50 Should-Learn Queer Romance Novellas

In terms of romance, I normally gravitate towards lengthy, angsty novels with a number of facet plots. However generally all I need is an easy dose of queer consolation, and there’s no higher studying pick-me-up than queer romance novellas.

These tales vary from 100% fluffy (we’re speaking rainbow unicorns sprouting glitter from their horns, of us) to all-the-angst-that’s-fit-to-print-in-150-pages-or-less, and every thing in between. Whether or not you’re searching for vacation tales, meet-cutes, vampires, shifters, chosen household, rock stars, friends-to-lovers, or historic shenanigans–these queer romance novellas have gotten all of it.

These books vary in size from 40ish to 150ish pages. Technically a few of them is likely to be novelettes, and some is likely to be very quick novels, however who cares, this isn’t academia. The underside line: these are quick queer romances with pleased queer endings, and all of them are excellent for when the world is a dumpster fireplace and also you simply must spend an hour immersed in a queer love story (and never keep up until 3am).

I’ve tried to make this record as inclusive as attainable, with tales representing the large and delightful vary of queer identities and sexualities. You’ll discover f/f and m/m tales right here, tales that includes polyamorous queer of us, trans of us of all genders, nonbinary and genderqueer characters, and queer individuals in m/f relationships.

Historic Queer Romance Novellas

All or Nothing by Rose Lerner (m/f)

MCs: An architect in determined want of money and the no-nonsense hostess of a London playing den
Setting: London and an English nation property, 1819
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A pretend(ish) relationship, MCs working by way of their complicated relationships with lovers, and ex-lovers, some really extravagant outfits
Rep: Jewish bisexual lady MC, bisexual man MC

Caroline’s Coronary heart By Austin Chant (m/f)

MCs: A witch (whose magic largely entails constructing prosthetic limbs) mourning the lack of her beloved and a quiet cowboy attempting to make a life for himself ranching

Setting: the American West within the late 1800s
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Fascinating magic that matches superbly into the time and place, an MC coping with the demise of her beloved, MCs coming collectively beneath traumatic and hectic circumstances
Rep: bisexual trans lady MC, bisexual trans man MC

The Craft of Love by E.E. Ottoman (m/f)

MCs: A silversmith operating a store together with his brother-in-law and a politically energetic quilt maker
Setting: 19th Century New York Metropolis
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A meet-cute involving a quilt making venture, a delicate and considerate courtship, a number of wealthy particulars about craftspeople
Rep: trans man MC, bisexual lady MC

Her Each Want by Courtney Milan (m/f)

MCs: A decided younger lady who enters a charity contest with a view to win the funds she must open a store and her previous flame, a person who doesn’t care what society thinks about his less-than-respectable upbringing however does know methods to swagger
Setting: London, 1866
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A second likelihood romance, a great deal of hilarious banter, two MCs coping with racism, sexism, and classism who study quite a bit from one another
Rep: Anglo-Indian multiracial bisexual MC

A Woman’s Need by Lily Maxton (f/f)

MCs: A younger lady with no real interest in marriage and her cousin’s widow, who can be her estranged finest pal
Setting: Edinburgh, 1814
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A buddies to lovers romance, compelled proximity, and MCs combating towards their households’ need to see them each fortunately married
Rep: homosexual MCs

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Journey by Courtney Milan (f/f)

MCs: A 73 12 months previous widow with loads of cash and a Horrible Nephew and a 69-year-old rooming home supervisor who has simply misplaced her livelihood and is in want of quick money
Setting: London, 1867
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Two previous ladies plotting the damage of a very horrible Horrible Nephew, hijinks with geese, a number of tacky toast, common badassery involving the patriarchy getting what it deserves
Rep: homosexual MCs over seventy

A Queer Commerce by Okay.J. Charles (m/m)

MCs: A waste-paper man and an apprentice magician
Setting: Victorian London
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A thriller involving a useless magician and the secrets and techniques he was protecting from his apprentice
Rep: homosexual MC, black homosexual MC

The Pursuit Of… by Courtney Milan (m/m)

MCs: A deserting British officer and an injured American soldier, who find yourself journeying collectively from Yorktown to Rhode Island
Setting: the highway from Yorktown Rhode Island, 1781
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Enemies to lovers, compelled proximity, a protracted journey involving loads of banter and a really smelly wheel of cheese
Rep: black homosexual MC, homosexual MC

That Might Be Sufficient by Alyssa Cole (f/f)

