures a dairy farming family under siege from activists.

by Seth Insua 2025

4.07

345 ratings

📜 Generational Saga 🦋 Coming Out 🔐 Family Secrets ⚧️ Genderqueer Identity 💌 Forbidden Wartime Love

Finding Flora

by Elinor Florence

A fugitive wife stakes a prairie homestead while her husband and a corrupt inspector close in.

4.21

8k+

🌻 Women Homesteaders 🌾 Prairie Frontier 🏠 Found Family 🏃‍♀️ Escaping Abuse 💕 Slow Burn Romance

Finding Flora 90%

A fugitive wife stakes a prairie homestead while her husband and a corrupt inspector close in.

by Elinor Florence 2025

4.21

8k+ ratings

🌻 Women Homesteaders 🌾 Prairie Frontier 🏠 Found Family 🏃‍♀️ Escaping Abuse 💕 Slow Burn Romance

In the Wilds of Derbyshire

by Jann Rowland • 2017

Cut off from her sister, Elizabeth Bennet seeks solace in Derbyshire and discovers an unlikely love.

4.10

693

📖 Austen Variation 🕯️ Slow-Burn Courtship 💕 Sister Reconciliation 👯 Female Friendship 🌿 Derbyshire Countryside

In the Wilds of Derbyshire 90%

Cut off from her sister, Elizabeth Bennet seeks solace in Derbyshire and discovers an unlikely love.

by Jann Rowland 2017

4.10

693 ratings

📖 Austen Variation 🕯️ Slow-Burn Courtship 💕 Sister Reconciliation 👯 Female Friendship 🌿 Derbyshire Countryside

Still Life

by Sarah Winman • 2021

A Londoner inherits a flat in Florence and gathers the lonely souls who become his family.

4.15

97k+

🤲 Found Family 🍷 Postwar Italy 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Community 💕 Queer Love Story 🕰️ Intergenerational Bonds

Still Life 90%

A Londoner inherits a flat in Florence and gathers the lonely souls who become his family.

by Sarah Winman 2021

4.15

97k+ ratings

🤲 Found Family 🍷 Postwar Italy 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Community 💕 Queer Love Story 🕰️ Intergenerational Bonds

Maurice

by E.M. Forster • 1971

After his first love marries, an Edwardian gentleman finds a second chance with a bold gamekeeper.

4.08

60k+

🏰 Edwardian England 📚 Queer Classic 🌱 Gay Coming Of Age 💔 Cross Class Romance 🤝 Platonic To Romantic

Maurice 90%

After his first love marries, an Edwardian gentleman finds a second chance with a bold gamekeeper.

by E.M. Forster 1971

4.08

60k+ ratings

🏰 Edwardian England 📚 Queer Classic 🌱 Gay Coming Of Age 💔 Cross Class Romance 🤝 Platonic To Romantic

That Green Eyed Girl

by Julie Owen Moylan • 2022

Decades-old letters pull a teen into the forbidden romance that shattered in her New York apartment.

3.87

2k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Sapphic Historical 💔 Forbidden Love 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 🌫️ Quiet Grief

That Green Eyed Girl 90%

Decades-old letters pull a teen into the forbidden romance that shattered in her New York apartment.

by Julie Owen Moylan 2022

3.87

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Sapphic Historical 💔 Forbidden Love 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 🌫️ Quiet Grief

Some Strange Music Draws Me In

by Griffin Hansbury • 2024

A girl's crush on a trans woman ends in arson, a lie that follows her into manhood.

4.40

1k+

🦋 Trans Coming Of Age 🏚️ Small-Town Queerphobia 💔 Survivor Guilt 🔁 Generational Trauma 📼 1980s Nostalgia

Some Strange Music Draws Me In 90%

A girl's crush on a trans woman ends in arson, a lie that follows her into manhood.

by Griffin Hansbury 2024

4.40

1k+ ratings

🦋 Trans Coming Of Age 🏚️ Small-Town Queerphobia 💔 Survivor Guilt 🔁 Generational Trauma 📼 1980s Nostalgia

Silver in the Wood

by Emily Tesh • 2019

An ancient forest guardian falls for a folklore scholar, but the equinox stirs a hungry spirit.

