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SJPL Picks: LGBTQIA+ Romance

From historical to modern, bodice-rippers to slow-burns, these romance novels featuring queer characters will bring a blush to your cheeks. Selected and curated by SJPL librarians.

San José Public Library

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  • Eleanor Pilcher is electric in her witty, funny, and heartfelt women’s fiction debut, following polar opposite best friends Beth and Serena. When demisexual Beth decides she’s done with being a virgin and enlists Serena’s help, her new personal…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — FICTION Pilcher
  • Tatum Ward and Eleanor Chapman lead totally opposite lives. Tatum's never left her Midwestern hometown. She resides in a quaint guest cottage on her parents' property while working part-time as a waitress, where she spends most shifts ignoring her…
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley Romance, 2025 — FICTION Morrisse
  • Alejandro (Han for short) has never been in love. He purposefully keeps his heart at arm's length from anyone who might want it, which he lets his family and friends think is due to commitment-phobia paired with a heavy dose of emotional…
    Book, 2025New York : Forever, 2025. — FICTION Reyes
  • Nicholas "Coal" Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR facade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a…
    Book, 2024New York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — SF/FAN Raasch
  • Elsie Hoffman has been engaged to her college boyfriend for a year and a half. Ginny Holtz has been in love with Elsie for almost a decade and a half. When Elsie discovers her fiancé already planned their wedding and honeymoon as a surprise and…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2025. — FICTION Wilsner
  • Gene Ionescu, a gay trans man in his third year in the minors with the Beaverton Beavers, is a solid shortstop, but he's no one's idea of a major league prospect. He's just happy to be here, though, getting underpaid six months of the year to play…
    Book, 2024New York : The Dial Press, [2024] — FICTION Hoffman
  • When Denzel 'Denz' Carter's workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince his family members that he's capable of commitment, Denz impulsively…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2025. — FICTION Winters
  • Cat Li cares about two things: video games and swoony romances. The former means there hasn't been much of the latter in her (real) life, but when she lands her dream job writing the love storylines for Compass Hollow--the next big thing in…
    Book, 2025New York : Alcove Press, 2025. — FICTION Tai
  • The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FICTION Sebastia
  • A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers running through the woods, rebelling against their conservative small town, and dreaming of escaping. But then an incident the summer before high…
    Book, 2024New York : Atria Paperback, 2024. — FICTION Cochrun
  • Dylan Gallagher’s hot neighbor loathed him from the second he moved in, and causing a flood, falling through the floor, and landing directly onto that same neighbor’s bed probably means that’s unlikely to change. The poorly timed “It’s Raining Men”…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2024. — FICTION Burke
  • Bobby Mason is sick of being second best: born the spare, never trusted with family responsibility, never expected to amount to much. He's hungry to contribute something that matters, while all around him his peers are squandering their political…
    eBook, 2024New York : Avon, 2024.
  • Former painter and unreformed rake Kit Griffith is forging a new life in Cornwall, choosing freedom over an identity that didn't fit. He knew that leaving his Sisterhood of women artists might mean forfeiting artistic community forever. He didn't…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — FICTION Lowell
  • Inheriting a run-down, struggling horse barn, Molly, who dreams of being a wedding planner, thinks selling the land could be the answer but the snag in her plan is farrier Shani, who becomes an entirely different kind of problem, one she can't…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FICTION Dugan
  • Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It's 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth's skin crawl and she'd…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FICTION Alban
  • When smart-mouthed Vanessa Lerner joins the high school basketball team Julie Parker coaches, Julie's ready for the challenge. What she's not ready for is Vanessa's new foster parent, Elle Cochrane--former University of Tennessee basketball star.…
    Book, 2024New York : Forever, 2024. — FICTION Kelly
  • Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — FICTION Blake
  • Agreeing to accompany her best friend, who is also her bosses' son, to his sister Cara's wedding, Lizzie gives a drunken pep talk to a hot stranger, convincing her to ditch her fiancé, only to discover it was Cara, and is desperate to keep her role…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — FICTION Dugan
  • Logan Gray is the stereotypical bad boy of Hollywood--a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate. Mattie Cole is an up and coming golden boy, adored by all but plagued by insecurities. When Mattie is cast as the love interest in…
    Book, 2023New York : Forever, 2023. — FICTION Callende
  • Oxford 1360 When his sister’s betrothed vanishes the night before her politically arranged marriage, Raff Barden must track and return the elusive groom to restore his family’s honor. William de Foucart ― known to his friends as Penn ― had no choice…
    Book, 2023London : Mills & Boon, 2023. — FICTION Denny