MCs: A lonely maid working for Eliza Hamilton who has given up on what she loves (writing poetry) and an impartial enterprise proprietor and dressmaker who exhibits up for an interview as a part of Eliza’s venture of defending her late husband’s reminiscence and legacy
Setting: New York Metropolis, 1820
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Some angst, MCs bonding over their shared love of inventive work.
Rep: black homosexual MCs

Paranormal & Fantasy Queer Romance Novellas

The Coyote’s Consolation by Holley Trent (f/f)

MCs: A coyote shifter/skilled organizer and the girl she broke up with a 12 months earlier to keep away from getting damage
Setting: up to date New Mexico
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Second likelihood romance, MCs coping with household trauma and previous relationship blunders, coyote shifter pack politics
Rep: homosexual MCs

The Cybernetic Tea Store by Meredith Katz (f/f)

MCs: An AI technician who travels from metropolis to metropolis, by no means forming shut bonds, and a hundreds-of-years-old robotic who runs an historic tea store
Setting: Seattle, someday sooner or later
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A lot of great world-building surrounding robots and AI, a robotic nonetheless mourning the lack of her unique creator, some violence aimed toward AI usually and the tea store particularly
Rep: Latinx asexual MC, asexual robotic MC

Darkling by Brooklyn Ray (m/m)

MCs: A witch with a secret about his identification, who can be in love together with his finest pal, one other witch and a part of his coven
Setting: A small coastal city in up to date Washington (populated by a number of witches)
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A group of queer and trans witches, household secrets and techniques, buddies to lovers, some harmful magic, coven politics
Rep: Queer trans MC, queer MC

Assist Needed by J. Emery (m/questioning)

MCs: A pupil at a magic academy on a quest to purchase her finest pal the perfect birthday current ever and her coworker on the magic provide store the place she will get a job
Setting: The campus and surrounding city of a magical academy
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A beautiful arc the place the MC begins to query and uncover their identification and sexuality, great world-building together with a magic provide store filled with curiosities, some fancy alchemy
Rep: Gender questioning, ace spec questioning MC

Potentialities by Nicole Discipline (m/genderfluid)

MCs: A newly-crowned and really reluctant king who has no curiosity within the political-alliance marriage his court docket desires for him, and his new royal jester
Setting: The court docket and palace of a fantasy palace
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: court docket intrigue, D/s dynamic between the king and his jester
Rep: Genderfluid MC, queer MC

Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger (f/f)

MCs: A younger lady who takes a job at a vampire hive with a view to get out of her tiny village (and pursue her same-sex sights), and the dashing inventor who resides/working/imprisoned within the vampires’ potting shed
Setting: Woolsey Fortress, dwelling of a vampire hive in alt-Victorian England
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Ladies rocking it at math and know-how and engineering, vampires being creepy, a sluggish burn romance the place the MCs each should recover from their very own hangups
Rep: Homosexual MCs

Ripped Pages by M. Hollis (f/f)

MCs: A younger lady trapped in a tower by her abusive father and the lady who comes alongside and helps her rescue herself
Setting: A tower and the surrounding countryside in a fantasy kingdom
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A queer Rapunzel retelling, a number of great queer facet characters, princesses saving one another, MCs coping with emotional abuse and household trauma, an exquisite and natural exploration of the significance of illustration in books
Rep: Pansexual MC, homosexual MC

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman (f/f)

MCs: A younger queen grieving over the demise of her father and the disappearance of her first girlfriend and…the girl she meets on the finish of her quest to discover a new girlfriend
Setting: The palace, countryside, and different locales in a fantasy kingdom
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A great friendship between the queen and the warrior/bodyguard she units out questing with, a number of adventures, the overthrow an evil sorcerer
Rep: Homosexual MCs

Smoke Indicators by Meredith Katz (m/m)

MCs: A customer support rep at a online game firm and the grumpy dragon who hires him to personally arrange his sport library in change for gold
Setting: Up to date America
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Pleasant humor and lovable awkwardness, MCs working by way of misunderstandings as a consequence of cultural variations (dragon/human), great household dynamics, a number of online game geekiness
Rep: Homosexual MC, bisexual MC

Snare by Racheline Maltese and Erin McRae (m/m/m)

MCs: A municipal worker whose job is to file paperwork pertaining the NYC’s vampire inhabitants, the top vampire of a warren he visits to resolve a clerical mistake, and the vampire’s lover
Setting: Up to date New York Metropolis
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Compelled proximity (Elliot, town employee, is compelled to remain within the warren for a 12 months after an unintentional chew throughout what may need been a one-time threesome), beautiful world constructing inside the vampire warren, polyamory, characters who each damage one another and make errors (and discuss them!) as they’re falling for each other
Rep: Homosexual MCs