3.98

24k+

🌳 Mythic Woodland 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🌙 Lyrical Fantasy ⏳ Immortal Protagonist 👻 Folk Horror

Silver in the Wood 90%

An ancient forest guardian falls for a folklore scholar, but the equinox stirs a hungry spirit.

by Emily Tesh 2019

3.98

24k+ ratings

🌳 Mythic Woodland 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🌙 Lyrical Fantasy ⏳ Immortal Protagonist 👻 Folk Horror

The Inverts

by Crystal Jeans • 2021

Childhood friends, both queer, seal a marriage pact in the 1920s that will cost them everything.

3.22

864

📜 Queer Historical Fiction 💍 Lavender Marriage 🌸 Sapphic Awakening 🤝 Platonic Soulmates 🖤 Dark Humor

The Inverts 90%

Childhood friends, both queer, seal a marriage pact in the 1920s that will cost them everything.

by Crystal Jeans 2021

3.22

864 ratings

📜 Queer Historical Fiction 💍 Lavender Marriage 🌸 Sapphic Awakening 🤝 Platonic Soulmates 🖤 Dark Humor

Now Is the Hour

by Tom Spanbauer • 2006

A queer farm boy in 1960s Idaho hunts for one color worth believing in.

4.14

1k+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤲 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 💑 Interracial Romance ⛪ Catholic Guilt

Now Is the Hour 90%

A queer farm boy in 1960s Idaho hunts for one color worth believing in.

by Tom Spanbauer 2006

4.14

1k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤲 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 💑 Interracial Romance ⛪ Catholic Guilt

Where the Wildflowers Grow

by Terah Shelton Harris

An escaped convict hides on a flower farm, where loving the farmer risks her stolen freedom.

4.17

20k+

🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Trauma Survivor Heroine 🎭 Hidden Identity 🕊️ Sacrificial Love

Where the Wildflowers Grow 90%

An escaped convict hides on a flower farm, where loving the farmer risks her stolen freedom.

by Terah Shelton Harris 2026

4.17

20k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Trauma Survivor Heroine 🎭 Hidden Identity 🕊️ Sacrificial Love

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

by Emma R. Alban • 2024

In Victorian London, a debutante dreads marrying a lord after she falls for an ungovernable heiress.

3.76

22k+

👑 Victorian Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 👩‍❤️‍👩 Sapphic Romance 💌 Secret Relationship 🔄 Second Chance Romance

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend Summary

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend 91%

In Victorian London, a debutante dreads marrying a lord after she falls for an ungovernable heiress.

by Emma R. Alban 2024

3.76

22k+ ratings

👑 Victorian Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 👩‍❤️‍👩 Sapphic Romance 💌 Secret Relationship 🔄 Second Chance Romance

A Rulebook for Restless Rogues

by Jess Everlee • 2023

Two childhood friends running a Victorian molly house face a raid and their unspoken love.

3.75

1k+

🖤 Gay Historical Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 🕰️ Second Chance Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

A Rulebook for Restless Rogues 91%

Two childhood friends running a Victorian molly house face a raid and their unspoken love.

by Jess Everlee 2023

3.75

1k+ ratings

🖤 Gay Historical Romance 💛 Friends To Lovers 🕰️ Second Chance Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Saints of Swallow Hill

by Donna Everhart • 2022

Disguised as a man, a fugitive enters a turpentine camp where the sun is a coffin.

4.10

41k+

🌾 Depression-Era South 🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 😢 Mercy Killing 🏡 Found Family

The Saints of Swallow Hill 90%

Disguised as a man, a fugitive enters a turpentine camp where the sun is a coffin.

by Donna Everhart 2022

4.10

41k+ ratings

🌾 Depression-Era South 🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 😢 Mercy Killing 🏡 Found Family

Magic in the Moonlight

by Auryn Hadley • 2022

She inherits a witch's cottage, a wounded forest, and two contractors who are already a couple.

