Sapphic Romance BINGO!

I DID IT! I completed my homemade queer romance book BINGO card!

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Last year, with the help of queer and trans book bloggers, bookstagrammers, and booktokers, I created a Sapphic Romance BINGO card. It’s full of delicious tropes. I had the idea that I was going to make it spell SAPPHO, so I made it 6x6 instead of 5x5, but then I realized no one would know what I was talking about if I just shouted out SAPPHO! instead of BINGO! Doesn’t matter. The point is that, this very week, I finally won! I completed the challenge! I filled out my SAPPHO!/BINGO! card! And now I am here to share it with you. You might get some good book recommendations, or you might give me some good book recommendations — who knows?

There were only three rules for SAPPHO!/BINGO!: 1) I couldn’t use the same author more than once to fill out my card. 2) All books had to be written by queer authors. 3) Books didn’t have to be categorized as romance; they only had to have some gay looove.

And here it is, completed! (Full list of books below this graphic.)

This list is left to right, then top to bottom. I won’t bog this post down with reviews, but you can probably find little blurby write-ups for most of these on my GoodReads. Some of them might still be on my to-review list, but I’ll get there! (Also, just FYI, I don’t review books I don’t like because I don’t have any interest in tearing down authors, so that’s how come my rating system is so high over there. I prefer to talk about what I love.) Here’s the full BINGO!/SAPPHO! list!

Friends to Lovers
On the Same Page, Haley Cass

First Love
You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson

Fake Dating
Fly With Me, Andie Burke

Cozy
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree

Forced Proximity
Late Bloomer, Mazey Eddings

Vacation
A Banh Mi for Two, Trinity Nguyen

Genre Bending
Jane, Unlimited, Kristin Cashore

Return to Hometown
Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Ashley Herring Blake

Parent Trap
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend, Emma R. Alban

Later in Life Love
Bingo Love, Tee Franklin

Puppy Love
Behind the Scenes, Karelia Stetz-Waters

Only One Bed
Wish You Weren't Here, Erin Baldwin

Wedding Bells
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding, Chencia C. Higgins

Historical Drama
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo

Hollywood Romance
For Her Consideration, Amy Spalding

Enemies to Lovers
Lady Eve's Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow

Reality TV
Here for the Wrong Reasons, Annabel Paulsen + Lydia Wang

Fairy Tale
Not for the Faint of Heart, ​​Lex Croucher

Star-Crossed
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

Anti-Hero
The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea, Maggie Tokunda-Hall

Different Worlds
Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

Friends With Benefits
Hers for the Weekend, Helena Greer

Age Gap
This Poison Heart/This Wicked Fate, Kalynn Bayron

Holiday Romance
Written in the Stars, Alexandria Bellefleur

Magic School
The Daughters of Izdihar + The Weavers of Alamaxa, Hadeer Elsbai

Teammates
Cleat Cute, Meryl Wilsner

The Bodyguard
Cover Story, Rachel Lacey

Road Trip Romance
Here We Go Again, Alison Cochrun

Hate to Love You
Interstellar MegaChef, Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Big City / Small Town
Chasing Dreams, A.L. Brooks

Second Chance
Back in Your Arms, Monica McCallan

Time Travel
One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston

Neurospicy + Neurospicy
Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl, Brianna R. Shrum + Sara Waxelbaum

New Girl
The Stars and Blackness Between Them, Junauda Petrus

Magic as Mental Health
The Third Daughter, Adrienne Tooley

Coming of Age
Juliet Takes a Breath, Gabby Rivera