Up to date Queer Romance Novellas

Meet Cute (Or Not-Cute)

Full Publicity by Amy Jo Cousins (m/m)

MCs: A pc geek who tags alongside together with his photographer brother to a photograph shoot and the rock star they’re photographing
Setting: Chicago
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A photoshoot turned one-night stand turned relationship, D/s dynamic
Rep: Korean American homosexual MC, bisexual MC

Lengthy Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (m/enby)

MCs: A genderqueer uni pupil who loves unhealthy scifi motion pictures and a trans boy they meet in a coffeeshop (who additionally loves unhealthy scifi motion pictures)
Setting: Melbourne
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A fluffy feel-good romance about two queer trans individuals bonding over their shared geekiness
Rep: Disabled queer MCs of coloration, a trans man and a nonbinary individual

In search of A Complication by Tamsen Parker (f/f)

MCs: A femme lady who’s simply moved to Boston for a brand new job at a hospital and the butch med pupil she by accident doorways on her approach to her first day at work
Setting: Boston
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: An lovable meet cute the place any person getting doored on their bike turns right into a date turns into an lovable something-more, some gentle kink
Rep: Bisexual MC, homosexual MC

Mr. March Names the Stars by Rivka Aarons-Hughes (m/m)

MCs: A pagan woodworker who travels the pageant circuit together with his sibling, disgruntled over a mixup in a latest charity calendar that labeled him as single however implied he was straight, and the lawyer from the publishing firm placing out the calendar who exhibits as much as repair the issue
Setting: The pagan pageant circuit, varied locales all through the U.S.
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A beautiful household dynamic between the MC and his sibling, a beautiful slow-burn romance that entails long-distance letter-writing
Rep: Asexual homoromantic MC, black panromantic asexual trans MC

Pure Enemies by Roan Parrish (m/m)

MCs: A botanist extra comfy round vegetation than individuals and an outgoing city gardener working on the Brooklyn Botanical Backyard
Setting: Brooklyn
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Enemies to lovers, many great particulars about vegetation, gardening, and botany, a number of lovable prickliness, angst, MCs studying methods to be susceptible with one another
Rep: Black queer MC, Latinx queer MC

Ready for the Flood by Alexis Corridor (m/m)

MCs: A lonely ebook conservator residing in the home he as soon as shared together with his ex-boyfriend and an engineer from the Setting Company who exhibits up at his home throughout a really unhealthy flood
Setting: Oxford, England
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A quiet, slow-burn romance, an MC coping with grief after his longtime accomplice leaves him, self-discovery, lovely writing
Rep: Homosexual MCs

Whip, Stir and Serve by Caitlyn Frost and Henry Drake (m/demigirl)

MCs: An autistic lady and completed carpenter who will not be so assured within the kitchen however is decided to make cinnamon buns for her father’s retirement social gathering anyway, and the person who works behind the deli counter on the native grocery (who is aware of methods to bake)
Setting: A small city grocery retailer, the MC’s kitchen
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: An lovable baking lesson that turns into an actual connection together with intercourse and a satisfying HFN ending, a great deal of attractive consent, kink, a storyline that facilities and celebrates the autistic MC
Rep: Autistic bisexual demigirl MC

Vacation

Her Christmas Cookie by Katrina Jackson (m/m/f)

MCs: A small city bakery proprietor and her companions, the hearth chief and the police chief, the three of whom have been collectively for a 12 months and are on a highway journey to introduce one another to their households
Setting: Denver, Los Vegas, Berkley
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A romance about a longtime triad and their relationships—each good and unhealthy—with their bio and chosen households, a number of great vacation meals particulars, a enjoyable highway journey really feel, a beloved hundred-year-old cookie recipe
Rep: Black bisexual MC, Latinx bisexual MC, black lady MC

Hearts Alight by Elliot Cooper (m/m)

MCs: A younger man working at his dad’s artwork studio and his long-time crush, his finest pal’s uncle, who additionally occurs to be a golem
Setting: City America
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Associates to lovers, some beautiful geekiness (together with an lovable scene the place the MCs play D&D), low-angst, household vacation dynamics
Rep: Bisexual Jewish MC, homosexual MC

Pink Envelope by Atom Yang (m/m)

MCs: A person attending his household’s Lunar New Yr celebration, and his cousin’s finest pal, with whom he had a one evening stand ultimately years New Yr celebration
Setting: California
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Associates to lovers and second likelihood romance, a number of great foodie particulars surrounding the Lunar New Yr, household dynamics
Rep: Homosexual Chinese language American MC, homosexual MC

