#m/f books

[the-bi-library]

HAPPY BI VISIBILITY MONTH!!! 🩷💜💙

I wish all bi folks a very pleasant bi month!

Here are bi books of September!

Books listed:

💕 This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin 💕 In the Ring by Sierra Isley 💕 Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson 💕 The Darkest Stars (The Broken Stars #2) by Kristy Gardner 💕Daughter of Winter and Twilight (Queen of Coin and Whispers #2) by Helen Corcoran 💕 Time to Shine by Rachel Reid 💕 Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson 💕 Fly with Me by Andie Burke 💕 Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni 💕 A Crown So Cursed (Nightmare-Verse, #3) by L.L. McKinney 💕 This Dark Descent (This Dark Descent, #1) by Kalyn Josephson 💕 Providence Girls by Morgan Dante 💕 Wolf, Willow, Witch (The Gideon Testaments #2) by Freydís Moon 💕 What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell 💕 Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz 💕 Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones 💕You, Again by Kate Goldbeck 💕 Double Exposure: A F/NBi Enemies to Lovers Romantic Suspense by Rien Gray 💕 The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2) by Megan E. O'Keefe 💕 Cover Story by Valerie Gomez 💕 The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 💕 The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu 💕 Better Left Unsaid by Tufayel Ahmed 💕 Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine 💕 A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor 💕 Salt Kiss (Lyonesse, #1) by Sierra Simone 💕 The Amazing Alpha Tau Boyfriend Project (Alpha Tau, #1) by Lisa Henry

Make sure to check the TWs for all books if necessary 💕

Here is the goodreads list of these books

[free-queer-books]

Queer Enough Book Blast - June 27th, 2025

A one-day book blast featuring M/F (or M/F-perceived) books with queer protagonists! I missed this event earlier today, so I'll reblog with the books sorted by representation once the list is complete.

[where-is-the-angst]

how the fuck do the riordanverse characters remember the prophecies after hearing them once

[tremendously-crazy]

does anyone else immediately lose interest in a book when there's a romantic subplot or is that just me

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

F/M Couples S2

Round 2

Cordelia and Aral :

"I love a married couple who love and support each other!"

Vimes and Sybil :

"She raises dragons; he sets traps for assassins and always arrives home in time to read to his son. What's not to love?"

[aroaessidhe]

asexual books: m/m YA

Don’t Let The Forest In - ace mlm MC

Wren Martin Ruins It All - ace mlm MC

A Song of Salvation - 2/3 MCs are mlm and demi

The Spy With The Red Balloon - 1/2 MC is gay & demi

The Witch King - love interest is demi (ace girl SC too)

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books

[ospreyarcher]

SALE SALE SALE

Time for my annual birthday sale! This year, I couldn't decide what to put on sale, so I put ALL my books on sale.

[constraintsonthebrain]

murdock, who has never been to kansas city,

[ambivalent-amphibian]

ended up in booktok like-

please stop with these "modern retellings"; they're more unoriginal, disrespectful to the source, and even more and tone-deaf than disney live action remakes, and that's saying something.

*puts these stories and the ETL trope away until they learn what it actually entails and they can finally tell the difference between ab*se and a mutual rivalry that could really evolve into understanding and love -or even a safe, sane and consensual sexual relationship*

[nellasbookplanet]

I recently started reading (and ended up dropping partway through) an m/m retelling of an old legend, and it made me think of this reoccurring thing I've come across a handful of times now in m/m fiction and how they approach women, equality, and world-building.

Let's call it the omegaverse problem, because that's where it seems the most blatant (I've only come across it twice outside of fandom spaces that I can remember). Basically, it's when the writer looks at the unequal and sometimes oppressive roles women serve in society (today and historically), and goes 'this is a good basis for dark romance but there are too many women here' and then just. plops men into the roles traditionally served by women and recreates heteronormative tropes but They're All Men Now, none of those icky women.

Now, completely removing any and all gender based inequality isn't a bad basis for a queer-inclusive fantasy! But thing is, this type of narrative isn't interested in women, so they often read as if women have mysteriously disappeared from society (except for the occassional mom or sister). They don’t bother to include women in traditionally male areas (the book I dropped had plenty of male courtesans, with diplomats and bodyguards and advisors also being male) nor to create new roles for them.

They also generally don’t bother to look critically at the systemic and societal inequalities they're mimicking. The concept 'typically sexist society but they're all men (or all women)' could be used to alienate and deconstruct our ideas of what’s 'normal' and what’s oppressive, a way to compare the intersections of class and gender. Instead, this kind of story is only interested in using inequality as inter-character conflict and set-up for romance. And it sucks.

[the-bi-library]

Bi aspec books!

Books listed: 💕 Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann 💕 The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl 💕 Thaw by Elyse Springer 💕 The Last 8 by Laura Pohl 💕 Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun 💕 Cupid Calling by Viano Oniomoh 💕 A Dance of Water and Air by Antonia Aquilante 💕 Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault 💕 Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland 💕 The Painted Crown by Megan Derr 💕 Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thorn 💕 Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller 💕 The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow 💕 Birthright by M.A. Vice 💕 Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver 💕 Baptism of Fire by Jessie Thomas 💕 Lost Names by A.N. Mouse 💕 Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Here is the goodreads list of these books.

[free-queer-books]

April 15th-20th: Indie Author Central Stuff for Kindle: Fantastical Escape

A book blast featuring free and discounted fantasy ebooks!

Free books with queer representation include:

Bisexual characters

The Last Incarnation of Mairi Fable by Wendolyn Baird (Amazon)

F/F

The Unicorn Herd by Arizona Tape (multiple stores)

M/F

The Last Incarnation of Mairi Fable by Wendolyn Baird (Amazon)

Polyamory

Deviant by Tierney Storner - polyamory with MM (Amazon)

The Dragons of Rancho Mirage by David Gray - MMM (Amazon)

The Fifth Horseman by Freida Kilmari - polyamory with MM, FF, and MMF (Amazon)

Hers to Rule by Coral Alejandra Moore - MMF with MM (multiple stores)

Trans and nonbinary characters

The Dragons of Rancho Mirage by David Gray - trans man (Amazon)

The Fifth Horseman by Freida Kilmari - genderfluid protagonist (Amazon)

[realkaijuhavecurves]

I love them your honour

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

F/M Couples

Round 3

[aroaessidhe]

I feel like almost every adult contemporary romance that I read (mostly tradpub since it's a genre I prefer to listen to, audio availability etc) with an ace MC has them grey/demisexual/sex-favourable with numerous sex scenes and..... I have no problem with that in any individual book, obviously, but like, looking at things as a whole it really feels disproportionate to the broad spectrum of asexuality? I feel like there's a certain intent of 'going against ace stereotypes by showing that some aces still have sex!' but in this specific space it's just kinda all going in the same direction and like. there's a bit of a lack of the other side of the spectrum, actually. how much of it is just catering to what's expected in the romance genre?

anyway can anyone remind me of contemporary adult ace romances where the ace characters are sex repulsed and/or they don't sleep with their love interests?

off the top of my head I have like..... ace of hearts, life underwater, let's talk about love (?), a milky way home(??), love in all the haunted places (not repulsed but no sex in the book, and it is also a bit paranormal)......that's perhaps it, for books that I thought weren't bad?

(to be clear also: I myself am not sex-repulsed and I don't mind/enjoy reading sex scenes! it just feels like every ace romance I've read in the last few years is like this. i want variety)

[dannydoteggg]

at the start of book 4 the MC has four options: