The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri - India-inspired high fantasy, with a servant, a princess, a burgeoning revolution, a magical illness, maybe-demons, and the usual-for-this-genre despotic government.
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner - A gutter witch gets a job as a magical bodyguard, but events soon spiral out of control and her attraction to another bodyguard is not helping.
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki - A violin teacher must find a final protegée to buy her soul back from Hell. A prodigy needs a home and to be seen as a girl. The alien running the local donut shop tries to keep her business afloat while also being very interested in the violin teacher.
The Space Between Worlds by Makaiah Johnson - A woman who travels to parallel worlds for “research purposes” lands on a world, finds her doppelganger’s body, and begins to uncover a massive conspiracy.
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots - A data analyst starts crunching numbers on superhero damages after she’s gravely injured by one. Her conclusion: superheroes must be stopped at all costs and she’s the one to do it.
Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns - A lesbian couple applies to be space pirates, but must stop a rogue spacestation AI before the pirates will induct them.
Fortuna by Kristyn Merbeth - A smugger takes a job that’s too good to be true and must find a way to keep her family together while she gets them out of trouble.
Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot - A woman on the run from an evil space empire learns they’re holding her sister hostage in exchange for her final invention for them. She’s not having it.
The Verifiers by Jane Pek - A woman who does background checks on online dates has a client turn up dead. She’s positive it isn’t suicide.
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - A woman trying to figure out her life meets a hot punk on the New York Subway. The problem: the punk is in a time loop and still thinks it’s the 1970s. Also features found family and massive amounts of queer chaos.
the Feminine Pursuits novels by Olivia Waite - Historical romances about art, science, quiet revolutions, women being undervalued, and of course, women falling in love with each other.
Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li - A group of Chinese-American college students is recruited to steal Chinese art back from museums. Multi-POV, several are sapphic.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo - A Chinese-American teen in the 1950s tries to navigate parental expectations, anti-Communist sentiments, and discovering that she’s gay.
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters - A working-class woman falls in lust with a drag performer and follows her to Victorian London. Both a bildungsroman and a believable portrait of queer London.
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - A group of scientists and a TV crew get on a cruise ship to *announcer voice* solve the mystery of mermaids once and for all! Except the mermaids are very, very, very hungry.