4.25

1k+

🌿 Cozy Witch Fantasy 💕 Polyamorous Romance 🏠 Found Family 🦨 Animal Familiars 🌲 Enchanted Forest

Magic in the Moonlight 90%

She inherits a witch's cottage, a wounded forest, and two contractors who are already a couple.

by Auryn Hadley 2022

4.25

1k+ ratings

🌿 Cozy Witch Fantasy 💕 Polyamorous Romance 🏠 Found Family 🦨 Animal Familiars 🌲 Enchanted Forest

The Texan's Wager

by Jodi Thomas • 2002

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

3.88

8k+

🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Texan's Wager 90%

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

by Jodi Thomas 2002

3.88

8k+ ratings

🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

People Watching

by Hannah Bonam-Young • 2025

An artist who never stays returns to his small town, tangling with a poet who can't leave.

3.54

31k+

🏡 Small-Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn ☀️ Grumpy/Sunshine 👪 Found Family 🌸 Sexual Awakening

People Watching 90%

An artist who never stays returns to his small town, tangling with a poet who can't leave.

by Hannah Bonam-Young 2025

3.54

31k+ ratings

🏡 Small-Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn ☀️ Grumpy/Sunshine 👪 Found Family 🌸 Sexual Awakening

The Curse of Penryth Hall

by Jess Armstrong • 2023

An exile delivers books to a cursed Cornish manor and finds her lost love's husband dead.

3.58

7k+

🏚️ Postwar Gothic 🌿 Folk Horror Mystery 💔 Forbidden Queer Love 🤫 Village Secrets ⛓️ Abusive Marriage

The Curse of Penryth Hall 90%

An exile delivers books to a cursed Cornish manor and finds her lost love's husband dead.

by Jess Armstrong 2023

3.58

7k+ ratings

🏚️ Postwar Gothic 🌿 Folk Horror Mystery 💔 Forbidden Queer Love 🤫 Village Secrets ⛓️ Abusive Marriage

Curses & Cocktails

by S.L. Rowland • 2023

A blood mage opens a seaside bar, trading destruction for his father's recipes, community, and love.

4.15

6k+

🍂 Cozy Fantasy ⚔️ Retired Warrior 🫂 Found Family 💕 Slow Burn Romance 🩹 Hurt/Comfort

Curses & Cocktails 90%

A blood mage opens a seaside bar, trading destruction for his father's recipes, community, and love.

by S.L. Rowland 2023

4.15

6k+ ratings

🍂 Cozy Fantasy ⚔️ Retired Warrior 🫂 Found Family 💕 Slow Burn Romance 🩹 Hurt/Comfort

A Duke in Disguise

by Cat Sebastian • 2019

A radical bookseller's guarded heart is tested when her engraver best friend discovers he is a duke.

3.77

2k+

🧵 Working Class Heroine 💜 Bisexual Heroine 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Scarred Hero

A Duke in Disguise 91%

A radical bookseller's guarded heart is tested when her engraver best friend discovers he is a duke.

by Cat Sebastian 2019

3.77

2k+ ratings

🧵 Working Class Heroine 💜 Bisexual Heroine 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Scarred Hero

Unbreak Me

by Jesse H. Reign • 2022

A young Englishman in crisis falls for the quiet South African farmer who takes him in.

4.44

2k+

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💔 Second Chance Love 🏠 Forced Proximity 🩹 Hurt Comfort 🐑 Farm Romance

Unbreak Me 91%

A young Englishman in crisis falls for the quiet South African farmer who takes him in.

by Jesse H. Reign 2022

4.44

2k+ ratings

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💔 Second Chance Love 🏠 Forced Proximity 🩹 Hurt Comfort 🐑 Farm Romance

Fingersmith

by Sarah Waters

A pickpocket poses as a lady's maid to help swindle an heiress, then falls for her.

4.02

120k+

🕯️ Victorian Gothic 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forbidden Love 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🃏 Con Artists

Fingersmith 90%

A pickpocket poses as a lady's maid to help swindle an heiress, then falls for her.

by Sarah Waters 2002

4.02

120k+ ratings

🕯️ Victorian Gothic 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forbidden Love 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🃏 Con Artists

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

by Foz Meadows • 2022

A shattered nobleman is forced to wed a warrior prince whose family hides a killer.