Blame it on the Mistletoe by Eli Easton (m/m)

MCs: A physics grad pupil and school soccer participant who turn into unlikely school housemates
Setting: A university campus in December
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Housemates turned finest buddies who then find yourself falling for one another when the shy physics pupil asks the extra outgoing jock to show him methods to kiss, gentle and fluffy with some low-key angst, sensible school/new grownup vibe
Rep: Queer MCs

Faculty & New Grownup

Studying Curves by Ceillie Simkiss (f/f)

MCs: A regulation pupil and an MBA pupil who meet in school and find yourself falling for one another whereas assembly for examine dates
Setting: A school campus & surrounding city
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A candy, low-angst romance that largely entails libraries, snowstorms, and many snacks, some nice scenes with one of many MC’s huge prolonged loving/demanding household, MCs coping with nervousness and ADHD, particularly within the context of grad college
Rep: Puerto Rican lesbian MC, panromantic asexual MC

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon (f/f)

MCs: A school freshman laden by her mother and father’ disappointment in her and a classmate working as a stripper who she meets at her sister’s bachelorette social gathering
Setting: Los Angeles
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Low-angst, splendidly constructive intercourse employee illustration, two college-age MCs coping with balancing college, work and household
Rep: Black lesbian MCs

Second Probability

Ghost by Robin Covington (m/m)

MCs: The proprietor of a comics publishing firm and the one evening stand he walked out on and has regretted ever since—a reclusive comedian artist and writer of a really profitable First Nations graphic novel
Setting: A comics conference in Baltimore
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A one evening stand that has haunted the MC for years, a complete lot of angst, a number of great comedian conference geekiness
Rep: Native American homosexual MC, Korean American bisexual MC

As soon as Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole (f/f)

MCs: The badass private assistant to the prince of Thesolo and an NYC jewellery maker and artist well-known on social media
Setting: New York Metropolis
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: An immigration facet plot involving one of many MC’s members of the family, a number of beautiful NYC date scenes, an exquisite sense of queer group, fabulous queer vogue
Rep: Black queer MCs

Love’s Modifications by LaQuette (M/M)

MCs: An NYPD officer recovering from a severe gunshot wound and his estranged husband, a profession Marine
Setting: New York Metropolis
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A romance about a longtime couple who’ve gone by way of quite a bit (together with the demise of their toddler youngster), difficult household dynamics
Rep: Black homosexual MCs

Pure Fluff And/Or Tremendous Low Angst

Knit One, Lady Two by Shira Glassman (f/f)

MCs: A small-batch yarn dyer and an artist whose panorama work catch her eye
Setting: South Florida
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Lovely meet cute, a number of enjoyable particulars about artwork and yarn, heat & fuzzy queer group, fandoms
Rep: Jewish Lesbian MC, bisexual Jewish MC

Double Publicity by Chelsea Cameron (f/f)

MCs: A barista on the native queer coffeeshop and a transient photographer who comes into the store to do some interviews as a part of a photograph venture
Setting: A small city in Maine
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A lot of queer household and group primarily based on the coffeeshop, common feel-good fluffiness
Rep: pansexual MC, bisexual trans MC

A Evening on the Mall by M. Hollis (f/f)

MCs: A lady who will get stood on the mall up by her on-line date and the girl she will get caught with all of the sudden when the shop they’re in closes with them nonetheless in it
Setting: A clothes retailer in a mall after hours
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Compelled proximity, a number of vogue
Rep: Lesbian MC, bisexual Latinx MC

Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snyder (m/f, m/m)

MCs: Two Bollywood movie stars in an open marriage and their respective love pursuits
Setting: The set of a Bollywood movie in Mumbai
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Numerous hilarity on a movie set, a nontraditional marriage, a number of overlapping love tales twined collectively
Rep: Bisexual Indian MC, homosexual Indian MC, Indian MCs

Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West (m/f)

MCs: Two metamours who notice they’ve crushes on one another whereas they’re planning a celebration for his or her shared accomplice
Setting: The SF Bay Space
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A central queer household story, a number of consolation given and acquired between buddies and lovers and housemates, kink and poly-centered romance, incredible communication, mouthwatering cupcakes
Rep: Jewish autistic demiromantic queer fats trans man MC, Jewish disabled queer fats femme lady MC

Geek Love

Defying Conference by Cecil Wilde (m/enby)

MCs: Two on-line buddies who’ve been in love with one another for years and resolve to lastly meet in individual at a comics conference
Setting: A comics conference
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Associates to lovers, splendidly sensible depictions of assembly somebody you’re keen on for the time in individual, nice emphasis on consent and communication
Rep: Sri Lankan-American bisexual genderqueer MC, bisexual trans MC

A Hidden Hope by Laura Ambrose (f/f)

MCs: The most recent sizzling debut novelist and a lesser-known struggling author, who was critique companions and girlfriends, earlier than a significant falling out
Setting: A science fiction conference in London
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A second likelihood romance, an exquisite immersion within the writing life and the ebook world (each the great and unhealthy)
Rep: Queer MCs

Crew Phison by Chase Verity (m/m)

MCs: A 55-year-old restaurant proprietor who hasn’t had any courting success since his final boyfriend left him, and the easy-going and talkative twentysomething man he meets in a multiplayer on-line online game
Setting: Cape Cod & Athens, Georgia
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A beautiful sense of queer household, an age hole romance, a number of hilarious, candy and geeky online game banter, a refreshing have a look at the realities of the restaurant trade from varied angles
Rep: Homosexual MC, bisexual MC

Love and Butter (AKA Foodie Romance)

Graham’s Delicacies by Em Ali (m/m, f/enby, m/enby)

MCs: A bunch of queer and trans of us working at or by some means related to Graham’s Bakery—servers, bakers, baristas, and a meals blogger
Setting: A bakery
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Three interlocking romance novellas centering coworkers, buddies, and chosen household, a number of scrumptious descriptions of baked items, common fluffy queer pleasure—low angst, excessive sweetness, and intercourse scenes that superbly heart queer and trans identities
Rep: Black, bisexual MC, nonbinary queer MC, homosexual Latinx MC, homosexual black MC, Arab American nonbinary queer MC, homosexual Korean-American MC

Small City Secrets and techniques by Katrina Jackson (f/f)

MCs: The proprietor of a small city coffeeshop and the apprentice baker on the new bakery
Setting: Sea Port (a tiny southern city nobody can discover on a map)
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A wealthy and sophisticated small city setting filled with gossip, secrets and techniques, deep connections, and previous grudges, essentially the most superior speakeasy to ever seem in a romance novel, varied intriguing plot detours about different characters from the sequence
Rep: Black lesbian MCs

Associates to Lovers

Jericho Candelario’s Homosexual Debut by R. Cooper (m/m)

MCs: A person who has spent most of his life centered on elevating his siblings and niece and his finest pal, who owns a bakery on the town
Setting: A small city
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A family-centered story, an lovable MC studying methods to lastly go after what he desires after years of taking good care of different individuals
Rep: Homosexual Latinx MC, homosexual MC

You, Me, U.S. by Brigitte Bautista (f/f)

MCs: A intercourse employee who prefers to reside for the second and her finest pal and roommate, a gross sales clerk looking for an American boyfriend to get her and her household to the U.S.
Setting: Manila
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: An uncommon, sensible, and meandering romance (the MCs each date different individuals all through the course of the ebook), a number of angst and long-buried feelings lastly surfacing
Rep: Bisexual Filipina MCs

Office Romance

Espresso Boy by Austin Chant (m/m)

MCs: A just-out-of-college intern at a political marketing campaign and an older, considerably prickly and uptight marketing campaign strategist
Setting: The places of work of a political marketing campaign
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: A trans MC coping with transphobia and the truth of not passing at work, dislike that turns right into a crush that turns into romance
Rep: Queer trans MC, bisexual MC

His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto (m/m)

MCs: An analyst working for a secret authorities company and his coworker, an agent who nobody within the workplace ever talks to or is aware of something about
Setting: A authorities company
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Undercover agent spy motion, a relationship that slowly builds by way of shared lunches and dialog, some really great scenes at a library storyhour, a great deal of tenderness
Rep: Asexual MC, biromantic demisexual MC

*Winterball by Holley Trent (m/m)

MCs: Two minor league baseball teammates who come individually to Lodge Beaudelaire’s Den of Sin Winterball occasion and find yourself getting paired with one another by the employees matchmaker
Setting: New Orleans
Tropes/Themes/Secondary Plots: Teammates who uncover they may truly need extra from one another, kink, angst that resolves right into a satisfying HFN
Rep: Bisexual MC, homosexual MC

In search of extra queer romance novellas (and novels)? Jess has obtained an awesome starter information to queer romance. Then you possibly can transfer on to 50 Should-Learn Homosexual Romance Novels and Even Extra Lesbian Romance Suggestions. And there’s at all times the LGBTQ Romance Archives when you’re searching for extra!

And when you’re searching for romance novellas of all types (together with straight ones), this record of 28 Romance Novellas You Ought to Test Out Instantly is filled with gems.

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