4.01

12k+

🏛️ Arranged Marriage 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Trauma Healing 🩹 Hurt/Comfort 🗡️ Political Intrigue

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance Summary

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance 90%

A shattered nobleman is forced to wed a warrior prince whose family hides a killer.

by Foz Meadows 2022

4.01

12k+ ratings

🏛️ Arranged Marriage 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Trauma Healing 🩹 Hurt/Comfort 🗡️ Political Intrigue

The Thirty Names of Night

by Zeyn Joukhadar • 2020

A Syrian American trans man follows a ghost bird and a hidden diary toward becoming himself.

4.01

5k+

🦋 Trans Self-Discovery 📜 Hidden Queer History 🫂 Chosen Family 🌍 Arab American Lives 🎨 Art And Healing

The Thirty Names of Night 90%

A Syrian American trans man follows a ghost bird and a hidden diary toward becoming himself.

by Zeyn Joukhadar 2020

4.01

5k+ ratings

🦋 Trans Self-Discovery 📜 Hidden Queer History 🫂 Chosen Family 🌍 Arab American Lives 🎨 Art And Healing

A Family Matter

by Claire Lynch • 2025

1982: a lesbian mother is stripped of custody. Now, her daughter digs up the buried truth.

3.77

40k+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical Fiction 📜 Generational Saga 💔 Lost Mother 🔍 Family Secrets ❤️‍🩹 Found Family

A Family Matter 90%

1982: a lesbian mother is stripped of custody. Now, her daughter digs up the buried truth.

by Claire Lynch 2025

3.77

40k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical Fiction 📜 Generational Saga 💔 Lost Mother 🔍 Family Secrets ❤️‍🩹 Found Family

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle

by Neil Blackmore • 2020

On the Grand Tour, Benjamin Bowen meets a dazzling rebel who becomes his lover and his undoing.

3.49

2k+

🖤 Tragic Gay Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Sexual Awakening 🎭 Concealed Heritage 🚶 Outsider Protagonist

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle 90%

On the Grand Tour, Benjamin Bowen meets a dazzling rebel who becomes his lover and his undoing.

by Neil Blackmore 2020

3.49

2k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Gay Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Sexual Awakening 🎭 Concealed Heritage 🚶 Outsider Protagonist

Call Me By Your Name

by André Aciman • 2007

For one summer in Italy, a teenager's obsession with the visiting scholar undoes and remakes him.

4.10

605k+

📖 Literary Romance 🌈 Queer Coming-Of-Age ☀️ Summer Romance ⏳ Age Gap 🔥 Slow Burn

Call Me By Your Name 90%

For one summer in Italy, a teenager's obsession with the visiting scholar undoes and remakes him.

by André Aciman 2007

4.10

605k+ ratings

📖 Literary Romance 🌈 Queer Coming-Of-Age ☀️ Summer Romance ⏳ Age Gap 🔥 Slow Burn

Better Than Expected

by Haley Cass • 2022

Escaping a controlling marriage, a single mother falls for the one woman her ex-husband despises.

4.17

9k+

🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👯‍♀️ Friends To Lovers ❤️‍🩹 Healing From Abuse 👩‍👧 Single Parent 🌈 Coming Out Later In Life

Better Than Expected 90%

Escaping a controlling marriage, a single mother falls for the one woman her ex-husband despises.

by Haley Cass 2022

4.17

9k+ ratings

🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👯‍♀️ Friends To Lovers ❤️‍🩹 Healing From Abuse 👩‍👧 Single Parent 🌈 Coming Out Later In Life

Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Two women astronauts hide a love that could ground them forever in the 1980s space program.

4.32

967k+

💕 Sapphic Romance 🚪 Closeted Love 🔬 Women In Stem 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Atmosphere 90%

Two women astronauts hide a love that could ground them forever in the 1980s space program.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2025

4.32

967k+ ratings

💕 Sapphic Romance 🚪 Closeted Love 🔬 Women In Stem 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

by Sarah Waters • 2006

In postwar London, queer citizens carry forbidden loves and the weight of wartime secrets.

3.71

33k+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical 💔 Forbidden Love ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Recovery 🤝 Found Family 🇬🇧 Postwar Britain

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters 91%

In postwar London, queer citizens carry forbidden loves and the weight of wartime secrets.

by Sarah Waters 2006

3.71

33k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical 💔 Forbidden Love ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Recovery 🤝 Found Family 🇬🇧 Postwar Britain

Spells in the Summertime

by Auryn Hadley • 2023

She inherits wild magic, two boyfriends, and a coven that kills to own her forest.

4.51

852

🏠 Found Family 💕 Polyamorous Romance 🌿 Nature Magic 🔮 Reluctant Witch 🏘️ Small Town Witch

Spells in the Summertime 91%

She inherits wild magic, two boyfriends, and a coven that kills to own her forest.

by Auryn Hadley 2023

4.51

852 ratings

🏠 Found Family 💕 Polyamorous Romance 🌿 Nature Magic 🔮 Reluctant Witch 🏘️ Small Town Witch

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

by Sangu Mandanna • 2025

An exiled witch's enchanted inn shelters the lost, until a historian arrives with a forbidden spell.

3.93

117k+

🧹 Witchy Romance ✨ Cozy Fantasy 🦊 Magical Inn 💀 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping Summary

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 90%

An exiled witch's enchanted inn shelters the lost, until a historian arrives with a forbidden spell.

by Sangu Mandanna 2025

3.93

117k+ ratings

🧹 Witchy Romance ✨ Cozy Fantasy 🦊 Magical Inn 💀 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

What the Wind Knows

by Amy Harmon • 2019

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

4.36

114k+

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

What the Wind Knows 90%

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

by Amy Harmon 2019

4.36

114k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Without You

by Marley Valentine • 2020

Deacon resented his brother's boyfriend Julian. Then grief left them with only each other.

4.21

14k+

🖤 Grief Romance 💔 Shared Grief 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🌱 Emotional Healing

Without You 90%

Deacon resented his brother's boyfriend Julian. Then grief left them with only each other.

by Marley Valentine 2020

4.21

14k+ ratings

🖤 Grief Romance 💔 Shared Grief 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 🌱 Emotional Healing

When There Was Us

by K.C. Lake • 2024

In 1982, a lonely gas station attendant falls for two best friends who refuse to share.

4.22

134

💕 Polyamorous Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🫂 Found Family ☀️ Summer Romance 📼 1980s Nostalgia

When There Was Us 90%

In 1982, a lonely gas station attendant falls for two best friends who refuse to share.

by K.C. Lake 2024

4.22

134 ratings

💕 Polyamorous Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🫂 Found Family ☀️ Summer Romance 📼 1980s Nostalgia

To Catch a Firefly

by Emmy Sanders • 2024

Childhood best friends: one dreams of leaving Nebraska, the other has loved him since they met.

4.39

24k+

💞 Friends To Lovers 🏡 Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💭 Mutual Pining 🌱 Childhood Friends

To Catch a Firefly 90%

Childhood best friends: one dreams of leaving Nebraska, the other has loved him since they met.

by Emmy Sanders 2024

4.39

24k+ ratings

💞 Friends To Lovers 🏡 Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn 💭 Mutual Pining 🌱 Childhood Friends

Copper Script

by K.J. Charles • 2025

A London detective investigates a graphologist in 1925 and finds a man who reads him perfectly.

4.06

5k+

🔍 Queer Historical Mystery 💕 Allies To Lovers 🚔 Police Corruption ♿ Disabled Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Copper Script 90%

A London detective investigates a graphologist in 1925 and finds a man who reads him perfectly.

by K.J. Charles 2025

4.06

5k+ ratings

🔍 Queer Historical Mystery 💕 Allies To Lovers 🚔 Police Corruption ♿ Disabled Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Rain Before it Falls

by Jonathan Coe • 2007

A dead aunt's cassette tapes trace four generations of abandoned daughters to find a blind cousin.

3.71

8k+

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩‍👩‍👧 Chosen Family 🎙️ Oral History 🏘️ Wartime Evacuation 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Lesbian Love Story

The Rain Before it Falls 90%

A dead aunt's cassette tapes trace four generations of abandoned daughters to find a blind cousin.

by Jonathan Coe 2007

3.71

8k+ ratings

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩‍👩‍👧 Chosen Family 🎙️ Oral History 🏘️ Wartime Evacuation 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Lesbian Love Story

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